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Center for Communication & Civic Renewal

@cccr.bsky.social

CCCR is an interdisciplinary research center at UW-Madison that aims to understand public opinion & the broad political communication ecology of WI & beyond through social science methods. Engaged scholarship, rooted in democracy. https://cccr.wisc.edu

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Mike Wagner@prowag.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨New research alert! Led by @jianingli.bsky.social, we published in Communication Research “Partisanship in Context: The (A)symmetric Influence of Local Newspaper Availability and Selective Exposure on Political Misperceptions in the U.S.” 1/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00936502261463581

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UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication@uwsjmc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A timely and important piece from prof @prowag.bsky.social and @cccr.bsky.social about rare bipartisan opposition to the government pressuring TV networks and universities.

Mike Wagner@prowag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It is the last @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, airing almost a year after government pressure preceded its canceling. Turns out the overwhelming bipartisan evidence is the public really hates that. I wrote this for @donmoyn.bsky.social’s Can We Still Govern? open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE)@wisccore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New research by Mike Wagner (@prowag.bsky.social) and @cccr.bsky.social shows strong public support for people obtaining abortion pills by mail. He shares those findings and CORE evidence on harms of restricting mifepristone access in @isthmusmadison.bsky.social. ⤵️ 🔍️ For background: buff.ly/vH3ZbUA

Mike Wagner@prowag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a major case winds its way back through the courts, we at @cccr.bsky.social are here with new data showing that the public is far more supportive of people purchasing mifepristone through the mail than it is against the idea. isthmus.com/opinion/opin...

Center for Communication & Civic Renewal@cccr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

CCCRers @nathankalmoe.bsky.social & @prowag.bsky.social have a post on party convention delegates in Tusk today! Thanks to @smotus.bsky.social for the guest post & @bcburden.bsky.social for organizing the survey! Below is a 🧵 w/ more details from the report. 1/ smotus.substack.com/p/republican...

Republican and Democratic convention delegates agree on strategy and not much else

A look at a new survey on party convention delegates

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Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Here is a list I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits. Defense of democracy seen as basic to the job. Symmetrical accounts of asymmetrical realities seen as malpractice. “Politics as strategic game” frame seen as low quality, downmarket, amateurish— and overmatched. Bad actors with a history of misinforming the public seen as unsuitable sources and unwelcome guests. Internalizing of the “liberal bias” critique seen as self-crippling, a historic mistake in need of correction.
Lindsey Cormack@dcinbox.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

Was It Something The Democrats Said?

A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

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Lindsey Cormack@dcinbox.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm closely interviewed for this Nieman Lab report that discusses how rural areas will be affected by loss of funding for local NPR reporting. We must not underestimate the importance of equal access to information - we're about to witness a seismic ideological shift in American sense of "place."

With Cuts to Federal Funding, How Will Public Media in the U.S. Survive? - Nieman Reports

With cuts to federal funding, how will public media in the U.S. survive? Gabe Bullard writes, "The closure of the CPB will hurt NPR and PBS, but the most immediate and devastating blow will be to the ...

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)@funranium.bsky.social · last yr.

[deep sigh] I legitimately wonder where the senior managers pushing LLM tools get the notion that they will save time. Personal experience says it's the equivalent of double checking the work of a particularly incompetent work-study student. Such is management disconnect from the work being done.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

Techdirt@techdirt.com · last yr.

Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri's consumer protection laws. The crime? When asked…

Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really)

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri's consumer protection laws. The crime? When asked to rank presidents on antisemitism, some of the AIs had the temerity to suggest Donald Trump might not be great on that front. Yes, you read that right. A sitting state attorney general is using the power of his office to threaten tech companies because their AIs expressed opinions about Trump that he disagrees with.

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Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · last yr.

When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point. niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic

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Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last yr.

A lot of people and organizations have stayed on X because many members of their audience are still there. But for most of them, their engagement is steadily falling. Even for bigger accounts. This is by design. They’re wasting time when they could be rebuilding elsewhere. It’s sunk cost fallacy.