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Political Contagions
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Davis, Kyle
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Year and Degree
2019, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Political Science.
Abstract
This thesis explores the comparison between political misinformation and biological infections. The current thesis addresses problems in political science and communications involving measurements of political ecacy and reverse causality with misinformation studies. The thesis ends by suggesting a new way forward, by borrowing methodologies developed in epidemiology to best address reoccurring issues of misinformation in American public opinion. Doing so will allow readers to better categorize knowledge, forecast real-world phenomena, and recognize the dangerous structure and composition that exists with misinformation.
Committee
William Minozzi (Advisor)
Michael Neblo (Committee Member)
Pages
40 p.
Subject Headings
Political Science
Keywords
Political Communication
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Misinformation
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Disinformation
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Political Talk
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Fake News
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Political Efficacy
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Public Opinion
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Stochastic Contageion Analysis
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Davis, K. (2019).
Political Contagions
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556800994083268
APA Style (7th edition)
Davis, Kyle.
Political Contagions.
2019. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556800994083268.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Davis, Kyle. "Political Contagions." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556800994083268
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Political Contagions by Kyle Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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