A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy

P Lorenz-Spreen, L Oswald, S Lewandowsky… - Nature human …, 2023‏ - nature.com
One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

The nature and origins of political polarization over science

R Rekker - Public Understanding of Science, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
People have a tendency to disregard information that contradicts their partisan or ideological
identity. This inclination can become especially striking when citizens reject notions that …

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: A challenge for democracy?

P Van Aelst, J Strömbäck, T Aalberg… - Annals of the …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have
changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information …

Greater Internet use is not associated with faster growth in political polarization among US demographic groups

L Boxell, M Gentzkow, JM Shapiro - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017‏ - pnas.org
We combine eight previously proposed measures to construct an index of political
polarization among US adults. We find that polarization has increased the most among the …

On the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy

AM Enders, J Uscinski, C Klofstad, J Stoler - Plos one, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
At the time of writing, nearly one hundred published studies demonstrate that beliefs in
COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation are negatively associated with COVID-19 …

Is the internet causing political polarization? Evidence from demographics

L Boxell, M Gentzkow, JM Shapiro - 2017‏ - nber.org
We combine nine previously proposed measures to construct an index of political
polarization among US adults. We find that the growth in polarization in recent years is …

Local news, information, and the nationalization of US elections

DJ Moskowitz - American Political Science Review, 2021‏ - cambridge.org
Has the decline in traditional sources of local news contributed to the nationalization of US
elections? I hypothesize that local news coverage mitigates nationalization by providing …

[كتاب][B] The anatomy of fake news: A critical news literacy education

N Higdon - 2020‏ - books.google.com
Since the 2016 US presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for
government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content …

Mass partisan polarization: Measuring a relational concept

A Lauka, J McCoy, RB Firat - American behavioral scientist, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
With recent political developments sparking sharp divisions within democracies, an
understanding of the dynamics of polarization is ever more necessary. Yet we still lack the …

Regulation and distribution

RL Revesz - NYUL Rev., 2018‏ - HeinOnline
The dominant academic view with respect to regulatory policy holds that individual
regulations should not concern themselves with questions of distribution. Instead, rules …