The Department of Educational Psychology
Research Presentation Announcement
“Scaling and Clustering in Affiliation Networks: An Application to Understanding the Consumption of Political News”
Dr. Doug Steinley
Professor, Psychological Science
University of Missouri
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
11:30 – 1:00
242 Education Building
A novel method of cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling is presented to analyze affiliation networks. In this particular example, individuals consumption of information from a variety of political news outlets (CNN, FOX, MSNBC, New York Times, etc.) is considered. Individual attributes are related to outlet properties to understand consumption as a function of political ideology.
For more information, please go to https://education.illinois.edu/docs/default-source/edpsy-documents/steinley-9-30-15-talk-announcement.pdf?status=Temp&sfvrsn=0.6855261821765453.
