Research Project, Microsoft Research Internship Project
Conducts a large-scale behavioral analysis of political news exposure on mobile phones, showing that most U.S. adults now encounter political content indirectly through social media and messaging apps rather than traditional news outlets.
Research Project, Dissertation Chapter 2
Uses large-scale social media data matched to U.S. voter records to measure demographic segregation in information exposure. Survey experiments show that age- and gender-based divisions are as strong as ideological ones.
Research Project, Dissertation Chapter 1
Analyzes large-scale social media data to measure the concentration of information across users and sources, showing that a small number of outlets and highly active users dominate the online information ecosystem.
Investigates how individuals’ political beliefs shape their trust in information generated by AI systems.