Academic Publications

Media and Human Suffering: Foundations, Ruptures, and Continuities

Amah, M.

2025

Journal of Communication Inquiry, 49(4)

Are Televised Presidential Debates Good for Democracy?

Williams, K. & Stroud, S. R.

2025

Journal of Media Ethics

Unveiling the Veil: Examining the Stereotyping of Hijab in Internet Memes and GIFs

Ibrahim, O., & Fahmy, S.

2025

International Journal of Communication, 19, 674-697

Midlife Sapphic Revelation in the Digital Age: How Digital Media Support Coming Out Later

Masullo, G. M.

2025

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

Koo, G. H., Lukito, J., Masullo, G. M., Overgaard, C. S. B., & Orr, B.

2025

New Media & Society

Toward the inclusion of caste and the anti-caste tradition in rhetorical studies

Stroud, S. R.

2025

Quarterly Journal of Speech

How QAnon Developed from a Fringe Group to a Digital Surrogate for the GOP

Lukito, J., Yang, Y., & Kim, S. J.

2025

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

Browning, L., Scott, C. R., Svenkerud, P., & Sørnes, J. O.

2025

Communication Monographs, 92(4), 728–750

A Solidarity Framework for Representing Suffering: Resisting a Desensitizing Status Quo of Normalizing Social Injustice

Varma, A.

2025

Journal of Communication Inquiry

“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.

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

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

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

2024

New Media & Society

Reporting from the Outside While Looking In: Iranian Diaspora Journalists and #WomanLifeFreedom

Shaban, S., & Kafiliveyjuyeh, S.

2024

The International Journal of Press/Politics, 30(2)

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 Representation of Afghans in the American Sitcom United States of Al: Examining the Burden of Representation and Challenges of Media Visibility

Hatef, A.

2024

Howard Journal of Communications, 1-17

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