Facebook and Instagram in the 2020 U.S. Election

Join the Cyber Policy Center for Facebook and Instagram in the 2020 U.S. Election, a conversation with Talia Stroud and Joshua Tucker, moderated by Jeff Hancock, co director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Stroud and Tucker will discuss the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study, a first-of-its kind collaboration between academics and Meta. Four papers were recently published from the partnership in Science and Nature, with additional papers in progress. Stroud and Tucker, co-academic leads of the project, will discuss the research to-date and the nature of the project. 

This session is part of the Fall Seminar Series, a series spanning October through December, hosted at the Cyber Policy Center. Sessions are in-person and virtual, via Zoom and live stream on YouTube with in-person attendance offered to Stanford affiliates only. Lunch is provided for in-person attendance and registration is required. This session will take place in Encina Commons, Moghadam Conference Room #119, 615 Crothers Way.

About the Speakers:

Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism and Media, as well as the founding and current Director of the Center for Media Engagement (https://mediaengagement.org/) in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. Stroud’s research received honors including the International Communication Association (ICA)'s Outstanding Book Award for her book Niche News: The Politics of News Choice and the inaugural Public Engagement Award in Journalism Studies from ICA.

Joshua A. Tucker (Ph.D., Department of Government, Harvard University) is Professor of Politics, affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, and affiliated Professor of Data Science at New York University. He is the Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia and co-Founder and co-Director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics (csmapnyu.org), and was a co-editor and co-author of the award-winning politics and policy blog The Monkey Cage. His most recent books are the co-authored Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes (Princeton University Press, 2017), and the co-edited Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field (Cambridge University Press, 2020).