Media Literacy
Breaking the Social Media Prism
By Chris Bail
The Duke Polarization Lab director’s evidence-based research on how social platforms amplify polarization and what would actually reduce it.
Book
2021

Overview

The Duke Polarization Lab director’s evidence-based research on how social platforms amplify polarization and what would actually reduce it.

About the Author

Chris Bail earned his PhD from Harvard in 2011 and is a Guggenheim Fellow and Carnegie Fellow. He holds joint faculty appointments at Duke across sociology, public policy, political science, and computer science.
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Book

Author

Chris Bail

Year

2021

Topic

Media Literacy

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