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African-American Resistance to the COVID-19 Vaccine Reflects a Broader Problem | The New Yorker
by Jelani Cobb
December 21, 2020
Back in March, when the pall of the pandemic hung over the city, and long stretches of Broadway were as…
How Do We Get to Herd Immunity for Fake News? | The New York Times
by Greg Weiner
December 15, 2020
Last week, veto-proof majorities of the House and Senate rejected President Trump’s demand that they use a defense-spending bill to…
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus Explanations, Attitudes, and Narratives Survey (OCEANS) II | Psychological Medicine
by Daniel Freeman, Bao S. Loe, Andrew Chadwick, Cristian Vaccari, Felicity Waite, Laina Rosebrock, Lucy Jenner, Ariane Petit, Stephan Lewandowsky, Samantha Vanderslott, Stefania Innocenti, Michael Larkin, Alberto Giubilini, Ly-Mee Yu, Helen McShane, Andrew J. Pollard, and Sinéad Lambe
December 14, 2020
Background: Our aim was to estimate provisional willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, identify predictive socio-demographic factors, and, principally, determine…
What we think we know and what we want to know: perspectives on trust in news in a changing world | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
December 3, 2020
Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten…
Online Attacks on Women Journalists Leading to ‘Real World’ Violence, New Research Shows | International Center for Journalists
by Julie Posetti, Jackie Harrison and Silvio Waisbord
November 30, 2020
The insidious problem of online violence against women journalists is increasingly spilling offline, with potentially deadly consequences, a new global…
The Digital Dilemma in the Time of COVID | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
November 30, 2020
Digital technologies present a dilemma. They have become indispensable for learning skills, building knowledge, working, playing, and socially connecting. The…
News Distrust Among Black Americans is a Fixable Problem | UT Austin Center for Media Engagement
by Tamar Wilner, Gina M. Masullo, Danielle Kilgo, and Lance Bennett
November 20, 2020
American society today feels more divided than ever, particularly along racial lines. In this project, the Center for Media Engagement…
California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide | Oxford Internet Institute
by Sara Spinks
November 11, 2020
Last Tuesday, voters in California passed Proposition 22, a measure that allows gig companies to hire drivers and couriers as…
Academic Writing Month Webinar: Publishing Trends and Academic Writers | Social Science Space
November 4, 2020
From scholarly article to practical guides, from textbooks to media, from weighty tomes to tweets, researchers and academic writers have…