This is part of an ongoing series of rapid research blog posts and rapid research analysis about the 2024 U.S. elections from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. On February ...
A hallmark of truly democratic elections are their unknown outcomes, accompanied by attendant uncertainty and anxiety — transfers of power and surprise victories are part of the democratic process.
The digital information environment, which many people rely on to stay informed about breaking news events, has been changing rapidly. Despite falling usage statistics following its ownership change ...
Judicial communication has been defined by a culture of silence as a means of upholding the judiciary’s independence, legitimacy, and authority. This blog post was written by members of a University ...
Photo above: The main railway station in Helsinki, Finland by Juha Uitto / Flickr via CC BY-NC 2.0 CIP continues work to foster educational ties with Finnish peers around efforts to improve ...
Examining social psychological principles that explain why Democrats’ strategy of calling ideas “weird” works. This blog post was co-authored by Madeline Jalbert, a postdoctoral scholar at the ...
During a May 4 keynote presentation at a virtual conference hosted by the George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, Kate Starbird, a University of Washington Center for an ...
Since the first news of the attack on Israel by Hamas, we have seen anecdotal reports from users of X (formerly Twitter) that the platform has become less useful for surfacing verified news and more ...
Self-described election integrity organizations have developed new tools and repurposed existing infrastructure, including phone apps, to encourage the capture and digital sharing of “evidence” of ...
The following analysis from researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) examines emerging online narratives involving “ballot trafficking” ahead of the release of ...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3 million collaborative grant to a team led by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and supported by Stanford ...
The resources below — from MisinfoDay and other people and organizations doing media literacy work — will expose your students to concepts and skills crucial to navigating our complex information ...