Focus here, not there: These are the gaps in political misinformation research | Nieman Journalism Lab

In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of American Behavioral Scientist, Brian Weeks, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga of the University of Vienna outline the “critical issues” that they hope political communications research will focus on in the future. “We would like this article to serve as a call to the growing number of political communication researchers who are investigating questions related to political misinformation to push themselves, think creatively, and focus on the most pressing questions to which we truly need answers,” they write. Among their observations:

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