Catie Snow Bailard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1288797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catie Snow Bailard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catie Snow |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailard |
| SIGNATURE | BAILARD C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3135-9473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Keep Your Heads Held High Boys
This study examines the relationship between online communication by the Proud Boys and their offline activities. We use a supervised machine learning model to analyze a novel dataset of Proud Boys Telegram messages, merged with US Crisis Monitor data of violent and nonviolent events in which group members participated over a 31-month period. Our analysis finds that intensifying expressions of grievances online predict participation in offline vi…
Combating Hateful Attitudes and Online Browsing Behavior
This study adds to the analogic perspective-taking literature by examining whether an online perspective-taking intervention affects both antisemitic attitudes and behaviors – in particular, engagement with antisemitic websites. Subjects who were randomly assigned to the treatment viewed a 90-s video of a college student describing an experience with antisemitism and reflected on its similarity to their own experiences. In a survey, treated subje…
Do Local Newspapers Mitigate the Effects of the Polarized National Rhetoric on Covid-19
This analysis tests two distinct predictions regarding local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. A public service view of local newspapers predicts that a robust local newspaper sector would mitigate the politicized national partisan rhetoric surrounding COVID-19; reducing the disparity in social-distancing behaviors between predominantly Republican and predominantly Democratic counties by increasing compliance in …
Information and Communication Technology and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar
Objective In a country as historically conflict ridden as Myanmar, will the reduced communication costs yielded by the recent expansion of mobile telephony create political affordances that make collective organization for peace or violence more likely to prevail? Method Applying a random effects model of time‐series cross‐sectional data, we test the relationship shared by ethnic groups’ increasing access to mobile telephony and their incidence o…
China in Africa
In 2006, Chinese officials revealed an extensive plan to increase the nation’s soft power in Africa through a number of initiatives to increase the presence and relevance of Chinese media in Africa. However, the question remains: Has China been successful in enhancing its soft power via its news media expansion in the African region? Although it is easy to find sweeping proclamations regarding the popularity of Chinese media throughout Africa, th…
Corporate Ownership and News Bias Revisited
The clear financial benefits accrued to owners of television stations as a result of the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) decision opens the door to an important question: Did the degree to which media corporations benefited from the changes in campaign finance law influence their news outlets’ coverage of the Citizens United decision? In other words, is it possible to identify variation in how media outlets covered the Supre…
The Hybrid Media System
In The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power, Andrew Chadwick achieves something remarkable: encapsulating the complexity and fluidity of the emerging, hybridized media system into a succinct and
Ethnic conflict goes mobile
This analysis contributes to the body of research testing the effect of mobile phone availability on the probability of violent conflict by shifting the unit of analysis to that of distinct ethnic groups. This approach provides two important advantages. First, it tests the robustness of this relationship by determining whether this effect maintains when shifted to a more rigorous and theoretically appropriate level of analysis. Second, shifting t…
Democracy's Double-Edged Sword
Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election
We explore the capacity for new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to facilitate crowdsourced elections monitoring. In broad terms, we are interested in digitally enabled collective action initiatives by nonstate actors, especially in places where the state is incapable of meeting the expectations of democratic governance. In the case at hand, we test for effects of crowdsourcing elections monitoring in the form of citizen-generate…
A Field Experiment on the Internet's Effect in an African Election
This study contributes to the research on the Internet's effect on political behavior and organization by examining how the Internet influences the types of evaluations that may motivate individuals to organize politically. This study employs a randomized field experiment to determine whether the Internet influenced individuals' perception of the fairness of the 2010 Tanzanian presidential election. It provides a direct causal test of the Interne…
Testing the Internet's Effect on Democratic Satisfaction
While recent events spotlighted the Internet's capacity to make political organization more efficient once disaffected citizens are moved to action, this article tests another component of the Internet's potential to influence the cost-benefit calculus of political behavior: how the Internet influences the motivation to act or organize in the first place. After introducing two causal mechanisms—the Internet's mirror-holding and window-opening fun…
Mobile Phone Diffusion and Corruption in Africa
The explosion of mobile phones into a region that, until recently, was nearly devoid of telecommunications infrastructure provides a valuable opportunity to explore the potential effects of information and communication technology on various economic and social outcomes. This article focuses specifically on the potential influence that mobile phones will exert on corruption in Africa. Two distinct empirical analyses test the hypothesis that mobil…
Mobile Phone Diffusion and Corruption in Africa
The explosion of mobile phones into a region that, until recently, was nearly devoid of telecommunications infrastructure provides a valuable opportunity to explore the potential effects of information and communication technology on various economic and social outcomes. This article focuses specifically on the potential influence that mobile phones will exert on corruption in Africa. Two distinct empirical analyses test the hypothesis that mobil…
Ethnic conflict goes mobile
This analysis contributes to the body of research testing the effect of mobile phone availability on the probability of violent conflict by shifting the unit of analysis to that of distinct ethnic groups. This approach provides two important advantages. First, it tests the robustness of this relationship by determining whether this effect maintains when shifted to a more rigorous and theoretically appropriate level of analysis. Second, shifting t…
Testing the Internet's Effect on Democratic Satisfaction
While recent events spotlighted the Internet's capacity to make political organization more efficient once disaffected citizens are moved to action, this article tests another component of the Internet's potential to influence the cost-benefit calculus of political behavior: how the Internet influences the motivation to act or organize in the first place. After introducing two causal mechanisms—the Internet's mirror-holding and window-opening fun…
Corporate Ownership and News Bias Revisited
The clear financial benefits accrued to owners of television stations as a result of the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) decision opens the door to an important question: Did the degree to which media corporations benefited from the changes in campaign finance law influence their news outlets’ coverage of the Citizens United decision? In other words, is it possible to identify variation in how media outlets covered the Supre…
China in Africa
In 2006, Chinese officials revealed an extensive plan to increase the nation’s soft power in Africa through a number of initiatives to increase the presence and relevance of Chinese media in Africa. However, the question remains: Has China been successful in enhancing its soft power via its news media expansion in the African region? Although it is easy to find sweeping proclamations regarding the popularity of Chinese media throughout Africa, th…
Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election
We explore the capacity for new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to facilitate crowdsourced elections monitoring. In broad terms, we are interested in digitally enabled collective action initiatives by nonstate actors, especially in places where the state is incapable of meeting the expectations of democratic governance. In the case at hand, we test for effects of crowdsourcing elections monitoring in the form of citizen-generate…
Keep Your Heads Held High Boys
This study examines the relationship between online communication by the Proud Boys and their offline activities. We use a supervised machine learning model to analyze a novel dataset of Proud Boys Telegram messages, merged with US Crisis Monitor data of violent and nonviolent events in which group members participated over a 31-month period. Our analysis finds that intensifying expressions of grievances online predict participation in offline vi…
Do Local Newspapers Mitigate the Effects of the Polarized National Rhetoric on Covid-19
This analysis tests two distinct predictions regarding local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. A public service view of local newspapers predicts that a robust local newspaper sector would mitigate the politicized national partisan rhetoric surrounding COVID-19; reducing the disparity in social-distancing behaviors between predominantly Republican and predominantly Democratic counties by increasing compliance in …
Information and Communication Technology and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar
Objective In a country as historically conflict ridden as Myanmar, will the reduced communication costs yielded by the recent expansion of mobile telephony create political affordances that make collective organization for peace or violence more likely to prevail? Method Applying a random effects model of time‐series cross‐sectional data, we test the relationship shared by ethnic groups’ increasing access to mobile telephony and their incidence o…
The Hybrid Media System
In The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power, Andrew Chadwick achieves something remarkable: encapsulating the complexity and fluidity of the emerging, hybridized media system into a succinct and
Mobile Phone Diffusion and Corruption in Africa
The explosion of mobile phones into a region that, until recently, was nearly devoid of telecommunications infrastructure provides a valuable opportunity to explore the potential effects of information and communication technology on various economic and social outcomes. This article focuses specifically on the potential influence that mobile phones will exert on corruption in Africa. Two distinct empirical analyses test the hypothesis that mobil…
A Field Experiment on the Internet's Effect in an African Election
This study contributes to the research on the Internet's effect on political behavior and organization by examining how the Internet influences the types of evaluations that may motivate individuals to organize politically. This study employs a randomized field experiment to determine whether the Internet influenced individuals' perception of the fairness of the 2010 Tanzanian presidential election. It provides a direct causal test of the Interne…
Testing the Internet's Effect on Democratic Satisfaction
While recent events spotlighted the Internet's capacity to make political organization more efficient once disaffected citizens are moved to action, this article tests another component of the Internet's potential to influence the cost-benefit calculus of political behavior: how the Internet influences the motivation to act or organize in the first place. After introducing two causal mechanisms—the Internet's mirror-holding and window-opening fun…
Democracy's Double-Edged Sword
Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election
We explore the capacity for new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to facilitate crowdsourced elections monitoring. In broad terms, we are interested in digitally enabled collective action initiatives by nonstate actors, especially in places where the state is incapable of meeting the expectations of democratic governance. In the case at hand, we test for effects of crowdsourcing elections monitoring in the form of citizen-generate…
The Hybrid Media System
In The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power, Andrew Chadwick achieves something remarkable: encapsulating the complexity and fluidity of the emerging, hybridized media system into a succinct and
Ethnic conflict goes mobile
This analysis contributes to the body of research testing the effect of mobile phone availability on the probability of violent conflict by shifting the unit of analysis to that of distinct ethnic groups. This approach provides two important advantages. First, it tests the robustness of this relationship by determining whether this effect maintains when shifted to a more rigorous and theoretically appropriate level of analysis. Second, shifting t…
China in Africa
In 2006, Chinese officials revealed an extensive plan to increase the nation’s soft power in Africa through a number of initiatives to increase the presence and relevance of Chinese media in Africa. However, the question remains: Has China been successful in enhancing its soft power via its news media expansion in the African region? Although it is easy to find sweeping proclamations regarding the popularity of Chinese media throughout Africa, th…
Corporate Ownership and News Bias Revisited
The clear financial benefits accrued to owners of television stations as a result of the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) decision opens the door to an important question: Did the degree to which media corporations benefited from the changes in campaign finance law influence their news outlets’ coverage of the Citizens United decision? In other words, is it possible to identify variation in how media outlets covered the Supre…
Information and Communication Technology and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar
Objective In a country as historically conflict ridden as Myanmar, will the reduced communication costs yielded by the recent expansion of mobile telephony create political affordances that make collective organization for peace or violence more likely to prevail? Method Applying a random effects model of time‐series cross‐sectional data, we test the relationship shared by ethnic groups’ increasing access to mobile telephony and their incidence o…
Do Local Newspapers Mitigate the Effects of the Polarized National Rhetoric on Covid-19
This analysis tests two distinct predictions regarding local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. A public service view of local newspapers predicts that a robust local newspaper sector would mitigate the politicized national partisan rhetoric surrounding COVID-19; reducing the disparity in social-distancing behaviors between predominantly Republican and predominantly Democratic counties by increasing compliance in …
Combating Hateful Attitudes and Online Browsing Behavior
This study adds to the analogic perspective-taking literature by examining whether an online perspective-taking intervention affects both antisemitic attitudes and behaviors – in particular, engagement with antisemitic websites. Subjects who were randomly assigned to the treatment viewed a 90-s video of a college student describing an experience with antisemitism and reflected on its similarity to their own experiences. In a survey, treated subje…
Keep Your Heads Held High Boys
This study examines the relationship between online communication by the Proud Boys and their offline activities. We use a supervised machine learning model to analyze a novel dataset of Proud Boys Telegram messages, merged with US Crisis Monitor data of violent and nonviolent events in which group members participated over a 31-month period. Our analysis finds that intensifying expressions of grievances online predict participation in offline vi…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Media Influence and Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)