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Counting and certifying election results in the United States can take days and even weeks following election day. These delays are often linked to distrust in elections but does delay […]
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Previous work has shown that false information affects decision-making even after being corrected, a phenomenon known as “continued influence effects” (CIEs). Using mock social media posts about fictional political candidates, […]
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This annual Reuters Institute Predictions report looks at the key trends that will impact news media in 2025. Just four in ten (41%) of our sample of editors, CEOs, and […]
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Using data from a conjoint experiment in three countries (Brazil, n = 2038; Germany, n = 2012, and the United States, n = 2005), this study demonstrates that journalistic transparency […]
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The watchdog role has been one of the most widely discussed normative functions of the press. In this study, we examine the public’s attitudes toward the news media’s watchdog performance […]
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National Eating Disorders Association conducts a NEDAwareness week every year, during which it publishes content on social media and news aimed to raise awareness of eating disorders. Measuring the impact […]
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Background: Memes have gone “viral,” gaining increasing prominence as an effective communications strategy based on their unique ability to engage, educate, and mobilize target audiences in a call to action […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of large-scale campaigns to facilitate vaccination adherence. Social media presents unique opportunities to reach broader audiences and reduces the costs of conducting national […]
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Understanding the impact of social factors on disease prevention and control is one of the key questions in behavioral epidemiology. The interactions of disease spreading and human health behavior such […]
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Computational social science has had a profound impact on the study of health and disease, mainly by providing new data sources for all of the primary Ws—what, who, when, and […]
