[gov3009-l] GOV 3009 (Applied Stats Workshop), 3/22 Carlos Velasco Rivera

Dear Applied Statistics Workshop Community, Our next meeting of the semester will be on March 22 (12:00 EST). Carlos Velasco Rivera will present "On-Platform Experimental Research on Facebook and Instagram in the 2020 Election." <Where> Hybrid: CGIS K354 or Zoom (the presenter will join us via Zoom) Bagged lunches are available for pick-up at 11:40 (CGIS K354). Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99181972207?pwd=Ykd3ZzVZRnZCSDZqNVpCSURCNnVvQT09 <Abstract> We will discuss a groundbreaking collaboration among over two dozen independent (that is, not paid by Meta) academics and a team of Meta researchers. Since early 2020, this group has worked together to evaluate the role of Facebook and Instagram in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The collaboration has, as of now, resulted in over a dozen pre-registered (observational and experimental) designs for academic research papers. In this presentation, we will focus on the experimental interventions that were designed to test the causal impact of Facebook and Instagram on all of the project’s key variables of inquiry: political participation; political polarization; knowledge and misperceptions; and beliefs about democratic norms. The project included multiple experiments, including full deactivation of platform use as well as various changes to the way in which participants encountered information on the platform. <2022-2023 Schedule> GOV 3009 Website: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stats.workshop-gov3009 Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_3v93pav9fjkkldrbu9snbhned8… Best, Shusei