Political ads aim to steer your emotions. Here’s how they do that
November 5, 2018
The experts are: Shawn Parry-Giles, director of the Mark and Heather Rosenker Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland; and Ted Brader, a political science professor at the University of Michigan and the author of “Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political…
Teach-out to encourage common ground in turbulent times
November 2, 2018
Those in the United States who disagree strongly on many issues at least can agree that this is an extremely divided nation.¶¶That’s a start, says Arthur Lupia, the Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science, professor of political science, and research professor at the Center for Political Studies.¶¶He says…
What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?
November 2, 2018
Walter Mebane, a professor of political science and statistics at the University of Michigan and co-author of a 2017 guide to election forensics for the U.S. Agency for International Development, urges caution when attributing election anomalies to possible fraud. “The problem is that many of the patterns that look irregular…
Walter Mebane is quoted in Scientific American
October 30, 2018
SRC Researchers at BigSurv18
October 26, 2018
SRC researchers at the BigSurv18: Big Data Meets Survey Science conference, October 25-27, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.Friday, October 2611:30-1:00, Zeina Mneimneh (presenting author), Colleen McClain, Lisa Singh, Trivellore Raghunathan, Evaluating Survey Consent to Social Media Linkage2:15-3:45, Michael Elliott (presenting author), Ali Rafei, Carol Flannagan, Calibrating Big Data for Population Inference:…
Valentino comments on the change in atmosphere surrounding election polls since 2016
October 24, 2018
Angry Americans will be more likely to vote, and Democrats are generally more angry about their hot-button issues than Republicans, according to the Reuters/Ipsos data. That is a change from two years ago, when Republicans and Democrats were equally furious, said Nicholas Valentino, a voter behavior expert at the University…
Christian Sandvig named H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor in Digital Media
September 26, 2018
Christian Sandvig was named the H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor in Digital Media by the University of Michigan Board of Regents. This is a newly-created professorship, which honors H. Marshall McLuhan, who is best known for the theorization of digital media. Congratulations, Christian!
Pasek: Vilification of news media widens US political divide
September 14, 2018
A September 2018 survey of likely Michigan voters found that about 30% of all polled and about 66% of “strong Republicans” agreed that the media represents an “enemy of the people.” Although Americans have always been cynical about news reporting that doesn’t align with their own beliefs, says ISR’s Josh…
Yuen Yuen Ang awarded the 2018 Zelizer Best Book Award in Economic Sociology
September 12, 2018
Yuen Yuen Ang was awarded the 2018 Zelizer Best Book Award in Economic Sociology by the American Sociological Association for her book How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. The book “truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many…
Brian Weeks receives award for Best Information Technology and Politics Article
September 12, 2018
Brian Weeks, along with Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu, received the award for Best Information Technology and Politics Article at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting. Their article “Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics” was published in…