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Connective democracy: A new approach to fighting political divisiveness
This special issue explores connective democracy, a new theoretical approach to fighting and understanding political polarization and …
Masullo GM, Riedl MJ
Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care
Early career researchers (ECR) in communication and media research face increasing problems and stressors due to systemic challenges in …
Brown M, Lukito J, Pruden ML, Riedl MJ (all authors contributed equally)
Lodging complaints against platform power: How Lebanese journalists and activists experience reporting mechanisms, platform failures, and techno-alienation
Since Western technology platforms began colonizing online spaces, they have neglected Majority World populations, including those in …
El-Masri A, Riedl MJ, Trauthig IK, Woolley SC
“I get suppressed:” Pro- and anti-abortion activists’ folk theories of platform governance and shadowbanning
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federal right to abortion access in the country. Ensuing disparate abortion legalization …
Riedl MJ, Martin ZC, Woolley S
Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States
Using data from a conjoint experiment in three countries (Brazil, n = 2,038; Germany, n = 2,012, and the United States, n = 2,005), …
Masullo GM, Wilhelm C, Lee T, Gonçalves JFF, Riedl, MJ, Stroud, NJ
Using Facebook Messenger versus Groups for news engagement
For online news organizations trying to improve audience engagement strategies, Facebook Groups and Messenger chats constitute …
Murray C, Riedl MJ, Stroud NJ (first two authors contributed equally)
Infrastructural platform violence: How women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon experience abuse on WhatsApp
Technology-facilitated abuse and violence disproportionately affect marginalized people. While researchers have explored this issue in …
Riedl MJ, El-Masri A, Trauthig IK, Woolley S
Platformed antisemitism on Twitter: Anti-Jewish rhetoric in political discourse surrounding the 2018 U.S. Midterm Election
What does antisemitism look like in the context of political discussions on Twitter? In this article, we introduce the notion of …
Riedl MJ, Joseff K, Soorholtz S, Woolley S
Promises and perils of automated journalism: Algorithms, experimentation, and ‘teachers of machines’ in China and the United States
Automated tools for parsing and communicating information have increasingly become associated with the production of journalistic …
Jia C, Riedl MJ, Woolley S (first two authors contributed equally)
How pro- and anti-abortion activists use encrypted messaging apps in post-Roe America
In a post-Roe America, abortion-rights activists are scrambling to protect reproductive rights. Communication on open social media …
Martin ZC, Riedl MJ, Woolley S