CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. B…

If you're examining how reliable an ancient or mediaeval text is, the app crit is your best friend. But reading it takes practice.

Partisan media impacts voting behavior, yet what changes in viewers’ beliefs or attitudes may underlie these impacts is poorly understood. We recruited a sample of regular Fox News viewers using data on actual TV viewership from a media company, and incentivized them to watch CNN instead for a month using real-time viewership quizzes. Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans, we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues’ importance, and overall political views. We show that these effects stem in part from a bias we call partisan coverage filtering, wherein partisan outlets selectively report information, leading viewers to learn a biased set of facts. Consistent with this, treated participants concluded that Fox concealed negative information about President Trump. Partisan media does not only present its side an electoral advantage—it may present a challenge for democratic accountability.

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Is it time for journalists to get off Twitter? One of the nation’s leading newspapers has made a presence on the social platform optional. We’ll talk about why, and what effects this could have on the quality of reporting and the safety of reporters. Also, Warner Bros. Discovery’s takeover of CNN and HBO, the collapse of Black News Channel and the USA Today’s innovative use of comic journalism. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.

Our LMS app now enables annotation on PDFs stored in Microsoft Sharepoint and OneDrive, adding to our existing capabilities to annotate public web pages and PDFs stored in Google Drive, Canvas Files, and Blackboard’s Content Collection.

I Annotate: the conference for open annotation practices and technologies

This annual report, based on a survey of senior executives, looks at the key issues facing journalism in 2022 and beyond.

pResponses to this report written by journalists and media scholars. Each focusing on a specific issue raised,  including legal considerations (Victoria Baranetsky), online harassment (Michelle Ferrier), representation (Leonor Ayala Polley), audience trust (Benjamin Toff), and objectivity (Laura Wagner), can be read here. Executive Summary Journalists increasingly rely on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter […]/p

Yesterday, we published a report that explores journalists’ experiences with and views of newsroom social media policies. Below are five responses to the report written by journalists and media scholars. Each of these focuses on a specific issue raised in the report, including legal considerations (Victoria Baranetsky), online harassment (Michelle Ferrier), representation (Leonor Ayala Polley), audience trust (Benjamin Toff), and objectivity […]

"If I was queen for a day, what I would honestly do is fire every journalism professor and hire adjuncts working in the field. That's, like, my dream."

Having come of age in the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York, both with dense immigrant populations and tourists, I’ve always taken it for granted that at any given moment, in any given bakery …

Facebook Doc Stories October 27, 2021 WaPo: In Poland’s politics, a ‘social civil war’ brewed as Facebook rewarded online anger WaPo: Former Facebook auditor says whistleblower’s claims have ‘revived’ civil rights concerns WSJ: Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures ​​ Forbes:...

This is an ongoing public Google Doc collecting all the stories published surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” project. Shortlink: https://bit.ly/fbdocstories

Two years spent in an MFA program, in other words, constitute a tiny and often ineffectual part of the American writer’s lifelong engagement with the university. And yet critics continue to bemoan the mechanizing effects of the programs, and to draw links between a writer’s degree-holding status and her degree of aesthetic freedom. Get out of the schools and live!

I should state up front that I am not a fan of programme fiction. Basically, I feel about it as towards new fiction from...

A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media

Mike Rose popularized a new model of writing instruction that saw students as struggling to do a very difficult thing.

Social scientists are researching what humans can do to improve their quality of life. Their findings echo what religious practices perfected centuries ago.

I hadn't seen this from Matt when it first came out last month, but it hit me timely today: When tech oversteps its mandate as a too...

Rural adults are less likely than suburban adults to have home broadband and less likely than urban adults to own a smartphone, tablet or computer.

Article originally published in Issue 4 of Rupture, Ireland’s eco-socialist quarterly, buy the print issue:

Studies of the social impact of the Internet must consider the changing lifestyle of the new economy and not relate solely to industrial-age concepts.