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Digital Platforms and Social Media (ECO-AD-DIGSOCMED)

ECO-AD-DIGSOCMED

Description

Module description:
Digital platforms have become an important part of buyer-seller relationships, and shape social interactions that lead to outcomes in all spheres including politics. This module will provide an overview of key theoretical and empirical viewpoints on these platforms. Special attention will be paid to regulation, as regulation of social media has become a central topic in practice.

Learning Outcomes:
The goal is to provide students both the basis on which to identify some of the important research questions as well as an understanding of the techniques that could be employed to address them. You might notice a lot of papers in top journals in recent years; the topics covered here are very popular in the literature right now.The papers listed below are a sample. We will not cover all of them, and we may cover some things that arise that aren’t on the list yet.

Assessment:
Each student will do an in-class presentation of a paper (this could be with one of the papers on the reading list or one chosen in consultation with me) Prior to the presentation, the student will be required to submit a slide deck for the presentation. The report will be worth 40% of the final grade. Finally, each student will develop and submit a research proposal. The proposal will compromise 60% of the final grade and must include an introduction highlighting the broad motivation, the specific, the research question, a literature review, and a prospectus of what the research would involve.

Class 1-2: Digital Platforms: the big picture

Class 3-4: Buyer-Seller Platforms: Theory

Class 5: Buyer seller platforms: Empirical

Class 6: Regulation of Buyer Seller Platforms

Class 7 Social Media: Theory

Class 8: Social Media: Empirics

Class 9: Regulation of Social Media

Class 10: Overflow and paper presentations

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