We just had a paper published in the Journal of Health Communication documenting how we co-designed the East African version of the Cranky Uncle Vaccine game. This happened in a series of co-design workshops held in Uganda, Kenya & Rwanda. … Continued
Guest post by Baerbel Winkler As of April 14, 2023, the Cranky Uncle game is available in English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Swedish and Turkish. It can be played on iOS or Android devices as well as in the browser. More languages are already in the queue … Continued
Guest post by Bärbel Winkler As of August 20, 2022, the Cranky Uncle game is available in English, Dutch, German, Spanish and Portuguese and can be played on iOS or Android devices as well as in the browser. More languages are already in the queue … Continued
Part 2 of the Science of Cranky Uncle looks at research into how inoculation theory offers an approach for building public resilience against misinformation.
To celebrate Cranky Uncle’s 1st birthday (that’s right, we launched the Cranky Uncle game on Dec 15 last year!), I’m starting a video series today: The Science of Cranky Uncle. Part 1 delves into the different ways that misinformation does … Continued
Over time, the scientific consensus on climate change has steadily strengthened as the empirical evidence has piled up. We see this in the statements of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 1995, it suggested there was a discernible human … Continued
I’ve just published a new paper Teaching students how to spot climate misinformation using a cartoon game in the journal Plus Lucis. The paper is a readable (not too technical) explanation of the scientific research that informed the design of … Continued
Misinformation about climate change has polluted our information landscape for three decades, poisoning public discourse and clouding minds. We tend to think that the main danger of misinformation is causing people to believe wrong things. But there are a multitude … Continued
The Cranky Uncle game is now being translated into multiple languages, paving the way to building public resilience against misinformation across the world. So far, we have had volunteers offer to help translate the game into Danish, French, German, Italian, Polish, … Continued
Guest post by Melanie Trecek-King from Thinking Is Power Imagine it’s the end of the semester. Students are finishing their exams and you’re entering grades. You open your email to find the following: Dear Professor, I understand that the course … Continued