Academic Publications

“Bogeyman terms”: Understanding politically conservative Americans’ folk theories about news bias

Masullo, G. M., Kim, S., & Duchovnay, M.

2025

Journalism

The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election

Allcott et al.

2025

NBER Working Paper No. 33818

How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions

Chebrolu, T., Kumaraguru, P., and Rajadesingan, A.

May 19, 2025

Websci '25: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025

Framing the Fray: Conflict Framing in Indian Election News Coverage

Chebrolu, T., Modepalle, R., Vardhan, N. H., Kumaraguru, P., and Rajadesingan, A.

2025

Websci '25: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025

“For Your Health” Versus “For the Environment”: Exploring Congruency and Incongruency Between Message Appeals and Temporal Framing

Yun, C. I. H., & Atkinson, L.

2025

Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising

Intellectual humility’s effects on political polarization and engagement

Stroud, N. J. & Murray, C.

2025

Human Communication Research

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State

Allcott et al.

2025

NBER Working Paper No. 33697

Connective Democracy: A New Approach to Fighting Political Divisiveness

Masullo, G. M., & Riedl, M. J.

2025

Social Media + Society, 11(1)

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

Varma, A., Masullo, G., Limov, B., Graham, E., Kim, M. S., & Malik, K. K.

2025

News Research Journal

Ethics, Engagement, and Echo Chambers: Exploring Frontiers of Digital Communication and Conversation in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

Masullo, G. M., Kalman, Y. M., Lewis, S. C.

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

González-Bailón, S. et. al

2024

Sociological Science

On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information

Mimizuka, K., Rodarte, A. K., & Arif, A.

2024

New Media & Society

Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election

Rodarte, A. K., & Lukito, J.

2024

Political Communication

Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care

Brown, M. A., Lukito, J., Pruden, M. L., & Riedl, M. J.

2024

New Media & Society

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

Moon, W. & Kahlor, L. A.

2024

Technology in Society

Who Can Say What? Testing the Impact of Interpersonal Mechanisms and Gender on Fairness Evaluations of Content Moderation

Weber, I., Gonçalves, J., Masullo, G. M., Torres da Silva, M., & Hofhuis, J.

2024

Social Media + Society, 10(4)

Comparing a BERT Classifier and a GPT classifier for Detecting Connective Language Across Multiple Social Media

Lukito, J., Chen, B., Masullo, G. M., and Stroud, N. J.

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

Besley, J. C., Yeo, S. K., Newman, T. P., & Dudo, A.

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

Koo, G. H., Masullo, G. M., Orr, B., & Huang, E.

2024

Howard Journal of Communications, 1–17

Political Propaganda Runs Wild on Messaging Apps – Platform Owners Can Help Counter It

Olaizola Rosenblat, M., Trauthig, I. K., and Woolley, S. C.

October 5, 2024

Just Security

Covert Campaigns: Safeguarding Encrypted Messaging Platforms from Voter Manipulation

Olaizola Rosenblat, M., Trauthig, I. K., & Woolley, S. C.

2024

NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

We Can Harness Digital Citizenship to Confront AI Risks

Santana, L. E., Trauthig, I., & Woolley, S.

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

El-Masri, A., Riedl, M. J., Trauthig, I. K., & Woolley, S. C.

2024

Information, Communication & Society, 1–18

Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training

Bennett, N., Dudo, A., & Besley, J.

2024

Science Communication

Self-Regulation Won’t Prevent Problematic Political Uses of Generative AI

Woolley, S. & Trauthig, I. K.

July 5, 2024

Lawfare

Global Misinformation & Disinformation Special Issue Introduction

Lukito, J.

July 5, 2024

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Genocide, surveillance, and babies: “embodied propaganda” and the anti-abortion to conspiracy pipeline

Martin, Z., Trauthig, I. K., Woolley, S. C.

June 5, 2024

Feminist Media Studies

Forget Deepfakes: Social Listening Might be the Most Consequential Use of Generative AI in Politics

Jackson, D. & Martin, Z.

June 5, 2024

Tech Policy Press

Digital Media Research Changes Will Alter Election Studies

Lukito, J. & Brown, M. A.

June 5, 2024

Tech Policy Press

The Manifestation of Affective Polarization on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Supervised Machine Learning Approach

Overgaard, C. S. B., Lukito, J., & Soorholtz, K.

2024

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media