[Poscgrad] Fwd: SPP Speaker

[Adam Hobbs]

Hello everyone!

I hope your Spring Break is going well. On *Monday, April 1st* the School
of Public Policy will be hosting a research seminar with Andrew Guess, who
is an Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton
University. Please see the email below for more information.

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From: Adam Hobbs <adam.hobbs at email.ucr.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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UCR School of Public Policy

Research Seminar
Effects of Political Recommendations on Instagram



Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Location: INTN 4023

2:00 PM- 3:30 PM



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Speaker

Andrew Guess

Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Politics

Director, Princeton Survey Research Center


Most people are not highly interested in politics and, as such, many do not
specifically seek out political news. Yet they may encounter such
information incidentally on social media platforms, where posts about
politics may still appear in users' feeds as a result of algorithmic
recommendations. We study the role of algorithmic recommendations of
political content at a time when prominent platforms have sought to pull
back from politics. To do so, we take advantage of a policy shift: In
spring 2024, Meta announced that Instagram (along with Threads) would no
longer recommend posts about political or social topics to users from
accounts they do not already follow. In online field experiments in the
U.S. and Germany, we randomly assign Instagram users to opt back in to
political recommendations and observe in follow-up surveys whether our
participants record changes in political knowledge, emotional experiences
with politics, and overall satisfaction with the platform. Our study,
spanning several weeks during unusually eventful periods in both countries'
politics, sheds light on how algorithmic choices shape citizens'
perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes about election campaigns.
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