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Matthew A. Baum

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Matthew L Baum

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The science of fake news

DMJ Lazer, MA Baum, Y Benkler, AJ Berinsky… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against
misinformation in the internet age. Concern over the problem is global. However, much …

Soft news and political knowledge: Evidence of absence or absence of evidence?

MA Baum - Political communication, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
In "Any Good News in Soft News?" Markus Prior investigates whether, beyond enhancing their
attentiveness to select political issues (Baum, 2002a), consumers also learn about politics …

Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4

…, N Kamitaki, K Tooley, J Presumey, M Baum… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms.
Schizophrenia’s strongest genetic association at a population level involves variation in the major …

New media and the polarization of American political discourse

MA Baum, T Groeling - Political Communication, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Scholars of political communication have long examined newsworthiness by focusing on the
news choices of media organizations ( Lewin, 1947 ; White, 1950 ; Sigal, 1973 ; Gans, 1979 …

[BOOK][B] Soft news goes to war: Public opinion and American foreign policy in the new media age

MA Baum - 2011 - degruyter.com
Matthew Baum argues that the answer lies in changes to television's presentation of …
Baum rigorously tests his theory through content analyses of traditional and soft news media …

Sex, lies, and war: How soft news brings foreign policy to the inattentive public

MA Baum - American Political Science Review, 2002 - cambridge.org
This study argues that, due to selective political coverage by the entertainment-oriented, soft
news media, many otherwise politically inattentive individuals are exposed to information …

The relationships between mass media, public opinion, and foreign policy: Toward a theoretical synthesis

MA Baum, PBK Potter - Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Democracy requires that citizens' opinions play some role in shaping policy outcomes,
including in foreign policy. Yet, although the literature on public opinion and foreign policy has …

The invisible hand of democracy: political control and the provision of public services

DA Lake, MA Baum - Comparative political studies, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite considerable normative support, analysts have failed to identify any systematic effects
of democracy on domestic policy outputs. Building on a theory of the state as a monopoly …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular diversity and specializations among the cells of the adult mouse brain

…, FM Krienen, H de Rivera, E Bien, M Baum… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The mammalian brain is composed of diverse, specialized cell populations. To systematically
ascertain and learn from these cellular specializations, we used Drop-seq to profile RNA …

Prevalence and correlates of long COVID symptoms among US adults

…, J Green, A Quintana, J Druckman, MA Baum… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Persistence of COVID-19 symptoms beyond 2 months, or long COVID, is
increasingly recognized as a common sequela of acute infection. Objectives To estimate the …