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Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization
(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
(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 ...
Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
(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
(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 ...
Partisanship, Impeachment, and the Democratic Primaries: American Political Discourse, January - February 2020
(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 ...
Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign
(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 ...