Alexandra A. Siegel
Alexandra Siegel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a faculty research affiliate with NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. She’s also a nonresident fellow at Brooking in the Center for Middle East Policy and the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative. Siegel also serves as a faculty affiliate at Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab (IPL).
Siegel’s research uses social media data, social network analysis, and textual analysis to explore mass and elite political behavior in the Arab World. In 2018, she received her PhD from NYU’s Department of Politics. Previously, Siegel was a Junior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a CASA at the American University in Cairo.
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Related Research & News
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Journal Article
Tweeting Beyond Tahrir: Ideological Diversity and Political Intolerance in Egyptian Twitter Networks
World Politics, 2021
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Journal Article
Trumping Hate on Twitter? Online Hate Speech in the 2016 U.S. Election Campaign and its Aftermath.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2021
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Working Paper
Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature
Hewlett Foundation, 2018
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Book
Twitter Wars: Sunni-Shia Conflict and Cooperation in the Digital Age
Beyond Sunni and Shia: The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East, 2018
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Journal Article
The Islamic State’s Information Warfare: Measuring the Success of ISIS’s Online Strategy
Journal of Language and Politics, 2018
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Report
Syrian Refugee Crisis Data Report
Social media data provides new insights into how the world watches a humanitarian disaster unfold in real time. We analyze Twitter data and find which events grab global attention, how perceptions shift, and whose narratives gain traction.
September 16, 2016
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Analysis
Here’s What 29 Million Tweets Can Teach Us About Brexit
Britain’s vote to leave the European Union caused a dramatic surge in Brexit-related tweets. Our analysis of millions of them provides key insights into the success of the “leave” campaign, the surprising dominance of economic issues in the online debate, and the referendum’s increasingly global audience.
July 20, 2016
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Report
Brexit Data Report
What can social media teach us about the motivations of Brexit voters and the global ramifications of the referendum? After analyzing 29 million tweets on the topic, we provide key insights about user views.
July 14, 2016
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Analysis
Egyptian Elections on Twitter, Far More Interesting Than Egyptian Elections
The meager voter turnout at Egypt's first parliamentary elections since 2012 has been chalked up to apathy and frustration among Egyptian citizens, but an analysis of 500,000 tweets indicates that citizens’ distrust, exclusion and alienation from Egyptian politics is to blame.
December 4, 2015
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Report
The Islamic State's Battle for the Global Twittersphere
Although ISIS continues to spread its message through social media, our data suggests that pro-ISIS communication is met by a much larger amount of anti-ISIS content.
July 27, 2015