When Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate back in July, the predictable scrutiny a vice presidential nominee typically gets quickly devolved into a very online ...

New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don ...

A new study lays blame on Americans in this age group for fueling political polarization on social media. The study from the ...

When former kindergarten teacher and TikTok creator Arielle Fodor joined the recent fundraising Zoom call for presidential candidate Kamala Harris, “White Women: Answer The Call,” she assumed her ...

Many of us fondly recall a world before social media. We engaged with TV and print ads that were nonpolarizing ways to “Just do it,” “Share a Coke” or answer “Where’s the beef?” The internet and ...

A study first reported by Wired from researchers at Columbia and Harvard followed 4,716 Americans aged between 18 and 45 to ...

Social media is an echo chamber, and not a particularly big one at that. In A Nutshell The people dominating online political ...

For years, video games have occupied a unique space in youth culture, a place where entertainment, identity, and socialisation converge. But as global conflicts spill increasingly into digital spaces, ...

Spend any time scrolling through social media or news sites and it feels like America is a nation in constant argument. Offhand remarks often spark fierce screaming matches. Partisanship is up, Gallup ...

Internet political engagement began with hope. It brought people together with common interests. It offered a forum for engagement and argument, even persuasion. Then something went wrong. Expression, ...

A unique online game of political skill is engaging players and users not just from across America but from all over the world — who are learning about the American political system, including the ...

In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app, readers ...