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2022 Midterms: NYU Center for Social Media & Politics Seminar Series
September 19, 2022
Media Consumption, Misinformation, and Polarization Social media has transformed the media and political landscape, but the vast majority of Americans…
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate, Statistical Science | Duke University
by Duke University
August 26, 2022
The Polarization Lab at Duke University is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to begin immediately. We seek a recent…
Request for Proposals | Polarization Research Lab
by Polarization Research Lab
August 15, 2022
The Polarization Research Lab is very happy to announce that we have opened our first RFP for survey time. Similar…
Cable news has a much bigger effect on America’s polarization than social media, study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Homa Hosseinmardi
August 15, 2022
The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of…
Don’t call it crazy: How the media “wraparound” effect cements people’s beliefs | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Dan Falk
May 5, 2022
Our world is awash in mis- and disinformation. Conspiratorial thinking and misguided beliefs and attitudes towards science are widespread. But…
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
April 21, 2022
My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history. So shortly after we married, we chose to…
Distinct Archetypes of YouTube Politics
April 19, 2022
The following is an essay written by a SSRC Social Data Research Fellow, based on their project. The program was…
America’s internet is splitting along party lines | Axios
by Sara Fischer and Scott Rosenberg
April 6, 2022
New investments flooding partisan media platforms are starting to restructure America's internet business around the nation's deepening political divide. Why…
Use of social media for news doesn’t seem to increase false political beliefs among Mexicans, one study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Hanaa' Tameez
April 5, 2022
In Mexico, social media isn’t the major driver of political misinformation as it’s popularly believed to be, according to a…