The laws of division: physicists probe into the polarization of political opinions
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Aeroplane contrails are being deliberately loaded with an extraterrestrial, disease-causing, silicon-based life form: such was…
How much do people consume news media that is mainly consumed by their co-partisans? And how do new media, including social…
By Eli Lucherini, Matthew Sun, Amy Winecoff, and Arvind Narayanan. For those interested in the impact of recommender systems…
Following The Markup’s example, I split this blog into the main findings and this “show your work” piece.We tested Twitter’s…
By Niam YaraghiAmid recent news about Google’s post 2016 elections meeting, multiple Congressional hearings, and attacks by…
Tem muita gente irritada com política e tendo dificuldade de lidar com pensamentos diferentes. Falaremos hoje um pouco sobre…
Tem muita gente irritada com política e tendo dificuldade de lidar com pensamentos diferentes. Falaremos hoje um pouco sobre…
Where were you on the night of Nov. 8, 2016? If you’re like many political junkies, you were watching election night coverage…
It is a truism that American politics has become more polarised in recent years. But how big a gap between Democrats and…
Across the political spectrum we must all work harder to analyse our sources of information and our biases. The consequences of…
The fear that Facebook and Twitter spread fake news seems exaggerated.
This is the first part of a two-part series about a class project on online filter bubbles. In this post, we talk about our…
This is the second part of a two-part series about a class project on online filter bubbles. In this post, where we focus on…
By Gordon…
Opinion: Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code. The post Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop…
Just as sound reverberates in an enclosed space, so do opinions and information in our social circles. Since ‘birds of a…
Brukerne klumper seg sammen rundt noen nyhetskilder. Sosiale medier kan gi oss et snevert bilde av virkeligheten, mener forskere.
After Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, 2016 will be remembered as the year of cataclysmic democratic events on both…
Dick Cheney, back when he was vice president, insisted all the TVs in his hotel suite be tuned to Fox News before he arrived. It…
Social media is transforming the world of politics everywhere. But maybe not in the ways we think.
Opinion: It's easy to criticize Facebook for filtering our news. But when we fail to click on stories presenting opposing…
Young activists gather at Lafayette Park in protest at the presidential campaign of presumptive Republican nominee Donald J.
Donald Trump’s victory is blindsiding, like stepping into a crosswalk and getting slammed into by a delivery guy cycling the…
Hillary Clinton speaks to Pennsylvania voters at Temple University in Philadelphia on Sept. 19. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post…
Almost all of the news and opinion we consume comes from outlets and commentators who share our political beliefs.Continue…
How are media sources from opposing sides of the political spectrum covering the election? Most of us have no idea. We live in…
New research finds that the great majority of people learn about political news from mainstream media sources.
2015 year-end compilation of the best research in digital news and social media according to a range of scholars, digital gurus…
Political scientists have been trying to understand how political campaigns affect voter turnout for decades. Now, with the…
Political scientists have been trying to understand how political campaigns affect voter turnout for decades. Now, with the…
There has been a lot of concern expressed about the role that social media might play in political polarization. The worry is…
From the commentary by Lazer: Bakshy et al. examine... whether Facebook's curation of news feeds prevents the intersection of…
Très vieux débat. Le web nait en 1989, Google en 1998 et Facebook est lancé en 2004. Progressivement, les algorithmes ne se…
Welcome to Altmetric’s “High Five” for May, a discussion of the top five scientific papers with the highest Altmetric scores…
In U.S. politics, the main narrative tends to manifest as left vs right, Democrat vs. Republican, but is this reflected in the…
You might recall our look at a couple of research papers in the journal, Science, about the varied and sundry failures of…
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: With Americans increasingly getting their news online via Facebook and similar platforms, our already…
Nine media organizations, including The New York Times and National Geographic, have signed a deal to distribute their content…
Science recently published a study done by its researchers in collaboration with the Information School at the University of…
It must be summer: Facebook has released a controversial study of its users. Last year, it was the demonstration that the…
A study was published last week in the journal Science that shows that Facebook’s algorithm isn’t the cause of a hypothetical “fi…
According to a recent study, Facebook has claimed that users are responsible for the filter bubble, an algorithm that hides…
Selectivity and polarization are happening on Facebook, and the news feed curation algorithm acts to modestly accelerate that.
Selectivity and polarization are happening on Facebook, and the news feed curation algorithm acts to modestly accelerate that.
Much has been written about how ideologically slanted news outlets like Fox News and MSNBC have contributed to the polarization…
For years, political scientists and social theorists have fretted about the Internet’s potential to flatten and polarize…
Richard Gayle:This Facebok research paper published in Science is even more hinky that I thought.Itis not clean nor open science.
Yesterday, Facebook released a study in Science that pushed back on the idea of the "filter bubble": that social media creates…
We’ve all heard (or expressed) the concern that the Internet allows us to choose only those sources that agree with our ideology.
We’ve all heard (or expressed) the concern that the Internet allows us to choose only those sources that agree with our ideology.
Facebook wants you to know that you've only got yourself to blame for the lack of diversity in views on your News Feed. The…
People who use social networking sites like Facebook to "curate" the news they see wind up reading stories that largely fit…
A peer-reviewed study conducted by Facebook found that its own algorithms aren't to blame for sparing us opinions we don't like.
2015 study published in Science showing that Facebook's News Feed algorithm has a limited effect on the kinds of political…
Or “I thought Science was a serious peer-reviewed publication…” A study published today in Science by Facebook researchers…
The most crucial thing people forget about social media, all technologies, is that certain people with certain politics…
If you're not seeing content on Facebook that challenges your personal views, it's because of your own choices, not an algorithm.