Megan A. Brown

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Megan A. Brown

Megan A. Brown

@m_dot_brown

PhD Student @umsi & @UM_MICDE | BA @nyuniversity | formerly engineering @CSMaP_NYU | she/her/hers 🏳️‍🌈

Ann Arbor, MI Beigetreten Haziran 2014
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Megan A. Brown
Megan A. Brown@m_dot_brown·
Thrilled to have a new article published in @BigDataSoc! 🥳🎉📊 With scraping becoming a more common data collection strategy for internet researchers, we cover the legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific ramifications researchers should consider. doi.org/10.1177/205395…
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Ross Dahlke 🔑
Ross Dahlke 🔑@Ross_Dahlke·
✨ New work with wonderful coauthors @JosephineLukito @MG_Macdonald @bin_chen19 @m_dot_brown @stprochas @yangyunkang @j___greenfield @jiyoun_suk @rociozhong @borah
Elections Research Center@ElectionsCenter

How do congressional candidates tailor messages across platforms? Research by ERC affiliate @Ross_Dahlke and coauthors finds mobilization strategies vary by platform, not just party, but that only Republicans used alt-tech like Truth Social. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/205630…

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Rachel Porter
Rachel Porter@rachel__porter·
📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JI… 🧵1/4
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Patrick Y. Wu
Patrick Y. Wu@PatrickYWu·
Can large language models (LLMs) fairly annotate data on contentious topics? Our new paper dives into this question—looking at whether LLM-generated labels reflect diverse viewpoints or skew toward majority perspectives. The results are surprisingly nuanced. 🧵
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Sol Messing
Sol Messing@SolomonMg·
🧵 NEW PAPER - "Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages" is live at SMR. We combine NLP w pairwise LLM evals to track ideas across media ecosystems and languages. We also figured out a way to eval unsupervised probs on widely understood supervised performance metrics.
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Kevin Yang
Kevin Yang@yang3kc·
[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we entered what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality. 1/2
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Dr. Maggie Macdonald
Dr. Maggie Macdonald@MG_Macdonald·
So excited to finally see this out! It was the first paper I started during my postdoc at @CSMaP_NYU
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics@CSMAP_NYU

It's well known that politicians take more extreme positions during primaries. In @ElectoralStdies, we find this shift is much more likely when incumbents in safe seats face a well-funded primary challenger. 🧵👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kn5KxRaZnrh9

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Ross Dahlke 🔑
Ross Dahlke 🔑@Ross_Dahlke·
Very happy to say that I passed my PhD dissertation defense, "The Public Sphere in Private Spaces: Politics, News, and Misinformation in Personal Messaging Applications." Grateful for my advisor, committee, and everyone at Stanford #PhDone
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Rajeshwari Majumdar
Rajeshwari Majumdar@RMajumdar_·
Delighted to see this in print, six Septembers after I scribbled down an idea for a term paper, five Septembers after it tumbled out of the nest as a 2nd year paper! Read on if you’re interested in motivated reasoning, opinion backlash, BJP partisan identity, demonetization.
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Political Behavior@PolBehavior

Read @RMajumdar_’s “Partisan Identity, Counter-Attitudinal Information, and Selective Criticism in India”. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Hadas Weiss
Hadas Weiss@weiss_hadas·
ever since i was a little girl i wanted to fill a gap in the literature
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Jo(sephine) Lukito
Jo(sephine) Lukito@JosephineLukito·
💯 Relatedly, @transparenttech and @GWIDDP has an ongoing survey & audit to understand (1) data access loss and (2) whether the DSA provides sufficient data to researchers. We're still fielding survey responses! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8q… For more info: independenttechresearch.org/introducing-th…
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Steve Rathje@steverathje2

In a new correspondence in @Nature, I argue that regulations should mandate data access for social media researchers: nature.com/articles/d4158…

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Megan A. Brown@m_dot_brown·
@jiyoun_suk @nycgov What a horrible experience, I'm so sorry this happened to you. Sending my thoughts your way ❤️
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Jiyoun Suk, Ph.D. (jiyoun-suk.bsky.social)@jiyoun_suk·
1/x Never thought I’d share this kind of story. Was at @nycgov for a family gathering and on the NYC subway, I was *physically* and *verbally* attacked by a woman who punched my side with her fist and yelled at me, saying ching chong, dumbass, f*ck,
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Rachel Porter
Rachel Porter@rachel__porter·
🚨 Timely paper alert 🚨 Want to learn more about the political impacts of small-dollar donors in (congressional) elections? Check out our new working paper (with @MG_Macdonald and @m_dot_brown) and stay tuned for more on this project at APSA rachelporter.org/files/SmallDol…
ActBlue@actblue

UPDATE: As of 9pm ET, grassroots supporters have raised $46.7 million through ActBlue following Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launch. This has been the biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle. Small-dollar donors are fired up and ready to take on this election 🔥

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Megan A. Brown@m_dot_brown·
It was a treat to participate in a panel on research infrastructure and our ongoing work on the impact of data access on research at #ICA24 🐨🦘🇦🇺
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Rajeshwari Majumdar
Rajeshwari Majumdar@RMajumdar_·
Very happy to have defended my dissertation last week! Deeply grateful to my committee for their support throughout and to everyone @NYUpolitics for making the journey so wonderful. Excited to join @YaleMacMillan as a postdoc soon!
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