Academic Publications

Countering disinformation and protecting democratic communication on encrypted messaging applications
June 5, 2021
Brookings Institute

COVID-19 coverage by cable and broadcast networks
2021
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 15(1)

Who is responsible for interventions against problematic comments? Comparing user attitudes in Germany and the United States
2021
Policy Internet, 13, 433– 451

Building Connective Democracy: Interdisciplinary Solutions to the Problem of Polarisation
2021
The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

American Scientists’ Willingness to Use Different Communication Tactics
2021
Science Communication

U.S. Political Partisanship and COVID-19: Risk Information Seeking and Prevention Behaviors, Health Communication
2021
Health Communication

Social media conversations about community water fluoridation: formative research to guide health communication
2021
Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Exploring the influence of comment tone and content in response to misinformation in social media news
2021
Journalism Practice, 15:4, 456-470

Building connective democracy: Interdisciplinary solutions to the problem of polarisation
2021
The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

The effects of journalistic transparency on credibility assessments and engagement intentions
2021
Journalism, 2021;22(4):901-918

How news images affect clicking on subscription appeals
2021
Journalism Practice, 15:4, 489-507

Building connective democracy: Interdisciplinary solutions to the problem of polarisation
April 5, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

The effectiveness of gain and loss frames in news subscription appeals
2021
Digital Journalism, 9:3, 300-318

The evolution of computational propaganda: Theories, debates, and innovation of the Russian model
March 5, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

The disinformation threat to diaspora communities in encrypted chat apps
March 5, 2021
TechStream, Brookings Institute

Probabilistic social learning improves the public’s judgments of news veracity
March 5, 2021
PLOS ONE 16(3): e0247487

The disturbing implications of increasingly narrow political ad targeting
February 5, 2021
TechStream, Brookings Institute

The Moderating Role of Emotion: The Combinatory Effects of Positive Emotion and News Framing Techniques on Climate Change Attitudes
2021
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Person, Place, or Thing: Individual, Community, and Risk Information Seeking
2021
Science Communication

The story behind the story: Examining transparency about the journalistic process and news outlet credibility
2021
Journalism Practice (in press)

What’s in a label? The effect of news labels on perceived credibility
2020
Journalism (in press)

The effects of news site design on engagement and learning
2020
Journalism Practice (in press)

We need to know who’s surveilling protests—and why
November 5, 2020
Wired

Online bandwagon effects: Quantitative versus qualitative cues in online comments sections
2020
New Media & Society

Exploring “angry” and “like” reactions on uncivil Facebook comments that correct misinformation in the news
2020
Digital Journalism, 9:8, 1103-1122

Dialectics of complexity: A five-country examination of lived experiences on social media
2020
Social Media + Society, 6(4)

Computational propaganda and the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Antisemitic and anti-Black content on Facebook and Telegram
October 5, 2020
Anti-Defamation League

Science Communication Training in North America: Preparing Whom to Do What With What Effect?
2020
Science Communication

Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study
2020
Science Communication

Exploring scholars’ public engagement goals in Canada and the United States
2020
Public Understanding of Science