Center for Information Networks and Democracy
Committed to excellence in research on the benefits and risks that information networks have for democracy.
Mission
Led by Sandra González-Bailón and Yphtach Lelkes, CIND brings together researchers developing creative, evidence-driven work at the intersection of political communication and computational social science. We aim to advance our understanding of information networks and their impact on democracy.
Research Areas
Algorithmic Curation
Collective Action
Digital Inequalities
Political Segregation
Information Ecosystems
Political Engagement
News
Political Communication Scholar Yphtach Lelkes Promoted to Full Professor
Lelkes’s work spans political communication, public opinion, and polarization, often using large-scale computational data and experiments to understand citizens’ political attitudes.
