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ESC Center Tackles Ethical Questions about Tech
Post developed by Katherine Pearson Christian Sandvig, the Director of the new Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), says he developed this new center “to reconcile the fact that I love computers, but I’m horrified by some of the things we do with them.”...
Shea Streeter examines the circumstances surrounding police violence and protest
Post developed by Katherine Pearson Shea Streeter began her graduate work in political science as a comparativist interested in state repression around the world. When the protest movement in Ferguson, Missouri exploded after the killing of Michael Brown, Streeter...
Political Communication Meets Big Data
by Katherine Pearson How do voters make sense of the information they hear about candidates in the news and through social media? This question was at the heart of a collaboration between researchers at the University of Michigan, Georgetown University, and Gallup to...
Racial Dynamics in the American Context : A Second Century of Civil Rights and Protest?
Post developed by Katherine Pearson and Dianne Pinderhughes Drawing from published work that will be compiled as a new book, Black Politics After the Civil Rights Revolution, Dianne Pinderhughes explored the arc of 20th-century civil rights reform and the growing...
Computer simulations reveal partisan gerrymandering
Post developed by Katherine Pearson How much does partisanship explain how legislative districts are drawn? Legislators commonly agree on neutral criteria for drawing district lines, but the extent to which partisan considerations overshadow these neutral criteria is...
Rousing the Sleeping Giant? Emotions and Latino Mobilization in an Anti-Immigration Era
Post developed by Nicholas Valentino, Ali Valenzuela, Omar Wasow, and Katherine Pearson ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Rousing...
Toward a Typology of Populists
Post developed by Pauline Jones, Anil Menon, and Katherine Pearson ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Putin’s Pivot to Populism”...
Incidental Exposure to Political News Increases Political Knowledge
Post developed by Brian Weeks and Katherine Pearson ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Can Incidental Exposure to News Close the...
Using Text and Images to Examine 2016 Election Tweets
Post developed by Dory Knight-Ingram ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Using Neural Networks to Classify Based on Combined Text...
The Politicization of Policies to Address Climate Change
Post developed by Erin Cikanek, Nicholas Valentino, and Katherine Pearson ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “The Politicization of...
