Apr 18, 2022 | Article, News, PennMAP
The data will save us — Or at least, that’s the hope of Wharton professor Duncan Watts, whose new initiative, the Penn Media Accountability Project, aims to expose bias in journalism by building a huge database of news for researchers and journalism watchdogs to...
Jan 20, 2022 | Featured, News, PennMAP, Published
PHILADELPHIA, January 20, 2022 — Is bonding over non-political similarities the key to depolarizing political discussions? New research sheds light on how even hardliners can be swayed when coming in contact with opposing viewpoints. In many friend groups, politics is...
Jan 11, 2022 | Featured, News, PennMAP, Published
PHILADELPHIA, January 11, 2022 — Does explicitly acknowledging bias make us less likely to make biased decisions? A new study examining how people justify decisions based on biased data finds that this is not necessarily the case. Narrative-based explanations of what...
Nov 29, 2021 | Featured, News, PennMAP
Originally published by the Annenberg School for Communication PHILADELPHIA, November 22, 2021 — Homa Hosseinmardi and her colleagues at Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab studied browsing data from 300,000 Americans to gain insights into how online...
Nov 1, 2021 | News, PennMAP
As the lead researcher on the Penn Media Accountability Project (PennMAP), Homa Hosseinmardi tackles questions of online political radicalization and misbehavior using large-scale data. In this month’s researcher spotlight, she shares about her experience...
