Joshua Tucker

Joshua A. Tucker (@j_a_tucker) is professor of politics at New York University, director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, and a co-director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics. His research focuses on mass political behavior, post-communist politics, computational social science, and the intersection of social media and politics. He is a co-chair for the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study, and co-editor of Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field (Cambridge University Press, 2020).


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