Academic Publications

Intellectual humility’s effects on political polarization and engagement
2025
Human Communication Research

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
2025
NBER Working Paper No. w33697

Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness
2025
Social Media + Society, 11(1)

“My body, my choice” versus “officials say” Examining the effects of solidarity and monitorial reporting
2025
News Research Journal

Ethics, Engagement, and Echo Chambers: Exploring Frontiers of Digital Communication and Conversation in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
2025
Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook During the U.S. 2020 Election
2024
Sociological Science

On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information
December 5, 2024
New Media & Society

Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election
December 5, 2024
Political Communication

Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care
December 5, 2024
New Media & Society

Fact-Checking in the Age of AI: Reducing Biases with Non-Human Information Sources
2024
Technology in Society

Who Can Say What? Testing the Impact of Interpersonal Mechanisms and Gender on Fairness Evaluations of Content Moderation
2024
Social Media + Society, 10(4)

Comparing a BERT Classifier and a GPT classifier for Detecting Connective Language Across Multiple Social Media
2024
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

The challenge of identifying behavioral goals for communication in the context of basic science
2024
Journal of Science Communication

“What Flipping Right Does a Teacher Have to Say Being [LGBTQ+] is Okay?”: Understanding Twitter Discourse Around U.S. Anti-LGBTQIA+ Legislation
2024
Howard Journal of Communications, 1–17

Political Propaganda Runs Wild on Messaging Apps – Platform Owners Can Help Counter It
October 5, 2024
Just Security

Covert Campaigns: Safeguarding Encrypted Messaging Platforms from Voter Manipulation
October 5, 2024
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

We Can Harness Digital Citizenship to Confront AI Risks
September 5, 2024
Centre for International Governance Innovation

Lodging complaints against platform power: how Lebanese journalists and activists experience reporting mechanisms, platform failures, and techno-alienation
September 5, 2024
Information, Communication & Society, 1–18

Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training
2024
Science Communication
Self-Regulation Won’t Prevent Problematic Political Uses of Generative AI
July 5, 2024
Lawfare

Global Misinformation & Disinformation Special Issue Introduction
July 5, 2024
International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Genocide, surveillance, and babies: “embodied propaganda” and the anti-abortion to conspiracy pipeline
June 5, 2024
Feminist Media Studies

Forget Deepfakes: Social Listening Might be the Most Consequential Use of Generative AI in Politics
June 5, 2024
Tech Policy Press

Digital Media Research Changes Will Alter Election Studies
June 5, 2024
Tech Policy Press

The Manifestation of Affective Polarization on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Supervised Machine Learning Approach
2024
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment
2024
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

India’s TikTok ban didn’t even slow disinformation. We need a better solution.
May 5, 2024
The Hill

Artificial Intelligence in Influencer Marketing: A Mixed-Method Comparison of Human and Virtual Influencers on Instagram
2024
Journal of Interactive Advertising, 1–20

Journalist Identity and Selective Exposure: The Effects of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in News Staff
2024
Mass Communication and Society, 1–27

Infrastructural platform violence: How women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon experience abuse on WhatsApp
April 5, 2024
New Media & Society