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
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