Op-Eds

Washington Post

Alex Siegel and Joshua A Tucker

July 20, 2016

Here’s what 29 million tweets can teach us about Brexit

As Britain’s vote to leave the European Union sent pundits scrambling and the pound plummeting, it also set off a global frenzy on social media. Topping off months of online campaigning…

2016|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: Twitter, UK|

The Washington Post

Alex Siegel

January 7, 2016

Does Twitter bridge the Sunni-Shiite divide or make it worse?

Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric on Jan. 2 sparked a sectarian firestorm across the Arab world. Protests erupted, a Saudi…

2016|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: Twitter|

The Washington Post

Alex Siegel

December 4, 2015

Egyptian elections on Twitter, far more interesting than Egyptian elections

Polls have closed, and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi has emerged, unsurprisingly, as the true victor in Egypt’s first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2012…

2015|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: Egypt, Elections, Twitter|

The Washington Post

Andy Guess, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua A Tucker

November 12, 2015

This is what Twitter can teach us about John Kasich’s (and everyone else’s!) debate performance

Did John Kasich’s “grown up” strategy work in Wednesday’s debate? And could moderate Republicans be warming to Rand Paul? To answer these and other question, the New York University Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab analyzed 426,717 tweets from…

2015|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: Elections, Twitter, USA|

Newsweek

Kevin Munger

July 24, 2015

Why Tyrants and Despots Love Social Media

n May 2014, CNN aired footage of a Ukrainian helicopter being shot by pro-Russian militants. Taken with a cellphone camera and posted on social media, the video showed compelling evidence of the scale and technological sophistication of the Ukrainian conflict…

2015|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: Facebook, Protest, Twitter|

The Washington Post

Megan Metzger

December 11, 2013

Bringing Science to Bear on Social Media

As we enter our nation’s next presidential election cycle, we will be compelled once again to reexamine the new, disturbing terms of engagement regarding the dissemination of information and misinformation…

2013|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: Facebook, Protest, Twitter, Ukraine|

The Washington Post

Pablo Barbera and Megan Metzger

December 4, 2013

How Ukrainian protestors are using Twitter and Facebook

In Ukraine, protesters are coordinating on Facebook and signing up for Twitter accounts, perhaps with an eye towards increasing international…