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- Featuring Information Science Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler
Fifty years after their seminal study on coverage of the 1968 presidential election, the founding fathers of agenda-setting research and CMCI’s Chris Vargo discuss how the media continue to shape what we think about.- Featuring Information Science Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler
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When it comes to agenda-setting, it’s out with the old, in with the new media, researchers say.For decades, two of America’s legacy media giants, The New York Times and The Washington Post, have had the biggest influence in setting the agenda for
Steven Frost, a CMCI instructor, is also an artist who tells the stories of hidden histories through objects and performances. He has several exhibits and events scattered throughout spring 2017. Learn more about them by
Native advertising's very effectiveness can make it deceptive and endangering to journalistic credibility, say a group of journalists and advertising and public relations executives interviewed by CMCI researchers.
Vargo, who uses computer science methods to investigate social data, explained how the belief that vaccines cause autism spread on social media. Watch a full video of his presentation.
Palen, Chair of the Department of Information Science, published a policy article in the journal "Science" discussing the challenges and promises of using social media data to study disasters.
Continuing a tradition established in 2012, University of Colorado Boulder faculty members, students and staff presented their research at the 2016 Denver Comic Con, touching on topics such as gender representation in popular media, action figure culture and the racial politics in recent Superman comics.