Cultivating an ethos of social responsibility in an age of misinformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19353840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Trim (0000-0002-1984-7274, University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 13-15 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-2737 • E-ISSN: 2167-3055 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1145/3557805.3557813 |
| OpenAlex | W4291722651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Recently on the evening news, a report aired about public-school vandalism happening across the country, provoked by a recent trending video on Tik-Tok inviting users to share the biggest thing they were able to steal from their school [1]. Bathroom fixtures have been a popular choice, causing significant damage, which is what has elevated this recent trend to newsworthy status. In keeping with similar trends on YouTube such as at the milk crate challenge [2], this is another example of the power of peer suggestion to motivate others at a distance to mimic or even one-up a particular behavior. What gives social media users the persuasive power to influence the behavior of complete strangers? Meanwhile, I am noticing a resurgence in concern about misinformation online. With the Delta variant of Covid-19 exacerbating the impact of this lasting Pandemic, many worry, including the President of the United States [3], that technology platforms are not doing enough to stop the flow of misinformation about the virus and about vaccines. YouTube's recent takedown of anti-vaccination propaganda [4] is a step in the right direction, but its long-term success as a solution to the algorithmic amplification of vaccine misinformation remains to be seen. Profit motivated tech companies make convenient targets for blame, and without a strong counter narrative, the reputation of computing as a field takes the hit
Advertising · Anxiety · Blame · Business · Internet privacy · Misinformation · Narrative · Political science · Power (physics) · Public relations · Reputation · Social media · Worry · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Psychology · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |