From South Korea's unrest to Kamala Harris’ campaign, GLP-1 medications, and social media’s impact—CITAP researchers tackle today’s key challenges.

Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...

Books in the series Justice, Power, and Politics, published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Examining the 2024 election through the lens of storytelling and identity politics, the migration from X to Bluesky, a CITAP book review on January 6th & more.

Join CITAP and Marie Heřmanová as she examines how social media creators balance authenticity and authority in political discourse, influenced by gender dynamics.

Published in American Journalism (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This panel brings together our principal researchers to discuss the long history of electoral disinformation in the United States and the ways that racialized disinformation is targeted at communities...

This paper uses critical disinformation studies to analyze claims that LGBTQ+ communities “groom” children at “Drag Queen Story Hour” (DQSH). We identify anti-homosexual narratives in previous mora...

Join us for "Media Coverage of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The View from Germany and the United States," a Fireside Chat hosted by the UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life,...

Join us for a Fireside Chat, "Media Coverage of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The View from Germany and the United States."

Join us for a Fireside Chat, "Media Coverage of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The View from Germany and the United States."

We reflect on Alice's invaluable contributions to CITAP, her lasting impact on the academic community, and her exciting journey ahead at Data & Society in shaping the future of digital research.

A timely panel discussion about how the media has seeded, promoted, and occasionally knocked down bias, sexism, and misogynoir in public discussions about female politicians, and what the research say...

This week we are exploring Housing Justice, Political Identity, and the Future of Information Systems.

Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, the analytics tool that for years helped tens of thousands of researchers, journalists and civil society groups understand how information was spreading on Facebook and...

This week we are celebrating Meredith Clark joining CITAP as a Principal Investigator and recognizing her research excellence, learning why Tressie loves the D.M.V., and featuring a press round-up.

On June 20th, CITAP and CITAP-affiliated researchers traveled to the Gold Coast, Australia for the start of ICA 2024.

This report analyzes international, federal, and state level legislation to protect child safety online. While well-meaning, this legislation is driven by moral panic rather than empirical evidence, i...

Together with DATALAB – Center for Digital Social Research at Aarhus University and the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the...

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