How Twitter Transformed Media, Journalism, and Our Information Diets

While Twitter was still seen as a platform for users to provide seemingly trivial updates, sociology graduate student Stephen Barnard began a decade-long deep dive into how the platform was reshaping journalism and democracy itself. This episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast explores Dr. Barnard's unexpected path into pioneering digital media research and his reflections on citizen journalism during the Ferguson protests and the dismantling of information gatekeeping that gave us today's media ecosystem.

References for Our Discussion

◼️ The new science of prebunking: how to inoculate against the spread of misinformation

◼️Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

◼️STEPHEN R. BARNARD Website

Guest

◼️Dr. Stephen Barnard

Host(s) & Producer(s)

◼️ Gordon Thane, BMSc, MPH, PMP®

Production Notes

◼️ Music from Johnny Harris x Tom Fox: The Music Room

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