Scientists across disciplines, policymakers, and journalists have voiced frustration at the
unprecedented polarization and misinformation around coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

While a fast-growing body of research is concerned with the detrimental consequences of
disinformation for democracy, the role of visuals in this context has so far only been …

The proliferation of AI in many aspects of human life—from personal leisure, to collaborative
professional work, to global policy decisions—poses a sharp question about how to prepare …

Alarmist narratives about online misinformation continue to gain traction despite evidence
that its prevalence and impact are overstated. Drawing on research examining the use of big …

Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate
and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with …

The widespread collection and use of data has been the subject of much public and
scholarly interest in recent years. Data justice has emerged as a significant framework for …

In this conceptual paper, we argue that at times of crisis, what is sometimes called “evidence-
based” or “science-driven” policymaking—establishing scientific truths and then …

Amid the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, preprints in the biomedical
sciences are being posted and accessed at unprecedented rates, drawing widespread …

Assessing the trustworthiness of information online is complicated. Literacy-based
paradigms are both widely used to help and widely critiqued. We conducted a study with 35 …

When designing communicative visualizations, we often focus on goals that seek to convey
patterns, relations, or comparisons (cognitive learning objectives). We pay less attention to …