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Kjerstin Thorson
@kthorson.bsky.social
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Dean, College of Liberal Arts @ Colorado State University (media/youth/politics/citizenship/digital), TV watcher, mom.
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Kjerstin Thorson @kthorson.bsky.social · Jan 18
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.
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...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Nov 25
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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