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

  1. From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media and Democracy
    Journal of Democracy, 2017
    Joshua A. Tucker, Yannis Theocharis, Margaret E. Roberts, and Pablo Barberá

  2. The Consequences of the Internet for Politics
    Annual Review of Political Science, 2012
    Henry Farrell

Padlet for use during class

Padlet

DataCamp exercises

Introduction to R

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