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    Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis NielsenJune 21, 2017
    Using social media appears to diversify your news diet, not narrow it
    “The central fear, as Eli Pariser has put it, is that ‘news-filtering algorithms narrow what we know.’ This, at least, is the theory.”
    Joseph LichtermanApril 17, 2017
    This news app starts with the premise that news discovery has become too personalized
    Twain has no editor. It uses custom algorithms to find stories it thinks are trending around the Internet.
    The Wall Street Journal’s new tool gives a side-by-side look at the Facebook political news filter bubble
    Joshua BentonJanuary 25, 2016
    Facebook and adblockers, podcasts and Trump: What the big media trends of 2015 will bring for 2016
    The news was mostly bad for publishers and news organizations last year.
    John WihbeyDecember 11, 2015
    Investigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news and social media research
    We sift through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the most interesting studies about social and digital media published in 2015.
    John WihbeyNovember 7, 2014
    What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: Twitter as the new “boys on the bus,” and how we talk about the Dark Web
    The impact of Do Not Track on news outlets and the complexities of filter bubbles and polarization: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
    This study finds that social media use reduces political polarization instead of increasing it
    John WihbeyMarch 31, 2014
    What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: How editors see the news differently from readers, and the limits of filter bubbles
    Predicting what goes viral, sourcing the Arab Spring, and Twitter in power vs. out of power: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
    New York Times improves its recommendations engine
    John WihbeyJune 26, 2013
    What’s New in Digital Scholarship: A generation gap in online news, and does The Daily Show discourage tolerance?
    The rise and fall of a narcotweeter, how to build an online community, and when fact-checking backfires: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
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