Student Partners for Information Research and Literacy (SPIRaL)

It is of vital importance to society that individuals are able to navigate today’s algorithmically mediated information environment, which exacerbates the spread and the harms of mis and disinformation. In the 2023-24 academic year, SPIRaL undergraduate researchers are conducting original qualitative research to study how Purdue students perceive the relationship between social media algorithms and democratic engagement in digital spaces.