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...
Jun 25, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
The CSSLab’s Media Bias Detector empowers users to analyze bias in major news outlets, not just based on the outlets’ political leaning, but on the topics they choose to cover. (Maria Vonotna via Getty Images) Every day, American news outlets collectively publish...
