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#580 Emily Kubin: Political Polarization, Dehumanization, and the Media

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The Role of Social Media in Political Polarization

I haven't focused on that specifically yet. But i'm starting to think about, like, how journalists can be engaging with the public. I'm one way that i'm beginning to tests, but i don't actually have an intervention yet. There's evidence that visuals have a big impact on how people perceive news articles and political information more broadly. And so this is something i want to start looking into specifically, as a tool for journalists. Before we finish, would you like to mention any other aspects of your research you're working on at the moment? The last thing i wanted to mention was when our recently published a review of what the literature knows about this topic.

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