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The project studied聽the media ecosystem in the run-up to and during Canada鈥檚 October 2019 federal election by monitoring digital and social media, and by conducting both regular national surveys and a study of a metered sample of online consumption. The project communicated its preliminary research findings publicly on a regular basis between August to October 2019, working with journalists to analyze the spread and impact of misinformation. The study culminated in a final report, published in聽May聽2020.
The project director was聽Taylor Owen, Associate Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications in the Max Bell School of Public Policy at 看片视频 The online data analysis team was led by Derek Ruths, Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at 看片视频 University, and the survey analysis team was聽led by Peter Loewen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
The project was聽funded by The Rossy Foundation, the McConnell Foundation, and the Luminate Group. The project聽also participated聽in the Digital Elections Research Challenge, a collaborative research project led by Taylor Owen and Elizabeth Dubois, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, and funded by a grant from Heritage Canada. The DDP shared聽survey and online data with the 18 research projects funded through this collaboration and highlighted select findings from these projects in our regular briefings.
For enquiries, please contact聽stephanie [at] digitaldemocracyproject.ca (Stephanie MacLellan.)
This is the first report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at 看片视频 The goal of this report is to provide an initial snapshot of the Canadian political media ecosystem leading up to this fall鈥檚 federal election.
This is the second report in the series of the Digital Democracy Project鈥檚 Research Memos that are mapping the media ecosystem in the run-up to Canada鈥檚 October 2019 federal election. It focuses on Canadian鈥檚 perceptions of what is shaping up to be a key election issue: the environment, and especially climate change.
This is the third of a series of Digital Democracy Project聽Research Memos that map the media ecosystem in the run-up to Canada's October 2019 federal election. It looks at whether Canadian's are polarized and how that relate to the social media environment.
This聽Memo聽that examines Canadians' opinions on immigration and their populist and nativist tendencies.
This report takes a closer look at the effectiveness of fact-checking the Trudeau blackface controversy on social media.
The DDP partnered with the Online Political Transparency Project to analyse the Facebook advertising landscape during the federal election campaign.
The final DDP election-period report finds that Canadians with partisan interests are more politically active, and less likely to engage with news that doesn鈥檛 support their worldview. This is a potential source of vulnerability for the information environment.
Researchers, policy-makers and the public at large are paying more attention to the threats that disinformation and other forms of online media manipulation pose to democratic institutions and political life.
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