How Partisanship Affects Fact-Checking on Facebook
August 23, 2021
Stopping the spread of misinformation on Facebook is a difficult proposition. One of the reasons it is so difficult, particularly in the United States, is high levels of political polarization.…
Digital Platform Experiences During the Pandemic
July 18, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic upended many people’s day-to-day lives, and moved more interactions online. In this report, we analyze how the pandemic affected people’s use of search, social, and messaging platforms…
Journalist Engagement in Facebook Comments: Try Ac...
March 24, 2021
We tested journalist responses to Facebook comments on news stories in order to find out which responses led to more positive perceptions regarding the news outlets and its comment moderation.…
What Americans Know and Don’t Know about Fac...
March 3, 2021
The Center for Media Engagement asked American adults to answer questions about how platforms like Facebook and Google operate. The answers we received revealed important gaps in what the American…
Civic Signals: The Qualities of Flourishing Digita...
January 12, 2021
Discussions of digital space often focus on eliminating troubling content or improving the user-friendliness of the design. We’re proposing that digital spaces, like the physical spaces we inhabit, should use public-friendly design.…
Using Facebook Messenger to Improve Online Discuss...
December 3, 2020
The Center for Media Engagement partnered with Vox and Spaceship Media to explore whether the design of online discussion groups can affect conversation quality and if Facebook Messenger can be…
International Perspectives on What’s Considered Ha...
September 10, 2020
The Center for Media Engagement in the U.S. teamed up with researchers from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and NOVA University in Portugal to figure out how people from these…
Coronavirus Coverage: The Effects of Headlines and...
August 13, 2020
Coronavirus news can be overwhelming. To determine if newsrooms can help counteract the fatigue, the Center for Media Engagement tested the effects of three types of headlines and two types…
Images That Generate Clicks Among Both Liberals an...
December 17, 2019
The Center for Media Engagement partnered with ProPublica to determine if news story headlines and images can be crafted in ways that appeal to both liberals and conservatives. We…
Civic Signals Initiative
November 7, 2019
Discussions of digital space often focus on eliminating troubling content or improving the user-friendliness of the design. We’re proposing that digital spaces, like the physical spaces we inhabit, should use…
Social Media: The Good, The Bad, and How Platforms...
November 7, 2019
As part of the Civic Signals initiative, the Center for Media Engagement is releasing an excerpt from a series of reports aimed at achieving more public-friendly digital spaces. Read More
Political Coverage on Facebook
June 28, 2018
With the help of a national newsroom, we conducted 118 experiments on Facebook to test the success of different headlines, images, and status updates on Facebook. Read More
A Survey of Snapchat Users: Media, Politics, &...
June 8, 2017
In the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, we surveyed Snapchat users about their use of the app, specifically for news and politics. Read More
Social Media Summit
December 14, 2016 @
12:00am -
11:59pm
CME hosted a Social Media Summit to discuss the experiences, benefits, and challenges of using social media. Read More
Social Media Buttons in Comment Sections
September 18, 2013
What if, instead of clicking a “Like” button, one could click “Respect”? Read More
How the Public Views Deletion of Offensive Comment...
June 16, 2021