Matthew Hindman was a Doctoral Fellow at the NCDG while pursuing a Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University.  His research interests include technology and politics, public opinion, and political theory.  His dissertation project examined the Web's impact on the formation of mass opinion.  In part, it used survey research to demonstrate that political attitudes play an important role in who uses the Web political purposes, suggesting that the 'Digital Divide' is ideological as well as demographic. Ongoing work involves large-scale analysis of hyperlink structures in communities of political websites, documenting the structure and extent of online political information. He received his B.A. Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.  He has attended Princeton on a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship awarded by the U.S. Department of Education.  

He has longstanding research interests in technology and politics, public opinion, and political theory.  His dissertation project examined the Web's impact on the formation of mass opinion.  In part, it used survey research to demonstrate that political attitudes play an important role in who uses the Web political purposes, suggesting that the "Digital Divide" is ideological as well as demographic. Ongoing work involves large-scale analysis of hyperlink structures in communities of political websites, documenting the structure and extent of online political information.