Professor of Communication, UC Davis & Principal Investigator of ERC SG @ERCEXPO at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, U of Amsterdam
Apr 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
[Thread on 'the other 98%' project of @ERCEXPO, 1/1/] What does #PolComm and #polsci often study? Exposure to news, esp to partisan news. BUT across 43mln visits in our trace data from 2 US studies, < 2% were visits to news domains, half of which to partisan news domains! 👇👇👇
[2/2] BERT classifier for political content titles (here github.com/ercexpo/politi…) shows that <50% of what people consumed on news domains is nonpolitical (puzzles, recipes, travel)