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