The founder of SOJC partner News Detective recommends a fact-checking system that blends the scale and engagement of community-based models with the accuracy and oversight of professional ones.
The SOJC’s Whitney Phillips, a media studies scholar and author of “The Shadow Gospel,” clears up what most people get wrong about political polarization and why it matters.
SOJC experts analyze the media’s influence on politics and discuss 2024 election trends like news fatigue, misinformation, polling and social media impact.
Whitney Phillips, SOJC assistant professor of media ethics and digital platforms, talks to the New York Times about why misinformation proliferates on the right and the left during election season.
Conservatives are attracting followers by moving away from talk of God or religion and toward a demonizing of the “liberal devil,” says Whitney Phillips, an SOJC assistant professor of media studies.
SOJC Assistant Professor Whitney Phillips has a new Substack newsletter on political demonology that connects to her book “The Shadow Gospel,” co-authored with political science scholar Mark Brockway.
SOJC students in the Engaged Journalism class use community journalism approaches, such as needs assessments and listening sessions, to improve local news and information.
SOJC Assistant Professor Whitney Phillips says that conspiracy theories about celebrities like Kate Middleton stem from a need to take control of “a really precarious, scary and unsettling moment."
SOJC faculty members Seth Lewis, Ed Madison, Donna Davis, and Lisa Peyton are using AI in their work, researching its impact on the field, and teaching students how to use it to prepare for the future.