This class will provide students with an overview of the course, and how social media has broadly changed political practice. It will then introduce students to working with R.
Readings
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From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media and Democracy
Journal of Democracy, 2017
Joshua A. Tucker, Yannis Theocharis, Margaret E. Roberts, and Pablo Barberá -
The Consequences of the Internet for Politics
Annual Review of Political Science, 2012
Henry Farrell
Padlet for use during class
DataCamp exercises
Working with R
Please install both of these programs. Install R first, before installing R-Studio.
Data for In-class Workshop
Gapminder data: csv
Data manipulation: tidyverse cheat sheet