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These days it seems like we are awash in data about media use, journalism, and civics. Which is why I’ve been so pleased to see the release in recent years of literature reviews/research summaries produced for public consumption. Here are a few highlights 1/x
Just yesterday, the Impact Architects team released a summary of research on news and information ecosystems, which includes a searchable, tagged database. https://medium.com/the-impact-architects/what-do-we-know-about-healthy-news-and-information-ecosystems-346e12c2c8e0 2/x
Last week, @risj_oxford published this in-depth report about the research on trust and news https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-we-think-we-know-and-what-we-want-know-perspectives-trust-news-changing-world 3/x
In 2018, @Hewlett_Found commissioned a review of the literature on social media, political polarization, and political disinformation https://hewlett.org/library/social-media-political-polarization-political-disinformation-review-scientific-literature/ 4/x
And you can find @pmnapoli's 2014 review of the research on media impact on this page at the @LearCenter https://www.mediaimpactproject.org/publications.html 5/x
The one I come back to the most is this giant 2012 review of literature on ‘critical info needs of the US public’ for the @FCC, part of the research project that aroused outrage at Fox News and on conservative talk radio. https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2012/07/25/review-literature-regarding-critical-information-needs-american-public 6/x
I am sure there are more of these, but in summary, I find these kinds of meta-reviews really useful and accessible in a moment when it is hard to keep up with all the new research you all keep churning out. 7/7
