Political Research

A compilation of our research on social media for political engagement & polarization, misinformation, social movements and e-government.

Publications

Reports

  1. Dubois, E., Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Jacobson, J. (2018). Social Media and Political
    Engagement in Canada. Report. Ryerson University Social Media Lab.
    https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/9MCJJH

Journal Papers

  1. Recuero, R. & Gruzd, A. (2019). Cascatas de Fake News Políticas: Um estudo de caso no Twitter. Galáxia (São Paulo), (41), 31-47. DOI: 10.1590/1982-25542019239035
  2. Kwon, K.H. & Gruzd, A. (2017). Is Offensive Commenting Contagious Online? Examining Public vs. Interpersonal Swearing in Response to Donald Trump’s YouTube Campaign Videos. Internet Research, 24(4), 991-1010. DOI: 10.1108/IntR-02-2017-0072
  3. Gruzd, A. & Tsyganova, K. (2015). Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro- and Anti-Maidan Groups. Policy and Internet. DOI: 10.1002/poi3.91
  4. Gruzd, A. & Roy, J. (2014). Investigating Political Polarization on Twitter: A Canadian Perspective. Policy & Internet, 6(1), 28–45. DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI354

Book Chapters

  1. Del Valle, M. E., Wanless-Berk, A., Gruzd, A. & Mai, P. (2018). I Click, Therefore I am: Predicting Clicktivist-like Actions on Candidates’ Facebook Posts During the 2016 U.S. Primary Election. In Networks, Hacking, and Media – CITAMS@30: Now and Then and Tomorrow (Studies in Media and Communications, Volume 17) Emerald Publishing Limited, (pp.137–154). DOI: 10.1108/S2050-206020180000017008
  2. Gruzd, A. & O’Bright, B. (2016). Big data and political science: the case of Vkontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (pp. 645-661). SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.4135/9781473983847
  3. Gruzd, A., Mai, P. & Kampen, A. (2016). A How-To for Using Netlytic to Collect and Analyze Social Media Data: A Case Study of the Use of Twitter During the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (pp. 513-529). SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.4135/9781473983847
  4. Gruzd, A. & Roy, J. (2016). Social Media and Local Government in Canada: An Examination of Presence and Purpose. In M. Sobaci (Ed.), Social Media and Local Governments (Public Administration and Information Technology, Vol. 15) (pp. 79-84). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17722-9_5

Conference Papers in Proceedings

Conference Papers in Proceedings

  1. Recuero, R., Soares, F. B. & Gruzd, A. (2020). Hyperpartisanship, Disinformation and Political Conversations on Twitter: The Brazilian Presidential Election of 2018. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 14. (Virtual). DOI:10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7324
  2. Esteve Del Valle, M., Wanless-Berk, A., Gruzd, A. & Mai, P. (2018). Unpredictably Trump?: Predicting Clicktivist-like Actions on Trump’s Facebook Posts During the 2016 U.S. Primary Election. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society. New York, NY, USA. DOI: 10.1145/3217804.3217898
  3. Kwon, K. H. & Gruzd, A. (2017). Is Aggression Contagious Online? A Case of Swearing on Donald Trump’s Campaign Videos on YouTube. Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Waikoloa Village, HI, USA. DOI:10.24251/HICSS.2017.262
  4. Tsyganova, K., Tsyganov, D. & Gruzd, A. (2016, Sept. 22-23). Comparing Friendship vs Communication Networks among Members of Politically Motivated Online Groups. Proceedings of the Internet, Policy & Politics Conference. Oxford, UK. https://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/ipp-conference/sites/ipp/files/documents/IPP16_Tsyganova_Tsyganov_Gruzd_Sep1_2016.pdf

Conference Papers

  1. Bruns, A., Schumacher, N.F., et al. (2022, Nov. 2-5). Pandemic Politics: The 2021 and 2022 German and Australian Federal Election Campaigns on Social Media. 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Dublin, Ireland. DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2022i0.12953
  2. Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Recuero, R. & Soares, F. (2020, July 22-24). Studying Toxicity on Twitter during the 2019 Federal Election in Canada. International Conference on Social Media & Society. (Virtual). DOI: 10.1145/3400806
  3. Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Recuero, R. & Soares, F. (2020, Feb. 21) Disinformation and Hyperpartisanship on Twitter during the 2018 Presidential Election in Brazil. The Digital Media and the 2019 Federal Election Symposium. Ottawa, ON, Canada. https://www.uottawa.ca/about-us/media/news/digital-ecosystem-research-challenge-winners-announced 
  4. Recuero, R., Soares, F. & Gruzd, A. (2019, Sept. 2-4). Disinformation and Hyperpartisanship on Twitter during the 2018 Presidential Election in Brazil. The 3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. Zurich, Switzerland. http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2019/
  5. Gruzd, A. & Tsyganova, K. (2014, Sept. 14-15). Politically Polarized Online Groups and their Social Structures formed around the 2013-2014 crisis in Ukraine. Internet, Policy & Politics (IPP) Conference: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy. Oxford, UK.
  6. Gruzd, A. (2012, Sept. 20-21). Investigating Political Polarization on Twitter: A Canadian Perspective. Internet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges? Oxford, UK. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/internet-politics-policy-2012-big-data-big-challenges-ipp2012
  7. Gruzd, A. (2012, May 30-June 2). Examining Polarization in Political Social Media: A Case of Twitter and the 2011 Canadian Federal Election. Proceedings of the 40th Canadian Association for Information Science Conference. Waterloo, ON, Canada. DOI: 10.29173/cais643

Poster Presentations

  1. Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2018). Mapping out Violence Against Women (VAW) on
    Twitter: The Case of India. Poster presented at the European Symposium Series on Societal
    Challenges in Computational Social Science (#eurocss), December 5 – 7, 2018. Cologne,
    Germany.
  2. Gruzd, A. (2015). The Use of Twitter during the 2014 Crisis in Ukraine: A Tale of Three
    Languages. Poster presented at the International Conference on Twitter for Research, April
    24, 2015, Lyon, France.