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2026 Publications
Our faculty and researchers continue to advance the field through a wide range of publications and scholarly work. Recent articles, book chapters, conference papers, and emerging research highlight innovative approaches across communication, information science, technology, public health, and related areas.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
Pavlik, J. V. (2025). Algorithmic innovations in journalism. In A. Sarısakaloğlu & M. Löffelholz (Eds.), The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism. Wiley-Blackwell.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Bettivia, R., Cheng, Y., & Gryk, M. R. (2026). 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 & Technology, 77(1), 92–107. https://doi-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/10.1002/asi.25015
Garimella, K. (2026). Political manipulation of the Israel-Hamas conflict on WhatsApp in India. International Journal of Communication, 20, 22. https://doi.org/10.65476/h48ex552
Kohler, R. E., Wagner, R. B., Greene, K., Btoush, R., Kantor, L., & Jimenez, M. E. (2026). Developing an mHealth intervention to increase HPV vaccine confidence among Black families. Behavioral Medicine, 52(1), 28-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2025.2513322
Mosallaei, A., Wang, L., & Ognyanova, K. (2025). From politics to entertainment: Exploring “news finds me” perceptions across news topics [Article]. Social Media and Society, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251382442
Perlis, R. H., Gunning, F. M., Usla, A., Santillana, M., Baum, M. A., Druckman, J. N., Ognyanova, K., & Lazer, D. (2026). Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults. JAMA Network Open, 9(1), e2554820-e2554820. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.54820
Perlis, R. H., Ramachandiran, A. K., Verhaak, P. F., Santillana, M., Baum, M. A., Druckman, J. N., Ognyanova, K., & Lazer, D. (2026). Antidepressant use among American adults in a 50-state survey. BMJ Mental Health, 29(1), e302287. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-302287
Petre, C. (2025). Data-driven editorial? Considerations for working with audience metrics. In The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice (pp. 299-303). https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462989511_CH42
ACCEPTED / IN-PRESS CITATIONS (NOT YET PUBLISHED)
Salmi-Niklander, K., Rantanen, S., & Saramo, S. (Eds.). (2026). Writing and reading European Migrant Belonging in Early 20th century North America. Migration Institute of Finland. [including a chapter by Dalbello, M.] https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/writing-and-reading-european-migrant-belonging-in-early-20th-cent/
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hart, P. S., Feldman, L., Choi, S., & Zhang, A. L. (2026). Unequal risks, unequal responses: Differential effects of emphasizing race versus class disparities in news stories about climate impacts. Science Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470251397919
Krahn, S., Weber, M., Harkema, M., Acosta, R., Greenberg, M., Mayer, H., & Kosson, D. (2026). Developing a process for collaboration-based siting of a federal consolidated interim storage facility in the United States: Learning from communities living with legacy waste [Article]. Nuclear Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2025.2561198
Lemish, D., Elias, N., & Nimrod, G. (2026). Antecedent and intervening factors challenging mediation of children’s media use: A case study of grandmothers in Israel. Journal of Children and Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2026.2624804
Seo, J., & Ammari, T. (2026). Governance, technology, and the limits of digital solidarity economies: A South Korean case study. Internet Policy Review, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.14763/2026.1.2068
Xue, L., Rahman, A. M. M., Senteio, C. R., & Singh, V. K. (2026). Automated detection of stigmatizing language in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) using a multi-stage transfer learning approach [Article]. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 33(2), 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaf193
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Akter, I., Singh, V. K., & Atrey, P. K. (2025). Forecasting “neg storms”: Time-aware modeling of toxic situations in social media. 2025 International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM).
REPOSITORIES
Ammari, T., Chen, M., Zaman, S. M. M., & Garimella, K. (2026). Learning to live with AI: How students develop AI literacy through naturalistic ChatGPT interaction. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20749
Nemani, H. & Garimella, K. (2026). Large-scale multimodal content analysis and annotation with vision-language models. https://gvrkiran.github.io/content/WhatsApp_Multimodal_Analysis.pdf
Vaidya, A. & Garimella, K. (2026). Quantifying the illicit ecosystem of betting apps in India. https://gvrkiran.github.io/content/Betting_apps_India.pdf
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
Jung, W., Benotsmane, R., Stoeffler, Q., Kim, A. H., Ghadimi, S., Hosseini, M., Ntarlagiannis, D., Ammari, T., Lu, Y., & Steiner, J. (2025). Contextualized poverty targeting with multimodal spatial data and machine learning in Brazzaville, Congo. Cities, 170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106429
Ramachandiran, A. K., Gunning, F., Santillana, M., Baum, M. A., Verhaak, P. F., Druckman, J. N., Ognyanova, K., Lazer, D., & Perlis, R. H. (2026). Sociodemographic disparities, healthcare system trust, and social support in mental health treatment among U.S. adults with depressive or anxiety symptoms. Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 13, 100166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjmad.2026.100166
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BOOK CHAPTERS & ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Bolden, G. B., & Shirokov, A. (2026). CA and intercultural communication. The Routledge handbook of conversation analysis. Routledge.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Apers, S., Beullens, K., Greene, K., Vranken, S., & Geusens, F. (2026). Beyond smoke and mirrors: Investigating the effectiveness of a media literacy intervention on adolescents’ media literacy and smoking and vaping behaviors. 76th Annual ICA Conference, Location: Cape Town, ZA.
Chen, Y., Singh, V. K., Ma, J., & Tang, R. (2026). CounterBench: Evaluating and improving counterfactual reasoning in large language models. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(36) 30350–30358. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i36.40287
Sudhamshu, H., Sharma, K., Goyal, T., Offer-Westort, M., & Garimella, K. (2026). Evaluating peer fact-checking on WhatsApp. CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791861
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Fadem, S. J., Hudson, S. V., Crabtree, B. F., Howard, J., Hemler, J. R., Ferrante, J., Mikesell, L., April-Sanders, A. K., Bator, A., & O’Malley, D. M. (2026). Using co-design to develop actionable strategies to identify and follow-up on breast cancer survivors in primary care. BMC Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-026-14538-7
Fu, J. S. (2026). A blessing in disguise: Logic (in)compatibility, centrality, and social innovation in hybrid social ventures. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587261435951
Gupta, M., Williams, A. M., Mikesell, L., Crabtree, B. F., & Nguyen, A. M. (2026). How they are making it work: Behavioral health consultant perspectives on the integration of behavioral health into primary care. Families, Systems, & Health, 44(1), 50–66. https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0001034
Heinert, S. W., Ahmed, M. I., Grullon, K., Oh, S., Ohman Strickland, P., Levy, P., Heckman, C. J., Greene, K., Crabtree, B. F., & Hudson, S. V. (2026). A mixed-methods pilot study of a youth-led digital hypertension education intervention among parent-youth dyads. Health Education and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981261425263
Jindani, A., & Matsaganis, M. (2026). ‘We were hungry for information’: Communicative resilience and storytelling networks among minority-owned micro-businesses during COVID-19. Journal of Applied Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2026.2642738
Johnson, A. R., Longfellow, G. A., Lee, C. N., Ormseth, B., Skolnick, G. B., Politi, M. C., Rivera, Y. M., & Myckatyn, T. (2026). Correction: Social media as a platform for cancer care decision-making among women: Internet survey-based study on trust, engagement, and preferences (JMIR cancer (2025) 11 (e64724) DOI: 10.2196/64724). JMIR Cancer, 12, https://doi.org/10.2196/87683
Jung, W., Kim, A. H., Hung, Y., Chear, C., Shah, V., & Ammari, T. (2026). Digital pulse of development: Leveraging social media discourse for poverty analysis. Information Processing & Management, 63(7, Part A), 104579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104579
Kirasur, N., & Paris, B. (2026). Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70073
Lai, C., & Fu, J. S. (2026). Understanding hybridity, representational networks, and resilience enactment through social media communication. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261432708
Lu, A. J., & Sun, Y. (2026). Ubiquitous lingering technologies: What's left behind by the past “proximate futures”? Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1145/3789676
McLaren, R. M., Solomon, D. H., Knobloch, L. K., & Theiss, J. A. (2026). The study of relational turbulence theory in families: Reflections on the past and visions for the future. Journal of Family Communication, 0(0), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2026.2658450
Nnaji, C., Abraczinskas, M., Calhoun, K., D’Alonzo, K., Cuevas, K. M., Glassman, N. R., Key, K., Senteio, C. R., & Strelnick, H. (2026). Beyond acknowledgments: Community authorship as a necessary shift toward equity in scholarly writing and publishing. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 20(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2026.a987067
Wu, Y., Ross, N., & Kim, S. (2026). Providing tech support as care work among care workers in assisted living facilities: Qualitative interview study. JMIR Aging, 9, https://doi.org/10.2196/80272
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BOOKS
Potter, J., & Hepburn, A. (2026). Emotionography: Theory, research, and practice. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000498-000
BOOK CHAPTERS & ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Lemish, D. (2026). Carolyn the brave: Five lessons from a trailblazer. In Unwana Samuel Akpan (Ed.), Moving the marginalized to the center: Dr. Carolyn M. Byerly’s research and pedagogy (pp. 77–83). Peter Lang AG.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Acker, A., Struett, T., Tian, Y., & Finn, M. (2026). Platformization of research data infrastructure: A decadal analysis of scientific data management plans. Big Data and Society, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261431593
Frluckaj, H., Acker, A., Smith, A. D. R., & Howison, J. (2026). Participation in the archive of open source software: An interdisciplinary literature review. Information & Culture, 61(1), 43–67. https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.00034
Jhaver, S. (2026). Interpreting algorithmic information cues: User sensemaking of search autocomplete moderation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70092
Jones, H. E., & Theiss, J. A. (2026). A longitudinal and dyadic study of communal coping and relational turbulence among surviving parents and emerging adult children after the death of a partner/parent. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261449286
Joshi, S., Mehta, M. A., Mendoza, M., Rivera, Y. M., & Singh, V. K. (2026). Differences in safety risks across languages in health-relevant queries: Vulnerability analysis of large language model responses. JMIR Formative Research, 10, Article e87465. https://doi.org/10.2196/87465
Mason, S., & Ammari, T. (2026). Racism, resistance, and Reddit: How popular culture sparks online reckonings. Information, Communication & Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2026.2655885
Mikesell, L., Singh, S., Singh, V., Ramachandran, U., Moorthy, L., & Gaur, S. (2026). Incorporating the culture-centered approach to support engagement of minoritized youth in mental health communication research. Western Journal of Communication, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2026.2669337
Park, J. K., Yu, P., Krishnan, V., Li, H., Reddy, L. A., & Singh, V. K. (2026). Designing psychologically grounded artificial intelligence for supporting bystander-based cyberaggression intervention: Mixed methods exploratory study. JMIR Formative Research, 10(1), Article e84391. https://doi.org/10.2196/84391
Pavlik, J. V., & Fallica, S. J. (2026). Dr. Pamela Pruitt, keynote address: From Motown to metamorphosis: A fireside chat on music, communication, and change. Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association, 2025, Article 1. https://docs.rwu.edu/nyscaproceedings/vol2025/iss1/1
Perlis, R. H., Gunning, F. M., Uslu, A., Santillana, M., Baum, M. A., Druckman, J. N., Ognyanova, K., & Lazer, D. (2026). Emulated trial of artificial intelligence use and subsequent depressive outcomes in a survey of US adults. BMJ Mental Health, 29(1), Article e302609. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2026-302609
Perry, Y., Almuzaini, A. A., Adamson, A. S., Dasgeb, B., Foran, D. J., & Singh, V. K. (2026). Fairness aware subset selection for advancing equity in skin cancer detection. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 33(5), 1009–1017. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocag028
Sun, Y., Ma, X., & Lu, A. J. (2026). In the meantime of informal care: Navigating temporal tensions in timebanking. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 10(2), Article CSCW020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3788056
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Ammari, T., Khondoker, Z., Wang, Y., & Roda, N. (2026). Beyond the silence: How men navigate infertility through digital communities and data sharing. CHI ’26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 1381. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790887
Dangol, A., Kotiyal, S., Wolfe, R., Bowers, A. J., Vigil, A., Yip, J., Kientz, J. A., Shahid, S., Yeh, T., Cho, V., & Davis, K. (2026). Relief or displacement? How teachers are negotiating generative AI's role in their professional practice. CHI ‘26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 45. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791904
Garimella, K., Karekurve-Ramachandra, V., & Collis, A. (2026). Personal experience and public support for internet shutdowns in rural India. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 20(1) 826–850. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42669
Kim, S., Shivangula, P., & Gao, G. (2026). Technology use in community work: Operational realities and implications for smart cities. CHIIR 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information, 183–192. https://doi.org/10.1145/3786304.3788845
Liu, Y., Rahimian, M. A., & Garimella, K. (2026). Structural dynamics of harmful content dissemination on WhatsApp. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 20(1) 1505–1517. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42709
Lu, A. J. (2026). Confronting the discursive-material power of storyboards: Toward participatory storyboarding. CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 289. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790610
Lu, A. J., Ackerman, M. S., Rowe, Z., & Dillahunt, T. R. (2026). Counter-visual artifacts: Negotiating surveillance and carceral visuality in public housing through videovoice. CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 904. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790646
Lu, A. J., Chen, Y., & Lin, C. K. (2026). Everyday design with surrounds: Rehearsing alternatives amid urban sociotechnical changes. CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 521. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791133
Lu, A. J., & Crutcher, C. (2026). Rethinking knowledge sharing as (re)orientations through intergenerational participatory speculative design. CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 423. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790705
Zaman, S. M. M., & Garimella, K. (2026). Disagreement is disappearing on U.S. cable debate shows. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 20(1) 2652–2675. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42773
REPOSITORIES
Ammari, T. (2026). When sounds hurt and voices aren't heard: An experience report on misophonia, sensory trauma, and trauma-informed design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09796
Feldman, J., Gallos, L., Wang, H., Menkov, V., & Kantor, P. (2026). Benefits of co-learning with an AI agent. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bx5q4_v2
Mehedi Zaman, S. M. &., Couto, J., & Garimella, K. (2026). Demographic divides in political content exposure on Facebook. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03962
Nayak, G., Shahid, F., Garimella, K., & Vashistha, A. (2026). Creating group rules with AI: Human-AI collaboration in WhatsApp moderation. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12613
Wolfe, R., & Dangol, A. (2026). Cheap expertise: Mapping and challenging industry perspectives in the expert data gig economy. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK ’26), June 22–25, 2026, Linz, Austria. http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03295
Zaman, S. M. M., & Garimella, K. (2026). Inferential privacy leakage in anonymized conversational AI logs. http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23820
2025 SC&I Publications
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