Academic Publications
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
Does online incivility cancel out the spiral of silence? A moderated mediation model of willingness to speak out
2020
New Media & Society (in press)
The new town hall: Why we engage personally with politicians
2020
Praeger
Computational propaganda and the news: Journalists’ perceptions of the effects of digital manipulation on reporting
September 5, 2020
Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means
We can have social media as we know it, or we can have democracy
September 5, 2020
Fast Company
How hate and misinformation go viral: A case study of a Trump retweet
September 5, 2020
TechStream, Brookings Institute
Engagement moderation: What journalists should say to improve online discussions
2020
Journalism Practice (in press)
Politicians, social media, and digital publics: Old rights, new terrain
2020
American Behavioral Scientist, 64(11), 1646-1669
Bots and computational propaganda: Automation for communication and control
August 5, 2020
Social Media and Democracy, Cambridge University Press
Nanoinfluencers are slyly barnstorming the 2020 US election
August 5, 2020
Wired
Contribution of Training to Scientists’ Public Engagement Intentions: A Test of Indirect Relationships Using Parallel Multiple Mediation
2020
Science Communication
Public communication by research institutes compared across countries and sciences: Building capacity for engagement or competing for visibility? Title
2020
PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235191
‘You really have to have a thick skin’: A cross-cultural perspective on how online harassment influences female journalists
2020
Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, 20(7), 877-895
Amplify the party, suppress the opposition: Social media, bots, and electoral fraud
July 5, 2020
The Georgetown Law Technology Review
Strengthening Science Engagement Fellowships through New Connections and Inclusion
2020
Rita Allen Foundation
Outbreak! Socio-cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean MERS-CoV epidemic
2020
Journal of Risk Research
The downsides of digital labor: Exploring the toll incivility takes on online comment moderators
2020
Computers in Human Behavior, 107, 1-9
The Trump 2020 app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power
June 5, 2020
MIT Technology Review
Political operatives are targeting propaganda by location
June 5, 2020
TechStream, Brookings Institute
Covid-19 isn’t the only threat to privacy: In US politics surveillance was the norm long before the pandemic
May 5, 2020
Foreign Affairs
From hanging out to figuring it out: Socializing online as a pathway to computational thinking
May 5, 2020
New Media & Society
Encrypted messaging apps are the future of propaganda
May 5, 2020
TechStream, Brookings Institute
Predicting perceptions of incivility across 20 news comment sections
2020
Journalism (in press)
Texts from politicians could be more dangerous than ever
April 5, 2020
Wired
The Differential Effects of Knowledge on Perceptions of Genetically Modified Food Safety
2020
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 32(1), 111-131
The curiosity effect: Information seeking in the contemporary news environment
2020
New Media & Society, 22(3), 429–448