Academic Publications

Platforms are Abandoning U.S. Democracy

June 29, 2023

Bridget Barrett and Daniel Kreiss argue platforms risk repeating the mistakes of the 2016 election nearly eight years on

Authors: Bridget Barrett, Daniel Kreiss

Publisher: Tech Policy Press

Topic: Digital Infrastructures

A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms

April 11, 2023

Is increasing polarization—the distance between politically meaningful groups in society—inherently bad for democracy?

Authors: Daniel Kreiss, Shannon C. McGregor

Publisher: New Media & Society

Topic: Political Processes

‘Do your own research’: affordance activation and disinformation spread

August 30, 2023

We explain how pundits, propagandists, and conspiracy theorists ‘activate affordances’ to validate their claims.

Authors: Francesca B. Tripodi, Lauren C. Garcia, Alice E. Marwick

Publisher: Information, Communication & Society

Topic: Mis/Disinformation

Social media policy in two dimensions

August 3, 2023

American public opinion on who should be responsible for content governance is complicated.

Authors: Heesoo Jang, Bridget Barrett, Shannon C. McGregor

Publisher: Information, Communication & Society

Topic: Digital Infrastructures

Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics

June 19, 2023

What do researchers lose by failing to consider power when studying digital networks and right-wing publics?

Authors: Sarah J Jackson, Daniel Kreiss

Publisher: Communication Theory

Topic: (In)Equity, Political Processes

Tags: Communication Studies, Political Communication, Theory

A Review and Provocation: On Polarization and Platforms

Polarization is the necessary byproduct of the struggle to realize democracy in unequal societies.

Authors: Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor

Publisher: New Media & Society

Topic: (In)Equity, Political Processes

Tags: Communication Studies, Elections, Polarization, Political Communication, Social Media

#Politicalcommunicationsowhite: Race and Politics in Nine Communication Journals, 1991-2021

Understanding communication requires accounting for social and cultural difference, especially race and ethnicity

Authors: Deen Freelon, Meredith L. Pruden, Daniel Malmer

Publisher: Political Communication

Topic: (In)Equity

Tags: Communication Studies, Political Communication, Race

“Too Soon” to Count? How Gender and Race Cloud Notability Considerations on Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s editors are more likely to consider you “notable” if you’re a white man

Authors: Mackenzie Emily Lemieux, Rebecca Zhang, Francesca Tripodi

Publisher: Big Data & Society

Topic: (In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures

Tags: Fact-Checking, Gender, Knowledge-Production, Visibility, Wikipedia

Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking

Digital trace data can change the study of misinformation, algorithmic bias, and well-being.

Authors: Jakob Ohme, Theo Araujo, Laura Boeschoten, Deen Freelon, Nilam Ram, Byron B. Reeves, Thomas N. Robinson

Publisher: Communication Methods and Measures

Topic: Digital Infrastructures, Mis/Disinformation

Tags: Digital Trace Data, Methods, Social Media

Inequities of Race, Place, and Gender Among the Communication Citation Elite, 2000–2019

Who are you citing? In communication studies, the most cited authors are skewed even more white and male than previously thought.

Authors: Deen Freelon, Meredith L Pruden, Kirsten A Eddy, Rachel Kuo

Publisher: Journal of Communication

Topic: (In)Equity

Tags: Communication Studies, Education, Gender, Methods, Race

Authors: Francesca Tripodi, Jade Angelique Stevenson, Rachel Slama, Justin Reich

Publisher: The Library Quarterly

Topic: Mis/Disinformation

Tags: Google, Knowledge-Production, Legitimacy

Authors: Alice E. Marwick

Publisher: Surveillance & Society

Topic: (In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures

Tags: Communication Studies, Knowledge-Production, Social Media