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Op-eds

The Washington Post

Jen Leighley and Jonathan Nagler

October 18, 2018

Could anything – even Taylor Swift – boost the youth vote in 2018?

Last week, with a post on Instagram, Taylor Swift urged young people to vote. She specifically endorsed two candidates, explained why she voted for them, and suggested that others should rely on their values in deciding how to vote…

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The Washington Post

Jan Zilinsky and Joshua A Tucker

February 1, 2018

Why don't Trump voters feel betrayed? Because they're getting what they wanted.

Why doesn’t President Trump’s base feel betrayed yet, as so many observers think it should? Pundits have argued that they would feel alienated by his State of the Union address…

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2018|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: , , |

Huffington Post

Pablo Barbera and Megan Metzger

December 6, 2017

Tweeting the Revolution: Social Media Use and the #Euromaidan Protests

The past three days have been the most violent in recent Ukrainian history. Over 70 people…

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2017|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: , , |

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…

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

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…

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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…

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2015|Categories: Op-ed|Tags: , , |

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…

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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…

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