by Nelson Graves | 17 Feb 2017 | Discovery, Donald Trump, Fake News, Future of Democracy, Technology, United States
Increasingly we are living in media silos that divide us from large numbers of fellow citizens. Here are some tricks for bursting your media bubble. Worried about alternative facts? Try entering an alternative universe. Like it or not, each of us lives in a media...
by Emily T. Metzgar | 15 Feb 2017 | Donald Trump, Future of Democracy, United States
Is Donald Trump’s administration straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”? Or is the U.S. mainstream media in an anti-Trump frenzy? The logo of Ingsoc, the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in George...
by Rashad Mammadov | 8 Dec 2016 | Americas, Donald Trump, Future of Democracy, Indiana University, United States
By Rashad Mammadov Two years ago, a pair of American political scientists published a study that found that the U.S. system of government is closer to oligarchy — or rule by the few — than to democracy. Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin...
by Nelson Graves | 5 Sep 2016 | News Decoder Updates
By Nelson Graves News-Decoder has won a coveted award in a global competition honoring innovative efforts to build stronger news media and to engage young audiences. One year after launch, our not-for-profit venture won a second prize in the public service category of...
by News Decoder | 13 Jul 2015 | News Decoder Updates
The problem? News without context. The solution? An exchange of viewpoints. The upshot? Global understanding. By Nelson Graves News-Decoder is based on a problem and a premise. Problem: Young people have never had so much news at their fingertips. They cannot escape...