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by jpasek | Nov 18, 2019

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Josh Pasek

Associate Professor
Communication & Media
Center for Political Studies, Political Science, MIDAS Core Faculty
Ph.D., Stanford University 2011

jpasek@umich.edu


www.joshpasek.com

Josh Pasek is Associate Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science (by courtesy), Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies, and Core Faculty for the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan.  His research explores how new media and psychological processes each shape political attitudes, public opinion, and political behaviors.  Josh also examines issues in the measurement of public opinion including techniques for reducing measurement error and improving population inferences.  Current research explores how both accurate and inaccurate political information might influence public opinion and voter decision-making, evaluates whether the use of online social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter might be changing the political information environment, and assesses the conditions under which nonprobability samples, such as those obtained from big data methods or samples of Internet volunteers can lead to conclusions similar to those of traditional probability samples.  His work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Communication, Communication Research, and the Journal of Communication among other outlets.  He also maintains two R packages for producing survey weights (anesrake) and analyzing weighted survey data (weights).

Projects

Correspondence Between Social Media and Survey Data Trends Over Time

This project examines conditions under which survey data and social media data reveal similar trends …

Automating Analyses of Historical Survey Data on Abortion

This project uses textual analysis methods to identify historical survey data measuring attitudes on abortion …

Publications

Assessing the Carrying Capacity of Twitter and Online News
2015 | S. Mo Jang & Josh Pasek

Social Media Analyses for Social Measurement
2016 | Michael F. Schober, Josh Pasek, Lauren Guggenheim, Cliff Lampe, Frederick G. Conrad

Linking Individual-Level Survey Data to Consumer File Records in The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research
2017 | Josh Pasek

Linking Knowledge Networks Web Panel Data with External Data in The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research
2017 | Josh Pasek

The Stability of Economic Correlations over Time: Identifying Conditions under Which Survey Tracking Polls and Twitter Sentiment Yield Similar Conclusions
2018 | Josh Pasek, H Yanna Yan, Frederick G Conrad, Frank Newport, Stephanie Marken

Why Don’t Tweets Consistently Track Elections? in Digital Discussions How Big Data Informs Political Communication
2018 | Josh Pasek, Jake Dailey

Who’s Tweeting About the President? What Big Survey Data Can Tell Us About Digital Traces?
2019 | Josh Pasek, Colleen A. McClain, Frank Newport, Stephanie Marken

Social media as an alternative to surveys of opinions about the economy
2019 | Frederick G. Conrad, Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch, Robyn A. Ferg, Michael F. Schober, Josh Pasek, Elizabeth Hou

Words that matter: How the news and social media shaped the 2016 Presidential campaign
2020 | Leticia Bode, Ceren Budak, Jonathan M Ladd, Frank Newport, Josh Pasek, Lisa O. Singh, Stuart N. Soroka, and Michael W. Traugott

Expertise:

Social Science Domains

Communication

Political Communication

Political Science

Psychology

Survey Methodology

Methodological Expertise

Constrained Regressions

Imputation

Linking Multiple Databases

Matching

Multilevel Models

Regressions

Programming Expertise

Data Scraping

Package Development

R

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