MediaWell: Live research from the digital edges of democracy

by Todd Feathers

3 days ago

Concerned about growing momentum behind efforts to regulate the commercial use of personal data, Big Tech has begun seeding watered-down…

by Emily Bell

4 days ago

Any day now the Facebook Oversight Board, the social media company’s review mechanism for decisions on deletion of content and…

by Pranav Dixit

6 days ago

I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…

by Tony Walker

6 days ago

When China’s ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, summoned journalists to the Chinese embassy last week, this was not an occasion…

by Elisa Lees Munoz

6 days ago

By now, those of us working in news media know what online violence looks like. It manifests as sexist abuse,…

by Cecilia D'Anastasio

April 9, 2021

Twitch is finally coming to terms with its responsibility as a king-making microcelebrity machine, not just a service or a…

by Axios Re:Cap

April 9, 2021

Nearly one in five American adults is hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, which could make it harder for the…

by Will Stribling

April 9, 2021

As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the…

April 7, 2021

Prof. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar who has spent the last decade studying the social and political implications of…

by Meredith Conroy

April 6, 2021

There’s little question that the media is one of the least trusted institutions in Republican circles. In the past two…