Ben Bowyer

Senior Researcher

Benjamin Bowyer is a Senior Researcher with the Civic Engagement Research Group at University of California, Riverside. His research interests center around the effects of social context on political attitudes and behavior.  His current research draws upon data from the Youth Participatory Politics Survey – a three-wave, nationally representative of American youth – to investigate the ways in which digital and social media are transforming young people’s political engagement. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research has been published in such outlets as the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Politics, West European Politics, New Media and Society and Political Science Research and Methods. 

Publications

• Is Responsiveness to Student Voice Related to Academic Outcomes? Strengthening the Rationale for Student Voice in School Reform

• The Digital Dimensions of Civic Education: Assessing the Effects of Learning Opportunities

• Motivated Circulation: How Misinformation and Ideological Alignment Influence the Circulation of Political Content

• Can media literacy education increase digital engagement in politics?

• Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation

• Facing Facts in an Era of Political Polarization: Young People's Learning and Knowledge about Economic Inequality

• Participatory Politics: New Media and Youth Political Action

• Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age

• The Political Significance of Online Activities and Social Networks

• U Suk! Participatory Media and Youth Experiences With Political Discourse

• When young people get involved in online communities, it leads them toward politics

• Youth comprehension of political messages in YouTube videos