During this week, we will discuss the use of experimentation to study political behavior with social media data. I’ve chosen ones that were published very recently, or are forthcoming. For a break, there will not be a lab this week.
Presentations
Thea is presenting:
Elites Tweet to Get Feet Off the Streets: Measuring Regime Social Media Strategies During Protest
Kevin Munger, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua A. Tucker (2019)
August and Sebastian are presenting:
Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s Impact on the Political Attitudes and Behaviors of American Twitter Users in Late 2017
Christopher A. Bail, Brian Guay, Emily Maloney, Aiden Combs, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Friedolin Merhout, Deen Freelon, and Alexander Volfovsky (2020)
Readings
- Experiments Using Social Media Data
In “Advances in Experimental Political Science”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, edited by James Druckman and Donald Green, 184-198
Andrew M. Guess
Read/skim one or two
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Shared Partisanship Dramatically Increases Social Tie Formation in a Twitter Field Experiment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
Mohsen Mosleh and Cameron Martel and Dean Eckles and David G. Rand -
Shifting Attention to Accuracy Can Reduce Misinformation Online
Nature, 2021
Gordon Pennycook and Ziv Epstein and Mohsen Mosleh and Antonio A. Arechar and Dean Eckles and David G. Rand -
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India
American Political Science Review, 2021
Sumitra Badrinathan -
#No2Sectarianism: Experimental Approaches to Reducing Sectarian Hate Speech Online
American Political Science Review, 2020
Alexandra A. Siegel and Vivienne Badaan -
The Impact of Media Censorship: 1984 or Brave New World?
American Economic Review, 2019
Yuyu Chen and David Y. Yang -
The Welfare Effects of Social Media
American Economic Review, 2020
Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, and Matthew Gentzkow