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Baird Howland

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Baird Howland conducts empirical research on American media diets and dominant narratives in the news media.

Baird Howland is a Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School. His research interests relate to sense making, media systems, and the spread of ideas.

Education

  • B.A., Cornell University, 2017

Selected Publications

"Quantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiences." Science Advances, 2022.

“Evaluating the Fake News Problem at the Scale of the Information Ecosystem.” Science Advances, 2020.

 

Baird Howland

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TV News Top Driver of Political Echo Chambers in U.S.

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Baird Howland

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