Communications

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about the influence of fringe platforms on perceptions of the election. “You have to get buy-in from the mainstream to have big cultural impact,” she said. “Most people are watching the networks, not social media streams.”

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about the Lincoln Project’s outreach to Republican voters. “They’re basically mining everything you can reasonably mine from the available news cycle and the anxieties of the moment. We’ve never seen that before.”

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about how the evolution in the U.S. in recent years of perceptions of climate change, with almost 70% of Americans now agreeing that human activity is a contributing factor. “The evidence has become clearer. The communication has become more effective. And people have experienced events in their lives that they attribute to climate change,” she said. “That suggests this isn’t a hopeless task.”

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center commented on Daniel Dale’s fact check of statements made by President Trump during a speech at the Republican National Convention. “Dale’s rapidly spoken summary and correction of distortions in the Trump acceptance speech was more likely to leave viewers impressed with Dale than it was to help viewers remember the corrections,” she said.

Melanie Kornides of the School of Nursing comments on the effects of misinformation on vaccine development.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center was interviewed about social media and election meddling.