January 3, 2020
A Comprehensive Study of How Television’s Most Popular Genre Excludes Writers of Color, Miseducates People about the Criminal Justice System and Makes Racial Injustice Acceptable
November 25, 2019
Our latest study aimed to uncover how gender representation affects what people watch. We analyzed over 2.7 million YouTube videos uploaded by advertisers between January 1, 2015, and March 31, 2019.
November 14, 2019
In November 2016, the Stanford History Education Group released a study showing that young people lacked basic skills of digital evaluation. Since then, a whole host of efforts—including legislative initiatives in 18 states—have sought to address this problem.
September 4, 2019
At a time of heightened civic and political awareness in the United States, Americans are looking for their corporate neighbors to be more engaged than ever before. In partnership with FORTUNE for their September cover story, NPSG conducted a national study to better understand the intersection of corporate America, civic engagement, and the current political climate.
September 3, 2019
The Where We Are on TV report analyzes the overall diversity of primetime scripted series regulars on broadcast networks and looks at the number of LGBTQ characters on cable networks and streaming services for the 2018-2019 TV season.
July 29, 2019
In line with its mandate, the 2020 GEM Report assesses progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education and its ten targets, as well as other related education targets in the SDG agenda.
July 22, 2019
Despite broad agreement about the need to ensure that people of all ages are equipped to understand and negotiate the influence of media in their lives, the United States does not devote any significant government effort, nor funding, for media literacy education research, training, or implementation. While funding initiatives have benefits and drawbacks, decades of grassroots advocacy has not been enough to establish media literacy education as a foundational or core dimension of schooling.
July 13, 2019
This guide aims at demystifying the process of interviewing, hiring and working with writers with disabilities. The guide also makes suggestions on how to greater include disability in storytelling and portrayal.
May 3, 2019
Developed in collaboration with The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University, the Inclusivity Analysis feature tracks how diverse and inclusive a screenplay is by allowing the user to quickly assign and measure the ethnicity, gender, age, disability or any other definable trait of the characters in the script.
February 12, 2019
The purpose of this study is to establish benchmark measures for the percentage of protagonists who are women, people of color, LGBTQIA, and people with disabilities in family films, so that we can quantify progress over time.