It is popularly claimed that long-term trends in national and international well-being are influenced by the widespread availability and use of the internet, social media, & smartphones. It's a worrying idea, but not supported by research.

In our new paper @matti and I analysed data from 2,414,294 individuals (15 years & up) across 168 countries from 2006 to 2021. We tracked eight kinds of well-being against three forms of technology.

Please read, comment, and share!

https://psyarxiv.com/jp5nd

New study on "the corrections dilemma" facing journalists and news outlets - media retractions increase belief accuracy (a lot) but decrease trust (a little).

With evidence from a social media feed experiment inspired by the NYT's Caliphate podcast retraction.

Study:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/article/corrections-dilemma-media-retractions-increase-belief-accuracy-but-decrease-trust/A6A9A16D97F22E1CA22B051D215E752B

Comments on implications for the media by coauthor (and journalist!) @dangillmor https://newscollab.org/2023/03/22/the-corrections-dilemma-increased-accuracy-decreased-trust/

Important new #towcenter report:

"And yet, while some journalists have entirely cut ties with Twitter, a Tow Center analysis of approximately 4,000 journalists from 19 U.S. news outlets suggests that they are a small minority. Our analysis shows that few journalists in our database have deactivated their accounts and that they have been tweeting just slightly less since Musk acquired the social media platform on October 27, 2022."

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/journalists-remain-on-twitter-but-tweet-slightly-less.php

#journodon #commodon #journalism

What’s the impact of news media and social media on misinformation?

Our panel survey in 🇧🇷🇮🇳🇬🇧 shows that news helps people become more informed and sometimes more resilient to misinformation, while social media platforms have inconsistent effects.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612221148981

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ECREA The European Communication Research and Education Association is on #mastodon. Welcome 👋🏼

#followfriday #commodon #journodon @communicationscholars @commodon

@ecrea

The Minneapolis Star Tribune found that allowing online cancellation actually helps keep subscribers

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/01/the-minneapolis-star-tribune-found-that-allowing-online-cancellation-actually-helps-keep-subscribers/

📢 The 2023 #journalism trends report for @reutersinstitute has just been published. 📢

They're predicting a tough year economically, but one that could spark more innovation too. Advances in AI will mean a rethink of what journalism should do next.

@academicchatter @communicationscholars @politicalscience @sociology @computationalsocialscience @PolComm

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2023