The Center for Media Engagement has developed a new WordPress plugin that allows users to customize the buttons on their websites, including adding a “Respect” button. With Engaging Buttons, you can design and configure alternatives to the “Like” button, which, we have found, may not always be appropriate. Read More

The Center for Media Engagement is featured twice in Nieman Lab’s list of top 10 digital news research articles of 2015. For the list, a range of scholars, digital gurus and journalists across the county were polled on what they thought was the best research of the year in… Read More

The Center for Media Engagement was recently selected for one of more than 500 sessions at the 2016 SXSW Interactive conference, taking place March 11-15 in Austin, Texas. Our panel, “Comments Are Terrible – But They Don’t Have to Be,” will provide attendees tips on improving their interactive spaces — comments and beyond… Read More

The Center for Media Engagement has begun conducting research on the content and effects of different types of headlines. As the first part of our research efforts, we have a new report that shares what we know about the functions and types of headlines, their content and use in news… Read More

On Oct. 6, the Center for Media Engagement took part in the second News Engagement Day, a day devoted to raising awareness about the importance of news engagement. News Engagement Day was created by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) in an effort to… Read More

Center for Media Engagement team members have been busy the past couple months traveling across the country to present at various conferences. Research Associate Alex Curry presented at the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference in San Francisco. Director Dr. Talia Stroud presented our research on… Read More

When Facebook makes a change, everyone has an opinion. That was definitely the case when Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant would begin testing out a “Dislike” button. The reasoning behind the decision, according to Zuckerberg,… Read More

When Facebook makes a change, everyone has an opinion. That was definitely the case when Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant would begin testing out a “Dislike” button. The reasoning behind the decision, according to Zuckerberg,… Read More

When Facebook makes a change, everyone has an opinion. That was definitely the case when Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant would begin testing out a “Dislike” button. The reasoning behind the decision, according to Zuckerberg,… Read More