Earlier this month, we released Dr. Christine Greenhow's research findings from our Facebook application, Hot Dish, which covered climate change news targeted at 16 - 25 year olds.
Encouragingly, we found that publishing news in Facebook improved news-reading habits amongst young people, increased their knowledge about climate change and motivated them to take real world actions in their community.
We're not the only ones who found this impressive...check out Michele McClellan's post over at the Knight Digital Media Center.
Disclaimer: Both our research and the Knight Digital Media Center is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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