• Three new journal articles and a public report from O3C’s Leverhulme-funded project Understanding the Everyday Sharing of Misinformation are hot off the press:

    • Hall, N-A., Hall, N-A., Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., Lawson, B., & Akolgo, P. (2024). Research Update: Misinformation on Personal Messaging—Are WhatsApp’s Warnings Effective? Online Civic Culture Centre, Loughborough University. 28pp. (Press release) (Download pdf).

    • Chadwick, A., Hall, N-A., & Vaccari, C. (2023). Misinformation Rules!? Could “Group Rules” Reduce Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging? New Media & Society. (Download pdf).

    • Hall, N-A., Chadwick, A., & Vaccari, C. (2023). Online Misinformation and Everyday Ontological Narratives of Social Distinction. Media, Culture & Society. (Download pdf).

    • Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., & Hall, N-A. (2023). What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance. Digital Journalism. (Download pdf).

  • A new article with my Loughborough colleague, James Stanyer, came out in Communication Theory. Chadwick, A. & Stanyer, J., Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework. The piece was awarded the Honourable Mention for the International Communication Association’s Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Article in the field of political communication. Read the article for free here.

  • The following article won the American Political Science Association’s 2022 Paul Lazarsfeld Award for the Best Paper in Political Communication: Chadwick, A., Kaiser, J., Vaccari, C., Freeman, D., Lambe, S., Loe, B. S., Vanderslott, S., Lewandowsky, S., Conroy, M., Ross, A. R. N., Innocenti, S., Pollard, A. J., Waite, F., Larkin, M., Rosebrock, L., Jenner, L., McShane, H., Giubilini, A., Petit, A., & Yu, Ly-Mee (2021). Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK. Social Media + Society, April, pp. 1–17. We have donated the Award prize money to the WHO Foundation’s Go Give One fundraising campaign and we encourage you to also donate to this cause.

  • The following won the American Political Science Association’s 2022 Information Technology & Politics Section Best Conference Paper Award: Vaccari, C., Chadwick, A., & Kaiser, J. The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election.

  • From 2020 to 2023 I was part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers examining COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK. We published a study in Psychological Medicine in December 2020. More here. An article I led examined the role of online social endorsement and media diet in vaccine hesitancy and published in Social Media and Society in March 2021. You can read an article about the study on Medium here and download the article free of charge at the journal website here. A further study, using a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of ten different information conditions on vaccine hesitancy, was published in The Lancet Public Health on May 13, 2021. Details here.

  • Catherine R. Baker and I have a piece, ‘Corrupted Infrastructures of Meaning: Post-truth Identities Online’ out in Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord’s edited volume, Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism.

  • The latest three titles in my book series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics are Jason Hannan Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media; Jason Gainous, Rongbin Han, Andrew W. MacDonald and Kevin M. Wagner (2023) Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online; and William H. Dutton’s The Fifth Estate: The Power Shift of the Digital Age. More details here.

  • I’m a founding member of the Social Media and Health Research Network led by Dr Anna Lavis at the University of Birmingham.

  • In June 2023 I gave a talk at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the panel Seeing is Deceiving: Deepfakes. AI ethics adviser “Eleanor Morgan” participated, though Eleanor was actually a deepfake that fooled quite a substantial section of the audience before the educational “reveal” at the end of the session. The panelists and festival organisers collaborated in the months leading up to the session to create and script the deepfake participant.

  • I’m serving on the selection panel for the American Political Science Association’s Information Technology and Politics Best Book Award 2024.

  • In the latest UK Research Excellence Framework (2021), Communication and Media at Loughborough was ranked 5th in the UK and submitted 40 full-time staff. Overall, 92% of its research was ranked in the two highest categories—'world leading' and 'internationally excellent'—with 65% ranked world leading: the highest possible award of 4 stars. Its research environment and research impact were each ranked joint 1st place in the UK, with the highest possible award of 100% 4-star quality.

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