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CHI ’23 article co-authored by Amelia Hassoun receives honourable mention.

A new article co-authored by Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy Affiliate, Amelia Hassoun, has received an honourable mention at CHI ’23.

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

In the article, the authors state how assessing the trustworthiness of information online is complicated. Literacy-based paradigms are both widely used to help and widely critiqued.

The authors of this article conducted a study with 35 Gen Zers from across the U.S. to understand how they assess information online.

The authors found that they tended to encounter—rather than search for—information, and that those encounters were shaped more by social motivations than by truth-seeking queries. For them, information processing is fundamentally a social practice.

Gen Zers interpreted online information together, as aspirational members of social groups. Participants sought information sensibility: a socially-informed awareness of the value of information encountered online.

The authors outline key challenges they faced and practices they used to make sense of information.

The findings suggest that like their information sensibility practices, solutions and strategies to address misinformation should be embedded in social contexts online.

 

Authors

Amelia Hassoun (Affiliate, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy).

Ian Beacock

Sunny Consolvo

Beth Goldberg

Patrick Gage Kelley

Daniel M. Russell

 

About CHI

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

This article was published by Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States.

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