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'' Duncan Watts Co-Authors Study on Designing Social Media to Foster Prosocial Behavior, Annenberg A new study co-authored by Duncan Watts, reported by Annenberg, outlines how social media platforms can be intentional March 27, 2025
"" Duncan Watts Co-Develops AI-Powered Media Bias Detector to Transform News Analysis, Annenberg Penn computational social scientist Duncan Watts and his team developed the AI-powered Media Bias Detector as reported by Annenbe January 1, 2025
"" Duncan Watts Launches "The Common Sense Project" to Measure Individual and Collective Common Sense, CSS Lab CSS Lab writes that the Common Sense Project platform, a new initiative based on research by Mark Whiting and Dunca October 4, 2024
Image of Duncan Watts. Duncan J. Watts Is Quoted in an Article about the Launch of Penn’s New Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy, Penn Today. The University of Pennsylvania has launched a $10 million Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy, with Duncan Watts< September 5, 2024
Image of a person reading news on the internet Duncan J. Watts Was Mentioned in an Article That Critiques the Overemphasis on Misinformation, Financial Times The Financial Times article featuring Duncan J. Watts challenges the common belief that misinformation is both widespread and a major threat. August 30, 2024
Image of a hoard of Media at a press conference Duncan Watts Is Quoted in an Article about Using AI to Analyze and Classify News Articles from Major Media Outlets to Uncover and Measure Media Bias, the Pennsylvania Gazette “Everything that you learn about the world represents a choice that someone has made,” Duncan Watts says in The Pennsylvania Gazette. August 26, 2024
News Paper Duncan Watts Uses the Debate to Test His Media Bias Detector, Penn Today “The debates offer a real-time, high-stakes environment to observe and analyze how media outlets present and potentially skew the same event,” says Watts. June 28, 2024
Fake news Duncan Watts Quoted on Fake and Misleading News in the Media, Penn Today “Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many thousands of papers have been published about the dangers of false information propagating on social media,” says Watts. June 7, 2024
" " Duncan Watts' new study is featured, Penn Today & Annenberg School for Communication Penn Today and the Annenberg School for Communicati February 20, 2024
" " Duncan Watts' study on Common sense is featured, Knowledge at Wharton Knowledge at Wharton features Duncan Watts for his study on quantifying individual and collective common sense.& January 30, 2024
" " Duncan Watts address a critical gap in how knowledge is understood, Penn Today Penn Today features research associate Duncan Watts for his study on individual and collective January 23, 2024
" " Duncan Watts co-op-eds on self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news, Columbia Journalism Review Columbia Journalism Review publishes an op-ed by research associate Duncan Watts, where he and other researchers&n November 20, 2023
" " Duncan Watts published the 'Watts-Strogatz' mathematical model 25 years ago, Cornell Chronicle In commemoration of its 25th anniversary, the Cornell Chronicle highlights Duncan Watts and his May 31, 2023
Duncan J. Watts study shows television news to be a driver of partisan politics in Penn Today PSC Research Associate Duncan J. Watts and colleagues found that 17% of American rely on television news from left or right leaning sources. July 26, 2022
Duncan Watts featured in Penn Today Duncan J. February 10, 2022
Duncan Watts featured in Penn Today Duncan Watts (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today January 23, 2022
Duncan Watts featured in Penn Today and Knowledge@Wharton Duncan J. October 11, 2021

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The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) was founded in 1962 and stands as an international leader in research and training on the dynamic structure, organization, and health and well-being of human populations. The services that PSC provides have been funded by infrastructure grants awarded by the Population Dynamics Branch at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) since 1978. The center and its associates are also supported by research grants and contracts awarded by federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and by private foundations. Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences is the administrative home of the PSC and provides generous dedicated support to the center.

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