Tristan Hotham
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Dr Tristan Hotham

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Dr Tristan Hotham is an independent, data-led researcher of politics, the past, platforms and places. He studies how parties and campaigners use social media, advertising and data to reach voters, and makes interactive maps of history, landscape and weather in Britain and around the world. He holds a PhD from the University of Bath (2021).

His open preprints, covering British elections, party leaders and polling, YouTube, targeted advertising and populist parties across Europe, are on Zenodo and Google Scholar, with plain-English write-ups on the blog.

Name
Dr Tristan Hotham
Role
Independent researcher
Research
Digital political campaigning; social media and politics; data stories and maps
ORCID
0000-0003-4931-9349
Contact
contact@tristanhotham.com

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