There are two distinct components to this research: understanding information that ‘sticks’ with the public , and an examination of how news coverage and Twitter commentary affect citizens’ impressions of the candidates.
In the analysis of elite behavior, researchers focus on the news content in the mainstream media for two weeks leading up to specific campaign events as well as two weeks after. They examine the construction of the news through journalists’ interactions with each other, prior to, during and after important campaign events through Twitter, the platform journalists now see as an essential part of their job. What survey respondents heard about Trump, by sex This figure highlights the changing topics that Ameri
The Social Science and Social Media Collaborative is funded by the Michigan Institute for Data Science , National Science Foundation grants #1934925 and #1934494, and the McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute .