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Social Media, Elections, and Gender with Fabio Rojas

Social Media, Elections, and Gender with Fabio Rojas

FromEconomics Detective Radio


Social Media, Elections, and Gender with Fabio Rojas

FromEconomics Detective Radio

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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Jun 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Fabio Rojas returns to the podcast to discuss his work researching social media. He has three main papers on the subject. The first is "More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior," which shows how Twitter activity predicted the outcomes of the 2010 and 2012 US congressional elections. The second is "The social media response to Black Lives Matter: how Twitter users interact with Black Lives Matter through hashtag use" which tracks the spread of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through social media. The third is "Twitter’s Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Perceived Gender on Online Visibility" which shows how Twitter users treat each other differently based on how they perceive each other's gender. We discuss these three papers and more on this episode of Economics Detective Radio.  
Released:
Jun 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Economics Detective Radio is a podcast about markets, ideas, institutions, and all things related to the field of economics. Episodes consist of long-form interviews, and are generally released on Fridays. Topics include economic theory, economic history, the history of thought, money, banking, finance, macroeconomics, public choice, Austrian economics, business cycles, health care, education, international trade, and anything else of interest to economists, students, and serious amateurs interested in the science of human action. For additional content and links related to each episode, visit economicsdetective.com.