by UMICH Center for Social Media Responsibility | Mar 23, 2022 | Digital Journalism
by James Park, Sagar Kumar, and Paul Resnick: Center for Social Media Responsibility, University of Michigan At the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), we publish and monitor a metric we call the Iffy Quotient—the fraction of the most...
by UMICH Center for Social Media Responsibility | Mar 25, 2021 | Digital Journalism
At the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), we publish and monitor a metric we call the Iffy Quotient—the fraction of the most popular URLs on Facebook and Twitter that come from “Iffy” sites that often publish...
by UMICH Center for Social Media Responsibility | Nov 16, 2020 | Digital Journalism
At the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), we publish and monitor a metric we call the Iffy Quotient—the fraction of the most popular URLs on Facebook and Twitter that come from “Iffy” sites that often publish...
by UMICH Center for Social Media Responsibility | Jul 21, 2020 | Digital Journalism
When financial markets are volatile, there is often a “flight to quality” in investment allocations. People move their money into gold or other investments that they perceive to be less risky. During the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown in the U.S., there was...