… In psychological terms, “mood” is a weather report for your personal emotions, a measure of balmy good cheer or dreary storms. But our emotions, naturally, are influenced by the same winds of change that blow on every other person’s. … The idea of scientifically measuring such moods traces back […] Read more »
Public Attitudes Toward Technology Companies
In the midst of an ongoing debate over the power of digital technology companies and the way they do business, sizable shares of Americans believe these companies privilege the views of certain groups over others. Some 43% of Americans think major technology firms support the views of liberals over conservatives, […] Read more »
Misinformation and biases infect social media, both intentionally and accidentally
People who share potential misinformation on Twitter (in purple) rarely get to see corrections or fact-checking (in orange). Shao et al., CC BY-ND Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, University of South Florida and Filippo Menczer, Indiana University Social media are among the primary sources of news in the U.S. and across the […] Read more »
Trump has turned words into weapons and he’s winning the linguistic war
Donald Trump has been a salesman for nearly half a century. He is now selling himself, his worldview and his self-serving views of the law and the truth. … Language can shape the way we think. Trump knows this. Here are some of his favorite manipulation techniques. First, he weaponizes […] Read more »
When Trump speaks: A conversation with Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Middle-of-the-night tweets with errant capitalization and grammar, vitriolic insults, flat out denials of known truths: We have never had a president who communicates quite like Donald Trump. KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of FactCheck.org, joins Marty for a […] Read more »
Nine takeaways from Knight-supported research on restoring trust in news
As part of its effort to explore the root causes of the current crisis in trust in the media, the Knight Foundation is commissioning a continuing series of white papers from academics and experts. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. CONT. Nancy Watzman, Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy Read more »