Publications
Most recent peer-reviewed journal articles & book chapters (see CV for full publication record before 2020). If you need access to any of them, feel free to contact me for a copy.
Journal articles
2025
- Kalogeropoulos, A., Mont’Alverne, C., Rossini, P., & Rori, L. (2025). Examining the implications of different news avoidance practices during elections in Greece and Brazil . Information, Communication & Society, 1–19.
- Tabor, C. D., Kalogeropoulos, A., & Rossini, P. (2025). News is not made for me: A novel scale for measuring audience alienation from news and its outcomes . Journalism, 0(0).
- Rossini, P., Stromer-Galley, J., Baptista, E. A., & Veiga de Oliveira, V. (2025). Discussions That Divide: The Interplay Between Experiencing Uncivil Conversations and Politically Motivated Avoidance on WhatsApp and Facebook . Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 1–17.
- Rossini, P., & Kalogeropoulos, A. (2025). Don’t talk to strangers? The role of network composition, WhatsApp groups, and partisanship in explaining beliefs in misinformation about COVID-19 in Brazil . Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 22(1), 113–130.
2024
- Stromer-Galley, J., & Rossini, P. (2024). Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 21(4), 410–423.
- Rossini, P., Southern, R., Harmer, E., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2024). Unleash Britain’s Potential (To Go Negative): Campaign Negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections on Facebook . Political Studies Review, 22(3), 449–470.
2023
- Kalogeropoulos, A., & Rossini, P. (2023). Unraveling WhatsApp group dynamics to understand the threat of misinformation in messaging apps . New Media & Society, 27(3), 1625-1650.
- Novotná, M., Macková, A., & Rossini, P. (2023). Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook . Social Media + Society, 9(4).
- Rossini, P. (2023). Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research . Political Communication, 40(5), 676–680.
- Rossini, P. (2023). Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications . Political Communication, 40(3), 361–366.
- Rossini, P., Mont’Alverne, C., & Kalogeropoulos, A. (2023). Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election . Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.
2022
- Rossini, P. (2022). Beyond Incivility: Understanding Patterns of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk . Communication Research, 49(3), 399–425.
- Stromer-Galley, J., Rossini, P., Hemsley, J., Bolden, S., & McKernan, B. (2022). Political Messaging Over Time: A Comparison of U.S. Presidential Candidate Facebook Posts and Tweets in 2016 and 2020 . Social Media + Society, 7(4).
- McKernan, B., Stromer-Galley, J., Korsunska, A., Bolden, S., Rossini, P., & Hemsley, J. (2022). A human-centered design approach to creating tools to help journalists monitor digital political ads: Insights and challenges. Digital Journalism, 11(3), 411–430.
2021
- Rossini, P., Stromer-Galley, J., & Korsunska, A. (2021). More than “Fake News”?: The media as a malicious gatekeeper and a bully in the discourse of candidates in the 2020 U.S. presidential election . Journal of Language and Politics, 20(5), 676–695.
- Rossini, P. (2021). More Than Just Shouting? Distinguishing Interpersonal-Directed and Elite-Directed Incivility in Online Political Talk . Social Media + Society, 7(2).
- Rossini, P., Stromer-Galley, J., Baptista, É. A., & Oliveira, V. V. (2021). Dysfunctional Information Sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook: The Role of Political Talk, Cross-Cutting Exposure and Social Corrections . New Media & Society, 23(8), 2430–2451.
- Green, M., Musi, E., Rowe, F., Charles, D., Pollock, F. D., Kypridemos, C., Morse, A., Rossini, P., et al. (2021). Identifying how COVID-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study . Big Data & Society.
- Rossini, P., Baptista, É. A., Oliveira, V. V., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2021). Digital Media Landscape in Brazil: Political (Mis)Information and Participation on Facebook and WhatsApp . Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 1.
- Rossini, P., & Maia, R. C. M. (2021). Characterizing Disagreement in Online Political Talk: Examining Incivility and Opinion Expression on News Websites and Facebook in Brazil . Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 17(1), 90–104.
- Stromer-Galley, J., Rossini, P., et al. (2021). Flexible versus structured support for reasoning: Enhancing analytical reasoning through a flexible analytic technique . Intelligence and National Security, 36(2), 279–298.
2020
- Rossini, P., Sturm-Wikerson, H., & Johnson, T. J. (2020). A wall of incivility? Public discourse and immigration in the 2016 U.S. primaries . Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 17(4), 1–15.
- Rossini, P., Stromer-Galley, J., & Zhang, F. (2020). Exploring the relationship between campaign discourse on Facebook and the public's comments: A case study of incivility during the 2016 U.S. presidential election . Political Studies, 69(1), 89–107.
Book chapters
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- Rossini, P. (forthcoming). Feature, Not Bug: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Online Incivility. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy.
- Rossini, P. (2025). Incivility. In A. Nai, M. Gromping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Political Communication, pp. 189–192. Edgar Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301447.vol2.00048
- Rossini, P. (2024). Incivility and Polarization: Causes and Consequences Among Politicians and the Public. In D. Lilleker, D. Jackson, B. Kalsnes, C. Mellado, & F. Trevisan (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning, pp. 427–437. Routledge.
- Rossini, P. (2020). Poisoning the Well of the Online Public Sphere? Towards a Better Understanding of Incivility in Online Political Talk. In W. Dutton (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Digital Politics. Edgar Elgar Publishing.
- Rossini, P., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2020). Citizen deliberation online. In B. Grofman, E. Suhay, & A. Trechsel (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion. Oxford University Press.
- Rossini, P. (2019). Toxic for whom? Examining the targets of uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. In P. Moy & D. Matheson (Eds.), Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication, pp. 221–242. Peter Lang.
- Rossini, P. (2019). Disentangling uncivil and intolerant discourse. In R. Boatright, T. Shaffer, S. Sobieraj, & D. Young (Eds.), A Crisis of Civility? Contemporary Research on Civility, Incivility, and Political Discourse, pp. 142–157. Routledge.
- Rossini, P. G. C., & Maia, R. C. M. (2016). Is political participation online effective? A case study of the e-democracy initiative conducted by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Politics and Social Activism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (Reprinted from Handbook of Research on Advanced ICT Integration for Governance and Policy Modeling), pp. 844–865. IGI Global. doi
- Rossini, P. G. C., & Maia, R. C. M. (2014). Is political participation online effective? A case study of the e-democracy initiative conducted by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. In P. Sonntagbauer, K. Nazemi, S. Sonntagbauer, & D. Burkhardt (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Advanced ICT Integration for Governance and Policy Modeling, pp. 341–362. IGI Global. doi
- Rossini, P. G. C., & Queiroz, A. J. M. (2013). Interaction agency on social network profiles: An approach of semiotic niches on virtual identities. In N. V. Orden (Ed.), Navigating Cybercultures, pp. 21–30. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.