Media Cloud

The Public Discourse in the U.S. 2020 Election Project is seeking a summer intern to join a team of researchers led by Harvard Law School Professor Yochai Benkler working on studying digital media ecosystems and political discourse related to the U.S. 2020 elections. Intern tasks will include researching, coding data, analyzing data, writing analyses of news stories, and assisting with the publishing of research reports about the 2020 presidential election. Applicants should have excellent research and writing skills and a demonstrated interest in working on issues related to political communication, digital media studies, misinformation, or hate-speech. This research project builds upon prior research carried out by researchers at the Berkman Klein Center focused on the study of political discourse and draws upon the approaches and methods developed in a study of the 2016 election, which resulted in a 2017 report, “Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election” and a 2018 book, “Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics.” The primary engine for analysis is the Media Cloud project, which was created to track and understand online media ecosystems.