Field Notes

Field Notes is Gazzetta's email newsletter, in which we share a research question we are grappling with and how we’re experimenting to achieve our goal of getting useful information to people. Subscribe to receive these bi-weekly, and find our archive below.
10
Mar

Field Notes: Reaching the skeptics

Building relational trust before showing evidentiary proof
1 min read
03
Mar

Field Notes: Iranian Gen Z on YouTube

Introducing our research report on how trust is built on YouTube among Gen Z Iranians, conducted with ASL19
2 min read
27
Jan

Field Notes: Information as a basic utility

What is your (or your organization’s) unique role for people during crisis?
1 min read
13
Jan

Field Notes: AI source retrieval in Persian language

How does AI mirroring of user prompts affect source retrieval?
1 min read
20
Dec

Field Notes: Information foraging

How to satisfy the nutritional needs of information omnivores
1 min read
29
Nov

Field Notes: Who is missing from your data?

Following barriers to access, not demographic segments, to identify missing populations
1 min read
17
Nov

Field Notes: The AI knowledge divide

Do AI guardrails make knowledge a luxury?
1 min read
29
Oct

Field Notes: Civic scraping

A needs-driven practice for overcoming commercial, legal, and other inequities helps get people the knowledge they need to navigate their lives a little bit better.
1 min read
13
Oct

Field Notes: Emotion versus evidence

Emotional activation drives verification behavior, but emotional content is more likely to be misleading or manipulative.
1 min read
22
Sep

Field Notes: Minority linguistic identities and AI

How do we navigate minority- versus majority-language systems in AI models?
1 min read