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If this piece in @@The_JOP sounds interesting to you, you find yourself in Atlanta, and you're not opposed to waking up early: I'll be presenting a related working paper on WhatsApp usage in India, Brazil, and South Africa tomorrow at #PolMeth! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…
In the Global South, WhatsApp is more popular than X or Facebook. New in @The_JOP, we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
🚨Publication alert!! Our WhatsApp multimedia deactivation paper is now "just accepted" at @The_JOP. @CSMaP_NYU has published a full thread summarizing the paper! Check it out below 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
In the Global South, WhatsApp is more popular than X or Facebook. New in @The_JOP, we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
How much can a social media messaging app influence elections through misinformation? McCourt's Assistant Professor @_Tiagoventura offers critical insights in a new paper 👇
In the Global South, WhatsApp is more popular than X or Facebook. New in @The_JOP, we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
In addition to the original UK results, we have now 👏replicated👏 this (TWICE) in the US. The main findings hold strong: information diets are a lot more diverse in attention than in engagement.
📄NEW PAPER📄 Ever wondered content people actually pay *attention* to online? Our new research reveals that you likely pay attention to far more varied political content than your likes and shares suggest
When researchers label social media posts using only their text and ignore multimodal content (e.g., videos, images, links), how much do they miss? Our answer: Not much. New paper with @JamesBisbee @Jonathan_Nagler @j_a_tucker at @CSMaP_NYU doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…