Academic Publications

How QAnon Developed from a Fringe Group to a Digital Surrogate for the GOP
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy

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

The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election
NBER Working Paper No. 33818

How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions
Websci '25: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025

Framing the Fray: Conflict Framing in Indian Election News Coverage
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
Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising

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

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
NBER Working Paper No. 33697

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comparing a BERT Classifier and a GPT classifier for Detecting Connective Language Across Multiple Social Media
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
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
Howard Journal of Communications, 1–17

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

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

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

Global Misinformation & Disinformation Special Issue Introduction
International Journal of Public Opinion Research

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

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

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

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

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

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