Computational political scientist
Core research interests: Public Opinion, Technology & Politics, Political Methodology. (Google Scholar)
I study how citizens digest political information, economic news, and controversial content – toxic speech, conspiracy rhetoric, disinformation – from online platforms, state actors, and political entrepreneurs.
Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior. 2023. With Gregory Eady, Tom Paskhalis, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler and Joshua A. Tucker. Nature Communications. Published paper (open-access). Short summary. Coverage: Washington Post, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Hill TV, Wall Street Journal, The Intercept, Tech Policy Press podcast, Columbia Journalism Review, Other
Division Does Not Imply Predictability: Demographics Continue to Reveal Little About Voting and Partisanship. 2022. Political Behavior. With Seo-young Silvia Kim.
Published paper (open-access) | Pre-print | Code on Github | MPSA Slides | Podcast
Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy. 2022. Political Analysis. With James Bisbee.
Paper | Code and data
Don’t Republicans Tweet Too? Using Twitter to Assess the Consequences of Political Endorsements by Celebrities. Perspectives on Politics, 2020. With Vaccari, C., Nagler, J. & Tucker, J. A. PDF | Monkey Cage summary
Democratic deconsolidation revisited: Young Europeans are not dissatisfied with democracy. Research & Politics, 2019. PDF (open-access)
How Many People Live in Political Bubbles on Social Media? Evidence from Linked Survey and Twitter Data. Sage Open, 2019. With Gregory Eady, Jonathan Nagler, Andrew Guess, and Joshua Tucker. PDF (open-access) | Summaries: Pacific Standard, Main chart
The Happiness Gap in Eastern Europe. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016. With Simeon Djankov and Elena Nikolova. PDF | Summary: Financial Times blog | Ungated SSRN & OSF pre-prints
Do Users Ever Draw a Line? Offensiveness and Content Moderation Preferences on Social Media. With Franziska Pradel, Spyros Kosmidis and Yannis Theocharis.
OSF Preprint.
Donate To Help Us Fight Back: Mobilization Rhetoric in Political Fundraising. With Seo-young Silvia Kim and Brian Brew.
APSA Preprint.
What People Learn From Twitter: Evidence from a Panel Survey Combined with Direct Observation of Social Media Activity. Paper with Greogy Eady, Richard Bonneau, Joshua Tucker and Jonathan Nagler. MPSA Slides.
The Distinctness of Social and Economic Identities. With Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler.
SSRN | Local pre-print
Social Status and Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories. With Spyros Kosmidis and Yannis Theocharis.
Justifying an Invasion: Where and Why is Disinformation Successful? (with many co-authors)
Predicting Economic Evaluations. A methodological summary.
Slides from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science:
The code and some materials for my Data visualization class are now publicly available.
Information for prospective students & thesis writers
The Platforms for the People (part of the Reboot Social Media initiative) project explores where people draw the line between hateful content and content protected by freedom of speech principles. The findings inform us about the content moderation practices which users believe should be put in place to counter toxic/threatening speech.