Nikita Melnikov, profesor asistente de Econom铆a en NOVA School of Business and Economics en Lisboa, visit贸 el NCID para impartir un seminario titulado "Mobile Internet and Political Polarization"
...Nikita Melnikov, profesor asistente de Econom铆a en NOVA School of Business and Economics en Lisboa, visit贸 el NCID para impartir un seminario titulado "Mobile Internet and Political Polarization". Melnikov explic贸 que su investigaci贸n trata de estudiar como ha afectado Internet y las redes sociales a la polarizaci贸n pol铆tica en Estados Unidos. Analiza c贸mo la expansi贸n del 3G, que permiti贸 a los usuarios navegar libremente por la red desde sus tel茅fonos inteligentes, afect贸 a las opiniones ideol贸gicas y ...
Mirko Draca, professor at Warwick University, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled 鈥The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of U.S. Campaign Contributions.鈥 Draca explained that his research tries to study whether politicians in the U.S. can use social media, specifically Twitter, as a viable tool for raising campaign donations. According to the professor, he runs this kind of simple regression with daily campaign contributions on the left-hand side of the regression and then the daily likes on Twitter on the right-hand side: 鈥淭...