Social media has changed the way politics is practiced and the way it is studied by social scientists and journalists, introducing a number of technical obstacles as well as scientific opportunities. At CSMaP, we support lab-based, interdisciplinary research that examines a broad range of questions at the intersection of social media and politics.
New York University | New York City, NY
WHAT WE STUDY
The Center for Social Media and Politics is home to faculty, post-docs, students, and staff committed to understanding the relationship between social media and politics in our new digital age. The Center houses the Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Lab, which fosters research in three core areas: (i) how social media impacts politics, with particular emphasis on the flow of information (and misinformation) on social media; (ii) innovative ways to use social media data to study politics; and (iii) developing open-source tools that facilitate the use of social media data for the study of politics.
Media Exposure and Impact
Information Flow Across Platforms
Disinformation and Digital Literacy
Bot Identification and Analysis
Sentiment and Stance Analysis
The 2020 U.S. Elections
Measuring Public Opinion
The Spread of Information
FEATURED WORK



A COMMITMENT TO OPEN SCIENCE
As part of our project to construct comprehensive data sets and to empirically test hypotheses related to social media and politics, we have developed a suite of open-source tools and modeling processes.
You can explore and download our data collection and analysis tools here.
OPEN SOURCE TOOLS



