May 20, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
Homa Hosseinmardi and Sam Wolken of the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab) were recently invited to speak at the Political and Information Networks Workshop on April 25-26. This workshop was organized by the Center for Information Networks and Democracy (CIND),...
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 19, 2024 | News, PennMAP
A new study from the Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on user’s political views than is commonly believed. About a quarter of a quarter of Americans get their news on YouTube. With its billions of...
Nov 29, 2023 | News, PennMAP
Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news Photo by Charles Guerin/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images) Seven years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, media analysts rushed to explain Donald Trump’s victory....
