Christopher A. Bail, Professor of Sociology

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• SOCIOL 367S.01, DATA SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Synopsis

  Gray 319, WF 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• SOCIOL 690S.01, SEMINAR SELECTED TOPICS Synopsis

  Reuben-Coo 329, Th 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011

Research Interests:

I study how non-profit organizations and other political actors create cultural change by analyzing large groups of texts from newspapers, television, public opinion surveys, and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I am currently conducting a study of how non-profit organizations reach new audiences on the Internet using a unique sample of groups recruited via Facebook

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Argyle, LP; Bail, CA; Busby, EC; Gubler, JR; Howe, T; Rytting, C; Sorensen, T; Wingate, D, Leveraging AI for democratic discourse: Chat interventions can improve online political conversations at scale., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120 no. 41 (October, 2023), pp. e2311627120 [doi]  [abs].
2. Combs, A; Tierney, G; Guay, B; Merhout, F; Bail, CA; Hillygus, DS; Volfovsky, A, Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform., Nature human behaviour, vol. 7 no. 9 (September, 2023), pp. 1454-1461 [doi]  [abs].
3. Combs, A; Tierney, G; Alqabandi, F; Cornell, D; Varela, G; Castro Araújo, A; Argyle, LP; Bail, CA; Volfovsky, A, Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election., Scientific reports, vol. 13 no. 1 (August, 2023), pp. 14051 [doi]  [abs].
4. Jahani, E; Gallagher, N; Merhout, F; Cavalli, N; Guilbeault, D; Leng, Y; Bail, CA, An Online experiment during the 2020 US-Iran crisis shows that exposure to common enemies can increase political polarization., Scientific reports, vol. 12 no. 1 (November, 2022), pp. 19304 [doi]  [abs].
5. Hartman, R; Blakey, W; Womick, J; Bail, C; Finkel, EJ; Han, H; Sarrouf, J; Schroeder, J; Sheeran, P; Van Bavel, JJ; Willer, R; Gray, K, Interventions to reduce partisan animosity., Nature human behaviour, vol. 6 no. 9 (September, 2022), pp. 1194-1205 [doi]  [abs].