Research in Digital Democracy

Digital democracy refers to social activity that is organized democratically at a group, institutional, or societal level, and that takes place within or is augmented by digital technology. This is a project-based research seminar designed to teach students methods for studying digital democracy, as well as collaborating in a group, the organization of a research project, and academic writing. The first few weeks of the course will be an overview of digital democracy research and its methods, as well as a time for students to organize into a group research project, The remainder of the class (about 7 weeks) will be spent performing and writing up the research for a targeted publication venue. Prerequisite: At least one course in empirical methods or statistics.