The corona crisis is the ideal hotbed for crude conspiracy theories. Claus Oberhauser explains what characterizes them, why change is on the horizon and where one finds parallels to the past. Historian Oberhauser is a co-initiator of an interdisciplinary research network on conspiratorial counter-narratives. Continue reading “Dangerous mix of facts and fiction”
A research team from Graz simulated creative thought processes using a computer and investigated the role played by creativity in the way people use digital media. First results indicate that those who think outside the box get more out of the web, even though personalised search recommendations make access to new information more difficult. Continue reading “Escaping the (mental) echo chamber”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, scientists examined how the credibility of information from the web can be assessed in order to obtain more effective data from platforms such as Flickr. Continue reading “Who can be trusted on the internet?”