User-generated comments, uncivil news site threads and public understanding
2012 study published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on the impact of reader comments on perceptions of bias in online news articles.
2012 study published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on the impact of reader comments on perceptions of bias in online news articles.
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2013 research on contraception policies and pregnancy rates, including a 2012 study from Washington University in St. Louis on the relationship between free access to birth control and abortion rates.
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2013 review of recent research on U.S. war veterans and emerging problems they face with reintegration into society.
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2013 paper from Brown University on the origins, use and implications of funding infrastructure projects by securitizing projected increases in property tax receipts.
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2011 study by Yale University, Texas A&M, and Boston University on the growing environmental impact of low-density urban and suburban sprawl.
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2012 and 2013 reports from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the University of New Hampshire examine and consolidate the research findings of recent studies.
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2013 selection of research on the impacts of the nuclear accident, ongoing safety concerns and the potential economic consequences of the Games.
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2013 interview with Lucy Dalglish, Dean of Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She was previously executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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2011 article in International Security on distinctions between Muslim foreign fighters and terrorists, and related policy implications.
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2013 review of research papers relevant to any potential intervention in the Syrian conflict, with particular emphasis on the notion of “responsibility to protect.”
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