Assistant professor @UUtah @UofUComm. Research on #misinformation #trust #scicomm #polcomm #mediaeffects #openscience.
Salt Lake City, UT
Joined September 2015
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Isabelle Freiling retweeted
ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! How did perceptions of elite manipulation influence resistance to COVID-19 reporting and the spread of misinformation? This study by @marlis_st, @Isa_Freiling, and Jörg Matthes examines how audiences in 🇦🇹 resist news evidence.
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Isabelle Freiling, one of the inaugural cohort of One-U Responsible AI faculty, is working to understand the black box of algorithm-driven information environments and the ripple effect of implications for researchers and the broader public. ow.ly/2gg450VfZTN @Isa_Freiling
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
This week,@UofUComm Assistant Professor @Isa_Freiling will be presenting on "Generative AI, Social Media Algorithms & Misinformation" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium.
Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/lscs…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
Our inability to meaningfully study algorithmic info ecosystems, and why it matters for #scicomm. Pre-publication version of our forthcoming PNAS piece with Nicky Krause and Isabelle Freiling : osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j9… (a 🧵)
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
"The scientific community must also better recognize that it may not be helpful to emphasize consensus in policy reports’ recommendations when the underlying values are not universally shared." Could not agree more with @theNASciences's @Marcia4Science.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
As @meta studies in @ScienceMagazine and @Nature come under increasing scrutiny, it's worth asking two questions posed by Holden Thorpe in 2022: “whether the data in a paper is reliable or not ... [and] who has been responsible for generating that data." science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
It’s bad for various fields of social science who — during an ongoing replicability debate — should have learned by now to not trust suspiciously shiny findings from a single data source, especially one curated by an industry partner with obvious COIs. xitter.cf/scheufele/status/16851…
If industry-controlled analyses like this showed no effects from #fossilfuels on #climatechange or no #cancer risks from smoking, most journals would not publish them. Social science needs to figure out how and why industry #COIs are different for #socialmedia and #polarization.
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
It’s bad for the journals who published this in spite of referees pointing out this very problem during peer review, and are not retracting, as of now. xitter.cf/scheufele/status/16850…
"Outside researchers were not allowed to handle the raw data." Against reviewer concerns, @ScienceMagazine publishes work that allows @meta to define what they consider #misinformation and largely absolves platforms from responsibility for #polarization. science.org/content/article/…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
63 algorithmic interventions designed to make #Facebook temporarily provide less polarizing and more reliable content likely distorted the data sets that @Meta fed to academic researchers and helped get publish with Meta employees as co-authors. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
"[A] baby step forward in the direction of data transparency." Amid pushback against industry-controlled settings for studying algorithmically-curated information environments , @meta is trying to do damage control. Great piece by @TheAtlantic's @mimbsy. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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Most importantly, we need to evaluate metrics and interventions empirically with reliable social science. Otherwise, we’ll just “pied-piper” academia toward the next iteration of dysfunctional #openscience tools, as our paper led by @Isa_Freiling outlines: academic.oup.com/joc/article…
“Impact factors are outdated, but new research assessments still fail scientists.”
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
New study with @NilsTokolosh. Based on experiments in three controversies, we show that an attitudinal polarization of trust in science can be mitigated when scientists adopt the styles of honest brokers versus that of epistocrats when giving public policy advice, i.e.... (1/2).
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
The University of Utah is excited to announce the extension of the Master of Communication program at its U Asia Campus in Incheon, South Korea. Applications are now open for the professional program. asiacampus.utah.edu/masters-…
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Last week the World Economic Forum published its 'Global Risk Report' identifying misinformation and disinformation as the *top global threats over the next two years*. In this essay I argue its ranking is either wrong or so confused it's not even wrong: conspicuouscognition.com/p/m…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
The HuffPost asked: Should you let apps track you? Isabelle Freiling, an assistant professor in @UofUComm helped provide an answer: huffpost.com/entry/can-we-tr…
@UofUHumanities @UUtah @HuffPost #Apps 👣👀
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
Have an idea for a CT&M Professional Freedom & Responsibility, Teaching, or Research panel for the 2024 @AEJMC conference? Don't wait! Submit before 10/7. Details here:
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Isabelle Freiling retweeted
"Assuming passions are immutable and essential—rather than something to cultivate and build—can cause people to be less open to different topics ... and less creative when problem-solving." Probably one of the best pieces of advice for new grad students: scientificamerican.com/artic…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
"Most partisans hold major misbeliefs about the other party’s preferences that lead them to think there is far less shared policy belief. This ... gap is highest among progressive activists." Timely and relevant @CarnegieEndow paper by @RachelKleinfeld carnegieendowment.org/files/…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
we are hiring an Assistant Professor in Emerging Media & Innovation @UofUComm. feel free to reach out with any questions. apps accepted through October 15 utah.peopleadmin.com/posting…
Isabelle Freiling retweeted
📢 New paper 📢
Just published in @IJoC_USC, Jörg Matthes + many current/former AdMe team members investigated before 2019's 🇦🇹 Nat Election how differently active and passive political social media use are related to affective polarization over time ⬇️
ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/arti…
