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Scholars and commentators often argue that individuals do not care about their privacy, and that users routinely trade privacy for convenience. This i…
We’ve conflated data with truth. And this has dangerous implications for our ability to understand, explain, and improve the things we care about.
The human brain is a fantastic machine, but we're all subject to cognitive bias and reasoning errors. Cybersecurity pros are no exception.
The mental models method is a mechanism for risk communication that was pioneered in environmental risk communication, and is being used to improve medical risk
By understanding cognitive biases and shortcuts, we can better engage people to improve cybersecurity awareness, behavior, and culture.
Experts say channelling this experience into your decision-making is an error that leads to mistakes.
"We might like to think of our memory as an archivist that carefully preserves events, but sometimes it's more like a storyteller."
There’s a story going around right now about a “reporter” who was following people shorting Tesla stock and allegedly approaching them for information. I won’t go into the w…
"We need a vision for a new journalism, and a clear path to supporting and sustaining it in a world where consensus can no longer be taken for granted."
This paper explores the embedding of data producing technologies in people's everyday lives and practices. It traces how repeated encounters with digital data o...
A Senate report finds that Russia's Internet Research Agency was far more active, and more successful, on Instagram in 2017 than on Facebook or Twitter.
Just six percent of bots on Twitter accounted for 31 percent of bad information.
I’m writing a couple framing documents for some events coming up. This is one that I’m still drafting, but I thought I’d throw the draft up and take any comments. Note that this i…
Tribalism = social proof.
Facebook, social proof, and violence.
Today is the day—finally—to stop being surprised that human beings espouse beliefs contrary to fact.
Telling people what scientists think makes conservative states look liberal.
“To fall prey to another person you have to fall prey to your belief that you’re a good judge of character."
Platforms like Facebook and Twitter offer up memes designed to feel real, if only for an instant — long enough for our minds to make a false connection.