These questions are at the heart of a research project on the future of magazine journalism initiated by the George T. Delacorte Center.
As part of our yearlong Delacorte fellowship with CJR, the three of us have shaped and conducted this project to investigate digital media’s largely unexplored potential effects on empathy.
To help us understand this issue, psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist Jenna Reinen, a postdoctoral scholar at Yale, has worked with us as a consultant.
With her guidance, we have shaped the project into two parts:
- a review of some of the relevant scientific research and literature on the topic,
- and an independent experiment, the results of which will be published in CJR’s July/August issue
