by jpitney | Aug 25, 2020 | Civility, Mass Media, Polarization, Social Media
At RealClearPolitics, Celinda Lake and Ed Goeas offer four concrete suggestions for restoring civility to public discourse: Political leaders have to police their own. Change the channel. Think before retweeting. Try to understand the motivations of the other...
by jpitney | Jul 29, 2020 | Newspapers, Social Media, Tocqueville
Brooke Auxier at Pew: From global protests against racial injustice to the 2020 election, some Americans who use social media are taking to these platforms to mobilize others and show their support for causes or issues. But experiences and attitudes related to...
by jpitney | Jul 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Social Media, Vaccine
At STAT, a bipartisan message from Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (R-TN), California State Senator Richard Pan, M.D. (D), and Max G. Bronstein, founder of the Journal of Science Policy & Governance: We must also invest in grassroots public outreach...
by jpitney | Feb 18, 2020 | Civility, Internet, Social Media, Uncategorized
Jacqueline Beauchere at Microsoft: The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI), a measure of the tone and tenor of online interactions as reported by consumers in 25 countries, stands at its lowest level since the survey began. Findings are being released in...
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2020 | Misinformation, Social Media, Uncategorized
Dias, Nicholas; Pennycook, Gordon; Rand, David G. (2020). Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media. The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-001 Summary: In two...
by jpitney | Jan 1, 2020 | Civic Education, Judiciary, Social Media, Uncategorized
Chief Justice John Roberts’s annual report: Hamilton, Madison, and Jay ultimately succeeded in convincing the public of the virtues of the principles embodied in the Constitution. Those principles leave no place for mob violence. But in the ensuing years, we...
