I am happy to announce the publication of a new book, ‘Reporting Public Opinion: How the Media Turns Boring Polls into Biased News‘, co-authored with Zoltán Fazekas. The book is about how and why opinion polls are more likely to be about change in the news reporting. Specifically, journalists are more likely to pick opinion […]
Tag: social media
A problem with survey data when studying social media
We cannot understand modern politics without studying social media. Politicians as well as ordinary citizens rely on social media to discuss and consume political content. One of the data sources researchers rely on to study behaviour on social media is survey data. However, there can be specific challenges with studying social media. Here, I will […]
“This letter closes the question”
Here is the beginning of an abstract from a recent study published in the American Political Science Review: Larger protests are more likely to lead to policy changes than small ones are, but whether or not attendance estimates provided in news or generated from social media are biased is an open question. This letter closes […]