Dec 5, 2023 | Education, News, Updates
By Michael Grass During a Washington Senate Early Learning & K–12 Education Committee work session presentation in Olympia on December 1, University of Washington Center for an Informed Public co-founder Jevin West and CIP research scientist Mike Caulfield...
Dec 4, 2023 | News, Updates
By Elissa Melendez Content providers and advertisers have always had a complicated relationship. They rely upon each other to keep viewers engaged and returning, but what happens when they are no longer in sync? The recent sponsor exodus from social media platform X...
Nov 30, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from November 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. The Atlantic (November 1): “Elon Musk’s unrecognizable app” The Atlantic Daily newsletter cited an October 20 CIP rapid research report that found how...
Nov 16, 2023 | News, Research, Updates
The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public invites applications for up to two CIP postdoctoral fellows who will be hired as postdoctoral scholars. The CIP is particularly interested in studies of information flow in sociotechnical systems; the role...
Nov 7, 2023 | Education, News, Research, Updates
Public libraries are uniquely positioned to play a central role in addressing the informational challenges we all face but only if they’re connected with the resources, tools and latest research on media literacy, mis- and disinformation and ways to share and teach...
Oct 31, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from October 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. The Seattle Times (October 6): “UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks” CIP director Kate Starbird wrote an op/ed for...