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The Political Effects of Social Media
Sat, October 2, 10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT), TBASession Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel
Session Description
This paper measures a variety of effects of social media use, from protest participation and civic engagement to institutional trust. The effects of social media writ large, as well as by individual platform (eg. Tiktok, Twitter) are investigated.
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Individual Presentations
Platforms for Politics: A Comparison of Six Social Media Platforms - Shelley Boulianne, MacEwan University; Christian Pieter Hoffmann, University of Leipzig
Digital Activism, Social Networks, and Protest Participation - Samuel Bestvater, Pew Research Center
The Effect of Internet Access on Political Knowledge - Mona S. Kleinberg, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Who Was Microtargeted in the 2020 Presidential Elections? - Rohan Grover, University of Southern California