Laura C. Joyner- PhD in Psychology
- Research Fellow at Middlesex University
Laura C. Joyner
- PhD in Psychology
- Research Fellow at Middlesex University
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Introduction
I am currently a Research Fellow at Middlesex University working on a 3-year NIHR funded project evaluating the effectiveness of interventions harnessing smart surveillance technology at preventing suicide in public spaces.
In 2023 I completed my PhD at the University of Westminster. My thesis looked at why people spread disinformation on social media, with a focus on social identity and moral evaluations. More generally, I'm interested in how technology influences our judgements and behaviour
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2020 - present
Education
October 2020 - November 2023
University of Westminster
Field of study
- Psychology
October 2019 - August 2020
University of East London
Field of study
- Psychology
Publications
Publications (6)
Background Around a third of suicides in the United Kingdom occur in public spaces, such as on the railways, at bridges, or coastal locations. Increasingly, the use of Artificial Intelligence and other smart technologies are being proposed as a means of optimising or automating aspects of the surveillance process in these environments. Yet relative...
False political information–misinformation or disinformation—is widely spread on social media. Individual social media users play a large part in this. However, only a minority actively share false material. It is important to establish what sets these individuals apart from those who do not, and why they do it. Motivations for sharing may vary and...
False political information – misinformation or disinformation - is widely spread on social media. Individual social media users play a large part in this. However, only a minority actively share false material. It is important to establish what sets these individuals apart from those who do not, and why they do it. Motivations for sharing may vary...
Social media users are key actors in the spreading of misleading or incorrect information. To develop an integrative parsimonious summary of social media users’ own accounts of motives for sharing political information, we conducted: (1) a literature review of motives for personally sharing false information as reported by social media users and (2...
The spread of false and misleading information on social media is largely dependent on human action. Understanding the factors that lead social media users to amplify (or indeed intervene in) the spread of this content is an ongoing challenge. Prior research suggests that users are not only more likely to interact with misinformation that supports...
In an Internet-enabled era, we are citizens in a vast array of different online spaces, and the behaviours afforded to these spaces are becoming increasingly complex. Within the study of computer-mediated communication (CMC), there is an implicit assumption that behaviour occurring in CMC is equivalent to that depicted in the communicated message....
