The 2021 Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press: Maria Ressa | Shorenstein Center
On Tuesday, November 16th at 6:00 pm ET in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, this year’s Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press will be delivered by Maria Ressa, 2021 […]
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Rethinking the Limits: Provocative and Extreme Speech | Annenberg School for Communication
Democracies are struggling to balance freedom of expression with equality for the weak as well as accountability for harmful speech. There is growing alarm at how internet giants distort the […]
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Is an “ethical” internet possible? | Annenberg School for Communication
How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture? The weaponizing potential of the internet was part and partial […]
MIC Panel Event: Imagining a New Social Contract for Media | Annenberg School for Communication
Expanding positive freedoms that enable greater opportunities for communication—as opposed to emphasizing only negative freedoms that protect us from harm—is foundational to reforming our media system so that it serves […]
Factual Corrections and Misinformation During the 2020 U.S. Election: Evidence from Panel Experiments | Network Science Institute
We measure the immediate and medium-term effects of 21 highly-trafficked pieces of misinformation and fact-checks during the 2020 U.S. election with eight panel experiments (N = 17,681). Exposure to misinformation […]
Gender, Political Persuasion, and Social Media: A Field Experiment During the 2020 Democratic Primary | Network Science Institute
Research indicates women have less influence than men in a variety of professional settings, including politics. We conducted a field experiment on a social media platform where Democrats were randomly […]
The Interplay of Technology, Ethics, and Policy | Network Science Institute
This talk will be hybrid in-person and via Zoom. Register in advance here for this meeting using your institutional email address. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing […]
Center for Media at Risk Symposium: Image-Based Abuse | Annenberg
Image-based abuse is a public health crisis that silences marginalized groups and degrades public discourse. Ranging across the COVID-19 pandemic, political campaigns and social network reform, image-based abuse finds its […]
How to address extremism among veterans | The Brookings Institution
The mob assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 opened a new chapter in domestic terrorism. For the first time in our nation’s history, America experienced its first […]
The True Costs of Misinformation | Network Science Institute
It all feels like a precursor to a bad joke: What do foreign agents, white supremacists, conspiracists, snake oil salesmen, political operatives, white academics, and a disgruntled bunch of zoomers […]