Politics & Government Publications

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Can Cities Save the Census? A Local Framework for Our Nation's First Digital Count
April 1, 2019
With trust in federal government and institutions at historic lows, local governments, including cities and counties, must play a critical role in the...
Domestic Affairs, Faculty Research, Government Institutions, Papers, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Publications, Race & Gender, Technology,
Estimating the Effect of Asking About Citizenship on the U.S. Census
March 21, 2019
The 2020 U.S. Census will, for the first time since 1950, ask about residents’ citizenship status. The effect of doing so on census completion across different...
Business & Economics, Discussion Papers, International Affairs, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Public Interest Technology, Publications, Technology,
Broadband Everywhere
March 5, 2019
Internet access is coming to the other half of the planet through rapid expansion of broadband technologies. Media organizations that recognize the speed...
Business & Economics, International Affairs, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications, Technology,
The Brain Trust Initiative
December 19, 2018
The Brain Trust Initiative is a vision to unleash the power of digital media as a force for change across sub-saharan Africa. Abstract: Media in sub-Saharan...
Business & Economics, Government Institutions, Papers, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Publications, Technology,
Platform Accountability and Contemporary Competition Law: Practical Considerations
November 20, 2018
The Sherman Act of 1890 was the first federal law to address business monopolies. Are antitrust laws a good framework for regulating today’s digital...
Domestic Affairs, Government Institutions, Papers, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Publications, Technology,
The Root of the Matter: Data and Duty
November 1, 2018
Rules for the New Digital Economy Should Look to Old Common Law Traditions There are 39 million books in the Library of Congress. This impressive analog...
Audio & Video, Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Domestic Affairs, Government Institutions, Past Events,
Kristen Soltis Anderson on millennials and the midterms, attitudes on Kavanaugh hearings, and the future of the GOP
October 5, 2018
September 24, 2018- Kristen Soltis Anderson, pollster and co-founder of Echelon Insights, author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America...
Business & Economics, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, Technology,
Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet
October 2, 2018
The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or...
Audio & Video, Environment, Health & Science, Past Events, Policy & Issues, Technology,
Siva Vaidhyanathan on social media and its effects on democracy
September 18, 2018
September 11, 2018—Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia,...
Business & Economics, Domestic Affairs, Environment, Health & Science, Government Institutions, Papers, Publications, Technology,
Time to Fix It: Developing Rules for Internet Capitalism
August 16, 2018
A Shorenstein Center Fellows Research Paper by Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC under President Barack Obama, and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard...
Audio & Video, Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Past Events, Politics & Government, Technology,
Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the Consumption of Fake News During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign
May 17, 2018
Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Though some warnings about online “echo chambers”...
Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Discussion Papers, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications, Technology,
Campaign 2018: Improving Cyber Literacy in Political Campaigns
May 7, 2018
A new paper by Donna Brazile, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2017) and former Democratic National Committee interim chair, examines whether political campaigns...