This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the flows of communication between politicians, journalists and citizens.
Journal Articles & Working Papers
Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms
Democratic stability depends on citizens on the losing side accepting election outcomes.
Spread of Misinformation About Face Masks and COVID-19 by Automated Software on Facebook
The dangers of misinformation spreading on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic are known.
Book Chapter: Countering hate speech
Counterspeech refers to communication that responds to hate speech in order to reduce it and negate its harmful potential effects.
User Preference-aware Fake News Detection
Disinformation and fake news have posed detrimental effects on individuals and society in recent years, attracting broad attention to fake news detection.
Factual Corrections Eliminate False Beliefs About COVID-19 Vaccines
The spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines threatens to prolong the pandemic, with prior evidence indicating that exposure to misinformation has negative effects on intent to take the...
Mining Dual Emotion for Fake News Detection
Emotion plays an important role in detecting fake news online. When leveraging emotional signals, the existing methods focus on exploiting the emotions of news contents that conveyed by the...
Mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and misinformation
Parents - particularly moms - increasingly consult social media for support when taking decisions about their young children, and likely also when advising other family members such as elderly...
Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age
When the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal burst into the headlines in March 2018, it cast a spotlight on tech companies’ uses and abuses of personal data (Cadwalladr & Graham-Harrison,...
Debunking the Misinfodemic: Coronavirus Social Media Contains More, Not Less, Credible Content
Several high-profile sources have focused worldwide attention on the dangers of misinformation about COVID.