“What Drives Politicians’ Online Popularity? An Analysis of the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections”, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19331681.2012.758072#
Do People “Like” Politicians on Facebook? Not really. Large-Scale Direct Candidate-to-Voter Online Communication as an Outlier Phenomenon
“Do People “Like” Politicians on Facebook? Not really. Large-Scale Direct Candidate-to-Voter Online Communication as an Outlier Phenomenon”,http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1717
Follow the leader! Direct and indirect flows of political communication during the 2013 Italian general election campaign
“Follow the leader! Direct and indirect flows of political communication during the 2013 Italian general election campaign”, http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/06/27/1461444813511038
No! Formal Theory, Causal Inference, and Big Data Are Not Contradictory Trends in Political Science
Monroe, Burt, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts, Maya Sen, and Betsy Sinclair. 2015. “No! Formal Theory, Causal Inference, and Big Data Are Not Contradictory Trends in Political Science.” PS: Political Science and Politics. 48, no 1 pg 71-41. Copy here.
Computer assisted text analysis for comparative politics
Lucas, C., Nielsen, R., Roberts, M., Stewart, B., Storer, A., & Tingley, D. (2013). “Computer assisted text analysis for comparative politics.” Working paper. Copy here.
The Structural Topic Model and Applied Social Science
Roberts Margaret E, Stewart Brandon M, Tingley Dustin, Airoldi Edo M. “The Structural Topic Model and Applied Social Science.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Topic Models: Computation, Application, and Evaluation. 2013. Copy here Peer-Reviewed Conference Workshop. Selected for Oral Presentation
Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship: Randomized Experimentation and Participant Observation
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts. “How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression.” American Political Science Review (2013). copy at http://j.mp/LdVXqN [press about the paper in the WSJ and in the Economist]
The Wealth of (Occupation) Networks? Communication Patterns and Information Distribution in a Twitter Protest Network
Theocharis, Y. (2013) The Wealth of (Occupation) Networks? Communication Patterns and Information Distribution in a Twitter Protest Network. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19331681.2012.701106#)