Look out for more work here! Priya is thinking more about vis practitioners, how vis can mislead, and tensions of open government datasets. I'm building more methods and ways we can safely and rigorously study participatory visual culture at the nexus of information disorder.

And I'm just so so grateful to @katestarbird.bsky.social for supporting this work. We learned so much writing this paper that we have now applied to all of our other papers! And we would not have gotten the award without Kate's master writing touches!!!

We then look at the journeys that these data visualizations go on -- and how they are remixed with re-creation but also how they jump platforms and are even photo-edited! It's a ride through a fun OSINT journey of how we assembled these lineages.

This is the first empirical work to come out of my larger anti-immigrant propaganda project! We focus on what frames and claims are made in data visualizations, and how open government units and data are confused on both sides of the aisle and lose clarity and accuracy.

We’ve seen this repeatedly. QAnon. COVID denial. Election lies. War crimes denial. In each case, the problem wasn’t just what people believed, it was how those beliefs hardened into identity and made correction impossible.

And I guess the last last thing of this musing is I really recommend Becker's Sociological Work: Methods and Substance. It's been fundamental for my thoughts around methods, why I want to do research, the role research should have, etc in these...very interesting times to be trying to do research.