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Temporal Patterns in COVID-19 misinformation in India
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divyanshu Kukreti, Somya Sagarika, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Akbar, S., Kukreti, D., Sagarika, S., Pal, J. (2020) Temporal patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India. Available online at: https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) Following up on a preliminary survey of debunked COVID-19 related messages online, we sought to understand how the kinds of misinformation have…
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Political partisanship and COVID response in India
Dibyendu Mishra, Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested citation: Mishra, D., Panda, A., and Pal, J. (2020) Political partisanship and COVID response in India https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/political-partisanship-and-covid-response-in-india/) We analyzed the timing, frequency, and content of Indian politicians’ tweeting on COVID related issues. We visualized a few key issues that are useful for hypothesis generation. Leader Effect First,…
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Content patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Joyojeet Pal (Suggested Citation: Akbar, S., Pal, J. (2020) Content patterns in COVID-19 related digital misinformation in India. Microsoft Research India. Available online at: https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/an-archive-of-covid-19-related-fake-news-in-india/) We conducted a preliminary survey of debunked COVID-19 related messages online, to create a taxonomy of misinformation. The goal of this work is to understand the language – including topic and metaphor…
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Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter
(suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-journalists-influence-on-twitter/) Overview The goal of this work has been to map the networks of influence on Indian social media. We took the top 110 journalists based on the number of other journalists who follow them from our sample of 1899 journalists…
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Indian politicians and the journalists they prefer
Dibyendu Mishra, Joyojeet Pal (suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Indian politicians and the journalists they prefer https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-politicians-and-the-journalists-they-prefer/) We plotted Indian politicians based on the number of times they retweeted a member of the press. The goal of this was to understand politicians’ engagement with the press, and their use of various news…
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Politician engagement with media, and its impact on news propagation
Dibyendu Mishra and Joyojeet Pal (suggested citation: Mishra, D. and Pal, J. (2020) Politician engagement with media, and its impact on news propagation. https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/polarity-of-indian-news-sources-among-politicians/ ) In this piece we examine the impact of politicians’ engagement with news stories from specific news sources using retweets as a metric for news propagation. We plotted all the retweets…
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Colombia Digital Observatory
This projects includes two bilingual reports on digital culture in Colombia. The first report, published in 2013, examines the nature and growth of digital culture in Colombia, and how this has impacted the ways social and economic relationships have been transformed. The second reportfollowed up on the findings from the first study to examine ways in which…