Federal support for broadband expansion reflects the understanding that communication is as vital as roadways to the republic.

The health of our democracy depends on a free press. What happens when the thirst for profits, eyeballs, and clicks drives political coverage?

While these videodisc formats ultimately failed, they signaled that consumers were hungry for control of their home viewing.

After the passage of the ADA, much of the media coverage focused on litigation and whether or not certain disabled people “deserved” accommodations.

As outlets that welcome rational exchanges of ideas dwindle those that serve as echo chambers are exploding. What does that mean for free speech and the health of the US?

According to some political scientists, it's more about group identity than personal interests.

Researchers are concerned not only with our exposure to mis- and disinformation but with the depth of confidence people have in their inaccurate beliefs.

Scholars of politics and media have been tracking an ongoing collapse of trust in representative democracy's core institutions. What's at stake?

For over two months in 1990, Indigenous activists defended Kanien'kehá:ka lands against encroachment. They were portrayed negatively.

The first stories about the beating of Rodney King in two major newspapers focused on racial injustice. But that changed.