Disinformation and misinformation
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- How do different social groups ordemographics respond to information on coronavirus in different countries
- What is the prevalence and impact of harm caused by online advertising content and its targeted delivery to internet users (such as fraudulent or misleading adverts, adverts for age restricted products or services, illegal products)?
- How could media literacy be used to build audiences’ resilience to these harms?
- How will disinformation techniques evolve to profit from the crisis? How do different societies or groups imbibe, use or combat rumour and misinformation? How will fear of pandemic resurgence affect the willingness of publics to accept greater surveillance
- Understanding what the public need to know in relation to local policing activity
- What more we can do to improve the evidence base for local decision-makers, and to deepen our knowledge of the interactions between different aspects of society and the economy that have led to economic and social disparities?
- Understanding the impact of social media on public confidence and perceptions of police legitimacy
- Which techniques are best for estimating the effects of interacting risks? How do we ensure that communication of risk is relevant and effective? What lessons can we take from the response to the coronavirus pandemic about the communication of risk and of the need for behavioural change?
- The role and influence of the internet and social media in the radicalisation process and ways to intervene.
- Understanding the effects of mainstream and social media on violence
- Role of mainstream and social media in promoting / countering extremist communication, and in recruitment.