Jesper Strömbäck has recently co-authored a paper on media and news habits in the The International Journal of Press/Politics. Based on a large European study, the authors identify five news… Read More »The Right Amount of Information?
Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research met with KR members Ă…sa Wikforss, Kathrin GlĂĽer-Pagin, Torun Lindholm Ă–jmyr, and Jesper Strömbäck on the 6th of May, to discuss the nature… Read More »Meeting with Ernkrans
As a sample from the program’s workshop on the 13th of April, here is a presentation by R. Kelly Garrett. The title of the talk is “Seeking Out Attitude-Consistent and… Read More »Presentation by R. Kelly Garrett
As part of the Knowledge Resistance Program, the University of Gothenburg is hosting an online, public-facing workshop on Media and Misinformation on April 13th. The workshop starts at 9:45 and… Read More »Workshop: Media & Misinformation
A report on Polarization in Sweden is being published by SNS (Center for Business and Policy Studies). The report is by Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson and colleagues. It will be presented… Read More »Report on Polarization led by Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson
MaĹ‚gorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed and Gabriela Czarnek from our psychology work package have published a new paper about trust and attitudes toward vaccination. The paper, entitled “Trust in scientists and… Read More »New paper about trust and attitudes toward vaccination by MaĹ‚gorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed and Gabriela Czarnek
The research centre DEMICOM, which conducts research on democracy and communication in the digital community, at Mittuniversitetet (Sweden) has published a report titled “Stjärnspäckat” on the American presidential election which contains… Read More »Stjärnspäckat – Swedish report on the American Presidential election
The newly published The Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies contains a chapter by project researcher Jesper Strömbäck entitled “Political Journalism”. The volume is edited by Henrik Ă–rnebring and contains chapters… Read More »Chapter by Strömbäck in new Oxford Encyclopedia publications
Project researchers Jesper Strömbäck and Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson recently published a report of a special survey about the new corona virus, which was carried out by the SOM Institute during… Read More »Report on Knowledge and Conspiracies around the new corona virus in Sweden by Strömbäck and Ekengren Oscarsson
MaĹ‚gorzata Kossowska, Gabriela Czarnek and Paulina Szwed have recently published an article entitled “Right-wing ideology reduces the effects of education on climate change beliefs in more developed countries” in Nature Climate Change. Following is the article’s… Read More »New article on climate change belief and companion piece on Nature community blog
Jacob Sohlberg and three colleagues from Gothenburg University (Peter Esaiasson, Marina Ghersetti, and Bengt Johansson) have written a debate article in Swedish newspaper DN on trust following the Corona crisis. The… Read More »“Trust in the authorities increased during the Corona crisis”
Project principal investigator Ă…sa Wikforss recently appeared on Swedish TV show “Malou Efter Tio” on the TV channel TV4, to talk about the dangers of conspiracy theories. The clip is… Read More »Ă…sa Wikforss discussing conspiracy theories on Swedish TV show “Malou Efter Tio”
