Works in Progress
Communications - Political Behaviour: (Social) Media, Participation, and Deliberation
(submitted, under final review) Samantha Bradshaw and I are providing a first look into the self perceptions of the prominent online actors of the Canadian Trucker Convoy movement. Using manual content analysis of original Facebook data (posts, images, and livestreams), we assess the themes emerging in tandem with collective action mobilization occurring from late January of 2022 to end of February 2022. *Presented at the Canadian Politics Panel during APSA in Philly, PA (September 2024).
(in progress) Diana Mutz and I are working on an update to Hearing the Other Side. We are providing a historical comparison between media today and media of two decades ago on their extent of cross-cutting exposure. We will also dive into specific social media analyses to compare between platforms as well as to better understand where social media’s advantage for cross-cutting exposure is coming from. *Presenting at the Political Communications Panel during MPSA in Chicago, IL (April 2025).
(in progress) Collaborative and comparative politics work for the Global Social Media Study (institutional sponsor: NYU) exploring the effects of a social media deactivation experiment on a range of political behaviour and attitudinal outcomes.
Deliberative Democracy and Innovation: Bridging and Political Efficacy from Community based Dialogue and Civic Engagement
(in progress) Conducted some preliminary field work and fielded some pilot surveys for my political opinion and behaviour class, I am currently thinking through reconceptualizing our understandings of empathy (the potential for it and its limits) and how it relates to political outcomes of deliberation and everyday conversation. *Presenting at APSA in Vancouver, Canada (September 2025).
(ongoing?) Currently, thinking through the capacity for local and community engagement in third spaces as a bridging mechanism across difference. Can community based activities or community oriented dialogue facilitate civic skills that can build respectful mutuality across difference? And to what extent do these type of social spaces and consequent networks change individual’s political efficacy and their political participation? More broadly, does community civic engagement shape their broader perceptions / values of democracy?
*To see abstracts of older work during my undergrad and Masters, visit here.