Research
Recent Publications
- Daniel Kreiss and Bridget Barrett address the trade-offs inherent in policies governing digital political advertising for the Ohio State Technology Law Journal: “Democratic Tradeoffs: Platforms and Digital Political Advertising“
- Alice Marwick discusses the benefits and drawbacks of social media engagement for academics in Television & New Media: “Media Studies and the Pitfalls of Publicity“
- Shannon McGregor digs into how political actors use social media to gauge public opinion in Public Opinion Quarterly: “‘Taking the Temperature of the Room’: How Political Campaigns Use Social Media to Understand and Represent Public Opinion“
Research Topics
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) is an initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dedicated to researching, understanding, and responding to the growing impact of the internet, social media, and other forms of digital information sharing.
- Deen Freelon: political expression through digital media, data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets
- Daniel Kreiss: impact of technological change on the public sphere and political practice
- Alice Marwick: social, political and cultural implications of popular social media technologies
- Zeynep Tufekci: social movements and civics, privacy and surveillance, social interaction, big data, algorithmic decision making
- Gary Marchionini: human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries
- David Ardia: impact of new information technologies on law and society, legal and social effects on government and private intermediaries, role of government and private intermediaries in shaping speech
- Tori Ekstrand: hot news doctrine and its impact in the age of Big Data
CITAP Digital Politics
Platforms and digital media have fundamentally changed electoral politics. Launched in January 2020, citapdigitalpolitics.com offers a set of resources for analyzing how platforms, law, and ethics shape the ways campaigns communicate with voters.
Watch and Learn
Watch these talks by CITAP investigators to learn more about their research and findings.
Long-form Content
For additional books and public reports, go the CITAP People page and link to each faculty member’s homepage.
