CAREER: This project aimed to “improve our understanding of the spread of disinformation in online environments… it will contribute to the field of human-computer interaction in the areas of social computing, crisis informatics, and human-centered data science.

Conceptually, it explores relationships between technology, structure, and human action – applying the lens of structuration theory towards understanding how technological affordances shape online action, how online actions shape the underlying structure of the information space, and how those integrated structures shape information trajectories.

Methodologically, it enables further development, articulation, and evaluation of an iterative, mixed-method approach for interpretative analysis of “big” social data. Finally, it aims to leverage these empirical, conceptual, and methodological contributions towards the development of innovative solutions for tracking disinformation trajectories.