Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have continued their study of Americans’ opinions of news media with their recent study, Major Internet Companies as News Editors. The study provides a deeper look at the public’s views on large internet companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter playing […] Read more »
Two worlds — Online and off
Social listening — monitoring social media for comments, in this case, about your candidate and opponent — is one of the new techniques making its way into political campaigns and lots of screws are being pounded into lots of boards as folks learn how to use the tool. Such analyses […] Read more »
What Can Google Search Data Tell Us About Human Behavior?
As part of a month-long look at our digital selves, we look at what Google knows that social media does not. Author and data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has studied years’ worth of Google search data to find insights into human behavior. CONT. Ailsa Chang, NPR Read more »
Why Do People Share Fake News? A Sociotechnical Model of Media Effects
… This paper uses active audience approaches to media consumption to investigate and critique the phenomenon known as “fake news.” … Regardless of what “fake news” actually means, it is typically tied up with anxieties about the democratic ramifications of the shift from consuming news from broadcast television and newspapers […] Read more »
An online experimental platform to assess trust in the media
Online news outlets and social media platforms are key sources of news consumption today, yet how consumers evaluate the trustworthiness of this content remains underexplored. Gallup, in partnership with the Knight Foundation, built an online platform to assess trust in the media. The first cycle of experiments conducted on the […] Read more »
How Data Privacy Blunders and Conspiracy Theories Helped Fuel the ‘Techlash’
Smartphone addiction, data privacy blunders, and a growth-at-all costs mentality has led to public backlash against the tech industry that some refer to as “techlash.” That rising skepticism was the focus of heated debate at Fortune‘s Brainstorm Tech conference on Tuesday in Aspen, Colo. Is the tech industry good, bad—or […] Read more »