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Since its release the Pew Internet and American Life Project report that I coauthored, "The internet and democratic debate" has received national and international press coverage. Initial news stories tended to focus solely on the survey results, but recently there is evidence that our
findings are beginning to change the way people think and talk about online selective exposure more generally. Here are a couple of examples.
Broken Engagement: America's Civic Health Index
- A report by the National Conference on Citizenship in association with CIRCLE and Saguaro Seminar - September 18, 2006 - (see quote from Lee Rainie on page 24)
< http://www.ncoc.net/conferences/2006civichealth.pdf>Time Magazine:
"Around the Corner" - March 20, 2006 LA Times: "Telling You What You Like" - September 20, 2005
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-preference20sep20,0,109300.story?coll=la-home-busi ness>
According to Google News, there were several hundred stories covering the report when it first came out. Here are a few examples. Radio
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2004/story?id=203393&page=1>BBC: "US voters 'going online for news'"
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3955569.stm>Business Week: "Net Users Trawl for Differing Views"
< http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041028_1993_db016.htm>
Boston Herald: "Study says Web users scan opposing views"
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http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=51238>The story was also covered by the Associated Press and Reuters.
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R. Kelly Garrett, Senior Research Fellow, University of California, Irvine, Center for Research on Information Technology
and Organizations (CRITO), 3200 Berkeley Place, Irvine, CA 92697
email: garrettk [at] uci.edu | web site: http://www.umich.edu/~garrettk/ | Last Updated: July 27, 2007 |
