Bruce Etling is a Data Scientist at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He works primarily with the Media Cloud and media manipulation teams. His research is focused on methods for the study of online behavior and political speech, including social network analysis, network modeling, and automated text analysis.
He previously served as the Director of the Internet & Democracy Project at the Berkman Klein Center where he co-authored a number of papers on the Russian Internet and mapping of online political networks. Prior to Berkman, he was a Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development and served in Afghanistan, Russia, Cambodia, and Washington, DC. Bruce has a PhD from the University of Oxford (Oxford Internet Institute) and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.