The study of political campaign in academia so far has mainly focused on the text of speech and the way that candidates communicate to their audience. In this session of the CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series, Prof. Christopher Lucas from the Department of Political Science at Washington University St. Louis will guide us through his team's research on how we are ignoring another tremendously important component of how voters assess a potential political leader - the non-textual political rhetoric.
About the speaker:
Christopher Lucas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies methodology, political communication, and the media. His research is published in the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science, among other venues. Ongoing work, supported by the National Science Foundation, develops and applies computational models for the statistical analysis of speech audio.
