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Researchers Follow the Money to Illuminate US House Candidates’ Ideological Movement

03/19/2025

A new social-media study co-authered by UMSI PhD candidate Megan A. Brown finds safe incumbents move from primary extremes to general-election center when facing well-funded primary challenger

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UMSI Research Roundup. Toxicity on Social Media. Affirmative Action. Collective Memory. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Toxicity on Social Media | Affirmative Action | Collective Memory: UMSI Research Roundup

02/24/2025

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

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UMSI Research Roundup. 10th International Conference on Computational Social Sciences (2024). Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

UMSI at IC2S2 2024: Posters, Talks and Panels

07/17/2024

UMSI research at the IC2S2 2024 conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 17-20.

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Where do Nextdoor communities exist—and what do they talk about?

05/30/2024

A new study by UMSI doctoral student Megan Brown provides new data about Nextdoor, America's most popular hyperlocal platform.

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UMSI Research Roundup. Doc on the Tok. Getting Cozy with Causality. Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students.

Doc on the Tok | Getting Cozy with Causality: UMSI Research Roundup

05/28/2024

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

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Quoted by The New York Times. Doctoral Student Megan Brown. How bad is antisemitism online? It's increasingly hard to know.

Brown: Lack of data making it difficult to assess the impact of social media platforms on society

11/22/2023

UMSI doctoral student Megan Brown discusses the difficulties of analyzing online hate speech as social media platforms limit access to their data.

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