Below is a listing of peer-reviewed articles and other journal contributions published thus far in 2025 from researchers affiliated with the Center for an Informed Public (in bold).
- Saloni Dash, Yiwei Xu, Madeline Jalbert, and Emma Spiro. “The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale.” PNAS Nexus. (2025)
doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf207 - Mert Can Bayar and Scott Radnitz. “The conspiracist theory of power.” Politics and Governance. (2025)
doi.org/10.17645/pag.9781 - Scott Radnitz. “Contesting authority to adjudicate misinformation.” Perspectives on Politics. (2025)
doi.org/10.1017/S1537592725102028
- Sandra Peter, Kai Riemer and Jevin West. “The benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2025)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415898122 - Morgan Wack, Joseph S. Schafer, Ian Kennedy, Anna Beers, Emma S. Spiro, and Kate Starbird. “Legislating uncertainty: Election policies and the amplification of misinformation.” Policy Studies Journal. (2025)
doi.org/10.1111/psj.70054 - Stephen Prochaska, Julie Vera, Douglas Lew Tan, Ben Yamron, Sylvie Venuto, Amaya Kejriwal, Sarah Chu, and Kate Starbird. “Deep storytelling: Collective sensemaking and layers of meaning in U.S. elections.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2025) doi.org/10.1145/3757576
- Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia, Jeffrey Hancock, Jeanne L. Tsai, Michael S. Bernstein. “Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization,” Science. (2025) doi.org/10.1126/science.adu5584
- Scott Radnitz, Steven Karceski and Yuan Hsaio. “Disinformation claims and public opinion: evidence from a survey experiment in Georgia.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. (2025) doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2025.2505716
- Joseph S. Schafer, Annie Denton, Chloe Seelhoff, Jordyn Vo, Lance Garcia, Isha Madan, Alisha Mudbhary, Ruijingya Tang and Kate Starbird. “’I blow up’: Understanding TikTok users’ reactions to sudden social media attention.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (2025) doi.org/10.1145/3711001
- Alexandros Efstratiou. “On YouTube search API use in research.” Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference. (2025) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3730567.3764492
- Kate Starbird. “Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory Disinformation and the 2020 Election,” in Steven Livingston, and Michael Miller (eds), Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy. Oxford Academic. (2025) doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197794937.003.0002
- Isaac Slaughter, Axel Peytavin, Johan Ugander and Martin Saveski. “Community notes reduce engagement with and diffusion of false information online.” Proceeding of the National Academies of Science. (2025) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2503413122
- Rachel Moran Prestridge, Joseph S. Schafer, Mert Can Bayar and Kate Starbird. “The end of trust and safety?: Examining the future of content moderation and upheavals in professional online safety efforts.” Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2025)
doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713662 - Ethan Porter, Aaron Shaw and Emma S. Spiro. “Misinformation research continues to be urgent science.” Science Advances. (2025)
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9839 - Rachel Moran, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Emma S. Spiro and Kate Starbird. “Privacy versus transparency: Navigating public records requests and adversarial dynamics in a distributed multi-stakeholder collaboration.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2025).
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3711050 - Priya Dhawka, Nina Lutz, and Kate Starbird. “Data visualizations as propaganda: Tracing lineages, provenance, and political framings in online anti-immigrant discourse.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2025)
doi.org/10.1145/3757574 - Nina Lutz, Stephen Prochaska, Laura Kurek, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Jason Greenfield, Joseph S. Schafer, Phil Tinn, Daniel Schroeder, Shiva Darian, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Ahmer Arif, Anirban Sen, Joyojeet Pal, and Kate Starbird. “Beyond information: Online participatory culture and information disorder.” Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. (2025) doi.org/10.1145/3715070.3748289
- Damian Hodel and Jevin D. West. “Disagreement as a way to study misinformation and its effects.” Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. (2025)
doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-174 - Sydney A. DeMets and Emma S. Spiro. “Podcasts in the periphery: Tracing guest trajectories in political podcasts.” Social Networks. (2025) doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2025.03.003
- Mert Can Bayar. “Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation.” Electoral Studies. (2025) doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102920
- Soham De, Michiel A Bakker, Jay Baxter, and Martin Saveski. “Supernotes: Driving consensus in crowd-sourced fact-checking.” Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. (2025) doi.org/10.1145/3696410.3714934
- Naomi Miyashita, Zarine Kharazian, Laura De Backer and Kate Starbird. “How strategic information operations affect peacekeeping: Two case studies from the Central African Republic.” International Peacekeeping. (2025)
doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2025.2470342 - Kristin Engel, Tanushree Mitra and Emma Spiro. “Social dynamics and mobilization potential of online election narratives.” Proceedings of the Nineteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. (2025) ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/35827
- Joseph S. Schafer, Kayla Duskin, Stephen Prochaska, Morgan Wack, Anna Beers, Lia Bozarth, Taylor Agajanian, Michael Caulfield, Emma S. Spiro and Kate Starbird. “ElectionRumors2022: A dataset of election rumors on Twitter during the 2022 U.S. midterms.” Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. (2025) doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2025.002
- Tamar Wilner, Rachel Moran-Prestridge, Kayo Mimizuka, Veronica Engle, Jason C. Young, Angela D. R. Smith and Ahmer Arif. “Rooted realities: Exploring community-based participatory approaches to addressing misinformation with rural and BIPOC individuals.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2025) doi.org/10.1145/3757422
- Emily Bender, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West. “Perspective—Science is a social process that cannot be autocompleted.” Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. (2025)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401227121 - David Farr, Nico Manzonelli, Iain Cruickshank and Jevin D. West. “RED-CT: A systems design methodology for using LLM-labeled data to train and deploy edge linguistic classifiers.” Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track. (2025)
aclanthology.org/2025.coling-industry.5/ - Jina Yoon, Shreya Sathyanarayanan, Franziska Roesner, Amy X. Zhang. “The collaborative practices and motivations of online communities dedicated to voluntary misinformation response.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2025) doi.org/10.1145/3701209
- Rachel Moran-Prestridge and Oliver Knesl. “How can the veterinary profession tackle social media misinformation?” Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association. (2025)
doi.org/10.2460/javma.24.10.0665 - Rotem Landesman, Katie Davis, Mega Subramaniam, Chris Coward, Kelly M Hoffman, Linda W Braun, Stacey Wedlake. ““If others are doing it, so can I”: Leveraging communities of practice to introduce connected learning into small and rural libraries.” The Library Quarterly. (2025) doi.org/10.1086/735802
- Nisha Devasia, Runhua Zhao and Jin Ha Lee. “Does the story matter? Applying narrative theory to an educational misinformation escape room game,” Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2025) doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713131
- Annie Li Zhang. “Performing ‘the scientist,’ credibly and authentically: understanding how scientists manage their self-presentation on social media.” Information, Communication & Society. (2025) doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2565313
- Galen Cassebeer Weld, Leon Leibmann, Amy X. Zhang and Tim Althoff. “Perceptions of moderators as a large-scale measure of online community governance.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2025) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3757644
- Erin Ash, Emma Cox, Yiwei Xu, Brandon Boatwright. “Promoting teen pregnancy prevention: An analysis of social media content strategy over five years.” Health Communication. (2025) doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2519129
- Rachel Marston, Nina Lutz, Danielle Mangabat, Gabriel Sánchez Ainsa, Javier Stober, Margot Brown, and Katlyn M. Turner. “A mixed-methods needs assessment of frontline communities: Insights for engagement and partnerships between communities and intermediary organizations.” Community Science. (2025) doi.org/10.1029/2025CSJ000133
- Adam H. Smiley and Cheryl R. Kaiser. “Partisan communities and affective polarization.” Social Psychological and Personality Science. (2025) doi.org/10.1177/19485506251339520
- Garrett Souza, Nina Lutz, and Katlyn M. Turner. “Mediating the marginal: A quantitative analysis of curated LGBTQ+ content on Instagram.” Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2025) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713618
- Marcel Binz, Stephan Alaniz, Adina Roskies, Balazs Aczel, Carl T. Bergstrom, Colin Allen, Daniel Schad, Dirk Wulff, Jevin D. West, Qiong Zhang, Richard M Shiffrin, Samuel J Gershman, Vencislav Popov, Emily M Bender, Marco Marelli, Matthew M Botvinick, Zeynep Akata and Eric Schulz. “How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science?” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2025) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401227121
- Soobin Cho, Anna Lindner, Joseph S. Schafer, Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Julie A. Vera, and Mark Zachry. “Collaborative autoethnography as a method to explore short-lived social AI chatbots.” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. (2025) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3765766.3765830
- Leon Leibmann, Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang and Tim Althoff. “Reddit rules and rulers: Quantifying the link between rules and perceptions of governance across thousands of communities.” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. (2025) doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35863
- Morgan Wack, Kevin Mudavadi and Madeline Jalbert. “Kenya: Election observation, misinformation and electoral integrity: Evidence from the Elections Observation Group’s communications.” Election Observation at a Crossroads: Perspectives from Africa. (2025)