Next academic year (2023-’24), I will be working on a research project for which I have received an open competition grant from NWO. It is titled Telling Stories, Telling Lies: The Role of Narrative Competence in the Detection and Interpretation of Online Misinformation. In this study, I map out the narrative characteristics of online misinformation and design a measuring instrument for ‘narrative competence’: knowledge of stories and the skills to analyze them. With a large-scale survey study among students, I will investigate whether narrative competence helps in detecting and interpreting online misinformation. The study will provide insight into how we can counteract misinformation through literature education. Below, you can read my full proposal.
Announcement conference ADDA5: Digital Infrastructures (May 2025)
ADDA5 | digital infrastructures | Mindlabs Tilburg | May 21-23, 2025 If the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tech underscores anything, it’s the imperative to analyze discourse through its material dimensions of platformed interfaces, cultures, ideologies, and – of course – algorithms. ADDA5 aims to unite scholars interested in the social production of … Read more