Members

The MDDC is a collaboration among researchers and research centers using digital data to study democracy and politics.

Institutional Members

Institutional members include university-based research centers that study political communication.

• Center for Media Engagement (CME); University of Texas at Austin
• Center for an Informed Public (CIP); University of Washington
• Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP); George Washington University
• Social Media & Democracy (SMAD) and the Center for Communication & Civic Renewal (CCCR); University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Media Forensics Lab; Clemson University
• Edward R. Murrow College of Communication; Washington State University
• Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP); New York University

Individual Members

Individual members include researchers studying political communication that are not affiliated with an aformentioned institutional member.

• Cody Buntain, University of Maryland
• Bin Chen, The University of Hong Kong
• Ross Dahlke, Stanford University
• Sang Jung Kim, Uniersity of Iowa
• Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Boston University
• Maggie Macdonald, University of Kentucky
• Meredith Pruden, Kennesaw State University
• Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University
• Jiyoun Suk, University of Connecticut
• Yunkang Yang, Texas A&M
• Yini Zhang, University of Buffalo

Executive Board

• Josephine “Jo” Lukito, CME (Director)
• Kaiya Soorholtz, CME (Head Data Engineer)
• Yunkang Yang, Texas A&M
• Ross Dahlke, Stanford (Social Media Coordinator)
• Megan A. Brown, University of Michigan
• Jason Greenfield, CSMaP
• Wei Zhong, CSMaP
• Porsmita Borah, Washington State University
• Yini Zhang, University of Buffalo
• Jiyoun Suk, University of Connecticut
• Meredith Pruden, Kennesaw State University

External Collaborators

In addition to our membership, MDDC also works with external collaborators, which include non-profit organizations, industry researchers, and archivists.

• Pushshift
• Q Origins
• Algorithmic Transparenct Institute