Megan A. Brown
I am a PhD student at the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
My research is centered on the online information ecosystem.
I study political bias in algorithmic systems, the effect of platform governance and moderation
policies on the spread of political content, and research infrastructure to support computational
social science. Formerly, I was Sr. Research Engineer at the
Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University where I collected and maintained
large-scale collections of social media and digital trace data for
social science research. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Politics with a minor in Middle East & Islamic Studies
from New York University in 2019.
Email: mgnbrown [at] umich.edu
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Journal Articles
- *Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Sarah Graham, Minjoo Kim, Joshua A. Tucker, Solomon Messing. 2024.
"Digital town square? Nextdoor's offline contexts and online discourse"
Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Quantitative Description: Digtial Media.
- Josephine Lukito, Jason Greenfield, Yunkang Yang, Ross Dalhke, Megan A. Brown, Rebecca Lewis, Bin Chen. 2024.
"Audio-As-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing"
Conditionally Accepted at Media and Communication.
- Fuqing Wu, Amy Xiao,
Jianbo Zhang, Katya Moniz, Noriko Endo, Federica Armas, Richard Bonneau,
Megan A. Brown,
Mary Bushman, Peter R. Chai, Claire Duvallet, Timothy B. Erickson, Katelyn
Foppe, Newsha Ghaeli, Xiaoqiong Gu, William P. Hanage, Katherine H. Huang,
Wei Lin Lee, Mariana Matus, Kyle A. McElroy, Jonathan Nagler, Steven F.
Rhode, Mauricio Santillana, Joshua A. Tucker, Stefan Wuertz, Shijie Zhao,
Janelle Thompson, Eric J. Alm. 2022.
"
SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases
" Science of the Total Environment
Conference Proceedings
Under Review
- Maggie Macdonald, Megan A. Brown, Nejla Asimovic, Rajeshwari Majumdar, Lena Song, Laura Huber, Sarah Graham, Abby Budiman, Joshua A. Tucker, Jonathan Nagler.
"Reaching Across the Political Aisle: Overcoming Challenges in Using Social Media for Recruiting Politically Diverse Respondents"
- *Josephine Lukito, Meredith Pruden, Martin Reidl, Megan A. Brown.
"Creating an ethics of care for early career researchers"
Working Papers
- *Megan A. Brown, Solomon Messing, Zeve Sanderson, Andrew Gruen, Gabe Maldoff, and Michael Zimmer.
"When is Scraping Legitimate? Ethical, Legal, Administrative, and Technical Considerations"
- *Megan A. Brown, Zhanna Terechshenko, Joshua A. Tucker, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau.
"Using Language Embeddings with Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique"
- Zhanna Terechshenko, Kevin Aslett, Cody Buntain, Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Joshua A. Tucker, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler.
"Checking the Checkers: How Ideology and Source Credibility is Related to Third-Party Fact-Checking on Facebook"
- *Megan A. Brown, Tiago Ventura, Joshua A. Tucker, Jonathan Nagler.
"The effects of offline partisan segregation on online behavior on Twitter"
- Hannah Waight, Megan A. Brown, Felicia Loecherbach, Zeve Sanderson, Joshua A. Tucker, Jonathan Nagler.
"Right Wing Media Radicalization and Gendered Online Harassment"
- *Hannah Waight, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Jason Greenfield, Anton Shirikov, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker, and Sol Messing.
"Quantifying Information Diffusion across Languages at Scale"
- Ross Dahlke, Rebecca Lewis, Jason Greenfield, Josephine Lukito, Megan A. Brown, Bin Chen, Yunkang Yang.
"The secret sauce of the right-wing media economy: A multimodal case study of Alex Jones"
Media Coverage