• “Marketplace of Ideas 3.0?: A Framework for the Era of Algorithms” (co-author), Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, 2023
• “Social Media Regulation, Third-Person Effect, and Public Views: A Comparative Study of the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Mexico” (co-author), New Media & Society, 2022
• “The Emerging Science of Content Labeling: Contextualizing Social Media Content Moderation” (co-author), Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022
• “Local News Online and COVID in the U.S.: Relationships among Coverage, Cases, Deaths, and Audience” (co-author), International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2022
• “Backfire Effects after Correcting Misinformation Are Strongly Associated with Reliability” (co-author), Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2022
• “Divergent Global Views on Social Media, Free Speech, and Platform Regulation: Findings from the United Kingdom, South Korea, Mexico, and the United States” (co-author), Ethics Institute Working Paper, Northeastern University, January 2022
• “The Case for Video Animation in Local TV News: Summary Report for Newsrooms” (co-author), Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, November 2021
• “The Bipartisan Case for Labeling as a Content Moderation Method: Findings from a National Survey” (co-author), Ethics Institute Working Paper, Northeastern University, September 2021
• “Informational Quality Labeling on Social Media: In Defense of a Social Epistemology Strategy” (co-author), Yale Journal of Law and Technology, September 2021
• “Sizing Up ‘Media Twitter’: Exploring Population Extent, Beats, and Utility of Social Media” (co-author), ICOMTA’21 – The 2021 International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies, September 2021
• “Digital Democracy: Accelerating a New Field of Knowledge,” John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Report, January 2021
• “Open Data for Better Research on Social Media Platforms” (co-author), The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, December 2020
• “High School Student Views on the First Amendment: Trends in the 21st Century” (co-author), John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Report, November 2019
• “Net Neutrality,” Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, November 2019
• “Breaking News and Younger Twitter Users: Comparing Self-Reported Motivations to Online Behavior” (co-author), SMSociety ’19 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society, July 2019
• “The Local-Mobile Paradox: Missed Innovation Opportunities at Local Newspapers” (co-author), Newspaper Research Journal, May 2019
• The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World, MIT Press, April 2019
• “Reinventing Local TV News: Innovative Storytelling Practices to Engage New Audiences” (co-author) Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, February 2019
• “Newsroom Textual Analysis and Visualization Tools Built With R Shiny,” (co-author) Computation + Journalism Symposium, February 2019
• “Credentialing Issues,” The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, May 2019
• “The Social Silos of Journalism: Twitter, News Media, and Partisan Segregation,” (co-author) New Media & Society, October 2018
• “Process of Simulating Tree Rings for Immigration in the U.S.,” (co-author) Berlin: IEEE VIS Arts Program Annotated Projects, 2018
• “How Students Engage with News,” (co-author) Project Information Literacy Research Institute, October 2018
• “Funding the News: Foundations and Nonprofit Media,” (co-author) Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, June 2018
• “Predicting News Coverage of Scientific Articles,” (co-author) Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2018
• “State-level Policies for Personal Financial Disclosure: Exploring the Potential for Public Knowledge on Conflict-of-Interest Issues,” (co-author) Law & Policy Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, August 2017
• “Collaborative, Open, Mobile: A Thematic Exploration of Best Practices at the Forefront of Digital Journalism,” (co-author) Storybench.org Project, Northeastern University School of Journalism, May 2017
• “Knowing the Numbers: Assessing Attitudes among Journalists and Educators about Using and Interpreting Data, Statistics, and Research,” (co-author) #ISOJ — The Official Journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism, April 2017
• “Journalists’ Use of Knowledge in an Online World: Examining Reporting Habits, Sourcing Practices and Institutional Norms,” Journalism Practice, November 2016
• “Communicating about Climate Change with Journalists and Media Producers,” (co-author) Oxford Research Encyclopedias – Climate Science, January 2016
• “The Challenges of Democratizing News and Information: Examining Data on Social Media, Viral Patterns and Digital Influence,” Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, June 2014
• “Who Gets a Press Pass? Media Credentialing Practices in the United States,” (co-author) Berkman Center Research Publication, Harvard University, June 2014
Selected media publications:
• “Storytelling + STEM!: Northeastern’s new Master of Science (M.S.) in Media Innovation & Data Communication,” Storybench.org, August 2022
• “Reinventing Local TV News Part I: The Case for Video Innovation and Animation,” RTDNA, June 2021. Accompanying research slides for download
• “Content Labeling: ‘Soft’ Interventions and Hard Public Problems,” Yale Law School/Knight Media Forum, December 2020
• “Mobile Matters — and Publishers Must Remember That, Even When Resources Are Limited,” Poynter, June 21, 2019
• “How to Save the News Media,” The Atlantic, April 1, 2019
• “Prescription for Journalists from Journalists: Less Time Studying Twitter, More Time Studying Math,” The Conversation, May 1, 2019
• “It Is Really Hard to Know What is Real,” Nieman Reports, Oct. 16, 2018
• “200 Years of U.S. Immigration Looks Like the Rings of a Tree,” National Geographic, June 28, 2018
• “The Syrian Migrant Crisis You’ve Never Heard of—and Why It Matters Today,” Pacific Standard, March 9, 2017
• “There Are Huge Holes in How the U.S. States Investigate Politicians’ Conflicts of Interest,” The Washington Post, Jan. 12, 2017
• “Why It’s So Hard to See Politicians’ Financial Data,” The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2016
• “Big Data’s Impending Struggle to Combat Climate Change,” Pacific Standard, April 23, 2016
• “From ‘Facebook Revolution’ to ‘Twitter Jihad’: Five Years on, How We Got from Tunisia and the Arab Spring to Where We are Now,” Pacific Standard, Dec. 17, 2015
• “The Looming Battle for Clean Data,” The Boston Globe, Nov. 22, 2015
• “Does the Secret to Social Networking Lie in the Remote Jungle?” The Boston Globe, Oct. 4, 2015
• “Agricultural Drones May Change the Way We Farm,” The Boston Globe, Aug. 22, 2015
• “At Sea in a Deluge of Data,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2014
• “Rethinking Viral: Why the Digital World is Not as Democratic as We Think,” Pacific Standard, June 9, 2014
• “Aaron Swartz and the Cause of Openness,” The Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 2014
