Today’s young people are chronically online, and it appears that their media consumption is having an impact on their political views and likelihood to vote, according to a new study released by the UCLA Center for Scholars & Storytellers.
Gen Zers who follow politics and media trend toward Kamala Harris, study finds
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People selectively underestimate how rich the world’s richest people are, according to a study. Increasing income inequality in many countries is driven by steep gains among the top 1% of earners. In the United States, [...]
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A study of political speeches, social media posts from politicians, and Reddit discussions among everyday users finds a higher prevalence of abstract, moralized, and power-centric language in national versus local politics. Political dialogue and debate [...]
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A study used body-worn camera footage as a source of data on police-community interactions. Nicholas Camp and colleagues analyzed transcripts from 615 police stops made in California by Oakland Police Department police officers before and [...]
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An analysis of the choice of words by American presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in their recent debate reveals five insights into their personalities.This post was originally published on this site
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A new study published in Climate Policy, co-authored by Dr. Daniel Valdenegro of Oxford University’s Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science, exposes the dynamics of competing narratives on climate change between political parties in the U.K. [...]
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Many histories of Nazi Germany are accompanied by a photograph of two scientists measuring a man’s facial features with a caliper. The picture is often contextualized, in these books, museums, and image archives as an [...]
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More people in the UK now access news online than on television, according to new survey data from the media regulator Ofcom. This is the first time Ofcom’s annual news consumption poll has found online [...]
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Over the centuries, a flawed and controversial forensics tool known as the “floating lung test” or lung float test has sent innocent women accused of infanticide to the gallows.This post was originally published on this [...]
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Excessive regulatory burden causes economic harm and can undermine trust in government. Policymakers wishing to ease this should be more mindful of people’s differing responses to rules, says Ph.D. candidate Ritsart Plantenga in his dissertation.This [...]
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Russia’s war against Ukraine prompted hundreds of thousands of Russians to leave their country. Drawing on unique face-to-face surveys of Russian migrants in five different host countries, a new ZOiS report provides insights into the [...]
