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Courses - Spring 2025
GVPT
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Open Seats as of
12/21/2024 at 10:30 PM
GVPT429T
Problems in Political Behavior; Social Media Politics
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: GVPT201. Restriction: Must be in Government & Politics program.

This seminar presents students with an integrated view of media politics, combining political psychology, computational social science, and network analysis. The goal is to provide students with the technical know-how to work with social media data and the knowledge to interpret relevant information. In this seminar, students will learn to process social media data, program survey experiments, and identify political narratives in a multiplatform environment. The seminar will introduce students to the computational techniques required for big social media data analyses.