{"id":2589,"date":"2025-07-15T04:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/?page_id=2589"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:57:42","slug":"kate-starbird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/speakers\/kate-starbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Starbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/katespeaker-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2334 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/katespeaker-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/katespeaker-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/katespeaker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/katespeaker-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/katespeaker.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3>Facts, Frames, and (Mis)interpretations: Understanding Rumors as Collective Sensemaking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<strong>Kate Starbird<\/strong><br>Professor, Human Centered Design &amp; Engineering, University of Washington\n\n\n\nKate Starbird is a Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design &amp; Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Kate\u2019s research sits within the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Extending from early work in crisis informatics, her research program has followed the phenomenon of online rumoring down the rabbit hole and into some of the toxic online spaces that are increasingly (re)shaping discourse, values, and politics around the world. Dr. Starbird received her BS in Computer Science from Stanford (1997) and her PhD in Technology, Media and Society from the University of Colorado (2012). She has received several awards for her research, including the ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award and a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award. She is a co-founder and formerly served as director of the UW Center for an Informed Public, which works through research, education, and policy recommendations to strengthen democratic discourse by building resilience to online misinformation, propaganda, and manipulation.\n\n\n\n<strong>Learn more<\/strong><br>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/kstarbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/kstarbi\/<\/mark><\/a><br>Center for an Informed Public: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cip.uw.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">https:\/\/www.cip.uw.edu<\/mark><\/a><br><br><strong>Read these<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cip.uw.edu\/2023\/12\/06\/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking<\/mark><\/a> by Kate Starbird, 2023.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-right-wing-media-is-like-improv-theater-243665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">How right-wing media is like improv theater<\/mark><\/a> by Danielle Lee Tomson and Kate Starbird, 2024.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/1978942.1979102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#41649c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&#8220;Voluntweeters&#8221;: self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis<\/mark><\/a> by Kate Starbird and Leysia Palen, CHI 2011.\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2589\/revisions\/2772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}