… High tension, raw emotion and occasional violence have always been a feature of American democracy — in times of war and peace, through presidential impeachments and mass protest movements. But interviews with voters across the country, along with an analysis of recent research by political scientists who specialize in […] Read more »
Americans’ Views on News Content From Internet Companies
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 »
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 »
Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans’ Trust In Local News
Russia’s information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news. The information operatives who worked out of the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg did not stop at posing as American social […] Read more »