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The MediaWell citation library aggregates emerging and foundational research on topics related to media, technology, politics, and digital culture. In addition to peer-reviewed research, the library contains conference papers, reports, and news articles.

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Polarization and Political Manipulation

The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement

Author:

Stray, Jonathan; Baker, Ian; Beknazar-Yuzbashev, George; Budak, Ceren; Kamin, Julia; Rutherford, Kylan; Stalinski, Mateusz; Acosta, Tin; Bail, Chris; Bernstein, Michael; Brandt, Mark; Bruckman, Amy; Chhabra, Anshuman; De, Soham; Duskin, Kayla; Fish, Sara; Goldberg, Beth; Guess, Andy; Hadfield-Menell, Dylan; Haroon, Muhammed; Hossain, Safwan; Inzlicht, Michael; Jain, Gauri; Jiang, Yanchen; Landry, Alexander P.; Lelkes, Yph; Lu, Hongfan; Mason, Peter; McCoy, Jennifer; Milli, Smitha; Resnick, Paul; Saltz, Emily; Saveski, Martin; Schirch, Lisa; Spohn, Max; Srinivasan, Siddarth; Tatore, Alexis; Thorburn, Luke; Tucker, Joshua A.; Willer, Robb; Wojcieszak, Magdalena; Wüthrich, Manuel; Zheng, Sylvan

Year:

2026
Polarization and Political Manipulation

Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization

Author:

Piccardi, Tiziano; Saveski, Martin; Jia, Chenyan; Hancock, Jeffrey; Tsai, Jeanne L.; Bernstein, Michael S.

Publication:

Science

Year:

2025
Credibility and Trust

How civil society coalition-building affects information integrity during elections: evidence from four African countries

Author:

Madrid-Morales, Dani; Wasserman, Herman; Davies-Laubscher, Nicola; Sow, Fatoumata

Publication:

Information, Communication & Society

Year:

2026
Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance

Regulation by users – the crowdsourced adjudication entities and emerging regulabour on Douyin

Author:

Qiu, Yuanbo; Luo, Yunjuan

Publication:

Information, Communication & Society

Year:

2026
Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance

Reshaping platform governmentality: the curious case of the moderation strike on the stack exchange

Author:

Renard, Damien; Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Lambotte, François; Huhtamäki, Jukka; Del Fa, Sophie

Publication:

Information, Communication & Society

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

What is digital democracy?

Author:

Fuchs, Christian

Publication:

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

Year:

2026
Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance

Information Security Management: Cybersecurity Policy in the Media Space

Author:

Nyssankuatova, Dameli; Kassymova, Leila; Mamyrbekov, Nurmukhamed; Mukazhanova, Almira; Zholdybaeva, Saule

Publication:

Journal of Information Policy

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills

Author:

Rani, Anku; Danry, Valdemar; Liang, Paul Pu; Lippman, Andrew; Maes, Pattie

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

Local Wisdom and Pre-Bunking Strategies: Building Digital Resilience Against Misinformation in Indonesia

Author:

Luthfia, Amia; Angeline, Mia

Publication:

Media and Communication

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

Rethinking Misinformation: A Holistic Community Model for Youth Resilience through Socioemotional Learning and Sociocultural Design

Author:

Yip, Jason; Newman, Michele; Zhao, Runhua; Kim, Darae; Lim, Jan R.; Pedraja, Matthew Kyle; Sachdeva, Swati; Zheng, Xiaoyu; Zhou, Yifang; Coward, Chris; Lee, Jin Ha

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

Timing Matters: Designing Effective Corrections for Short-Form Video Misinformation

Author:

Gunasekara, Suwani; Sew, Cherie; Pareek, Saumya; Kelly, Ryan M.; Kostakos, Vassilis; Goncalves, Jorge

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

"That's another doom I haven't thought about": A User Study on AI Labels as a Safeguard Against Image-Based Misinformation

Author:

Höltervennhoff, Sandra; Ricker, Jonas; Raphael, Maike M.; Schwedes, Charlotte; Weil, Rebecca; Fischer, Asja; Holz, Thorsten; Schönherr, Lea; Fahl, Sascha

Year:

2026
False Narratives and their Contexts

Understanding the impact of misinformation on adolescents

Author:

Ma, Ili; Sultan, Mubashir; Kozyreva, Anastasia; van den Bos, Wouter

Publication:

Nature Human Behaviour

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

When collaboration fails: persuasion driven adversarial influence in multi agent large language model debate

Author:

Kraidia, Insaf; Qaddara, Iyas; Almutairi, Alhanof; Alzaben, Nada; Belhouari, Samir Brahim

Publication:

Scientific Reports

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

Taking the "wild" out of wildfires—harnessing information infrastructure data to predict, prevent, and prepare for the future

Author:

Naeem, Amna; Hicks, Anne; Ruano, Ana Lorena; Pilz, Jurgen; Unger, Jennifer B.; Aryal, Subhash; Annan, Esther; Lee, Juneseok; Al-Delaimy, Wael K.; Sikder, Iftikhar U.; Ullah, Kalim; Haque, Ubydul

Publication:

npj Environmental Social Sciences

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

Integration of artificial intelligence competencies into a holistic digital literacy framework for middle school education

Author:

Altamimi, Raghda; Al-Haija’a, Anas Abu

Publication:

Scientific Reports

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

A tool to measure the influence of social media on health behaviors: an exploratory study

Author:

Rethaber, Chloé; Mathieu, Clément; Fernandez de Grado, Gabriel; Offner, Damien

Publication:

BDJ Open

Year:

2026
Polarization and Political Manipulation False Narratives and their Contexts

How deceptive online networks reached millions in the US 2020 elections

Author:

Appel, Ruth E.; Kim, Young Mie; Pan, Jennifer; Xu, Yiqing; Nimmo, Ben; Thomas, Daniel Robert; Allcott, Hunt; Barberá, Pablo; Brown, Taylor; Crespo-Tenorio, Adriana; Dimmery, Drew; Freelon, Deen; Gentzkow, Matthew; González-Bailón, Sandra; Guess, Andrew M.; Iyengar, Shanto; Lazer, David; Malhotra, Neil; Moehler, Devra; Nyhan, Brendan; Settle, Jaime; Thorson, Emily; Tromble, Rebekah; Velasco Rivera, Carlos; Wilkins, Arjun; Wojcieszak, Magdalena; Xiong, Beixian; Kiewiet de Jonge, Chad; Franco, Annie; Mason, Winter; Stroud, Natalie Jomini; Tucker, Joshua A.

Publication:

Nature Human Behaviour

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

AraBLA: cross-layer enhanced AraBERT with BiLSTM and attention for Arabic fake news detection

Author:

Alrayzah, Asmaa; Alqhtani, Samar M.; Alrashidi, Bedour

Publication:

Scientific Reports

Year:

2026
Infrastructures and Methodologies

Spatiotemporal deep learning for real-time video-based deepfake detection using 3DCNN, 3DResNet, TCN, and VAE

Author:

Agrawal, Prateek; Pathak, Dharmendra; Madaan, Vishu; Verma, Pawan Kumar; Choo, Wou Onn

Publication:

Scientific Reports

Year:

2026