What You Read and Watch Is Changing Media Forever
Like most stories about data science, this one begins with a very big number: 150 million. That’s roughly how many people, worldwide, subscribe to Netflix. And because Netflix knows what all of those...
View ArticleBiometric workshops for BU researchers go online
Researchers often rely on participants reporting through surveys, focus groups, and interviews for their work, but such methods can pose certain limitations for understanding how people feel, think,...
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Brain Games
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated restaurants, hotels and small businesses, one sector has been thriving because of it: the video game industry. Nintendo’s Switch consoles are selling in...
View ArticleHow To Fight Vaccine Misinformation
Just after Christmas, a Wisconsin pharmacist attempted to destroy 570 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, yanking precious vials from a storage refrigerator. According to multiple reports, he’d become...
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New director to build on research center’s long history
Michelle Amazeen From climate change denialism to vaccine refusal, parsing fact from fiction these days is a big job — and one that has been taken up by Michelle Amazeen as the new director of COM’s...
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Grad Seminar Tackles Real-World Challenges
With the onset of COVID-19 came a flood of public health advice, explainers about the virus’ origins and spread and, eventually, updates about vaccines. Some of the information saved lives, some of it...
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Student Research, Safer Schools
As schools try to get back into their groove with in-person learning this fall, they’re balancing COVID prevention with all the usual back-to-school health and safety issues. Threats from bullying,...
View ArticleIn pandemic times, ‘communicators came of age,’ Bellwether Survey finds
The challenges posed by the pandemic have thrust communicators to the fore in their companies and organizations, according to this year’s Bellwether Survey, a comprehensive survey of public relations...
View ArticleIs It Worth Trying to Sway the Most Staunch Climate Deniers?
Thanks to algorithms that learn about social media users’ content preferences, Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds, suggested YouTube videos, and other news streams can look startlingly different from...
View ArticleSurvey: Slim majority trust media, hiding huge partisan gap
A slim majority of Americans trust the media to accurately report on top issues of the day, but that fact hides a deep divide between Democrats and Republicans, according to a new survey by Boston...
View ArticleCOM’s Hong awarded first BU center grant on infectious diseases
The link between the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on social media and hesitancy to get inoculated has been explored here in the United States, a place where social media is heavily used....
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Calculating Media Influence
The mosquitoes are fighting—and biting—back. After years of being flooded with insecticides, the tiny, nibbling flies are becoming resistant to our chemical defenses. So scientists are testing an...
View ArticleCOM Researchers Launch New Study of Climate Mis- and Disinformation
COM researchers will embark on a new study of the “critical role of communication in shaping public opinion on climate in the United States,” thanks to the first research grant from Boston...
View ArticleHow Political Messages Spread—and Why We Believe Them
How do political narratives—true or not—take root and spread? That’s the question driving the scholarship of Chris Wells, an associate professor of emerging media studies. Long before “fake news” and...
View ArticleSurvey: Generations, genders differ when it comes to AI replacing people for...
More young people than old, and more men than women, are open to artificial intelligence-powered machines replacing people in a variety of jobs, according to the latest Media & Technology Survey...
View ArticleSurvey: Most believe companies can help combat climate change
Most Americans believe companies can make a difference in combating climate change, and they want to buy from and work for those companies that try, according to the latest Media & Technology...
View ArticleReality TV, social media make it hard to discern what’s real
Kathryn Coduto, associate professor, media science, writing in a POV for BU Today. Read the full article
View ArticleAmericans leery of social media bans for journalists who post content owners...
Twice as many Americans disagree than agree with owners of social media platforms, like Twitter, banning journalists who post content they don’t like. That’s according to the latest Media and...
View ArticleWith dating apps, we doubt them but won’t drop them
Americans doubt dating apps are the best way to find a successful relationship and they certainly don’t trust them – but they’re apparently unwilling to give up on apps like Match, Tinder and Hinge in...
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