Social Media and Politics

• Digitally Organizing People Power: Inside Solidarity Tech, with Ivan Pardo

  Ivan Pardo, Founder of Solidarity Tech, shares how tech can solve organizing bottlenecks for political campaigns. We discuss how Solidarity Tech was used for digital organizing in Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign in New York and Catherine Connelly's presidential win in Ireland. Beyond tech functionality, we discuss how CRM platforms can give campaigns a human touch, how tech integrates with the culture of a campaign, and the potential downsides of gamification for volunteer organizing. You can read more about Solidarity Tech's origins and functionality here. 

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• Temporal Validity, Knowledge Decay, and the Meta 2020 Election Research Partnership, with Dr. Kevin Munger

  Dr. Kevin Munger, Assistant Professor and Chair of Computational Social Science in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, discusses the concept of temporal validity in social media research. Dr. Munger breaks down why thinking about time is an important component of meta-science, particularly when it comes to evaluating the methodologies of social media research. We also discuss the Meta 2020 Election Research partnership, new pathways in social media research, the logic of quantitative description, and the challenges of political communication in the current grant funding and interdisciplinary landscape of political research. Here are the two articles we discuss in the episode: Temporal Validity as Meta-Science (2023)What Did We Learn about Political Communication from the Meta2020 Partnership? (2024)And links to Dr. Munger's latest books:The YouTube Apparatus (2024)The Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture (2022)

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• Crafting Political Storytelling with Qualitative Methods and AI, with Frank A. Spring

  Frank A. Spring, founding partner at Altum Insight and managing partner of Undaunted Ventures, shares how qualitative methods can understand the stories voters tell themselves about politics. Frank discusses his work using AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) and digital ethnography to analyze citizens' understanding of democracy, and how these insights can be used to inform political storytelling. We also discuss generalizability from this type data, the importance of cultural context, and the ethics of stories' relationship to facts.

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• Teaching Political Communication: A Database, Game, and Assignment

  In this episode, I share some initiatives to help in improving the teaching and learning of political communication.Political Communication Teaching Database and the upload page.   Meta Oversight Board Game Counterfactual Case Study

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• Election Forecasting, Prediction Markets, and Gamification, with Prof. Matthew Wall and Dr. Louis Bromfield

  Professor Matthew Wall and Dr. Louis Bromfield, both at the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and International Relations at Swansea University, discuss election forecasting. We cover different types of political forecasting, such as polls and prediction models, and dive into prediction markets like Polymarket. We then discuss the concept of the 'wisdom of the crowd' and what attributes make a good forecaster, before turning to how betting market odds, forecasting platforms, and gamification can be used in research. Resources:Horse Race Politics Podcast on YouTube and SpotifyHorse Race Politics PlatformProfessor Wall's study on the 2007 Irish ElectionsDr. Bromfield's Doctoral Thesis

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