CCC Speaker Series - Margaret Roberts (UCSD)

Margaret Roberts

Professor of Political Science

UC San Diego

Margaret Roberts is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego where she holds a Chancellors Associates Endowed Chair.  She studies digital politics and political methodology, with a focus on censorship and propaganda in social media and using automated content analysis in the social sciences. Roberts’ recent book: Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences, provides a guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world. In another recent book Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall, Roberts examines the impacts of censorship in China using large online datasets. Censored was listed as one of the Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2018, was honored with the Goldsmith Book Award, and has been awarded the Best Book Award in the Human Rights Section and Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.