Browsing by Author "Etling, Bruce"

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    • Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign 

      Benkler, Yochai; Tilton, Casey; Etling, Bruce; Roberts, Hal; Clark, Justin; Faris, Robert; Kaiser, Jonas; Schmitt, Carolyn (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-01)
      The claim that election fraud is a major concern with mail-in ballots has become the central threat to election participation during the Covid-19 pandemic and to the legitimacy of the outcome of the election across the ...

    • Partisanship, Impeachment, and the Democratic Primaries: American Political Discourse, January - February 2020 

      Faris, Robert; Clark, Justin; Etling, Bruce; Kaiser, Jonas; Roberts, Hal; Schmitt, Carolyn; Tilton, Casey; Benkler, Yochai (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-22)
      The decisions voters will make at the ballot box on November 3, 2020 will be influenced in no small part by the media coverage of the candidates and issues, including the reporting by journalists, the media personalities ...

    • Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election 

      Faris, Robert M.; Roberts, Hal; Etling, Bruce; Bourassa, Nikki; Zuckerman, Ethan; Benkler, Yochai (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)
      In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both candidates, but largely ...

    • Polarization and the Pandemic: American Political Discourse, March – May 2020 

      Faris, Robert; Clark, Justin; Etling, Bruce; Kaiser, Jonas; Roberts, Hal; Schmitt, Carolyn; Tilton, Casey; Benkler, Yochai (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-29)
      By the middle of March, the Democratic primary had effectively ended and the enormity of the Covid-19 pandemic and its human and economic cost began to sink in. The response to the pandemic had already been thoroughly ...

    • Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing 

      Etling, Bruce; Faris, Robert M; Palfrey, John Gorham (John Hopkins University Press, 2010)
      We conclude that policymakers and scholars that have been most optimistic about the impact of digital tools have over-emphasized the role of information, specifically access to alternative and independent sources of ...

    • Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization 

      Etling, Bruce; Alexanyan, Karina; Kelly, John; Faris, Robert M; Palfrey, John Gorham; Gasser, Urs (2010)
      We analyzed Russian blogs to discover networks of discussion around politics and public affairs. Beginning with an initial set of over five million blogs, we used social network analysis to identify a highly active ‘Discussion ...

    • Russia, Ukraine, and the West: Social Media Sentiment in the Euromaidan Protests 

      Etling, Bruce (2014)
      This paper investigates sentiment in the online conversation about the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests across a range of English- and Russian-language social and traditional media sources. Results from this exploratory ...

    • Score Another One for the Internet? The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy Debate 

      Benkler, Yochai; Faris, Robert M; Roberts, Hal M.; Etling, Bruce; Othman, Dalia (Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 2015)
      In this paper we study the public debate over net neutrality in the United States from January through November 2014. We compiled, mapped, and analyzed over 16,000 stories published on net neutrality, augmented by data ...