> Aengus Bridgman
Associate Director, Centre for Media Technology and Democracy
Director, Media Ecosystem Observatory
Founder, Signal4 Analytics
Assistant Professor, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
I study political behaviour and communication in Canada and other mature democracies. Methodologically, I work with survey, census, and social/traditional media data with an additional interest in data science, machine learning, natural language processing and computational social science more generally.
Affiliations
Featured Research
(Mis)information, Polarization, and Trust in Elections: Longitudinal Evidence from Canada
Mathieu Lavigne, Holly Ann Garnett, Aengus Bridgman
Public Opinion Quarterly
Alberta’s Referendum, Online: Influencers, AI Content, Foreign Interest, and the Attention Economy Ahead of the October 19 Vote
Chris Ross, Ben Steel, David Hobson, et al.
Media Ecosystem Observatory
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Podcasts as Data: Mapping the Canadian Podcast Ecosystem and its Economic and Housing Debates
Scott Robert Patterson, Colin Chia, Aengus Bridgman
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
PDFFeatured Media
Experts call for 'mystery shopping' of AI chatbots to test if they are advising on self-harm, child bullying
The Globe and Mail · Jul 2026
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study)
Nieman Lab · Mar 2026
The great AI content heist
Star News Group (Australian) · Mar 2026
Culture minister says 'serious conversation' needed about AI systems and news media
CTV News · Mar 2026