Twitter is a modern public square where many voices discuss, debate and share their views. Media personalities, politicians and the public turn to social networks for real-time information and reactions to the day’s events. But compared with the U.S. public overall, which voices are represented on Twitter? To examine this […] Read more »
Buying a Ticket Out of Iowa – Online
The Iowa caucuses help frame who is a contender for the nomination, which is especially important in such a large Democratic field. Historically, there are “three tickets out of Iowa.” Only once in recent political history has anyone become President without a top-three finish in the Iowa caucuses (although a […] Read more »
The Privacy Project: Do You Know What You’ve Given Up?
We’ve all been making some big choices, consciously or not, as advancing technology has transformed the real and virtual worlds. That phone in your pocket, the surveillance camera on the corner: You’ve traded away a bit of anonymity, of autonomy, for the usefulness of one, the protection of the other. […] Read more »
Inside Americans’ relationship with technology
Technology and social media have dramatically reshaped the United States over the past decade and Americans have mixed feelings about the changes, according to a deep dive into those topics in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. More than a decade after the smartphone arrived in our pockets and […] Read more »
Americans give social media a clear thumbs-down
The American public holds negative views of social-media giants like Facebook and Twitter, with sizable majorities saying these sites do more to divide the country than unite it and spread falsehoods rather than news, according to results from the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. What’s more, six in […] Read more »
To Find the Answer, Change the Questions
Earlier blog posts outlined issues around polls and who completes them. There is a more fundamental question: whether polling is a tool of the television age and not of the internet age. CONT. Diane Feldman Read more »