Meet Our Experts: Josh Pasek and Brian Weeks

Josh Pasek is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. His research explores how new media and psychological processes each shape political attitudes, public opinion, and political behaviors. Josh also examines issues in the measurement of public opinion including techniques for reducing measurement error and improving survey design. Current research explores how political information might influence public opinion and voter decision-making, evaluates whether the use of online social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter might be changing the political information environment, and assesses the differences between survey results obtained from Internet volunteers as opposed to traditional samples.

See Josh's faculty page at the University of Michigan.

Brian Weeks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies. His primary research areas include the formation and consequences of political misperceptions, and how citizens engage political information on social media. Brian received his Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio State University and was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna.

See Brian's faculty page at the University of Michigan.