Dr Patricia Rossini

  • Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Democracy (Politics)

Biography

Patrícia Rossini (Ph.D., 2017, Federal University of Minas Gerais) is a Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media & Democracy at the University of Glasgow. Prior to joining UofG, she was an inaugural Derby Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool (2019-22), and a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University (2017-19).
Broadly speaking, Patrícia studies the interplay between political communication and technologies, with a focus on digital threats to democracy—specifically, uncivil and intolerant online discourse, mis- and disinformation, as well as (dark) participation, democratic backsliding, and online campaigns.
Her research has been funded by social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp; the British Academy, and the Knight Foundation (USA).

Research interests

Patrícia is a Principal Investigator in a grant awarded by Facebook to investigate perceptions of uncivil and intolerant discourse online in four countries, in a British Academy Small Grant to study democratic backsliding in the 2022 presidential elections in Brazil, and in a grant awarded by WhatsApp to study misinformation and political discussion in Brazil. 

 

She is also co-PI in three externally funded projects: a grant awarded by Twitter to study conversational dynamics around polarization, incivility, and intolerance in discussions around contentious and non-contentious topics in the U.S. and the U.K.; a comparative research project funded by Facebook to study visual misinformation on social media and mobile messaging apps in eight countries across five continents; and a Knight Foundation grant to study social media advertising in the 2020 US presidential campaign, as part of the Illuminating project.

Publications

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2023

Rossini, P. , Southern, R., Harmer, E. and Stromer-Falley, J. (2023) Unleash Britain’s potential (to go negative): campaign negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections on Facebook. Political Studies Review, (doi: 10.1177/14789299231171308) (Early Online Publication)

Rossini, P. , Mont'Alverne, C. and Kalogeropoulos, A. (2023) Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: the role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 4(3), (doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-115)

Rossini, P. (2023) Farewell to big data? Studying misinformation in mobile messaging applications. Political Communication, (doi: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2193563) (Early Online Publication)

Hada, R., Ebrahimi Fard, A., Shugars, S., Bianchi, F., Rossini, P. , Hovy, D., Tromble, R. and Tintarev, N. (2023) Beyond Digital "Echo Chambers": the Role of Viewpoint Diversity in Political Discussion. In: Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '23), Singapore, Singapore, 27 Feb - 03 Mar 2023, pp. 33-41. ISBN 9781450394079 (doi: 10.1145/3539597.3570487)

2022

McKernan, B., Stromer-Galley, J., Korsunska, A., Bolden, S. E., Rossini, P. and Hemsley, J. (2022) A human-centered design approach to creating tools to help journalists monitor digital political ads: insights and challenges. Digital Journalism, (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2064321) (Early Online Publication)

Rossini, P. (2022) Beyond incivility: understanding patterns of uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. Communication Research, 49(3), pp. 399-425. (doi: 10.1177/0093650220921314)

2021

Stromer-Galley, J., Rossini, P. , Hemsley, J., Bolden, S. E. and McKernan, B. (2021) Political messaging over time: A comparison of US presidential candidate Facebook posts and Tweets in 2016 and 2020. Social Media and Society, 7(4), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.1177/20563051211063465)

Rossini, P. , Stromer-Galley, J., Baptista, E. A. and Veiga de Oliveira, V. (2021) Dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook: The role of political talk, cross-cutting exposure and social corrections. New Media and Society, 23(8), pp. 2430-2451. (doi: 10.1177/1461444820928059)

Rossini, P. , Stromer-Galley, J. and 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), pp. 676-695. (doi: 10.1075/jlp.21033.ros)

Vidgen, B., Nguyen, D., Margetts, H., Rossini, P. and Tromble, R. (2021) Introducing CAD: the Contextual Abuse Dataset. In: 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 06-11 Jun 2021, pp. 2289-2303. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.182)

Green, M. 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 and Society, 8(1), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.1177/20539517211013869)

Rossini, P. (2021) More than just shouting? Distinguishing interpersonal-directed and elite-directed incivility in online political talk. Social Media and Society, 7(2), (doi: 10.1177/20563051211008827)

Rossini, P. , Stromer-Galley, J. and Zhang, F. (2021) Exploring the relationship between campaign discourse on facebook and the public's comments: A case study of incivility during the 2016 US presidential election. Political Studies, 69(1), pp. 89-107. (doi: 10.1177/0032321719890818)

Rossini, P. , Baptista, É. A., Veiga de Oliveira, V. and 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, pp. 1-27. (doi: 10.51685/jqd.2021.015)

Rossini, P. and Maia, R. (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), pp. 90-104.

Rossini, P. , Sturm-Wikerson, H. and Johnson, T. J. (2021) A wall of incivility? Public discourse and immigration in the 2016 U.S. Primaries. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 18(3), pp. 243-257. (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2020.1858218)

Stromer-Galley, J. et al. (2021) Flexible versus structured support for reasoning: enhancing analytical reasoning through a flexible analytic technique. Intelligence and National Security, 36(2), pp. 279-298. (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2020.1841466)

2020

Rossini, P. and Stromer-Galley, J. (2020) Citizen Deliberation Online. In: Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 690-712. ISBN 9780190860806 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190860806.013.14)

Rossini, P. (2020) Beyond toxicity in the online public sphere: understanding incivility in online political talk. In: Dutton, W. H. (ed.) A Research Agenda for Digital Politics. Series: Elgar Research Agendas. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 160-170.

2019

Rossini, P. (2019) Disentangling uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. In: Boatright, R. G., Shaffer, T. J., Sobieraj, S. and Young, D. G. (eds.) A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and Its Discontents. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 142-157. ISBN 9781138484429 (doi: 10.4324/9781351051989-9)

2018

Stromer-Galley, J., Rossini, P. G.C. , Kenski, K., Folkestad, J., McKernan, B., Martey, R. M., Clegg, B., Østerlund, C. and Schooler, L. (2018) User-centered design and experimentation to develop effective software for evidence-based reasoning in the intelligence community: the trackable reasoning and analysis for crowdsourcing and evaluation (TRACE) project. Computing in Science Engineering, 20(6), pp. 35-42. (doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2018.2873859)

2017

Maia, R. C.M., Cal, D., Bargas, J. K.R., Oliveira, V. V., Rossini, P. G.C. and Sampaio, R. C. (2017) Authority and deliberative moments: assessing equality and inequality in deeply divided groups. Journal of Public Deliberation, 13(2), (doi: 10.16997/jdd.283)

Rossini, P. G.C. , Hemsley, J., Tanupabrungsun, S., Zhang, F., Robinson, J. and Stromer-Galley, J. (2017) Social Media, U.S. Presidential Campaigns, and Public Opinion Polls: Disentangling Effects. In: 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety17), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 Jul 2017, p. 56. ISBN 9781450348478 (doi: 10.1145/3097286.3097342)

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Number of items: 23.

Articles

Rossini, P. , Southern, R., Harmer, E. and Stromer-Falley, J. (2023) Unleash Britain’s potential (to go negative): campaign negativity in the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections on Facebook. Political Studies Review, (doi: 10.1177/14789299231171308) (Early Online Publication)

Rossini, P. , Mont'Alverne, C. and Kalogeropoulos, A. (2023) Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: the role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 4(3), (doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-115)

Rossini, P. (2023) Farewell to big data? Studying misinformation in mobile messaging applications. Political Communication, (doi: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2193563) (Early Online Publication)

McKernan, B., Stromer-Galley, J., Korsunska, A., Bolden, S. E., Rossini, P. and Hemsley, J. (2022) A human-centered design approach to creating tools to help journalists monitor digital political ads: insights and challenges. Digital Journalism, (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2064321) (Early Online Publication)

Rossini, P. (2022) Beyond incivility: understanding patterns of uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. Communication Research, 49(3), pp. 399-425. (doi: 10.1177/0093650220921314)

Stromer-Galley, J., Rossini, P. , Hemsley, J., Bolden, S. E. and McKernan, B. (2021) Political messaging over time: A comparison of US presidential candidate Facebook posts and Tweets in 2016 and 2020. Social Media and Society, 7(4), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.1177/20563051211063465)

Rossini, P. , Stromer-Galley, J., Baptista, E. A. and Veiga de Oliveira, V. (2021) Dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook: The role of political talk, cross-cutting exposure and social corrections. New Media and Society, 23(8), pp. 2430-2451. (doi: 10.1177/1461444820928059)

Rossini, P. , Stromer-Galley, J. and 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), pp. 676-695. (doi: 10.1075/jlp.21033.ros)

Green, M. 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 and Society, 8(1), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.1177/20539517211013869)

Rossini, P. (2021) More than just shouting? Distinguishing interpersonal-directed and elite-directed incivility in online political talk. Social Media and Society, 7(2), (doi: 10.1177/20563051211008827)

Rossini, P. , Stromer-Galley, J. and Zhang, F. (2021) Exploring the relationship between campaign discourse on facebook and the public's comments: A case study of incivility during the 2016 US presidential election. Political Studies, 69(1), pp. 89-107. (doi: 10.1177/0032321719890818)

Rossini, P. , Baptista, É. A., Veiga de Oliveira, V. and 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, pp. 1-27. (doi: 10.51685/jqd.2021.015)

Rossini, P. and Maia, R. (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), pp. 90-104.

Rossini, P. , Sturm-Wikerson, H. and Johnson, T. J. (2021) A wall of incivility? Public discourse and immigration in the 2016 U.S. Primaries. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 18(3), pp. 243-257. (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2020.1858218)

Stromer-Galley, J. et al. (2021) Flexible versus structured support for reasoning: enhancing analytical reasoning through a flexible analytic technique. Intelligence and National Security, 36(2), pp. 279-298. (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2020.1841466)

Stromer-Galley, J., Rossini, P. G.C. , Kenski, K., Folkestad, J., McKernan, B., Martey, R. M., Clegg, B., Østerlund, C. and Schooler, L. (2018) User-centered design and experimentation to develop effective software for evidence-based reasoning in the intelligence community: the trackable reasoning and analysis for crowdsourcing and evaluation (TRACE) project. Computing in Science Engineering, 20(6), pp. 35-42. (doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2018.2873859)

Maia, R. C.M., Cal, D., Bargas, J. K.R., Oliveira, V. V., Rossini, P. G.C. and Sampaio, R. C. (2017) Authority and deliberative moments: assessing equality and inequality in deeply divided groups. Journal of Public Deliberation, 13(2), (doi: 10.16997/jdd.283)

Book Sections

Rossini, P. and Stromer-Galley, J. (2020) Citizen Deliberation Online. In: Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 690-712. ISBN 9780190860806 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190860806.013.14)

Rossini, P. (2020) Beyond toxicity in the online public sphere: understanding incivility in online political talk. In: Dutton, W. H. (ed.) A Research Agenda for Digital Politics. Series: Elgar Research Agendas. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 160-170.

Rossini, P. (2019) Disentangling uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. In: Boatright, R. G., Shaffer, T. J., Sobieraj, S. and Young, D. G. (eds.) A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and Its Discontents. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 142-157. ISBN 9781138484429 (doi: 10.4324/9781351051989-9)

Conference Proceedings

Hada, R., Ebrahimi Fard, A., Shugars, S., Bianchi, F., Rossini, P. , Hovy, D., Tromble, R. and Tintarev, N. (2023) Beyond Digital "Echo Chambers": the Role of Viewpoint Diversity in Political Discussion. In: Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '23), Singapore, Singapore, 27 Feb - 03 Mar 2023, pp. 33-41. ISBN 9781450394079 (doi: 10.1145/3539597.3570487)

Vidgen, B., Nguyen, D., Margetts, H., Rossini, P. and Tromble, R. (2021) Introducing CAD: the Contextual Abuse Dataset. In: 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 06-11 Jun 2021, pp. 2289-2303. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.182)

Rossini, P. G.C. , Hemsley, J., Tanupabrungsun, S., Zhang, F., Robinson, J. and Stromer-Galley, J. (2017) Social Media, U.S. Presidential Campaigns, and Public Opinion Polls: Disentangling Effects. In: 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety17), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 Jul 2017, p. 56. ISBN 9781450348478 (doi: 10.1145/3097286.3097342)

This list was generated on Fri Jun 2 01:50:15 2023 BST.

Grants

2022-2023 Principal Investigator. "Investigating the Causes and Remedies of Persisting Electoral Disinformation: The Aftermath of the 2022 Presidential Elections in Brazil." Google (Unrestricted Gift). $ 99,980.

2022-2023 Principal Investigator. “Democratic Renewal or Backsliding? Investigating Disinformation, Political Intolerance, and Polarization in the 2022 Presidential Elections in Brazil”. British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants.£ 9,960.

2021-2023 Principal Investigator. "What Makes Social Media Content Harmful? A User-Centric Comparative Approach".Facebook Content Governance Awards (Unrestricted Gift), $ 99,834.60. 

2020 Principal Investigator. ‘It’s on WhatsApp, so it must be true!’: Social media and news use as pathways to explain (mis)perceptions and behaviours about Covid-19. University of Liverpool Covid-19 ODA Rapid Response. £ 9,800.

2019 - 2022 Co-Investigator. "Devising metrics for assessing echo chambers, incivility, and intolerance."  Twitter. $ 1.3 million. 

 

2019 - 2020 Co-Investigator. Illuminating 2020. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Grant. $ 148,396. 

2019-2020 Co-Investigator. Visual Misinformation in Global Perspective: Platforms, Devices, and Users. Facebook Integrity Foundation Research Awards (Unrestricted Gift). $ 150,000. 

2019-2020 Principal Investigator. WhatsApp as a source of political participation and (mis)information in Brazil.WhatsApp Misinformation and Social Science Research Awards (Unrestricted Gift). $ 49,739. 

Supervision

I welcome Ph.D. projects focused on the interplay between politics and digital media, including:

  • Online incivility
  • Online harassment and abuse
  • Political discussion
  • Political campaigning
  • The spread of mis- and disinformation (including its effects)
  • Conspiracy theories
  • Democratic backsliding
  • Political participation

Teaching

Politics & Social Media (Honours)