An Information Paradox Reading (and Listening) List
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An Information Paradox Reading (and Listening) List

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Want to dig deeper into the issues surrounding the Information Paradox? These videos, podcasts, articles, and books (plus one game!), suggested by Issue Brief author Jocelyn Yin and others, and will get you started.

Podcasts and Videos

Pomerantsev, Peter. How to Fight (and Win) an Information War, TEDxMidAtlantic, June 2024. Propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev looks to history to answer to the question: how can engage in information warfare to defend democracy and we fight back against autocratic regimes?

McNee, Amie. “The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire.” TED Talks Daily podcast, 12 June 2025.

Pan, Faith. Mitigating Information Overload with Mindfulness, TEDxSHC Youth, December 2024. High school junior Faith Pan curates a talk about how to navigate information overload.

Articles and Online Reading

Antelava, Natalia. "Noise is the New Censorship." JSK Fellowships at Stanford, November 30, 2023.

Brown, Ryan Andrew; Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, et. al. “What Do Former Extremists and Their Families Say About Radicalization and Deradicalization in America?” RAND Corporation, June 25, 2021.

Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity. "Advancing digital content transparency and authenticity." An attempt to set open technical standards for the origins of digital content.

Darcy, Oliver. "Peeling Back the Onion." Status (July 6, 2025). An interview with Ben Collins, chief executive of The Onion. (free sign up required)

Estrin, Judy. "Stop Drinking from the Toilet!” Coda Story, September 10, 2024. 

Forest, James J. F. “Political Warfare and Propaganda: An Introduction.” Journal of Advanced Military Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, Marine Corps University Press, 2021. A longer piece that dives into information warfare from a military and historical perspective.

Goodwin, Cara. “New Research on Information Overload in Parents.” Psychology Today, 19 Sept. 2023.

Kellogg School of Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. "How Social Media Algorithms Have Hijacked Social Learning." Kellogg Insight, August 16, 2023.

McCandless, David. "Common Mythconceptions." Information Is Beautiful. A fun collection of interactive infographics of the world's most contagious falsehoods.

MIT Libraries. “Disinformation: Overview.” MIT Libraries Research Guides, last updated November 26, 2024. A resource from MIT about the data available and relevant organizations focused on disinformation.

Pima County Public Library Information Integrity Team. “A Particular Kind of Disinformation: Pink Slime Journalism.” Pima County Public Library Blog, October 14, 2024. A short blog post about "pink slime": fake local news sites popping up in the absence of legitimate local news. 

Books

Harari, Yuval Noah. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Random House, 2024.

Hayes, Chris. The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. Penguin Random House, 2025.

Heinrichs, Jay. Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion. Crown, 2020.

Literat, Ioana; Chang, Yoo Kyung, and the Columbia University Media and Social Change Lab, LAMBOOZLED!: The Media Literacy Card Game. Teachers College Press, 2020. A media literacy card game for ages 11+.

Tucher, Andie. Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. Columbia University Press, 2022.