Projects

Digital Media Studies Working Group

The Digital Media Studies Working Group helps scholars at all levels apply computer-based techniques to advance research in media history and analysis. One ...

Computational Framing Analysis

Media framing refers to the deliberate presentation of information in order to elicit a desired response or shift in reader’s attitude. While there is an ex...

BaitBuster

Social media sites like Facebook are popular platforms for spreading clickbait, links with misleading titles that do not deliver on their promises. Not only...

Designing Effective Health News

Mass media plays a central role in delivering science-based crisis, risk, and healthcare information to the general public. However, we have shown a gap bet...

Clickbait Detection

The term clickbait refers to a form of web content that employs writing formulas and linguistic techniques in headlines to trick readers into clicking links...

The #MeToo Project

In October 2017, there happened the uprising of an unprecedented online movement on social media by people across the world who started publicly sharing the...