Publications

Work in Progress

These papers are currently under review or in advanced preparation.

  • Gender Differences in Demanding Moderation (with Y. Theocharis & S. Kosmidis) Currently under review in Political Behavior. [Preprint]

  • Mapping Elite Interconnections: Using Wikidata and Wikipedia for Social Network Analysis (with D. Tisch) Conditional Accept in Soziale Welt (Special Issue on Computational Social Science).

  • Systemic Toxicity Inference Drives Discourse Withdrawal Across 10 Democracies (with F. Quint & Y. Theocharis)

  • Democratic Dissatisfaction Erodes the Spiral of Silence in Online Discourse (with F. Quint, J. Zilinsky, Y. Theocharis, & S. Kosmidis)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2025

  • Influence of Hate Speech About Refugees in Search Algorithms on Political Attitudes New Media & Society, 27(8), 4865-4890. [PDF] | [DOI]

  • Content Warning: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression (with Y. Theocharis, S. Kosmidis, J. Zilinsky, F. Quint) TUM Think Tank. [PDF]

2024

  • Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media (with J. Zilinsky, S. Kosmidis, Y. Theocharis) American Political Science Review, 118(4), 1895-1912. [PDF] | [DOI]

  • Justifying an Invasion: When is Disinformation Successful? (with J. Zilinsky, Y. Theocharis, et al.) Political Communication, 41(6), 965-986. [PDF] | [DOI]

  • Dynamics in Search Engine Query Suggestions for European Politicians (with F. Haak, S.-O. Proksch, P. Schaer) Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. [PDF] | [DOI]

  • Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Online News Consumption (with S. Jin, J. Zilinsky, Y. Theocharis) Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 4. [PDF] | [DOI]

  • Health Consequences of a Death Threat: How Terrorist Attacks Impact Drinking (with S. Sattler) Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 24(1), 1-20. [PDF] | [DOI]

2022

  • Memories of a Death Threat: Negative Consequences of Unconscious Thoughts About a Terrorist Attack on Attitudes Towards Alcohol (with S. Sattler) OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 86(2), 668-687. [DOI]

2021

  • Biased Representation of Politicians in Google and Wikipedia Search? Political Communication, 38(4), 447-478. [DOI]

2019

  • As the Tweet, so the Reply? Gender Bias in Digital Communication with Politicians (with A. Mertens, A. Rozyjumayeva, J. Wäckerle) Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. (Best Paper Award) [PDF] | [DOI]

Book Chapters

  • The Influence of Search Engines on Political Opinion Formation (2026, Forthcoming) In: Digital Society, edited by M. Anastasiadis & C. Thimm.

  • Scraping and Dictionary-Based Analysis of Politicians’ Wikipedia Articles (2025) In: Quantitative Text Analysis Using R, edited by J. Bernauer & A. Wohlmann. SAGE.