Kevin Munger is Assistant Professor and holds the Chair of Computational Social Science in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, in Florence. Kevin uses computational and experimental methods to study the implications of the internet and social media for the communication of political information. His work has been published in venues like Nature, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Communication. He is the author of two books: Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, and, The YouTube Apparatus, recently published with Cambridge University Press. In 2021, he co-founded the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, of which he is currently co-editor. His current interests include TikTok, the philosophy of social science, Twitch, and American Pragmatism applied to the theory and practice of digital democracy.
Kevin Munger is Assistant Professor and holds the Chair of Computational Social Science in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, in Florence. Kevin uses computational and experimental methods to study the implications of the internet and social media for the communication of political information. His work has been published in venues like Nature, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Communication. He is the author of two books: Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, and, The YouTube Apparatus, recently published with…