<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Computational Social Science and Public Policy Colloquium & Data Lunch Seminar</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">Speaker:<span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""> Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth Department of Government </span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class=""><b class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; display: inline !important;" class="">Host:<span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""> Joseph Walsh</span></div></b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class=""><b class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; display: inline !important;" class="">Date: <span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">June 9, 2017</span></div></b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">Time:<span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""> 11:30 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">Location:<span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""> Computation Institute, 5735 S. Ellis Ave., Searle 240A</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><b class="">Title: <span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">“</span>Inside the Fake News Bubble? Consumption of online fake news in the 2016 U.S. election"</b></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Bio:</span></div></b></div></div><div class=""><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brendan Nyhan is a Professor in the <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~govt/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">Department of Government</a> at Dartmouth College. His research, which focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care, has been published in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Medical Care, Pediatrics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Social Networks, and Vaccine. (His publications and working papers are listed below; see his <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-cv.pdf" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">curriculum vitae</a> or <a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SbAA1v4AAAAJ&hl=en" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">Google Scholar profile</a> for more.)</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nyhan received his Ph.D. from the <a href="http://www.poli.duke.edu/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">Department of Political Science</a> at Duke University in 2009 and served as a <a href="http://www.sph.umich.edu/rwj/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research</a> at the University of Michigan from 2009-2011.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He is a contributor to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">The Upshot</a> at The New York Times (March 2014-) and a co-founder of <a href="http://www.brightlinewatch.org/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">Bright Line Watch</a> (January 2017-). He previously served as <a href="http://www.cjr.org/author/brendan-nyhan/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">a media critic</a> for Columbia Journalism Review (November 2011-February 2014). Nyan also blogs at <a href="http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">brendan-nyhan.com</a> and tweets at <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/brendannyhan" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">@BrendanNyhan</a>. He's been called "<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/02/8540388/david-leonhardt-adds-staff-emtimesem-data-venture" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">one of the most thought-provoking writers about politics on the web</a>", "<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/01/04/the-best-politics-twitter-accounts-guide-you-through-the-elections/Wr7CjhIFx2pH98LXtUsuLL/story.html" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">[o]ne of the smartest sources on 2016, the media, and electoral trends</a>", one of "<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-27/the-golden-age-of-political-journalism-is-now-the-ticker.html" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">a new breed of conscientious political science bloggers</a>" who are "creating reputational hazards to seat-of-the-pants punditry," and a "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/04/partisanship-and-socializing_n_4387146.html" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">political science shaolin warrior</a>".</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From 2001-2004, Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer, and Nyhan edited <a href="http://www.spinsanity.org/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">Spinsanity</a>, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin that was syndicated in Salon (2002) and the Philadelphia Inquirer (2004). In 2004, we published <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743262514/spinsanity-20/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">All the President's Spin</a>, a <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E6D9113EF936A3575AC0A9629C8B63" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">New York Times bestseller</a> that <a href="http://Amazon.com" class="">Amazon.com</a> named <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/546898/ref=ed_bb_bb_editors_pol/104-0965177-9679119" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">one of the ten best political books of the year</a>.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: museosans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Previously, Nyhan was a marketing and fundraising consultant for <a href="http://www.benetech.org/" class="" style="color: rgb(174, 25, 25); text-decoration: none;">Benetech</a>, a Silicon Valley technology nonprofit, and Deputy Communications Director of the Bernstein for US Senate campaign in Nevada. He grew up in Mountain View, CA and attended Swarthmore College.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Information:</b><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""> Lunch will be provided </span></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; display: inline !important;" class=""><br class=""></div></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>