I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking the frivolity of television seemed, well, frivolous, ...

Public discourse campaigns often promote social responsibility, but do such discussions also impact our market behavior? Economists at the University of Zurich have published a new study that shows ...

Conspiracy theories are one of the banes of the modern world, exacerbated by the internet and social media. What was once relegated to the fringe has now been pushed into the mainstream, actively ...

In 2016, during the third Global Fact conference in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the world’s fact-checkers decided to name April 2 as the International Fact-Checking Day to raise awareness of the ...

One of the distinctive features of the United States as a polity is the outsize role that think tanks, foundations, philanthropists, nonprofits and advocacy groups play in shaping political discourse ...

Публичный дискурс в российской блогосфере: анализ политики и мобилизации в Рунете Download PDF (Russian). With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Berkman Center is undertaking a ...

Prof. JoAnn Koob at George Mason University [Antonin Scalia] School of Law told me about this project, which sounds very interesting, so I thought I'd pass it along. Here's the blurb from her: As the ...

In the wake of the recently concluded general election, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comment on the need for humility and decorum in public discourse is a wake-up call. The idea that the best way to ...