#toread #paper Fake news as a rhetorical weapon: Strategic delegitimization and selective amplification in Italian newspapers by Lorenzo Mosca, Fred Paxton https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231261458935

#toread #paper Where's the Evidence that Respondents Understand Your Survey Questions? by Hinck, Musashi et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Where%27s%20the%20Evidence%20that%20Respondents%20Understand%20Your%20Survey%20Questions%3F

#toread #paper Towards automating scientific review with Google's Paper Assistant Tool by Rajesh Jayaram et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28277v1

#toread #paper Community Notes undermoderate polarizing content by design creating risks in electoral processes by Paul Bouchaud, Pedro Ramaciotti https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aee6932

#toread #paper Platform collective behavior as democratic infrastructure: Beyond causal effects in the DSA era by Anja Bechmann https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2679475

#toread #paper Quality perceptions and intended engagement in response to AI-generated and AI-assisted news by Fabrizio Gilardi et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-58743-0

#toread #paper From mass media and social media to AI: A multilevel framework for understanding trust in generative AI by Jiyoun Suk, Yini Zhang https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2026.2694048

#toread #paper Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact by Gottfried, Jeffrey et al. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Americans%20and%20AI%202026%3A%20Chatbots%2C%20Smart%20Devices%20and%20Views%20on%20Impact

#toread #paper Cross-national information attacks: A two-decade analysis of troll behavior in Korea by Jaehong Kim et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22785v1

#toread #paper Locate alternative media in the digital news ecosystem: A cross-country comparative study of alternative-mainstream audience overlap networks by Qinfeng Zhu, Fan Liang, Gabriel Miao Li https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2683342

#toread #paper Content moderation as traffic control: an analysis of EU and US legislation on platform regulation by Valentine Crosset, Tommaso Venturini, Benoît Dupont https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2026.2692735

#toread #paper A medium that thinks: Generative AI and media cognition by Lev Manovich https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543261454458

#toread #paper AI systems out-persuade expert humans by Kobi Hackenburg et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16475v1

#toread #paper Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI by Thomas H Costello, Gordon Pennycook, David Gertler Rand https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xcwdn

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#toread #paper Italians’ attitudes towards AI: how technology issues travel across social conversation by Eliana Fattorini et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2689030

#toread #paper Who’s driving the AI hype in its formative phase? A longitudinal analysis of stakeholders in the US and German AI discourse on Twitter 2012–2021 by Vanessa Richter et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-03079-6

#toread #paper What is informative to young adults? Decoding informativeness perceptions among audiences of audio-visual digital platforms by Lion Wedel https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2685660

#toread #paper AI coding agents can reproduce social science findings by Meysam Alizadeh et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11447v1

#toread #paper Evaluating echo chambers, rabbit holes, and radicalization pathways on YouTube by Megan A. Brown et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2671765

#toread #paper Exploring temporal dynamics in digital trace data: mining user-sequences for communication research by Yangliu Fan, Jakob Ohme, Lion Wedel https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2026.2664873

#toread #paper Moving targets, moving politics: The state of play in social media data access by Claes H. de Vreese, Rebekah Tromble https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2681041

#toread #paper Price, proficiency, or permission: assessing platform data access for election research by Josephine Lukito, Kayo Mimizuka https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2667921

#toread #paper Understanding disinformation as narratives in the hybrid media ecosystem: Evidence from the US by Jaume Suau Martínez, Clara Juarez Miro https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241303249

#toread #paper Redesigning algorithms to intervene on social norm misperceptions during a national election by William J. Brady et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10536-1

#toread #paper Reckoning with the political economy of AI: Avoiding decoys in pursuit of accountability by Janet Vertesi et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16106v2

#toread #paper The imaginative landscape of AI: Locating Silicon Valley’s “quiet futuring” by Andreas Hepp https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437261454515

#toread #paper Multi-platform analysis of electoral discourse on social media as a research infrastructure problem by Ludwig Schulte et al. https://doi.org/10.1145/3795513.3807440

#toread #paper “We, the conspiracy theorists.” How people do symbolic boundary work in the “Great Reset” debates across social media platforms by Kamile Grusauskaite et al. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261446590

#toread #paper The hostile misinformation effect: How ideological congruence drives the assessment of misinformation targets by Patrick van Erkel et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2671760

#toread #paper What 81,000 people told us about the economics of AI https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=What%2081%2C000%20people%20told%20us%20about%20the%20economics%20of%20AI

#toread #paper Framing the future of search: A discourse analysis of Google’s AI Overviews by Shir Weinbrand, Ashwin Nagappa, Daniel Angus https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813261447684

#toread #paper The alternative influence network (AIN) of far-right YouTubers in Sweden: Connectivity and hybridisation of online extremism during the Covid-19 pandemic by Tina Askanius, Jullietta Stoencheva, Hernan Mondani https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2026-0008

#toread #paper Social theory should be a structural prior for agentic AI: A formal framework for multi-Agent Social Systems by Lynnette Hui Xian Ng et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07069

#toread #paper The death of Twitter and the decline of Public Debate online by Axel Bruns https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3247

#toread #paper “keep your heads held high boys!”: Examining the relationship between the Proud Boys’ online discourse and offline activities by CATIE SNOW BAILARD et al. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055423001478

#toread #paper Who controls the narrative? How Brazilian parliamentarians pursue epistemic authority in times of crisis by André K. Rodarte, Carolina V. Kuahara, Ahmer Arif https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2669534

#toread #paper How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic by Silke Adam et al. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf033

#toread #paper Generative AI, large language models, and their agentic framing in news media by Dennis Nguyen, Magdalena Wischnewski https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-03070-1

#toread #paper Conspiracy theories and misinformation in digital media: An international expert assessment of challenges, trends, and interventions by Daniela Mahl et al. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2024-0123

#toread #paper Six insights from climate psychology for the study of misinformation by Tobia Spampatti et al. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/swdrq_v1

#toread #paper State media control influences large language models by Hannah Waight et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10506-7

#toread #paper Posting what you know and caring for the niche: How micro-influencers survive platform cultur... by Volpe, Camilla https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Posting%20what%20you%20know%20and%20caring%20for%20the%20niche%3A%20How%20micro-influencers%20survive%20platform%20culture%20demands

#toread #paper A systematic review of social science studies analyzing social media data, 2010-2024 by Kai-Cheng Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yexp6_v1

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#toread #paper Protest movements and the mainstreaming of radical and extremist ideologies: the case of COVID-19 protests by Sophia Rothut et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2654668

#toread #paper Mapping the sociotechnical imaginaries of generative AI in UK, US, Chinese and Indian newspapers by Weili Wang, John Downey https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625251328518

#toread #paper Seeing candidates at scale: Multimodal LLMs for Visual Political Communication on Instagram by Michael Achmann-Denkler, Mario Haim, Christian Wolff http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19489v1

#toread #paper Finally, access: How article 40 DSA changes platform research in practice by Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2664157

#toread #paper TikTok and the algorithmic transformation of social media publics: From social networks to social interest clusters by Paolo Gerbaudo https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241304106