The Reckoning for Social Media
Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center, delivered this keynote speech at the New Media and Society conference in Toronto on July 29, 2017.
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Sharing the News in a Polarized Congress
Political divides in the American news landscape do not end with Americans’ preferences for different news sources; rather, they extend to how members of the U.S. Congress communicate with constituents in the digital age.
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6. Commercial voter files in perspective
Despite the potential value of commercial voter files, they are hardly perfect. The imperfections stem from a variety of sources. At their core, the files are a compilation of official records from each state and the District of Columbia, with the addition of information about both registered and unregistered adults from other sources. But the […]
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2. Harassment of religious groups hits highest point since 2007
The analysis of 2016 sources found reports of religiously motivated harassment – whether perpetrated by governments or social groups – in the vast majority of the world’s countries (187, up from 169 in 2015). This marks the biggest number of countries where harassment was observed against religious groups since Pew Research Center began analyzing restrictions […]
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Methodology
To analyze the content of congressional Facebook posts, researchers studied a complete set of posts created by members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and displayed on their official and unofficial public pages between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 31, 2017. Data from previous Congresses were not available. Researchers used the Facebook Graph […]
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En Europa Occidental, las actitudes del público con respecto a los medios informativos se encuentran más divididas por las opiniones populistas que por las ideologías de derechas o de izquierdas
En Europa Occidental, las opiniones del público sobre los medios informativos están divididas por las tendencias populistas, más que por las identidades políticas de izquierdas o de derechas, según una nueva encuesta del Pew Research Center realizada en Dinamarca, Francia, Alemania, Italia, los Países Bajos, España, Suecia y el Reino Unido.