Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and
curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has been designed predominantly to …

Журналисты, политики и исследователи описывают этнические, расовые и
национальные конфликты как борьбу внутренне однородных этнических групп …

There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by
creating “echo chambers” that insulate people from opposing views about current events …

Echo chambers and opinion polarization recently quantified in several sociopolitical
contexts and across different social media raise concerns on their potential impact on the …

An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age. In just the
past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile …

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of
American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions …

Abstract In 1997, Robert Axelrod wondered in a highly influential paper" If people tend to
become more alike in their beliefs, attitudes, and behavior when they interact, why do not all …

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today
than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about …

Despite signs of declining press trust in many western countries, we know little about trends
in press trust across the world. Based on comparative survey data from the World Values …