When it comes to where younger Americans get news about politics and government, social media look to be the local TV of the Millennial generation. About six-in-ten online Millennials (61%) report getting political news on Facebook in a given week, a much larger percentage than turn to any other news […] Read more »
Issue-Specific Activism on Climate Issues on Facebook
… Pew has fond that more people engage with issue groups online than political officials, and there are several examples of social media campaigns – the Red Equal Sign campaign and the ALS Ice Bucket challenge most notably – where issue-based activism has occurred. Working with colleagues Ashley Anderson, John […] Read more »
Facebook Study Disputes Theory of Political Polarization Among Users
For years, political scientists and other social theorists have fretted about the Internet’s potential to flatten and polarize democratic discourse. Because so much information now comes through digital engines shaped by our own preferences — Facebook, Google and others suggest content based on what consumers previously enjoyed — scholars have […] Read more »
State of the News Media 2015
Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center’s analysis of comScore data. CONT. Amy Mitchell, Pew Read more »
The ‘newsless’ myth: How Millennials consume the news
Many people believe that America’s first digital generation is “newsless.” Conventional wisdom dictates that one of the many reasons for print newspapers decline is due to low readership rates among Millennials, and that very few of them read the news at all. To complicate the picture further, it’s widely viewed […] Read more »
Twitter’s Evolving Plans to Make Money From Its Data Stream
Late on Friday, Twitter announced that it would no longer license the full stream of half a billion daily messages on its service to third-party resellers. … This is far different from four years ago, when Twitter struck licensing deals with Gnip and DataSift. Back then, Twitter didn’t see much […] Read more »