The first comprehensive analysis of the relationship between campaign donations and the issues legislators prioritize with congressional speech is published in the open access journal PLOS ONE this week.
Political science
Sep 20, 2023
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Previous studies have shown people can identify the gender and race of a speaker based on the words chosen, but could a person identify something like political membership? A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University ...
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2021
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Research by Kansas State University shows how politicians from both major parties have changed their political speech from previous centuries.
Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2020
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833
Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.
Internet
Jan 27, 2012
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Americans are quite worried about the role artificial intelligence will play in both politics and society, according to a new report by the Polarization Research Lab.
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2024
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White people surveyed in a recent study indicated they would be more likely to confront those who post racist content on social media if their objective were to defend the norms for political discussions rather than to change ...
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2024
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1
The rise of the far right in Western democracies in recent years has revived interest in how these movements and parties engage in politics. Given the generalizations that indicate that these ideologies are only constructed ...
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2023
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12
My colleagues and I used artificial intelligence to analyze hundreds of thousands of dialogs on cable news programs in order to better understand the nature of interruptions in political discussions. We found that women get ...
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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Facebook is working to prevent livestreams of terror attacks such as the one in New Zealand but it does not plan to introduce a delay on live feeds, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
Internet
Apr 4, 2019
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A new study of the English definite article "the" demonstrates that even seemingly drab function words can send powerful social and political signals. The study "Pragmatics and the social life of the English definite article," ...
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2019
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