Jan 8, 2025 | Featured, News, PennMAP, Publication
Violent entertainment has made it into the public discourse due to rising concerns about the graphic nature of highly popular video game franchises including Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Call of Duty. But what about violence in films which are enjoyed by a much larger...
Nov 20, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House A television showing Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, debating Republican...
Sep 5, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
The Center will bring together six schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University T he University of Pennsylvania today announced $10 million in funding dedicated to its new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. The Center...
Jul 1, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection. (Image: Tero Vesalainen) The 2024 U.S. presidential debates...
Jul 1, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
A new study from the Computational Social Science Lab shows that while online misinformation exists, it isn’t as pervasive as pundits and the press suggest. In 2006, Facebook launched its News Feed feature, sparking seemingly endless contentious public discourse on...
