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Information Futures Fellows Join Brown School of Public Health To Tackle Information Crisis
Pilot Projects Include Narrating Climate Futures, Supporting Infodemics Managers and Building Hyperlocal Models for Health Communication PROVIDENCE, RI -- The Information Futures Lab at Brown University's School of Public Health is welcoming leaders in journalism,...
IFL report calls for structural public health changes to increase vaccine demand and stop future disease outbreaks
A new report, Infrastructures of Trust: The Case for Investing in Vaccine Demand, from researchers at the Information Futures Lab at Brown University's School of Public Health calls for investment in community leadership; provides key strategies for public health...
Wardle Delivers Communications Tutorial to School of Public Health Faculty
“How can we give our colleagues the tools to be brave enough to go on TikTok?” This question was posed by IFL Co-Director Claire Wardle, PhD, as she shared strategies for “Communicating Science in the Age of Misinformation” with Brown faculty as part of the Brown...
Information Futures Lab’s APAC partner CrossCheck, launches training booklet for Southeast Asia
We are thrilled to unveil Verification, monitoring and responsible reporting in an age of information disorder: A guide for practitioners in Southeast Asia by Dr. Anne Kruger, Esther Chan and Stevie Zhang. Methods to combat disinformation must be situated in the...
Claire Wardle, PhD, to moderate panel including Dean Ashish Jha, MD, at “INFORMED: Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age”
Claire Wardle, PhD, will participate in a panel discussion alongside Ashish Jha, MD, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, and Katelyn Jetelina of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute at the Knight Foundation’s “INFORMED: Conversations on...
IFL’s Daisy Winner presents at CDC’s Health Literacy Month event
In October, Daisy Winner, Program Manager at the Information Futures Lab, presented at the CDC’s Health Literacy Month internal event, Barriers to Clear Communication: Misinformation & Numbers. Hosted by the Division of Communication Science and Services, more than...
Claire Wardle, PhD, tapped to co-lead Master Class in “Disarming Disinformation”
Claire Wardle, PhD, will serve as one of four instructors for “Disarming Disinformation,” a Master Class offered by the International Center for Journalists in partnership with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and the Scripps Howard Foundation....
IFL hosts “Data, Power & Pedagogy”
Data, Power & Pedagogy, a three-day workshop held for educators and researchers on September 27-29, made space to build teaching resources centered on data, surveillance, and targeted advertising. Most people do not understand how much of their data is collected...
IFL hosts panel on social media and data privacy
In 2018, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked our understanding of online privacy and data-driven politics. In the four years since the news broke, major privacy concerns have everywhere from COVID contact tracing to online educational platforms. Yet there...
IFL hosts “Defining Transparency”
The Information Futures Lab convened policymakers, journalists, and academic researchers to propose a comprehensive standard for defining social media transparency, in collaboration with partners at the Algorithmic Transparency Institute. There is widespread and...
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