D&S Researcher Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley consider the larger trend toward automated politics and the likely future sophistication of automated politics and potential impacts on the public sphere in the era of social medi... Read on Slate

All around the world, media outlets are learning that some funders are uncomfortable with supporting journalism merely as a “public good.” They want to see proof of impact. In this article, D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman an... Read on SSIR

In this blog post, D&S fellow Mimi Onuoha discusses the motivations of those who contribute to crowdsourced journalism as a part of the forthcoming report "Guide to Crowdsourcing". Read on Data & Society

Abstract: In this essay, we reconstruct a keyword for communication—affordance. Affordance, adopted from ecological psychology, is now widely used in technology studies, yet the term lacks a clear definition. This is especially... Read on Social Media + Society

The public interest concept has traditionally been a central, multi-faceted, and highly contested guiding principle in the governance of media platforms that have played a significant role in the dissemination of news and infor... Read more

In this Journal of Children and Media article, D&S researcher Monica Bulger seeks to address the dynamics of information evaluation among youth, investigating the attitudes of youth (aged 11–18) toward information credibili... Read on Taylor & Francis Online

"Social media platforms don’t just guide, distort, and facilitate social activity, they also delete some of it. They don’t just link users together, they also suspend them. They don’t just circulate our images and posts, they a... Read on Sage Journals

Today, press ethics are intertwined with platform design ethics, and press freedom is shared with software designers. The people at Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and elsewhere have a new and significant role in how news c... Read on Nieman Lab