Ishita Gopal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ishita Gopal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ishita |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopal |
| SIGNATURE | GOPAL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The national network of US state legislators on Twitter
Networks among legislators shape politics and policymaking within legislative institutions. In past work on legislative networks, the ties between legislators have been defined on those who serve in the same legislature or chamber. Online information networks, which have been found to play important roles in legislative communication at the national level, are not bounded by individual legislative bodies. We collect original data for over four th…
Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy
An emerging empirical regularity suggests that older people use and respond to social media very differently than younger people. Older people are the fastest-growing population of Internet and social media users in the US, and this heterogeneity will soon become central to online politics. However, many important experiments in this field have been conducted on online samples that do not contain enough older people to be useful to generalize to …
Attention to the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators
Subnational governments in the United States have taken the lead on many aspects of the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Variation in government activity across states offers the opportunity to analyze responses in comparable settings. We study a common and informative activity among state officials—state legislators’ attention to the pandemic on Twitter. We find that legislators’ attention to the pandemic strongly correlates with the number of…
Attention to the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators
Subnational governments in the United States have taken the lead on many aspects of the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Variation in government activity across states offers the opportunity to analyze responses in comparable settings. We study a common and informative activity among state officials—state legislators’ attention to the pandemic on Twitter. We find that legislators’ attention to the pandemic strongly correlates with the number of…
Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy
An emerging empirical regularity suggests that older people use and respond to social media very differently than younger people. Older people are the fastest-growing population of Internet and social media users in the US, and this heterogeneity will soon become central to online politics. However, many important experiments in this field have been conducted on online samples that do not contain enough older people to be useful to generalize to …
Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy
An emerging empirical regularity suggests that older people use and respond to social media very differently than younger people. Older people are the fastest-growing population of Internet and social media users in the US, and this heterogeneity will soon become central to online politics. However, many important experiments in this field have been conducted on online samples that do not contain enough older people to be useful to generalize to …
Attention to the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators
Subnational governments in the United States have taken the lead on many aspects of the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Variation in government activity across states offers the opportunity to analyze responses in comparable settings. We study a common and informative activity among state officials—state legislators’ attention to the pandemic on Twitter. We find that legislators’ attention to the pandemic strongly correlates with the number of…
The national network of US state legislators on Twitter
Networks among legislators shape politics and policymaking within legislative institutions. In past work on legislative networks, the ties between legislators have been defined on those who serve in the same legislature or chamber. Online information networks, which have been found to play important roles in legislative communication at the national level, are not bounded by individual legislative bodies. We collect original data for over four th…
Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Media Influence and Politics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Algorithm (1 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 works) · Democracy (1 works)