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Google News Prioritizes National Media over Local

Users are less likely to see local news results, and the local news they do see appears lower on the results list.

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Mobile Phones Help Americans Encounter More Diverse News

Thanks largely to mobile phones, Americans are reading news from a wider range of sources, though many do not read any online news at all.

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Virtual Reality Trains Public to Reverse Opioid Overdoses

Researchers have developed an immersive video to train people on carrying and using naloxone.

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Vasudevan Receives Eyebeam Fellowship and James D. Woods Award

Vasudevan is being recognized for her work as a data artist and teaching fellow.

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Transatlantic Group Urges Transparency and Accountability for Digital Platforms

A new report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center advocates for the regulation of accountability, not speech.

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Meeting the Challenge of Vaccination Hesitancy: Q&A with Damon Centola

Can the study of network dynamics offer solutions for curbing the anti-vaccine movement?

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Bergère Named 2020-21 Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow

Bergère will develop a multi-lingual digital exhibition about the taxation of internet data in Guinea and Benin.

Graduate Student News

Roopa Vasudevan Awarded 2020 Sachs Program Grant

Vasudevan’s project, entitled “Machine Readable,” considers the impacts of our increasingly digitized way of life.

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Sarah J. Jackson and Duncan J. Watts Awarded 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellowships

Jackson will study Black media-makers, and Watts will study bias and misinformation in media.