3 papers
cs.HC2026
Popularity Without Legitimacy? Comparing Trust in Television Meteorologists and YouTube Weatherfluencers
Julie A. Vera, David W. McDonald, Mark Zachry
During severe weather events, people must interpret rapidly evolving information to make time-sensitive safety decisions. Broadcast meteorologists have traditionally served as cred…
cs.HC2026
Making Sense of the Weather, Together: Collaborative Sensemaking in Severe Weather Livestreams
Julie A. Vera, Mark Zachry, David W. McDonald
This paper examines collaborative sensemaking during severe weather events through the emerging phenomenon of "weatherfluencers" or content creators who livestream meteorological i…
cs.HC2024
Misleading Ourselves: How Disinformation Manipulates Sensemaking
Stephen Prochaska, Julie Vera, Douglas Lew Tan +1
Informal sensemaking surrounding U.S. election processes has been fraught in recent years, due to the inherent uncertainty of elections, the complexity of election processes in the…