Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
By David Rothschild, Jenny Wang, and Duncan Watts Figure 1: Landing page of New York Times on Sunday March 3, 2024 On the weekend of March 2-3, 2024, the landing page of the New York Times was dominated by coverage of their poll showing voter concern over...
Mar 5, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP, Published
Given the sheer amount of content produced every day on a platform as large as YouTube, which hosts over 14 billion videos, the need for some sort of algorithmic curation is inevitable. As YouTube has attracted millions of views on partisan videos of a conspiratorial...
Feb 7, 2024 | Common Sense, Featured, News
Mark E. Whiting’s and Duncan J. Watts’s latest research reveals that common sense is in fact rare, demonstrated by a quantitative method they designed to measure common sense at the individual and collective level. Their research has been extensively featured in...
Nov 10, 2023 | Featured, News, Published
In the social and behavioral sciences, a theory provides a generalizable explanation that holds under a variety of specific conditions, and experiments are conducted to verify hypotheses which are derived from the theory. This process has become the dominant...
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,...