#599 Joshua Tucker: Social Media, Politics, Echo Chambers, and Organizing Political Action Online
RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 30th 2021.
Dr. Joshua Tucker is a Professor of Politics, an affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, and an affiliated Professor of Data Science at New York University. He is the Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, a co-director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP) and the Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab, and a co-editor of the award-winning politics and policy blog The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post. For most of his career, he studied comparative politics with an emphasis on mass politics, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public opinion formation, and political protest, as well as how social media usage affects all of these types of political behavior. More recently, he has been spending a lot of time working on studying the relationship between social media, politics, and political participation.
In this episode, we talk about social media and politics. Topics include: setting political agendas on social media; when celebrities post about politics; echo chambers; political polarization; and organizing political action online.
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Intro
Is social media used by politicians to set political agendas?
When celebrities post about politics
Eco chambers
Political polarization
Organizing political action online
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Twitter handle: @j_a_tucker