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Kant and the Moral Challenges of Rhetoric
Kant on Language
The persuasive potential of virtual time travel using augmented reality: Focusing on the role of temporal presence
New Media & Society
Are Televised Presidential Debates Good for Democracy?
Journal of Media Ethics
Midlife Sapphic Revelation in the Digital Age: How Digital Media Support Coming Out Later
Palgrave Macmillan Cham
The consequences of “The Bird is Free”: A computational analysis of aversive LGBTQIA+ tweets and engagement trends before and after Elon Musk dismantled the platform’s moderation system
New Media & Society
Toward the inclusion of caste and the anti-caste tradition in rhetorical studies
Quarterly Journal of Speech
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
Whistleblowing, anonymity, and the Norwegian National Lottery: How to keep a secret identity for 29 months
Communication Monographs, 92(4), 728–750
“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