Feb 1, 2023 | Article, Featured, News, PennMAP, Production, Projects
Part of its Penn Media Accountability Project (PennMAP), the CSSLab launches the first in a series of interactive data visualizations. The new dashboard is designed to make their research on YouTube radicalization accessible and engaging to the general public — and,...
Oct 13, 2022 | Article, COVID Philadelphia, News
Whether developing a safe vaccine or figuring out how to encourage its adoption, the same scientific method — systematically experimenting to see what works and what doesn’t — is key. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and...
Apr 18, 2022 | Article, News, PennMAP
The data will save us — Or at least, that’s the hope of Wharton professor Duncan Watts, whose new initiative, the Penn Media Accountability Project, aims to expose bias in journalism by building a huge database of news for researchers and journalism watchdogs to...
Jun 29, 2021 | Article, News, PennMAP
Baird Howland reflects upon his ongoing research on news consumption and misinformation in “Something’s in the Water,” published in The Commonplace. He notes that the picture emerging from his research contradicts the conventional wisdom of Americans drowning in...
Mar 30, 2020 | Article, News, PennMAP
Lab Director Duncan Watts and co-authors David Rothschild and Baird Howland explore a popular and important behavior that is frequently measured in public opinion surveys: news consumption. They validate earlier findings that, despite large shifts in news consumption...
