Digital Discussions: How Big Data Informs Political Communication

Big data in political communication / Natalie Jomini Stroud & Shannon Mcgregor -- Normalizing digital trace data / Andreas Jungherr -- Everything old is new again: big data and methodological transparency / Leticia Bode -- Ignorance or uncertainty: how the "black box" dilemma in big data research may "misinform" political communication / Lei Guo -- Why don't tweets consistently track elections? lessons from linking twitter and survey data streams / Josh Pasek and Jake Dailey -- Inferring individual-level characteristics from digital trace data: issues and recommendations / Deen Freelon -- The technical, the personal, and the political: understanding journalists and news users' engagement in the New York Times comments section / Ashley muddiman -- Is Yik Yak a platform for political communication? exploring college students: communication on an emergent social media platform / Chris Vargo and Toby Hopp -- Data-driven campaigning / Jesse Baldwin-Philippi -- "Little Marco," "lyin' Ted," "crooked Hillary," and the "biased" media: how Trump used Twitter to attack and organize / Ayellet Pelled, Josephine Lukito, Fred Boehm, Janghwan Yang, and Dhavan Shah