Two New Core Faculty to join CSMaP & NYU
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At CSMaP, Jennifer Allen and Christopher Barrie will serve as core faculty members leading research projects on urgent topics related to digital media and democracy.
NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics works to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
Featured Work
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Our Research
CSMaP publishes rigorous, policy-relevant research in top academic journals.
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Our Team
Drawing from politics, data science, biology, and sociology, we host a diverse community of scholars.
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Our Impact
Our work advances evidence-based public policy and discourse in the digital age.
Strengthening Democracy
Policymakers across the world are reshaping the laws and regulations governing online spaces. But without access to high-quality empirical evidence, legislators risk operating in the dark. That's where we come in.
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Events
The Future of Search Engines in the Age of AI
Experts from academia, journalism, and industry will explore what we know about the influence of search engines on the information landscape, what role AI could play going forward, and what to consider ahead of the 2024 election.
May 15, 2024
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Commentary
People Trust Themselves More Than They Trust the News. They Shouldn’t.
New research finds that Americans’ skepticism about news, which often drives people to use search engines to “do their own research,” could actually make them more misinformed.
March 12, 2024
Work With Us
We’re currently hiring across a number of positions. We’re always looking for people to join our talent pool, too.
A Commitment to Open Science
As part of our project to construct comprehensive data sets and to empirically test hypotheses related to social media and politics, we have developed a suite of open-source tools and modeling processes.
Explore and download our data collection and analysis tools.