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Posts by Kjerstin Thorson

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Empowered by Curation: Spatial Differentiation in the Interrelationship Between Social Media Political Curation, Political Competence, and Trust—The Case of Michigan - Taewoo Kang, 2025 This study examines geographic variations in the relationship between social media political curation and political trust. Analyzing survey data from the U.S. s...

You should all read brilliant PhD student Taewoo Kang’s @greennail.bsky.social (first sole authored) paper in Comm Research (!) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... — fascinating relationships among geographic polarization, social media curation, efficacy, and trust.

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Has structural change in the media environment – rise of platforms and decline of offline media – contributed to eroding trust in news?

In new piece of research led by @richardfletcher.bsky.social, we show it has, highlighting decline of TV and rise of social academic.oup.com/joc/advance-... 1/4

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