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Read more about the article Should you watch that recent movie?

Should you watch that recent movie?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. March 2024
  • Post category:Media studies

Many people are currently wondering whether to bother going to the cinema to see the new Dune movie. It currently has a rating of 9.0 on IMDB with 90k votes.…

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Read more about the article Social media, mental health, and political polarization

Social media, mental health, and political polarization

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. March 2023
  • Post category:Media studies/Political science/Psychiatry

Richard Hanania has a nice post: How I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression. He looked into the trends of mental health problems and whether this could…

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Read more about the article How bad is the Hungarian democracy? A quantitative approach

How bad is the Hungarian democracy? A quantitative approach

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. April 2022
  • Post category:Media studies/Political science

Hungarian president Viktor Orbán is not popular with western media and academics. This is obvious as he is a national conservative, and that's the least favorite group according to journalist…

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Read more about the article Should you get off Twitbookgram?

Should you get off Twitbookgram?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. February 2022
  • Post category:Media studies/Psychiatry

You might be familiar with stuff like this: How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness, The Economist, 2018 Looking over the chart a bit, we find…

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Read more about the article New paper out: The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media

New paper out: The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. October 2021
  • Post category:Media studies/Metascience

So it's finally out! Out big meta-analysis of journalist voting patterns. Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., & Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal…

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Read more about the article Tons of data on media bias in the USA

Tons of data on media bias in the USA

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. July 2020
  • Post category:Media studies

Wikipedia tells us: The Media Research Center (MRC) is an American politically conservative content analysis group based in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III.[2] It characterizes…

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Read more about the article Not telling the whole story

Not telling the whole story

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:14. June 2020
  • Post category:Media studies

In the prior post, I quoted some parts of a paper written by sociologist Howard S. Becker in 1967 which advocated a distortion model of science. To quote the most…

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