Bruce Desmarais
@brucedesmarais.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State
Our team just published the Digitally Accountable Public Representation (DAPR) Data: an archive of social posts by U.S. elected officials. It includes 1. Data from 28,000+ U.S. elected officials 2. Text from 5.7M tweets & 450k Facebook posts 3. 2020–2024 coverage 4.
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We are very excited to have this out!
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I had the fortune to help organize, speak at, and participate in, the second Open Scholarship Bootcamp at Penn State. The sessions emphasize resources that are helpful to maintaining open scientific workflows. Materials are openly available here!
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1/ 📢 New in Journal of Information Technology & Politics (OA): What if the biggest barrier to political participation isn’t apathy or ideology— but poor website design? We used eye-tracking to study how parties’ websites widen the digital divide.
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Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement
Over the last two decades political parties and candidates have shifted many of their functions and activities online. As individuals differ greatly in their technological competence, this shift ge...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19331681.2025.2534464
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I’m thrilled to share new work out in Social Networks! In this project, randomly allocating students to teams permitted identifying causal effects of co-membership. Thanks to Sarah Gordon, Wayne Baker, Jose Uribe, and Cassandra Chambers for bringing me on! Ful article: 📄
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