Framing fact-checks as a “confirmation” increases engagement with corrections of misinformation: a four-country study
Previous research has extensively investigated why users spread misinformation online, while less attention has been given to the …
Voting for Law and Order: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Mexico
In this article, we examine the demand-and-supply dynamic of security policies. We argue there are two informational shortcuts through …
Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers
Social scientists with data science skills increasingly are assuming positions as computational social scientists in academic and …
Truth be told: Cognitive moderators of selective sharing of fact-checks on social media
When do users share fact-checks on social media? We describe a survey experiment conducted during the 2019 election in Argentina …
Winning! Election Returns and Engagement in Social Media
This article analyzes social media engagement when elections are adjudicated to one of the contending parties. We extend existing …
Network Activated Frames: Content Sharing and Perceived Polarization in Social Media
Our paper describes how the sharing behavior of interconnected users alters the frequencies of content observed by social media peers. …
The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Debates
We investigate how streaming chatboxes may shape perceptions of political events. We conducted a field experiment during the September …
News by popular demand: Ideology, Reputation, and Issue Attention in Social Media News Sharing
Social media news sharing has become a central subject of scholarly research in communication studies. To test current theories, it is …
Partisan Cues and Perceived Risks: The effect of partisan social media frames during the Covid-19 crisis in Mexico
We present the results of a survey experiment designed to evaluate the effects of social media exposure on perceptions of personal …
Connective Effervescence and Streaming Chat During Political Debates
Recent advancements in online streaming technologies have re-centered the audience as an important part of live broadcasts, including …
Do Mayors Matter? Reverse Coattails on Congresional Elections in Brazil
In federal democracies, parties often invest in local politics as a strategy to improve their performance on upcoming national …
Will I Get Covid? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil
In these polarized and challenging times, not even perceptions of personal risk are immune to partisanship. This paper introduces …
Polarization, News Sharing, and Gatekeeping: A study of the Bolsonaro Election
The increasing importance of news sharing, and its effect on the routines, practices, and values described by the hierarchy of …
The Workers’ Party and Participatory Institutions: The Influence of Intra-party Dynamics in the Adoption of Participatory Budgeting
This article examines how the internal dynamics of the Brazilian Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) influences the …
More Participation, Greater Responsiveness? National Public Policy Conferences and the Quality of Democracy in Brazil
Using the dimension of responsiveness as its object of investigation, the following article aims to determine whether democratic …
The Workers' Party in the Chamber of Deputies: the evolution of the socioeconomic and territorial bases (1994–2014)
This article analyzes the evolution of the Workers’ Party’s (PT) electoral bases in the disputes for the Chamber of Deputies between …
Democracy and participation. Democratic innovations and participatory routee in Brazil
The current political debate on the theme democracy is marked by various questions about the functioning, social legitimacy, and …