New Digital Realities; New Oversight Solutions
A new report by authors Tom Wheeler, Phil Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman addresses the challenge of government oversight for digital platform companies. It suggests the creation of a new federal agency designed to deal with digital issues rather than industrial ones, and the development of a new approach that replaces industrial era regulation with a new, more agile regulatory model better suited for the dynamism of the digital era.
Conveying Truth: Independent Media in Putin’s Russia
A new report from Shorenstein Center Fellow Ann Cooper describes the origins and evolution of independent media in Russia from the late Soviet era to the coronavirus crisis of 2020.
Even now, Trump still have approval ratings far higher than George Bush. Here’s Why
Turning on the news or scrolling down a social media feed reveals a litany of headlines detailing the President’s latest snafu. Despite this, Trump boasts higher approval ratings than his less controversial Republican predecessors, including former President George Bush. HKS…
Canaries in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities
Even as Black people are disproportionately dying from the virus due to systemic racism, harmful inaccuracies about COVID-19 are metastasizing in Black online spaces. Using multi-site digital ethnography, Shorenstein Center Fellow Brandi Collins-Dexter tracked and identified the spread of this disinformation, and makes recommendations on how to combat it.
Understanding Misinformation on Mobile Instant Messengers (MIMs) in Developing Countries
This mixed-methods research project in Nigeria, India, and Pakistan consisted of surveys, survey experiments, and semi-structured interviews, designed to better understand the spread and impact of misinformation, and in particular of misinformation on mobile messaging apps (MIMs).
Building Compelling Value Propositions for Digital Media Subscriptions and Memberships
This is a student-authored paper which was written under the mentorship of Harvard Kennedy School faculty members. It has not undergone formal review and is published here for discussion purposes and to highlight the work of Kennedy School students. Korey…
Transcript: Tech During Times of Crisis
Video of this virtual event can be found here. Kathy Pham: Welcome to the Under the Hood: Tech in the Time of Crisis session. Thanks for joining us. Today I will give you an overview of what we’re going to…
The Commercialization of Decision-Making: Towards a Regulatory Framework to Address Machine Bias over the Internet
This paper was originally published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dipayan Ghosh is a Shorenstein Fellow and co-director of the Center’s Digital Platforms and Democracy Project. He has served as an economic policy advisor in the White House…
Kathleen Carroll Tribute Video Transcript
The video version of these remarks can be found by clicking here. I’m Nancy Gibbs, the director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. I had so hoped that we would…
Preserving America’s Thought Leader Magazines
To read a PDF version of this paper click here. 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 of Harvard University. Discussion Papers have…
