June 6, 2018

By Hernando Rojas and Kwansik Mun, University of Wisconsin – Madison

The circulation and adoption of “fake news” and misinformation are detrimental to the functioning of any democratic system. In the communication ecosystem of the 20th Century, centralization in the distribution of information, and professional practices by journalists, sought to keep misinformation at bay.

However, in the… More

June 4, 2018

New research suggests online news publications can enhance credibility by rearranging their corrections.

With funding from the Arthur W. Page Center, assistant professors Kirstie Hettinga, California Lutheran University, and Alyssa Appelman, Northern Kentucky University, examined readers’ perceptions of corrections in digital news stories. The scholars’ findings suggest that The New York Times, a legacy publication with a high… More

May 29, 2018

By Michele Ewing and Cheryl Ann Lambert, Kent State University

In 2017, Kay Jewelers was falsely accused of replacing customer diamonds with fake stones. New Balance received vocal white supremacist support because of a high-level executives’ falsified expression of support for Presidential policies. The CEO of PepsiCo was accused of rejecting customers who voted for Trump… More

April 25, 2018

By Anli Xiao, Ph.D. candidate at Penn State

Many people assume that foreign-born populations only get help from nonprofit organizations. But even though foreign-born people often have a disadvantaged social status, research says in the United States and other countries they actually help these organizations by providing resources, donating money and volunteering.

Based on an analysis published… More

June 2, 2017

By J. Suzanne Horsley, University of Alabama, and Jill M. Bode, Designed Write Public Relations

Over the past year, the Arthur W. Page Center grant funds supported our efforts to talk with communicators from governments, emergency management agencies and nonprofits that respond to disasters. We asked our participants to take us deep behind-the-scenes to help us and other… More

April 18, 2017

By Sarah Vlazny, Page Center intern

Corporate social advocacy and CEO advocacy are becoming increasingly relevant topics of study in the communications field. While studying differences between forms of advocacy-focused content, Page Center scholars found that the level of controversy plays a role in a message’s impact.

In their study, Examining the impact of advertising vs.… More