Lords Polling Committee to question Demos and academics on opinion polls and impact of social media
The House of Lords Committee on Political Polling and Digital Media will next week take evidence from Demos and academics from the Universities of Exeter, Manchester and Royal Holloway, University of London.
The sessions will focus on the impact of social media on political opinion polling, the prospect for social media analysis to provide an alternative to traditional approaches to analysing public opinion and how the media reports on opinion polls when they are published.
The evidence sessions will start at 10:45am on Tuesday 12 September in Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords, giving evidence to the Committee will be:
10:45am
- Professor Susan Banducci, Professor and Director of the Exeter Q-Step centre, University of Exeter
- Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos
11:45am
- Professor Jane Green, Professor of Political Science, University of Manchester
- Professor Chris Hanretty, Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London
