As election rhetoric and social issues heated up over the summer, the amount of popular "iffy" social media content on key themes rose as well, but less so on the topic that has dominated much of the national discussion this ...
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2020
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Five hundred videos in 10 days. That's the job 10 students and alumni at UC Berkeley's Human Rights Investigations Lab and students at Cambridge University recently tackled with researchers from Amnesty International's Citizen ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2020
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A Rutgers-led study finds that online misinformation, or "fake news," lowers people's trust in mainstream media across party lines. The researchers defined fake news as fabricated information that looks like news content ...
Social Sciences
Jun 18, 2020
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There's a price to pay when you get your news and political information from the same place you find funny memes and cat pictures, new research suggests.
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2020
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Despite its portrayal as a network that "champions free speech," users of the social media platform Gab display more extreme social hierarchy and elitism when compared to Twitter users, according to a new study published ...
Social Sciences
Sep 1, 2019
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For a teenage refugee starting a new life in Europe, going to school and using digital media form a big part of navigating an unfamiliar society. But appropriate interventions at school and online could help them feel more ...
Social Sciences
Jul 9, 2019
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From fictitious organizations posting polarizing messages on Facebook to robustly researched news stories being labelled "fake," the pervasive power and importance of the media are clear.
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2019
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Google took in some $4.7 billion in revenue in 2018 from "crawling and scraping" news websites without paying publishers, according to an industry-sponsored study released Monday which was disputed by the tech giant and media ...
Internet
Jun 10, 2019
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Americans have a long tradition of taking to the streets to protest or to advocate for things they believe in. New research suggests that when it comes to climate change, these marches may indeed have a positive effect on ...
Environment
May 23, 2019
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Even in the wake of a recent mixed earning report and volatile stock prices, Netflix remains the media success story of the decade. The company, whose user base has grown rapidly, now boasts almost 150 million global subscribers.
Business
Apr 22, 2019
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