Aug 15, 2022 | News, PennMAP, Published
Joe Biden and Donald Trump supporters, like these two, are more likely to be polarized by TV news than online echo chambers. AP Photo/Allen G. Breed The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a...
Jul 26, 2022 | News, PennMAP, Published
Duncan Watts and colleagues found that 17% of Americans consume television news from partisan left- or right-leaning sources compared to just 4% online. For TV news viewers, this audience segregation tends to last month over month. In the lead-up to the 2016...
Jul 6, 2022 | Group Dynamics, News
Originally published on the Empirica blog Welcome to “Empirica Stories” — a series in which we highlight innovative research from the Empirica community, showcasing the possibilities of virtual lab experiments! Today, we highlight the work of Eaman Jahani and...
Jun 15, 2022 | Group Dynamics, News
As a key figure in the CSSLab’s work on high-throughput virtual lab experiments, post-doctoral researcher James Houghton aims to refocus social science around large-scale, data-driven insights. In this researcher spotlight, he shares about his path to computational...
