David Karpf
Biographic Data
| ID | 277127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Karpf |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Karpf |
| SIGNATURE | KARPF D |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2761-3101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Green distractions? When did environmental politics become a matter of personal responsibility
Living with hypoparathyroidism: Development of the Hypoparathyroidism Patient Experience Scale-Impact (HPES-Impact)
Findings provide substantial evidence of content validity for the validation-ready HPES-Impact in adults with HP
Symposium on political communication and social movements – the campfire and the tent: What social movement studies and political communication can learn from one another
In this symposium contribution, Dave Karpf offers three observations about the differences between the fields of social movement studies and political communication. He posits that the central difference between the two is the relative lack of a canonical literature in political communication. He discusses how this lack of a canon can be particularly freeing and generative during a time of rapid media change. He also examines the trend toward met…
Two provocations for the study of digital politics in time
This article confronts some of the difficulties that temporality poses for the study of digital politics. Where previous articles have discussed the unique methodological challenges for digital politics research – centrally, that we face ceteris paribus problems when attempting to study how people use a medium that is itself still being developed – this article addresses the underlying subject of temporality itself. It offers two distinct provoca…
Something I No Longer Believe: Is Internet Time Slowing Down
Back in 2012, I wrote an article speculating on the implications of Moore's Law and 'Internet Time' for political communication researchers (Karpf, 2012). The premise was that the Internet continues to change at such a rapid pace that it creates fundamental ceteris paribus problems for digital politics research. I still believe that is a fair assessment of the Internet of the early 2000s. But I no longer believe it holds true for the Internet tod…
Analytic Activism and Its Limitations
Some of the most important impacts of social media on social movement organizations come not through the new forms of speech that are created but through new forms of listening. This article discusses 'analytic activism'-the practice of applying analytics and experimentation to develop new tactics and strategies, identify emergent mobilization opportunities, and listen to their members and supporters in new ways. After defining the key components…
Digital politics after Trump
This essay offers a retrospective review of three major recent books in the field of digital politics – Andrew Chadwick’s The hybrid media system: Politics and power, Zizi Papacharissi’s Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics, and Daniel Kreiss’s Prototype politics: Technology-intensive campaigning and the data of democracy – in light of Donald J. Trump’s surprising 2016 electoral victory. Rather than critiquing these books for fa…
Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters
Eitan Hersh’s book proceeds from a simple but profound insight: electoral campaigns go to war with the data they have, not the data they might want or the data we might imagine. Whereas many other studies of electoral behavior rely on secondary indicators to approximate what campaigns do, Hersh delves into the actual databases that (Democratic) campaigns rely on in their work. The result is a rich, detailed, and insightful account that challenges…
Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
Of big birds and bayonets: Hybrid Twitter interactivity in the 2012 Presidential debates
The 2012 US Presidential debates were hybrid media events. Millions of viewers ‘dual-screened’ them, simultaneously watching their televisions and commenting on their social media feeds. In doing so, they helped transform verbal gaffes and zingers into debate-defining moments that may have influenced public opinion and media coverage. To examine this phenomenon, we apply network and qualitative textual analyses to a unique data set of over 1.9 mi…
The Internet and American Political Campaigns
This article provides an overview of major research findings regarding the Internet and American political campaigns. This is still a nascent subfield, but the research community has come to general agreement on five key points: (1) at the mass behavioral level, the Internet has not changed fundamental participatory inequalities; (2) we have seen an increase in small-donor activity, and these donations tend to flow toward polarizing candidates; (…
The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy
The Internet is facilitating a generational transition within America's advocacy group system. New "netroots" political associations have arisen in the past decade and play an increasingly prominent role in citizen political mobilization. At the same time, the organizations that mediate citizen political engagement and sustained collective action are changing. They rely upon modified staff structures and work routines. They employ novel strategie…
Social Science Research Methods in Internet Time
This article discusses three interrelated challenges related to conducting social science research in 'Internet Time'. (1) The rate at which the Internet is both diffusing through society and developing new capacities is unprecedented. It creates some novel challenges for scholarly research. (2) Many of our most robust research methods are based upon ceteris paribus assumptions that do not hold in the online environment. The rate of change online…
Open Source Political Community Development: A Five-Stage Adoption Process
This article considers the emergence of large-scale “commons-based peer production” projects such as Wikipedia.org from an institutional development perspective. The argument it makes is threefold. First, that that the lowered transaction costs and information abundance found online transform a subset of public goods problems, essentially replacing free-ridership with mass coordination as the central challenge. Second, that the boundaries of this…
Online Political Mobilization from the Advocacy Group's Perspective: Looking Beyond Clicktivism
Academic observers and public intellectuals frequently criticize mass email action alerts as “slacktivism” or “clicktivism,” arguing that the lowered transaction costs of the medium produce a novel form of activism that carries with it hidden costs and dangers for the public sphere. This article challenges those claims, relying on a combination of personal observation within the advocacy community and on a new quantitative dataset of advocacy gro…
Macaca Moments Reconsidered: Electoral Panopticon or Netroots Mobilization
This article addresses popular misconceptions about so-called “Macaca moments”—high profile candidate gaffes that are captured on YouTube, receive a cascade of citizen views, and contribute to some substantial political impact. Since the 2006 Virginia Senate race, when Senator George Allen made the original “Macaca” gaffe and went on to be narrowly defeated by his challenger, the term has become synonymous with the transformative influence of You…
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, by Axel Bruns
Axel Bruns opens his book with a simple proposition: “... that to describe the creative, collaborative, and ad hoc engagement with content for which user-led spaces such as the Wikipedia act as examp
Understanding Blogspace
Scholarship on the blogosphere is still in its infancy. One of the core challenges is that the term “blog” is overbroad, referring to a wide range of disparate activities that are problematically grouped together. This article presents a four-part typology of blogspace that separates blogs on the basis of software platform design features and embeddedness within existing institutions of authority. It applies this typology to the top 25 progressiv…
Macaca Moments Reconsidered: Electoral Panopticon or Netroots Mobilization
This article addresses popular misconceptions about so-called “Macaca moments”—high profile candidate gaffes that are captured on YouTube, receive a cascade of citizen views, and contribute to some substantial political impact. Since the 2006 Virginia Senate race, when Senator George Allen made the original “Macaca” gaffe and went on to be narrowly defeated by his challenger, the term has become synonymous with the transformative influence of You…
Understanding Blogspace
Scholarship on the blogosphere is still in its infancy. One of the core challenges is that the term “blog” is overbroad, referring to a wide range of disparate activities that are problematically grouped together. This article presents a four-part typology of blogspace that separates blogs on the basis of software platform design features and embeddedness within existing institutions of authority. It applies this typology to the top 25 progressiv…
Digital politics after Trump
This essay offers a retrospective review of three major recent books in the field of digital politics – Andrew Chadwick’s The hybrid media system: Politics and power, Zizi Papacharissi’s Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics, and Daniel Kreiss’s Prototype politics: Technology-intensive campaigning and the data of democracy – in light of Donald J. Trump’s surprising 2016 electoral victory. Rather than critiquing these books for fa…
Two provocations for the study of digital politics in time
This article confronts some of the difficulties that temporality poses for the study of digital politics. Where previous articles have discussed the unique methodological challenges for digital politics research – centrally, that we face ceteris paribus problems when attempting to study how people use a medium that is itself still being developed – this article addresses the underlying subject of temporality itself. It offers two distinct provoca…
The Internet and American Political Campaigns
This article provides an overview of major research findings regarding the Internet and American political campaigns. This is still a nascent subfield, but the research community has come to general agreement on five key points: (1) at the mass behavioral level, the Internet has not changed fundamental participatory inequalities; (2) we have seen an increase in small-donor activity, and these donations tend to flow toward polarizing candidates; (…
Analytic Activism and Its Limitations
Some of the most important impacts of social media on social movement organizations come not through the new forms of speech that are created but through new forms of listening. This article discusses 'analytic activism'-the practice of applying analytics and experimentation to develop new tactics and strategies, identify emergent mobilization opportunities, and listen to their members and supporters in new ways. After defining the key components…
Open Source Political Community Development: A Five-Stage Adoption Process
This article considers the emergence of large-scale “commons-based peer production” projects such as Wikipedia.org from an institutional development perspective. The argument it makes is threefold. First, that that the lowered transaction costs and information abundance found online transform a subset of public goods problems, essentially replacing free-ridership with mass coordination as the central challenge. Second, that the boundaries of this…
Something I No Longer Believe: Is Internet Time Slowing Down
Back in 2012, I wrote an article speculating on the implications of Moore's Law and 'Internet Time' for political communication researchers (Karpf, 2012). The premise was that the Internet continues to change at such a rapid pace that it creates fundamental ceteris paribus problems for digital politics research. I still believe that is a fair assessment of the Internet of the early 2000s. But I no longer believe it holds true for the Internet tod…
Understanding Blogspace
Scholarship on the blogosphere is still in its infancy. One of the core challenges is that the term “blog” is overbroad, referring to a wide range of disparate activities that are problematically grouped together. This article presents a four-part typology of blogspace that separates blogs on the basis of software platform design features and embeddedness within existing institutions of authority. It applies this typology to the top 25 progressiv…
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, by Axel Bruns
Axel Bruns opens his book with a simple proposition: “... that to describe the creative, collaborative, and ad hoc engagement with content for which user-led spaces such as the Wikipedia act as examp
Online Political Mobilization from the Advocacy Group's Perspective: Looking Beyond Clicktivism
Academic observers and public intellectuals frequently criticize mass email action alerts as “slacktivism” or “clicktivism,” arguing that the lowered transaction costs of the medium produce a novel form of activism that carries with it hidden costs and dangers for the public sphere. This article challenges those claims, relying on a combination of personal observation within the advocacy community and on a new quantitative dataset of advocacy gro…
Macaca Moments Reconsidered: Electoral Panopticon or Netroots Mobilization
This article addresses popular misconceptions about so-called “Macaca moments”—high profile candidate gaffes that are captured on YouTube, receive a cascade of citizen views, and contribute to some substantial political impact. Since the 2006 Virginia Senate race, when Senator George Allen made the original “Macaca” gaffe and went on to be narrowly defeated by his challenger, the term has become synonymous with the transformative influence of You…
Open Source Political Community Development: A Five-Stage Adoption Process
This article considers the emergence of large-scale “commons-based peer production” projects such as Wikipedia.org from an institutional development perspective. The argument it makes is threefold. First, that that the lowered transaction costs and information abundance found online transform a subset of public goods problems, essentially replacing free-ridership with mass coordination as the central challenge. Second, that the boundaries of this…
The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy
The Internet is facilitating a generational transition within America's advocacy group system. New "netroots" political associations have arisen in the past decade and play an increasingly prominent role in citizen political mobilization. At the same time, the organizations that mediate citizen political engagement and sustained collective action are changing. They rely upon modified staff structures and work routines. They employ novel strategie…
Social Science Research Methods in Internet Time
This article discusses three interrelated challenges related to conducting social science research in 'Internet Time'. (1) The rate at which the Internet is both diffusing through society and developing new capacities is unprecedented. It creates some novel challenges for scholarly research. (2) Many of our most robust research methods are based upon ceteris paribus assumptions that do not hold in the online environment. The rate of change online…
The Internet and American Political Campaigns
This article provides an overview of major research findings regarding the Internet and American political campaigns. This is still a nascent subfield, but the research community has come to general agreement on five key points: (1) at the mass behavioral level, the Internet has not changed fundamental participatory inequalities; (2) we have seen an increase in small-donor activity, and these donations tend to flow toward polarizing candidates; (…
Of big birds and bayonets: Hybrid Twitter interactivity in the 2012 Presidential debates
The 2012 US Presidential debates were hybrid media events. Millions of viewers ‘dual-screened’ them, simultaneously watching their televisions and commenting on their social media feeds. In doing so, they helped transform verbal gaffes and zingers into debate-defining moments that may have influenced public opinion and media coverage. To examine this phenomenon, we apply network and qualitative textual analyses to a unique data set of over 1.9 mi…
Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
Digital politics after Trump
This essay offers a retrospective review of three major recent books in the field of digital politics – Andrew Chadwick’s The hybrid media system: Politics and power, Zizi Papacharissi’s Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics, and Daniel Kreiss’s Prototype politics: Technology-intensive campaigning and the data of democracy – in light of Donald J. Trump’s surprising 2016 electoral victory. Rather than critiquing these books for fa…
Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters
Eitan Hersh’s book proceeds from a simple but profound insight: electoral campaigns go to war with the data they have, not the data they might want or the data we might imagine. Whereas many other studies of electoral behavior rely on secondary indicators to approximate what campaigns do, Hersh delves into the actual databases that (Democratic) campaigns rely on in their work. The result is a rich, detailed, and insightful account that challenges…
Analytic Activism and Its Limitations
Some of the most important impacts of social media on social movement organizations come not through the new forms of speech that are created but through new forms of listening. This article discusses 'analytic activism'-the practice of applying analytics and experimentation to develop new tactics and strategies, identify emergent mobilization opportunities, and listen to their members and supporters in new ways. After defining the key components…
Symposium on political communication and social movements – the campfire and the tent: What social movement studies and political communication can learn from one another
In this symposium contribution, Dave Karpf offers three observations about the differences between the fields of social movement studies and political communication. He posits that the central difference between the two is the relative lack of a canonical literature in political communication. He discusses how this lack of a canon can be particularly freeing and generative during a time of rapid media change. He also examines the trend toward met…
Two provocations for the study of digital politics in time
This article confronts some of the difficulties that temporality poses for the study of digital politics. Where previous articles have discussed the unique methodological challenges for digital politics research – centrally, that we face ceteris paribus problems when attempting to study how people use a medium that is itself still being developed – this article addresses the underlying subject of temporality itself. It offers two distinct provoca…
Something I No Longer Believe: Is Internet Time Slowing Down
Back in 2012, I wrote an article speculating on the implications of Moore's Law and 'Internet Time' for political communication researchers (Karpf, 2012). The premise was that the Internet continues to change at such a rapid pace that it creates fundamental ceteris paribus problems for digital politics research. I still believe that is a fair assessment of the Internet of the early 2000s. But I no longer believe it holds true for the Internet tod…
Living with hypoparathyroidism: Development of the Hypoparathyroidism Patient Experience Scale-Impact (HPES-Impact)
Findings provide substantial evidence of content validity for the validation-ready HPES-Impact in adults with HP
Green distractions? When did environmental politics become a matter of personal responsibility
Political science (16 works) · Social Media and Politics (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Law (8 works)