Despite President-elect Joe Biden’s call to bring people together, two new studies by the Center for Public Relations at USC Annenberg suggest that both political polarization and the proliferation of conspiracy theories are likely to...
The Local Media Association, in partnership with Facebook Journalism Project, has launched a pilot project using tools and training from Crosstown to empower smaller and mid-sized newsrooms to access and transform data into high-impact local journalism.
The pilot project will be implemented by WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, and NOLA/The...
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The big ideaThe widespread reliance on remote learning is harming students of color from low-income households more than kids who are from more affluent families. Our survey of over...
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The word “socialism” has become a trigger word in U.S. politics, with both...
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If a...
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Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they are seeing is the result of automated propaganda campaigns....
Just as in 2016, a new USC study finds that automated accounts and foreign interference are infesting social media conversations about the upcoming election.
Bots and conspiracy theorists have infested the Twitter chatter around the upcoming U.S. presidential election, USC researchers have found.
Looking at more than 240 million election-related tweets, the study found that...
A self-described “special geek” who cut class to go the library, Megan Stielstra found her calling as an author and educator while poring over novels by J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood and Richard Wright.
“I was reading Black Boy , Wright’s memoir about growing up in the Jim Crow South,” Stielstra said. “In the chapter where he gets a library card, he describes...