About Me
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Welcome!
My name is Denis Stukal. I am a PhD Candidate at the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University and a Graduate Research Associate of the NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Lab. My research interests lie in Political Methodology and Comparative Politics. My substantive research focuses on Authoritarian Politics and, specifically, the role of misinformation in competitive non-democratic regimes (especially, in Russia). One of my projects employs different methods of text analysis to uncover strategies that Russian decoy parties use to mimic opposition and deceive voters. In another project, co-authored with Sergey Sanovich, Josh Tucker and Rich Bonneau, we use supervised machine learning tools to detect bots on Russian political Twitter and reverse-engineer their use to spread political (mis)information online. Yet another project, co-authored with Arturas Rozenas, analyzes how the Russian state-controlled television (mis)informs citizens about the economic performance of the regime. I also develop software that facilitates research on the political use of social media. |
Contact:
Department of Politics
New York Univeristy
19 W. 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10012
Email: denis[dot]stukal[at]nyu[dot]edu
Department of Politics
New York Univeristy
19 W. 4th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10012
Email: denis[dot]stukal[at]nyu[dot]edu
