Research Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Ahmed, E., & Ahmed, S. (2025). Social media addiction, personality traits, and disorders: An overview of recent literature. Current opinion in psychiatry, 38(1), 72-77.| https://journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry/abstract/2025/01000/social_media_addiction,_personality_traits,_and.9.aspx

Du, X., & Costello, K. (2025). Information snowballing: Information practices in the context of sustainable food practices. Journal of documentation. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2024-0200

Gigliotti, R. A., Blank Shavelsky, M., Goldthwaite, C., Spear, S. E., & Waran, V. (2025). Retrospective review of leadership development programs: Alumni perceptions of value, influence, and organizational outcomes. Journal of Leadership Studies. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21917

Green, J. O. N., McCabe, S., Shugars, S., Chwe, H., Horgan, L., Cao, S., & Lazer, D. (2025). Curation bubbles. American Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000984

Haverfield, M. C., Li, Y., Pines, R., Titova, D., & Theiss, J. A. (2025). Applying dynamic dyadic systems to explore features of relationship-centered care among Spanish and Non-Spanish speaking patients. Patient Education and Counseling, 134, 108650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108650

Koskan, A., Venetis, M. K., & Kim, S. W. (2025). Pilot testing digital stories to influence college men's intentions to vaccinate against HPV. Journal of Cancer Education: The official journal of the American association for cancer education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-024-02563-1

Lemish, D. (2025). Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on what JOCAM at 18 reveals about our field. Journal of Children and Media, 19(1), 102–106. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2438669

Matsaganis, M. D., Petraki, M., & Balourdos, D. (2025). Poor employment conditions and immigrant health in Europe. Social Sciences, 14(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14010002

Perlis, R., Uslu, A., Schulman, J., Gunning-Dixon, F., Santillana, M., Baum, M., Druckman, J., Ognyanova, K., & Lazer, D. (2025). Irritability and social media use in us adults. JAMA network open, 8, e2452807. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.52807

Venetis, M., & Hull, S. (2025). Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions. Patient education and counseling, 108647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108647

Venetis, M. K., Hull, S. J., Nolan-Cody, H., Mai, S., Salas, M. J., Alvarez, C., Austin, J. T., & Shields, L. (2025). Racial equity in and through medical interaction scholarship: A scoping review. Patient education and counseling, 108648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108648 [This work was supported by Rutgers School of Communication & Information 2022 intensive literature review support funding.]

BOOK CHAPTERS

De Keyzer, F., Geusens, F., Fitzgerald, K., Greene, K., & Beullens, K. (2025). Creating active involvement interventions to effectively reduce adolescent health risk behaviors. In G-J. de Brujin & H. Vandebosch (Eds.), Health, Media, and Communication, 15, 411. Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

Pavlik, J. V. (2025). Considering the pedagogical benefits of generative artificial intelligence in higher education: Applying constructivist learning theory. In K. Pulk & R. Koris (Eds.), Generative AI in Higher Education (pp. 46-58). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035326020.00014

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 

Weber, M. S., Acosta, R., Harkema, M., & Krahn, S. (2024). Community comments and social media interactions as a basis for informing consent-based siting of spent nuclear fuel facilities. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 131(1), 284-287. https://www.ans.org/pubs/transactions/article-56973/

REPOSITORIES

Rizwan, N., Deb, N., Roy, S., Solanki, V. S., Garimella, K., & Mukherjee, A. (2025). Dynamics of toxicity in political podcasts. https://arxiv.org/html/2501.12640v1

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

Aronson, M., & Malilang, C.S. (2025). (Not) The Last Unicorn: Nonfiction in Children’s Literature. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 63(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2025.a952081

Cheng, Y. Y. (2025). Under whose wings? A conceptual model for incorporating historical sovereignty information in biodiversity data. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(2), 428-446. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24848

Cheng, Y.Y., & Dinh, L. (2025). An experiment on the impact of relation types towards taxonomy alignment problems. Information Processing & Management, 62(3), 104036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2024.104036

Jhaver, S. (2025). Bans vs. warning labels: Examining bystanders’ support for community-wide moderation interventions. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715116

McGregor, S. C., Coe, K., Saldaña, M., Griffin, R. A., Chavez-Yenter, D., Huff, M., McDonald, A., Smith, T.R., White, K.C., Valenzuela, S., Riles, J. M. (2025). Dialogue on difference: Identity and political communication. Communication Monographs, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2025.2459648

Rivera, Y. M., Corpuz, K., & Karver, T. S. (2025a). Engagement with and use of health information on social media among US Latino individuals: National cross-sectional survey study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27. https://doi.org/10.2196/59387

Montalbano, L. L., & Stoerger, S. (2025). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the future of pedagogy and Assessment in Higher Education. Assessment Update, 37(1), 4–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/au.30425

Perlis, R.H., Uslu, A., Schulman, J., Gunning, F.M., Santillana, M., Baum, M., Druckman, J., Ognyanova, K., Lazer, D. (2025). Irritability and Social Media Use in US Adults. JAMA Network Open, 8(1), e2452807. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.52807

Wagner, T. L., Montague, K., Kitzie, V. L., Radford, M., & Bishop, B. W. (2025). Learning from digital disorientations: Navigating virtual and physical spaces in library and information science research during lockdowns and beyond. Library & Information Science Research, 47(1), 101340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2025.101340

Walters, A., & Marchi, R. (2025). From local tragedy to national news: Twitter, anti-immigrant discourse, and the weaponization of public grief online. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2025.2466556

REPORTS

Ognyanova, K., & Singh, V. (2025). AI trust and knowledge in America (Report #2). National AI Opinion Monitor. https://naiom.net/public-reports/NAIOM%20Report%2002%20AI%20Trust%20Knowledge.pdf

BOOKS

Gay, R. (2025). The portable feminist reader. Penguin Classics.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Britton, O., Hull, S. J., Xu, M., & Scott, R. K. (2025). Identifying provider-level barriers to provision of PrEP services for cisgender women: Application of the disclosure decision-making model. Journal of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2478919

Johnson, A. R., Longfellow, G. A., Lee, C. N., Ormseth, B., Skolnick, G. B., Politi, M. C., Rivera, Y. M., & Myckatyn, T. (2025). Social media as a platform for cancer care decision-making among women: Internet survey-based study on trust, engagement, and preferences. JMIR cancer, 11, e64724. https://doi.org/10.2196/64724

Katz, V. S., Jordan, A. B., & Ognyanova, K. (2025). Digital inequalities and U.S. undergraduate outcomes over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 20(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319000

Lee, L. E., Venetis, M. K., Broadbridge, E., Devine, K. A., & Greene, K. (2025). Support person holding back information in medical interactions: The role of empathic communication and disclosure efficacy. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2484256

Park, J. K., Singh, V. K., & Wisniewski, P. (2025). Current landscape and future directions for mental health conversation agents for youth: Scoping review. JMIR medical informatics, 13, e62758. https://doi.org/10.2196/62758

BOOK CHAPTERS

Shugars, S., & Argyle, L. P. (2025). 23: Computational political psychology. In E.C. Busby, C.F. Karpowitz & C.J. Wong (Eds.), Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology (pp. 492-512). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803924830.00033

REPOSITORIES

Ammari, T., Gutowska, A., Ziff, J., Randazzo, C., & Subramonyam, H. (2025). From the CDC to emerging infectious disease publics: The long-now of polarizing and complex health crises. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.20262

Kirasur, N., & Jhaver, S. (2025). Understanding the prevalence of caste: A critical discourse analysis of caste-based marginalization on X. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.02810v2

Randazzo, C., & Ammari, T. (2025). Kintsugi-inspired design: Communicatively reconstructing identities online after trauma. https://arxiv.org/html/2503.17639v1

Randazzo, C., Kim, M.K., Kwestel, M., Doerfel, M.L., Ammari, T. (2025). “We’re losing our neighborhoods. We’re losing our community”: A comparative analysis of community discourse in online and offline public spheres. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07892

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Finn, M., Kim, Y., Ellis, R., Acker, A., Chaudhuri, B., & Wedlake, S. (2025). Forum: Oops? Interdisciplinary stories of sociotechnical error | Affective experiences of error. International Journal Of Communication, 19, 8. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23992

Jung, W., Sinha, A., Kim, A., Shah, V., Lu, Y., Ammari, T., & Lee, L. (2025). The last mile in remote sensing poverty prediction. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. https://doi.org/10.1145/3724422

Kranich, N. (2025). Libraries: Guardians of democracy. The Political Librarian, 8 (Special Edition), 171-175. https://doi.org/10.7936/pollib.9036

McFarlane, S. J., Leach, C., Williamson, L. D., Hull, S., Magsamen-Conrad, K., Wilkin, H., & Sastry, S. (2025). Dialogue on difference: Invisible bridges and barriers of community-engaged research. Communication Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2025.2475819

Scrivani, K., & Fu, J. S. (2025). A systematic review of post-traumatic stress disorder communication research: Implications for resilience communication and organizing. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2490315

Shugars, S., & Ha, E. (2025). The character of connection: Platform affordances and connective democracy. Social Media + Society, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251332427

BOOK CHAPTERS

Jordan, A. (2025). Joan Ganz Cooney: Television pioneer. In L. Steiner (Ed.), Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism. Rutgers University Press. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/junctures-in-womens-leadership-media-and-journalism/9781978834248/

Geeraert, F., Németh, M., Huc-Hepher, S., Weber, M.S., Winters, J., Schafer, V., Povroznik, N., De Wild, K., Rockembach, M., Aasman, S., Ma, X., Gebeil, S. (2025). Conversation 3: Communities. In Aasman, S., Ben-David, A. & Brügger, N. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies (1st ed., pp. 261-269). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003398998

Gigliotti, R.A., & Ruben, B.D. (2025). Leadership communication and social influence. In G. Jian & G.T. Fairhurst (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Organizational Leadership Communication (pp. 132-142). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003380115-12

Lemish, D. (2025). We need gender equality in children’s media. In L. Steiner & S. Eckert (Eds.), We Can Do Better: Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication (pp. 104-118). Rutgers University Press. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.36019/9781978838208/html

Weber, M.S. (2025). Information ecosystems through the lens of web archives. In Aasman, S., Ben-David, A. & Brügger, N. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies (1st ed., pp. 261-269). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003398998

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Hwang, A. H.-C., Bernstein, M. S., Sundar, S. S., Zhang, R., Horta Ribeiro, M., Lu, Y., Chang, S., Wu, T., Yang, A., Williams, D., Park, J. S., Ognyanova, K., Xiao, Z., Shaw, A., & Shamma, D. A. (2025). Human subjects research in the age of generative AI: Opportunities and challenges of applying LLM-simulated data to HCI studies. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716299

BOOKS

Lemish, D. (2025). Always an academic immigrant: A collective memoir. Rutgers University Press

BOOKS

Mitchelstein, E., Boczkowski, P.J., Wagner, M.C., Suenzo, F. (2025). The Patina of Distrust: What people do with misinformation. MIT Press.