|
|
Overview of current research projects
1) In my solo authored project titled "Social Capital, Platform Power, and the Private Authority of Big Tech Firms: Theorizing The Micro-Foundations of Platform Power Among Social Networking Sites," I theorize the dynamics of power and influence within contemporary social networking platforms, focusing on how social capital and network structures shape private authority.
2) Additionally, in collaboration with Tyler Girard, Logan Strother, and John Bennet, the project "Are Universal Human Rights Really Universal? Measuring Cross-National Public Perceptions of Human Rights" aims to discern the global consensus on the universality of human rights, using sophisticated methodologies such as a Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey scaling approach to inductively assess citizen perceptions of national support for human rights across a globally representative set of countries text analysis to identify systematic cross-national differences in citizens’ understanding of human right and a series of vignette experiments to test whether cognitive biases related to race shape the evaluation of potential human rights violations.
3) Together with Sky Kunkel, "What’s in a Name? Implications of Overusing ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’" delves into the implications of terminology usage, particularly focusing on the term "Sub-Saharan Africa," aiming to elucidate the nuanced impact it carries in academic and public discourse.
4) Finally, through experimental research with Tara Grillos, Janel Jett, and Erin Henners, "Disentangling Partisan Distrust" investigates the impact of polarization on trust within society, proposing a novel theoretical contribution to the concept of trust.
1) In my solo authored project titled "Social Capital, Platform Power, and the Private Authority of Big Tech Firms: Theorizing The Micro-Foundations of Platform Power Among Social Networking Sites," I theorize the dynamics of power and influence within contemporary social networking platforms, focusing on how social capital and network structures shape private authority.
2) Additionally, in collaboration with Tyler Girard, Logan Strother, and John Bennet, the project "Are Universal Human Rights Really Universal? Measuring Cross-National Public Perceptions of Human Rights" aims to discern the global consensus on the universality of human rights, using sophisticated methodologies such as a Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey scaling approach to inductively assess citizen perceptions of national support for human rights across a globally representative set of countries text analysis to identify systematic cross-national differences in citizens’ understanding of human right and a series of vignette experiments to test whether cognitive biases related to race shape the evaluation of potential human rights violations.
3) Together with Sky Kunkel, "What’s in a Name? Implications of Overusing ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’" delves into the implications of terminology usage, particularly focusing on the term "Sub-Saharan Africa," aiming to elucidate the nuanced impact it carries in academic and public discourse.
4) Finally, through experimental research with Tara Grillos, Janel Jett, and Erin Henners, "Disentangling Partisan Distrust" investigates the impact of polarization on trust within society, proposing a novel theoretical contribution to the concept of trust.
