Pablo Barberá
Pablo Barberá is a Research Scientist in Facebook's Core Data Science team and an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Methodology Department at the London School of Economics. In 2015, he received his PhD in Political Science from New York University, where he was a graduate research associate in the Social Media and Political Participation Lab (a precursor to CSMaP) and a Moore-Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science.
Barberá's primary areas of academic research include social media and politics, computational social science, and comparative electoral behavior and political representation.
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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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Analysis
Is Social Media to Blame for Violence at the U.S. Capitol?
This explains how social media can both weaken — and strengthen — democracy. Groups opposed to fundamental tenets of liberal democracy also have found their megaphone.
January 7, 2021
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Automated Text Classification of News Articles: A Practical Guide
Political Analysis, 2021
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Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media Data
American Political Science Review, 2019
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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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How Social Media Facilitates Political Protest: Information, Motivation, and Social Networks
Advances in Political Psychology, 2018
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From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media and Democracy
The Journal of Democracy, 2017
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Book
Measuring Public Opinion with Social Media Data
The Oxford Handbook of Polling and Survey Methods, 2018
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Of Echo Chambers and Contrarian Clubs: Exposure to Political Disagreement Among German and Italian Users of Twitter
Social Media and Society, 2016
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Book
Big Data, Social Media, and Protest: Foundations for a Research Agenda
Computational Social Science: Discovery and Prediction, 2016
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Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data
Political Analysis, 2015
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The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests
PLOS ONE, 2015
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Tweeting From Left to Right: Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber?
Psychological Science, 2015
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Political Expression and Action on Social Media: Exploring the Relationship Between Lower- and Higher-Threshold Political Activities Among Twitter Users in Italy
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2015
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Data Report
Tweeting the Revolution: Social Media Use and the #Euromaidan protests
Data Report, NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics, 2014
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Analysis
Tweeting the Revolution: Social Media Use and the #Euromaidan Protests
Our analysis of Twitter and Facebook data suggests that social media continues to be a pivotal organization tool for those in Kiev and also the most relevant mechanism for disseminating and exchanging information both within Ukraine and abroad.
February 21, 2014
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Analysis
How Ukrainian Protestors are Using Twitter and Facebook
We collected tweets mentioning the most common Twitter hashtags and available Facebook data of the Kiev protest since the morning of November 25, and found that Ukrainian social media users are strategically using the tools available to them to organize and spread information about the protests.
December 4, 2013
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Journal Article
Social Media and Political Communication: A Survey of Twitter Users During the 2013 Italian General Election
Italian Political Science Review, 2013
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Analysis
A Breakout Role for Twitter? Extensive Use of Social Media in the Absence of Traditional Media by Turks in Turkish in Taksim Square Protests
This trend suggests that Turkish protesters are replacing the traditional reporting with crowd-sourced accounts of the protest expressed through social media.
June 1, 2013