Thursday, May 23

8am – at Facebook – BRING A GOV ID

575 7th Street NW

Solomon Messing (twitter: @SolomonMg)

Solomon’s personal website is here. Quick snippet: “Research on how discourse, social information, algorithms affect behavior, especially in political domain. Methodological interests at the intersection of causal inference and machine learning in both the social sciences and in medicine. Current Research Scientist at Facebook, past founding Director at Pew Research Center’s Data Labs.”

And Solomon’s research page through Facebook: here.

Here is Solomon’s post recent publication (5/9!!)

10am – at Pew Research Center

Jeff Gottfried

Bio from Pew: Jeffrey Gottfried is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center, where he focuses on U.S. public opinion about journalism and the news media. He is an author of a number of studies, including about political polarization and media habitsnews and social mediaMillennials and newspolitical news satire and journalism and elections. Prior to joining the Center, Gottfried was the Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. He received his Ph.D. in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where his graduate work focused on the role of election campaign communication on voters’ political attitudes and behaviors. Gottfried regularly discusses findings with the media, and presents his research at conferences and to professional groups.

About Pew Research Center on the whole.

Afternoon: Group Presentations Round 1

Money/Power Groups