ABSTRACT: Researchers who conduct population surveys face escalating costs and declining response rates, as they aim to collect data that is representative, trustworthy, and publishable. Sample recruitment is often prohibitively expensive to researchers, and cheap convenience samples are fraught with representation and quality issues. NORC at the University of Chicago has built a survey panel […]
Title: How and why American journalism (accidentally) amplifies anti-democratic actors: Small town extremists, media storms, and a broken news industry Abstract: Within a week, a no-name Republican state representative from a town of 384 people in Illinois catapulted from obscurity to a prime-time appearance on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle. This newly-empowered politician, Darren Bailey, would […]
Title: Exploring Political Communication Strategies of Women’s Rights and LGBTQ+ Communities Over Time Abstract: This study uses a mixed methods approach to explore the communication approaches of organizations advocating for greater political power, access, and representation for women and LGBTQ+ Americans over time. First, I identify a diverse sample of organizations and publications advocating for greater […]
Enemies of the (E)state: Examining the Role of Attacks on The Press and Media Content Dan Haieshutter-Rice, Michigan State University A healthy critique of the free press is vital in a democracy. Like the other pillars of a functional democratic system, the press performs its role best under a receptive but critical eye. Yet broad […]
From Digital Portrayals to AI Refusals: Gendered Patterns in Science and Technology Communication Kaiping Chen, Associate Professor in Computational Communication, Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison Part of the Department of Communication Speakers Series, and co-organized with the Communication and Politics Group.
Accent as a factor of differentiation in a pluralistic society Marc André Bodet, Professor, Université Laval Abstract. There exists substantial research on the impact of various characteristics on the definition of national identity. Factors such as skin color and other phenotypical characteristics associated with race and ethnicity have played a central role along cultural and […]
Understanding ‘Understanding’ in Large Language Models Idan Blank, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Linguistics, UCLA Part of the Department of Communication Speakers Series..
