Lara Marie Berger
@laraberger.bsky.social
PhD candidate in econ @unicologne.bsky.social // interested in how we can improve media markets
Media coverage of science can be improved by small doses of training, according to a study. A 7-minute video covering sources of funding, sample composition, statistics, causal interpretations, and graphs improved the accuracy of headlines. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/uZLm50YTyuk
Our study on journalistic science literacy is now out in PNAS Nexus:
PNAS Nexus@pnasnexus.org · 4mo agoMedia coverage of science can be improved by small doses of training, according to a study. A 7-minute video covering sources of funding, sample composition, statistics, causal interpretations, and graphs improved the accuracy of headlines. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/uZLm50YTyuk
🎙️🆕 #Podcast „ZEW Wirklich Wirtschaft“ Clickbait & Hate Speech: Warum werden Überschriften immer extremer und was macht das mit Nutzer/-innen? Im Podcast diskutieren #ZEW -Ökonomin Raphaela Andres & @laraberger.bsky.social über Regulierung, NetzDG & Gegenstrategien. ➡️https://zew.de/AM10302/?twt=1
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Debunking “fake news” on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking and media literacy interventions" By @laraberger.bsky.social, Anna Kerkhof, Felix Mindl, & Johannes Münster www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky
Excited to share that our new paper: “Debunking ‘fake news’ on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking & media literacy” (w/ Anna Kerkhof, Felix Mindl & Johannes Münster) is now forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Debunking “fake news” on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking and media literacy interventions
We conduct a randomized survey experiment to compare the immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking to a brief media literacy intervention. We …
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Die Ökonominnen @raphaelaandres.bsky.social und @laraberger.bsky.social suchen und finden im aktuellen Wirtschaftsdienst Antworten auf die Frage, was Gesellschaft und Politik gegen #Hassrede und #Falschinformationen tun kann ⤵️ www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/...
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TOMORROW (19 March): AYEW Narrative Economics Workshop! Join us at 7:00pm AEDT / 8:00am GMT to listen to Hanh My Le(@tubraunschweig.bsky.social), Hao Geng(Chinese University of Hong Kong), @laraberger.bsky.social(@unicologne.bsky.social), @prashantgarg.bsky.social(@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)
