James Bisbee
James Bisbee is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. In 2019, he received his PhD from NYU's Department of Politics.
Bisbee studies how economic dislocation influences politics using novel data and quantitative methods; he is also interested in understanding the anti-globalist backlash against open borders in advanced industrial democracies. In addition, he conducts research in quantitative methods, with a focus on the external validity of causally identified relationships.
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Journal Article
Estimating the Ideology of Political YouTube Videos
Political Analysis, 2024
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Analysis
Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Ideological Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users
We find that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm does not lead the vast majority of users down extremist rabbit holes, although it does push users into increasingly narrow ideological ranges of content in what we might call evidence of a (very) mild ideological echo chamber.
October 13, 2022
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Journal Article
Election Fraud, YouTube, and Public Perception of the Legitimacy of President Biden
Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2022
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Working Paper
Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users
Working Paper, May 2022