Kevin
Munger
Expertise:
- Politics & Policy
Focus Areas:
- American Politics
- Elections
- Politics
- Voting Behavior
In The Media:
About
- Specializes in generational politics, social media and politics, and the economics of online media.
- Author of “Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture,” which examines Boomer ballast as a major force in American politics and culture through the 2030s and its tension with epochal shifts in information technology.
Kevin Munger is the Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor of Political Science and assistant professor of political science and social data analytics. His research looks at social media and other contemporary internet technology that has changed political communication. Munger has published research on the subject using a variety of methodologies, including textual analysis, field experiments, longitudinal surveys, and qualitative theory.
Munger’s research has appeared in leading journals like the American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Political Science Research & Methods. His present interests include cohort conflict in American politics and developing new methods for social science in a rapidly changing world.
In The Media
YouTube is awash with election misinformation — and it isn’t taking it down
from Vox November 6, 2020
Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People
from Wired October 23, 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Palo Alto Consensus
from New York Times July 10, 2019