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

Smith, M. A., Shugars, S., Khanam, S., Mbonu, A., Lella, O. S., & Myers, C. L. (2025). The black pill: (re)conceptualizing the black right in the era of YouTube influencers. Social Media + Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251329078

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

Bratich, J. (2025). What can a body do(om)?: Fratriarchy’s affects and the capacities to break together. In G. Seigworth, M. Arthur, W. Truran, & C. Shomura (Eds.), Capacities to: Affect Up Against Fascism (pp. 111-118). Imbricate! Press. https://imbricate.press/wp-content/uploads/Capacities-To-Affect-Up-Against-Fascism.pdf

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 

Kim, S. Y., Oseitutu, I., & Ahmed, S. (2025). Understanding the needs, challenges, and strategies undocumented students have in pursuing higher education in the U.S. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

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

REPOSITORIES

Quintana-Mathe, A., Uslu, A.A., Radford, J., Druckman, J.N., Trujillo, K.L., Safarpour, A., Ognyanova, K., Baum, M.A., Schulman, J., Perlis, R.H., Santillana, M., Lazer, D. (2025). Using opt-in non-probability surveys for over-time state level estimates: The role of guardrails and data quality. https://osf.io/2hq9w

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

Garimella, K., & Chauchard, S. (2025). Whatsapp Explorer: A data donation tool to facilitate research on WhatsApp. Mobile Media & Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579251326809

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

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Bettivia, R., Cheng, Y.-Y., & Gryk, M. R. (2025). Usage of the term provenance in LIS literature: An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.25015

Broadbridge, E., Venetis, M. K., Devine, K. A., Lee, L. E., & Greene, K. (2025). Breast cancer patient experiences with and preferences for time alone with their cancer care team. Patient Education and Counseling, 138, 109178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109178

Cheng, Y. Y., & Dinh, L. (2025). Extracting geographic relations from large social media text data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2025.2510419

Fu, J.S., Wang, R., Scrivani, K. (2025). Internal and external sources of nonprofit innovativeness: A configurational approach. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21669

Horta Ribeiro, M., Jhaver, S., Cluet-I-Martinell, J., Reignier-Tayar, M., & West, R. (2025). Deplatforming norm-violating influencers on social media reduces overall online attention toward them. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), Article Cscw062. https://doi.org/10.1145/3710960

Kosterich, A., Saffer, A., Weber, M. S., & Kreiss, D. (2025). Network histories: Methods and measures for studying interdependence and interconnectedness within digital journalism. Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2505981

Rivera, Y. M., Moran, M. B., & Smith, K. C. (2025). Exploring the role of culture and cognitive heuristics in assessing the credibility of cancer (mis)information on Facebook among U.S. Latinos/as. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2498703

Stahlman, G., Yanovitzky, I., & Kim, M. (2025). Design, application, and actionability of US public health data dashboards: Scoping review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27, e65283. https://doi.org/10.2196/65283

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Wang, G., Singh, V.K., & Zhang, D. (2025). A mixed-methods study of wait time perception and discrepancy in technology-mediated mobility systems. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1145/371092

REPORT / WORKING PAPER

Matsaganis, M., & Yanovitzky, I. (2025). Core Competencies and Training Needs of Global Health Communication Professionals. A working paper prepared for Rutgers Global Health Institute. Rutgers University: School of Communication and Information. https://go.rutgers.edu/global-health-comm-competencies

REPOSITORIES

Ammari, T., Gutowska, A., Ziff, J., Randazzo, C., & Subramonyam, H. (2025). Retweets, receipts, and resistance: Discourse, sentiment, and credibility in public health crisis Twitter. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22032

Liu, Y., Rahimian, M.A., Garimella, K. (2025). Structural dynamics of harmful content dissemination on WhatsApp. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18099

Mason, S. & Ammari, T. (2025). Racism, resistance, and Reddit: How popular culture sparks online reckonings. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.21016

Seo, J. & Ammari, T. (2025). Pragmatic disengagement and culturally-situated non-use: Older Korean immigrants’ strategies for navigating digital noise. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18326

Shim, Y. & Jhaver, S. (2025). The pin of shame: Examining content creators’ adoption of pinning inappropriate comments as a moderation strategy. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14844

Garimella, K., Cintaquia, P., Constain, J.J.R., Nayak, B.K., Vashistha, A. (2025). Global patterns of viral content on WhatsApp. https://www.adityavashistha.com/uploads/2/0/8/0/20800650/viral-icwsm-2025.pdf

Vardhan, N.H., Kumuraguru, P., & Garimella, K. (2025). Analyzing patterns and influence of advertising in print newspapers. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10791

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Hill, S., Nemes, N., Montgomery, A. W., Scanlan, S. J., McNally, B., Tubiello, F. N., Aronczyk, M., Wood, T., Smith, T., & Kaupa, C. (2025). Testing the greenwashing assessment framework. Ecology and Society, 30(2), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16106-300231

Lane, J., & Rivera, Y. M. (2025). Leveraging digital spaces and datafication in communication research: contributions of digital qualitative fluidity to ethnographic interviewing. Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf017

Lee, J. Y., Ahn, E., Xu, A., Yang, Y., Chang, Y., Cha, H., & Ammari, T. (2025). Artificial intelligence in applied family research involving families with young children: A scoping review. Family Relations, 74(3), 1121–1145.
https://doi-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/10.1111/fare.13090

Ognyanova, K., Druckman, J. N., Schulman, J., Baum, M. A., Perlis, R. H., & Lazer, D. (2025). Information from social ties predicts conspiracy beliefs: Evidence from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. PNAS Nexus. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf193

BOOK CHAPTERS

Chayko, M. (2025). Using X to achieve classroom objectives: planning, implementation, and best practices. In B.N. Frisby & R. Kaufmann (Eds.), Teaching Communication, vol. IV: Pedagogical Resources (pp. 532-539). Cognella.

Chayko, M. (2025). The impact of emerging technologies. In B.N. Frisby & R. Kaufmann (Eds.), Teaching Communication, vol. IV: Pedagogical Resources (pp. 540-544). Cognella.

Chayko, M. (2025). The X cross-course activity: Using X to connect students across courses and institutions. In B.N. Frisby & R. Kaufmann (Eds.), Teaching Communication, vol. IV: Pedagogical Resources (pp. 545-547). Cognella.

Geary, D., Wang, T.R., & Scharp, K.M. (2025). Teaching how to create and test an interview guide using Netflix’s Love Is Blind. In B.N. Frisby & R. Kaufmann (Eds.), Teaching Communication, vol. IV: Pedagogical Resources (pp. 269-275). Cognella.

Gigliotti, R.A., & Shankman, M.L. (2025). Assessments and instruments. In D.M. Rosch, S.J. Allen, D.M. Jenkins (Eds.), Moving the Needle: What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Developing Leaders (pp. 377-388). Emerald Group Publishing.

Keith, S. & Mergerson, C. (2025). Introducing the media law course with artifacts: A first-day activity. In B.N. Frisby & R. Kaufmann (Eds.), Teaching Communication, vol. IV: Pedagogical Resources (pp. 643-646). Cognella.

Wang, T.R. & Scharp, K.M. (2025). “Our university mascot is missing!”: Teaching principles of interpersonal deception through an adaptation of the game Mafia. In B.N. Frisby & R. Kaufmann (Eds.), Teaching Communication, vol. IV: Pedagogical Resources (pp. 786-791). Cognella.

REPOSITORIES

Ammari, T., Chen, M., Zaman, S.M.M., Garimella, K. (2025). How students (really) use ChatGPT: Uncovering experiences among undergraduate students. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24126

Joy, K., Ammari, T., & Sheehan, A. (2025). Beyond the hype: Mapping uncertainty and gratification in AI assistant use. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09220

Seo, J., Womack, R., & Ammari, T. (2025). Intergenerational AI literacy in Korean immigrant families: Interpretive gatekeeping meets convenient critical deferment. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10197

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Hosamane, S., & Garimella, K. (2025). Hate Speech Campaigns in the 2016 Philippine Elections on Facebook. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19(1), 837-858. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35849

BOOK CHAPTERS

Chauchard, S., & Garimella, K. (2025). Collecting WhatsApp data for social science research: Challenges and a proposed solution. In S. Udupa & H. Wasserman (Eds.), WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech. NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479833276/whatsapp-in-the-world/

BOOKS

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