The Popcorn Political Report

UN-News UN-SPUN

Clanning IRL* Clanning

Digital cocoon Deep Cocooning

FUTURETENSE EMONOMICS

Vigilante consumer small-ing

of U.S. adults get Their news on social media – Pew Research

2017

Fa i t h P o p c o r n ’ s B r a i n R e s e rv e

of news stations have run false or inaccurate

INFORMATION PICKED UP FROM SOCIAL MEDIA

– Electronic News Journal

62%

33%

Americans’ Trust in Mass media at an all time low and DROPPING

– Gallup poll

1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

3253

% Great deal/fair amount of trust

2016

of voters report they either lost or ended a friendship

because of this year’s presidential

race– Monmouth university

7% MEETUP.COM has

total signups and CLIMBING– priceonomics

“We are tempted to think that our little ‘sips’ of

online connection add up To a big gulp

of real conversation & connection.

But they don’t.”– Sherry Turkle,

MIT Professor & author

39.6M

Your filter bubble is becoming more difficult to escape. in 2011

Google used 57 signals to tailor its search results to you;

today, it’s over

– NYMAG

200U.S. “preppers” stoking a multi-billion $ category

– Yahoo Finance

3.7M

More than half of students visiting campus clinics citE anxiety as a health concern

– NEW YORK TIMES

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

WHY AMERICANS LOVE TRUMP:

30

% OF STUDENTS

SEEKING HELP AT

COUNSELING CENTER for

anxiety

50

40

– ASSOCIATION FOR UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE COUNSELING CENTER DIRECTORS

“HE’S OUTSPOKEN. HE TELLS YOU HOW IT IS.”

– BETTY TULLY

“HE doesn’t hold back”– Nicholas Poucher

X

of all Kickstarter campaigns & $100+million OF THEIR donations are in

Artisanal categories– harvard business review

veterans joinED thousands protesting at Standing Rock.

PIPELINE WILL NOW BE RE-ROUTED– nPR

Virtual activism: First hologram protest

held in Spain in 2015– CNN

Etsy has grown from $175K sales in 2006 to $2.4B in 2015

– harvard business review

2006 2015

$175k

$2.4B20%

2,000

Heavy DRINKING IN U.S. up . – ScienceDaily

17%

*In Real Life

Rage ROOMS ON THE RISE – NY TIMES