
They, along with other recent articles on COVID misinformation in Black communities online and Zoombombing, can be found on the TaSC Project’s Research page. Polarization and the Pandemic: TaSC Senior Researcher Robert Faris, along with Yochai Benkler and a team from Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, published two reports on american political discourse during the primary and general elections. Journalist’s Resource’s Election Research Roundups: The team at Journalist’s Resource has been summarizing and explaining academic research relevant to the 2020 election, including studies on voting by mail and voter intimidation. The research team includes Professor Matthew Baum of the Shorenstein Center and Harvard Kennedy School. Their latest reports focus on partisan differences in vote by mail, public opinion on the pandemic, and the biggest issues facing the country leading up to the 2020 election.

The COVID States Polling Project: This multi-university collaboration is providing some of the most extensive polling research on Americans’ attitudes about the COVID-19 pandemic, the election, and governmental leadership during the crisis. It is a valuable resource for understanding how disinformation spreads, its impacts, and how it can be mitigated in the future. The Media Manipulation Casebook: The Technology and Social Change Project’s new research hub includes case studies on media manipulation and disinformation campaigns that have targeted politicians, political parties, or voters and elections.
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Patterson provides research-based explanation of different factors at play in the 2020 election in this ongoing series for Journalist’s Resource.

Resources and Research CollectionsĮlection Beat 2020: Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Thomas E. If you’re a journalist covering the 2020 election results, or anyone looking for more research-based context on the election-related landscape of media and information, the Shorenstein Center’s researchers and faculty have pulled together this list of recent reports, articles, and explainers.
