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March 20, 2023

How Entertainment TV Portrays Civic Leadership and Civic Engagement in the United States

Watching Out for Democracy is an independent research project of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), under the Civic Leadership Stories Project. Under the direction of Principal Investigator Caty Borum and Lead Researcher Paula Weissman...
March 20, 2023

Narrative, Power and Polarisation: The Role of Influential Actors

In societies marked by deep social divisions, powerful individuals and organisations play a key role in building up narratives which promote either peaceful engagement or polarisation that can lead to violence.
April 21, 2021

Are You What You Watch?

Do liberals enjoy the same TV shows as conservatives? Do they experience similar emotions while viewing their favorite shows? Our new study looks for connections between media diets and political beliefs, tracking changes from 2008 to 2018.
March 26, 2021

American Views 2020: Trust, Media and Democracy

Gallup and Knight polled more than 20,000 U.S. adults and found continued pessimism and further partisan entrenchment about how the news media delivers on its democratic mandate for factual, trustworthy information. Many Americans feel the media’s critical roles of informing and holding those in power accountable are compromised by increasing bias.
March 26, 2021

Media Polarization “A la Francaise”?

Institute Montaigne investigated whether a similar phenomenon was at work in France. To this end, it led an in-depth study in partnership with the Sciences Po Médialab, the Sciences Po School of Journalism as well as the MIT Center for Civic Media. It also benefited from data collected and analyzed by the Pew Research Center*, in their report News Media Attitudes in France.
March 26, 2021

Political Polarization & Media Habits

This report is part of a series by the Pew Research Center aimed at understanding the nature and scope of political polarization in the American public, and how it interrelates with government, society and people’s personal lives.
March 25, 2021

Indirect Contact and Prejudice Reduction: Limits and Possibilities

Brown, Rupert and Paterson, Jenny (2016) Indirect contact and prejudice reduction: limits and possibilities. Current Opinion in Psychology, 11. pp. 20-24. ISSN 2352-250X This version is available from Sussex Research
March 25, 2021

Getting the message across: Using media to reduce racial prejudice and discrimination

The authors particularly wish to thank the following people for their advice: Professor Benjamin Bowling (King’s College, London); Professor Howard Ehrlich (The Prejudice Institute, Washington D.C. USA)

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