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.

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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.