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Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data
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Social media monitoring, which in theory can extract information from tweets and Facebook posts and…
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Mapping the uneven geographies of information worldwide
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There are massive inequalities that cannot simply be explained by uneven Internet penetration. A range…
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Investigating the structure and connectivity of online global protest networks
The new networks of political protest, which harness these new online technologies are often described…
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How accessible are online legislative data archives to political scientists?
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Government agencies are rarely completely transparent, often do not provide clear instructions for accessing the…
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Experiments are the most exciting thing on the UK public policy horizon
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Very few of these experiments use manipulation of information environments on the internet as a…
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Uncovering the structure of online child exploitation networks
Despite large investments of law enforcement resources, online child exploitation is nowhere near under control,…
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Slicing digital data: methodological challenges in computational social science
Small changes in individual actions can have large effects at the aggregate level; this opens…