Aengus Bridgman is the Director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory and an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. He is one of Canada’s leading experts on misinformation, digital activism, and the politics of digital media. He studies political behaviour and communication in Canada and other mature democracies. Methodologically, he works with survey, census, and social/traditional media data with an additional interest in data science, machine learning, natural language processing and computational social science more generally. His work has been published or is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Experimental Political Science, Party Politics, The Misinformation Review, Frontiers in Political Science, and The Canadian Journal of Political Science.
