#39 Fighting a New Era of Disinformation with Claire Wardle

02/05/20 • 27 min

Demystifying Media at the University of Oregon

About Our Guest:
Claire Wardle is the co-founder and Executive Chair of First Draft, the world’s foremost nonprofit focused on research and practice to address mis- and disinformation. In 2017 she co-authored a report for the Council of Europe entitled, Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, and also the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.

Not only did Dr. Wardle give an incredible talk about the role of disinformation in the 2020 US election during her visit, but she also led a full-day training for students, professional journalists, and communications scholars to give them the tools to respond to this very real threat.

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Show Notes:
0:11 - Introduction of guest and co-host
1:11 - Misinformation training
2:35 - How to report on disinformation
4:54 - Differences between misinformation, disinformation, mal-information
6:01 - Does motivation and intent matter?
7:12 - The complexity of misinformation
8:11 - Modes of disinformation on the horizon
9:27 - How has this evolved since the 2016 election?
11:03 - What should news platforms be doing?
12:51 - Why Dr. Wardle entered this field
14:01 - How journalism students can learn to fight disinformation
16:26 - How can we teach the public to be critical consumers of news information
20:05 - Sydney's takeaways from Dr. Wardle's visit
22:02 - What's next in the pipeline for Dr. Wardle
25:04 - The role that diversity plays in fighting disinformation

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#38 Guest Lecture: Community Engagement with Ashley Alvarado

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Among Ashley's efforts to develop strategies and opportunities to engage new and existing audiences across platforms is the engagement-driven, community-centered live storytelling series Unheard LA, leading human-centered design projects, and Feeding the Conversation, an ongoing series of engagement-sourcing gatherings that bring together members of the community with KPCC journalists around specific themes or coverage areas.

She also serves as board president of Journalism That Matters, sits on the steering committee of Gather, is a mentor for Membership Puzzle Project’s Join the Beat cohort, and works as a curator for American Press Institute’s BetterNews.org.

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#40 Media and the Esports Industry with Will Partin, Mitch Reames, and Maxwell Foxman

About our guests:
Mitch Reames graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication in 2017. He has written about emerging technology and the esports industry for publications such as AdWeek, SportTechie, Blazer5 Gaming, and Dexerto, and is the founder of the Esportz Network podcast, which partners with Reuters to report on the biggest stories in esports.

Will Partin is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on the platformization of cultural production within the realm of livestreaming, video games, and esports. His writing can be found in such publications as The Atlantic, Variety, and Jacobin. He is also a consultant for Power Play, a boutique consulting firm that helps brands find their place in the growing esports market. Former clients have included Microsoft, AMC Networks, Tribeca Enterprise, Madison Square Garden, and others.

At the SOJC, Maxwell Foxman's research centers around how play manifests in non-game contexts, including social media, politics, and journalistic institutions. His work explores the way media makers frame games and play in their activities and professional lives.

Esports are on the rise; according to a recent Business Insider Intelligencer report, esports viewership is expected to grow to nearly 650 million by 2023, at a rate of 9 percent per year. In the studio to discuss this emerging industry are esports journalist Mitch Reames, technology researcher and brand consultant Will Partin, and Maxwell Foxman, Assistant Professor of Game Studies at the UO SOJC.

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Show Notes:
0:00 - Introductions
0:56 - Why is esports growing so quickly?
2:20 - What is the appeal to brands?
4:13 - Demographics of esports audience
4:46 - Global appeal of esports
8:11 - Esports marketing research
9:44 - Monetization of esports
13:13 - Esports events
16:13 - Esports' global moment
21:53 - What does the rise of esports mean for different constituents?
26:14 - The normalization of esports
27:10 - What should journalism students be doing to break into this industry?
32:02 - How is the esports sector evolving?
35:47 - Wrap-up

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