{"id":14102,"date":"2019-05-13T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=14102"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:27","slug":"umsi-researcher-to-study-facebooks-impact-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/13\/umsi-researcher-to-study-facebooks-impact-on-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"UMSI researcher to study Facebook&#8217;s impact on democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/facebook-1905890_1280-700x312.jpg\" alt=\"hundreds of phones showing facebook logo on screens\" class=\"wp-image-14109\"\/><figcaption>(Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/geralt-9301\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1905890\">Gerd Altmann<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1905890\">Pixabay<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ceren Budak, a UMSI assistant professor, is part of a team of researchers <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"studying anonymous&nbsp;Facebook data (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/news\/university-michigan-researcher-among-first-study-facebook-data\" target=\"_blank\">studying anonymous&nbsp;Facebook data<\/a>. The team, comprised of researchers from U-M, Ohio State, Cornell, and Stony Brook, has been granted unprecedented access to Facebook&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team&#8217;s primary focus will be the influence of social media on U.S. democracy and online behavior&#8217;s harmful impact on people&#8217;s understanding of science, politics, and their community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe hope to better understand different types of problematic sharing behavior on Facebook, like sharing falsehoods, sharing hyper-partisan content, or sharing content without actually reading the associated story,\u201d Budak said. \u201cWe are particularly interested in understanding how such behavior changes around crisis events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project is funded by a Social Media and Democracy Grant through the Social Science Research Council and Social Science One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceren Budak, a UMSI assistant professor, is joining researchers from Ohio State, Cornell, and Stony Brook to study anonymous Facebook data. 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