…“The timing is obvious, and the need is obvious. We are committed to bringing together many disparate data sources that are hard to get and organizing and analyzing them so that those resources are available for everyone to use,” said Yoo.
Christopher Yoo on the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy
Penn Today
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ICLE Academic Affiliate Christopher Yoo was cited by Penn Today in a story about the University of Pennsylvania’s new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. You can read the full piece here.
“One of the Center’s primary goals is to promote empirical research into digital media’s impact on democracy,” said Christopher S. Yoo, Imasogie Professor in Law and Technology at Penn Carey Law, with secondary appointments in SEAS and Annenberg. “Without sound, evidence-based insights into what is really going on, arguments risk devolving into polarized positions, which in turn can lead to a breakdown of trust in media and institutions and our shared commitment to democratic processes. The health of our society depends on finding ways to prevent that from happening.”
Professors Yoo and Duncan Watts, the grant’s two principal investigators, are trusted partners in industry and academia.
Yoo is the founding director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at Penn Carey Law. His work focuses on normative issues in legal policy. Watts, founding director of Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab, is an empirical scholar whose research is marked by innovation. He is also the Stevens University Professor and a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in Penn Engineering, Annenberg, and Wharton, where he is also the inaugural Rowan Fellow. Together, Yoo and Watts offer synergies between policymakers and leaders in media and technology.