Communications

Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that when a local newspaper is lost, levels of corruption rise, civic engagement declines, people are less likely to vote, and community taxes go up.

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that the Union Square riot by fans of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat is a wake-up call for understanding social media and the digital world as real life.

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton and colleagues have designed algorithms that analyze social media posts to identify users at risk of harming themselves or others..

Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication explains that the “positive” interpretation of the First Amendment focuses on government’s affirmative role to help guarantee the public access to a “diverse and informative media system.”

Diana Mutz of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Annenberg School for Communication says that the backlash President Biden could get for speaking out against draconian state immigration policies might not be worth the political risk.

A study led by Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication found that Facebook resulted in significant ideological segregation regarding political news exposure of the 2020 election, specifically among conservative users who encountered misinformation.