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IIID faculty and affiliates publish rigorous, peer-reviewed research in top academic journals and post working papers sharing ongoing work.
IIID faculty and affiliates publish rigorous, peer-reviewed research in top academic journals and post working papers sharing ongoing work.

Publications

IIID faculty and affiliates publish rigorous, peer-reviewed research in top academic journals and post working papers sharing ongoing work.
Journal Article

Catie Snow Bailard, Rebekah Tromble, Wei Zhong, Federico Bianchi, Pedram Hosseini, David Broniatowski

“Keep your heads held high boys!”: Examining the relationship between the proud boys’ online discourse and offline activities

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Sandra González-Bailón, David Lazer, Pablo Barberá, William Godel, Hunt Allcott, Taylor Brown, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Deen Freelon, Matthew Gentzkow, Andrew M Guess, Shanto Iyengar, Young Mie Kim, Neil Malhotra, Devra Moehler, Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer Pan, Carlos Velasco Rivera, Jaime Settle, Emily Thorson, Rebekah Tromble, Arjun Wilkins, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Annie Franco, Winter Mason, Natalie Jomini Stroud, Joshua A Tucker

The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis) Information on Facebook During the US 2020 Election

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Working Paper

Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Juan Carlos Cisneros, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Drew Dimmery, Deen Freelon, Sandra González-Bailón, Andrew M Guess, Young Mie Kim, David Lazer, Neil Malhotra, Devra Moehler, Sameer Nair-Desai, Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer Pan, Jaime Settle, Emily Thorson, Rebekah Tromble, Carlos Velasco Rivera, Arjun Wilkins, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Annie Franco, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Winter Mason, Natalie Jomini Stroud, Joshua A Tucker

The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users’ emotional state

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Alyssa H Smith, Jon Green, Brooke F. Welles, David Lazer

Emergent structures of attention on social media are driven by amplification and triad transitivity

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Pranav Goel, Jon Green, David Lazer, Philip S Resnik

Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives

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Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, David Lazer

Declining information quality under new platform governance

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Jaemin Lee, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl

Complex contagion in social networks: Causal evidence from a country-scale field experiment

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Working Paper

Lisa Oswald, W Schulz, Ralph Hertwig, David Lazer, Sebastian Stier

The tip of the iceberg: How the social media production-consumption gap distorts public opinion for citizens and researchers

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Allison Wan, Zhen Guo, Burak Ozturan, Ronald Robertson, David Lazer

Searching for elected officials: Google’s prioritization of political information

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Laura Edelson, Frances Haugen, Damon McCoy

A comparative survey of algorithmic feed recommendation system designs

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Laura Edelson, Dominique Lockett, Celia Guillard, Tobias Lauinger, Zhaozhi Li, Jacob M. Montgomery & Damon McCoy

What drives perceptions of the political in online advertising?: The source, content, and political orientation

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Journal Article

Laura Edelson, Borys Kovba, Hanna Yershova, Austin Botelho, Damon McCoy, Tobias Lauinger

Measurement and metrics for content moderation: The multi-dimensional dynamics of engagement and content removal on Facebook

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Conference Paper

Kevin Bryson, Arthur Borem, Phoebe Moh, Omer Akgul, Laura Edelson, Tobias Lauinger, Michelle L Mazurek, Damon McCoy, Blase Ur

Characterizing the usability and usefulness of U.S. ad transparency systems

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Journal Article

Filippo Lancieri , Laura Edelson & Stefan Bechtold

AI regulation: Competition, arbitrage and regulatory capture

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Expert Opinion

Laura Edelson

What I wish Parents knew about social media: I study social media for a living. Here's how parents can help their kids use it safely and productively

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Conference Paper

Simona Bisiani, Agnes Gulyas, John Wihbey, Bahareh Heravi

UKTwitNewsCor: A dataset of online local news articles for the study of local news provision
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Journal Article

Harry Yaojun Yan, Garrett Morrow, Kai-Cheng Yang, John Wihbey

The origin of public concerns over AI supercharging misinformation in the 2024 U.S. presidential election

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Working Paper

John Wihbey, Caleb Okereke, Yash Phalle

AI-centered communications consulting with civil society organizations: case studies and preliminary lessons learned

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Working Paper

John Wihbey and Samantha D’Alonzo

AI simulations of audience attitudes and policy preferences: “silicon sampling”guidance for communications practitioners

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Working Paper

Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Ro’ee Levy, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Natasha Dumas, Winter Mason, Devra Moehler, Pablo Barbera, Taylor W. Brown, Juan Carlos Cisneros, Drew Dimmery, Deen Freelon, Sandra González-Bailón, Andrew M. Guess, Young Mie Kim, David Lazer, Neil Malhotra, Sameer Nair-Desai, Brendan Nyhan, Ana Carolina Paixao de Queiroz, Jennifer Pan, Jaime Settle, Emily Thorson, Rebekah Tromble, Carlos Velasco Rivera, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Shiqi Yang, Saam Zahedian, Annie Franco, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Natalie Jomini Stroud & Joshua A. Tucker

The effects of political advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US election

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Working Paper

J. Nathan Matias, Sarah Gilbert, Alexandra Gonzalez, Laura A Edelson, Marie Bragg, Avriel Epps, Ashley Maxie-Moreman, Amrit Kaur Purba, Damon McCoy, Jenny Radesky

Accelerating the science of digital harms with data donations to a digital harms research center

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Journal Article

James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, Alauna Safarpour, Jonathan Schulman, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Ata Aydin Uslu, Jon Green, Matthew A. Baum, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Hong Qu, Roy H. Perlis & David M. J. Lazer

Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA

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