Do you live in a state that runs its elections particularly well, or poorly? And how would you know? Until recently, says Charles Stewart III, the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science at MIT, questions ...
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2013
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Beyonce's splashy show, a freak power outage, and —oh, yeah— a captivating game of football combined to generate a record 24.1 million posts on Twitter during Sunday night's Super Bowl.
Internet
Feb 4, 2013
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(AP)—The Central Asian nation of Tajikistan has blocked social media website Facebook for the third time in twelve months.
Internet
Jan 17, 2013
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What do nonvoters look like, can they be categorized and why don't they vote? To answer these and other questions, a Northwestern University journalism professor and Ipsos Public Affairs conducted an in-depth post-Election ...
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2012
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Over the next two years, the U.S. economy will regain the rest of the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the Great Recession, say economists at the University of Michigan.
Economics & Business
Nov 16, 2012
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A pre-election survey by the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago found that party affiliation alters how people react to political as well as non-political issues, including how individuals ...
Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2012
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As the dust settles after the presidential election, pundits and politicians from both sides of the aisle will begin the work of analyzing the results, trying to determine which issues tipped the scales and where the candidates ...
Internet
Nov 6, 2012
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Americans took to Twitter in droves Tuesday to post photos of themselves casting ballots in the long-awaited presidential election, sporting "I voted" stickers and urging others to do the same.
Internet
Nov 6, 2012
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Twitter has launched an interactive map of the United States that charts where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's campaign tweets have had the most impact, and where they have fallen flat.
Internet
Nov 4, 2012
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(Phys.org)—This might not be a "post-racial" era after all.
Social Sciences
Nov 2, 2012
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