Dr Patricia Rossini

  • Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Democracy (Political & International Studies)

Biography

Patrícia Rossini (Ph.D., 2017, Federal University of Minas Gerais) is a Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media & Democracy at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches courses related to political communication and social media, as well as quantitative methodologies. She is also the convenor of the Political Communication MSc/MRes. 
Her research concentrates on the interplay between political communication and digital media, focusing on digital threats to democracy—specifically, uncivil and intolerant online discourse, mis- and disinformation, negative campaigning, and democratic backsliding. 
In 2023, she received the Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award in Political Communication for “Beyond Incivility: Understanding Patterns of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk”, given by the Political Communication division of the American Political Science Association. 
She currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Press/Politics, and Section Chair of the Information, Technology, and Politics (2024-2025) at the American Political Science Association (APSA). 
Prior to joining UofG, Rossini 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).

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 a grant awarded by Google to study the causes and remedies of persisting electoral disinformation in Brazil. 

Prior projects include 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 grant awarded by WhatsApp to study misinformation and political discussion in Brazil, 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.

 

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Baptista, Erica Anita and Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa (2025) Discussions that divide: the interplay between experiencing uncivil conversations and politically motivated avoidance on WhatsApp and Facebook. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, (doi: 10.1080/08838151.2025.2519733) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Stromer-Galley, Jennifer and Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2024) Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 21(4), pp. 410-423. (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2231436)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2024) Farewell to Big Data? Studying misinformation in mobile messaging applications. In: Koc-Michalska, Karolina, Klinger, Ulrike, Bennett, Lance and Rommele, Andrea (eds.) Dissonant Public Spheres: Communication, Campaigns and Crises. Routledge: New York, pp. 26-31. ISBN 9781003479598 (doi: 10.4324/9781003479598-6)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Southern, Rosalynd, Harmer, Emily and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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), pp. 449-470. (doi: 10.1177/14789299231171308)

2023

Novotná, Martina, Macková, Alena and Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Incivility and intolerance in COVID-19 discussions on Facebook. Social Media and Society, 9(4), (doi: 10.1177/20563051231207848)

Kalogeropoulos, Antonis and Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Unraveling WhatsApp group dynamics to understand the threat of misinformation in messaging apps. New Media and Society, (doi: 10.1177/14614448231199247) (Early Online Publication)

Novotná, Martina, Macková, Alena, Bieliková, Karolína and Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Barriers to participation in polarized online discussions about Covid-19 and the Russo-Ukrainian War. Media and Communication, 11(3), pp. 274-284. (doi: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6657)

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Kalogeropoulos, Antonis (2023) 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 and Politics, (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2234902) (Early Online Publication)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Farewell to big data? Studying misinformation in mobile messaging applications. Political Communication, 40(3), pp. 361-366. (doi: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2193563)

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Mont'Alverne, Camila and Kalogeropoulos, Antonis (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)

McKernan, Brian, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Korsunska, Ania, Bolden, Sarah E., Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Hemsley, Jeff (2023) A human-centered design approach to creating tools to help journalists monitor digital political ads: insights and challenges. Digital Journalism, 11(3), pp. 411-430. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2064321)

Hada, Rishav, Ebrahimi Fard, Amir, Shugars, Sarah, Bianchi, Federico, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hovy, Dirk, Tromble, Rebekah and Tintarev, Nava (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)

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Reassessing the role of inclusion in political communication research. Political Communication, 40(5), pp. 676-680. (doi: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2220666)

2022

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (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, Jennifer, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Bolden, Sarah E. and McKernan, Brian (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Baptista, Erica Anita and Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer and Korsunska, Ania (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, Bertie, Nguyen, Dong, Margetts, Helen, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Tromble, Rebekah (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer and Zhang, Feifei (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Baptista, Érica Anita, Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Maia, Rousiley (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Sturm-Wikerson, Heloisa and Johnson, Thomas 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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2020) Beyond toxicity in the online public sphere: understanding incivility in online political talk. In: Dutton, William H. (ed.) A Research Agenda for Digital Politics. Series: Elgar Research Agendas. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 160-170.

2019

Baptista, Erica Anita, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Oliveira, Vanessa Veiga de and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2019) A circulação da (des)informação polí­tica no WhatsApp e no Facebook. Lumina, 13(3), pp. 29-46. (doi: 10.34019/1981-4070.2019.v13.28667)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2019) Toxic for whom? Examining targets of uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. In: Moy, Patricia and Matheson, Donald (eds.) Voices: exploring the shifting contours of communication. Series: ICA International Communication Association. Annual Conference Theme Book Series, 6. Peter Lang: New York, pp. 221-242. ISBN 9781433162541

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2019) Disentangling uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. In: Boatright, Robert G., Shaffer, Timothy J., Sobieraj, Sarah and Young, Dannagal Goldthwaite (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, Jennifer, Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Kenski, Kate, Folkestad, James, McKernan, Brian, Martey, Rosa Mikael, Clegg, Benjamin, Østerlund, Carsten and Schooler, Lael (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, Rousiley C.M., Cal, Danila, Oliveira, Vanessa V., Vimeiro, Ana Carolina, Hauber, Gabriella and Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2018) Deliberation across a space of reasons: assessing epistemic changes in group discussions. Human Communication Research, 44(4), pp. 399-426. (doi: 10.1093/hcr/hqy007)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Tanupabrungsun, Sikana, Zhang, Feifei and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2018) Social media, opinion polls, and the use of persuasive messages during the 2016 US election primaries. Social Media and Society, 4(3), (doi: 10.1177/2056305118784774)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Kenski, Kate, Hemsley, Jeff, Zhang, Feifei and Dobreski, Brian (2018) The relationship between race competitiveness, standing in the polls, and social media communication strategies during the 2014 U.S. gubernatorial campaigns. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 15(3), pp. 245-261. (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2018.1485606)

2017

Maia, Rousiley C.M., Cal, Danila, Bargas, Janine K.R., Oliveira, Vanessa V., Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Sampaio, Rafael 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, Patrícia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Tanupabrungsun, Sikana, Zhang, Feifei, Robinson, Jerry and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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)

Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2017) Pax Technica: How The Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up Philip N. Howard. Journal of Communication, 67(3), E4-E5. (doi: 10.1111/jcom.12303)[Book Review]

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Tanupabrungsun, Sikana, Zhang, Feifei, Robinson, Jerry and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2017) Social media, US Presidential Campaigns, and Public Opinion Polls: Disentangling Effects. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, Toronto, ON. Canada, 28-30 July 2017, p. 56. ISBN 9781450348478

2016

Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Maia, Rousiley C. M. (2016) Is political participation online effective?: A case study of the e-democracy initiative conducted by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. In: Politics and Social Activism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, pp. 844-865. (doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9461-3.ch043)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Oliveira, Vanessa Veiga de (2016) E-democracy and collaborative lawmaking: the discussion of the political reform in Brazil. International Journal of Communication, 10, pp. 4620-4640.

2015

Maia, Rousiley, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, De Oliveira, Vanessa . and De Oliveira, Alicianne G. (2015) About the importance of analyzing different online environments in deliberation studies. Opinião Pública, 21(2), pp. 490-513.

2013

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Queiroz, João (2013) Interaction agency on social network profiles: an approach of semiotic niches on virtual identities. In: van Orden, Nicholas (ed.) Navigating Cybercultures. Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, pp. 21-30. ISBN 9781848881631

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Articles

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Baptista, Erica Anita and Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa (2025) Discussions that divide: the interplay between experiencing uncivil conversations and politically motivated avoidance on WhatsApp and Facebook. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, (doi: 10.1080/08838151.2025.2519733) (Early Online Publication)

Stromer-Galley, Jennifer and Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2024) Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 21(4), pp. 410-423. (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2231436)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Southern, Rosalynd, Harmer, Emily and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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), pp. 449-470. (doi: 10.1177/14789299231171308)

Novotná, Martina, Macková, Alena and Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Incivility and intolerance in COVID-19 discussions on Facebook. Social Media and Society, 9(4), (doi: 10.1177/20563051231207848)

Kalogeropoulos, Antonis and Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Unraveling WhatsApp group dynamics to understand the threat of misinformation in messaging apps. New Media and Society, (doi: 10.1177/14614448231199247) (Early Online Publication)

Novotná, Martina, Macková, Alena, Bieliková, Karolína and Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Barriers to participation in polarized online discussions about Covid-19 and the Russo-Ukrainian War. Media and Communication, 11(3), pp. 274-284. (doi: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6657)

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Kalogeropoulos, Antonis (2023) 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 and Politics, (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2234902) (Early Online Publication)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Farewell to big data? Studying misinformation in mobile messaging applications. Political Communication, 40(3), pp. 361-366. (doi: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2193563)

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Mont'Alverne, Camila and Kalogeropoulos, Antonis (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)

McKernan, Brian, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Korsunska, Ania, Bolden, Sarah E., Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Hemsley, Jeff (2023) A human-centered design approach to creating tools to help journalists monitor digital political ads: insights and challenges. Digital Journalism, 11(3), pp. 411-430. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2064321)

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2023) Reassessing the role of inclusion in political communication research. Political Communication, 40(5), pp. 676-680. (doi: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2220666)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (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, Jennifer, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Bolden, Sarah E. and McKernan, Brian (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Baptista, Erica Anita and Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer and Korsunska, Ania (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer and Zhang, Feifei (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Baptista, Érica Anita, Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Maia, Rousiley (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Sturm-Wikerson, Heloisa and Johnson, Thomas 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)

Baptista, Erica Anita, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Oliveira, Vanessa Veiga de and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2019) A circulação da (des)informação polí­tica no WhatsApp e no Facebook. Lumina, 13(3), pp. 29-46. (doi: 10.34019/1981-4070.2019.v13.28667)

Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Kenski, Kate, Folkestad, James, McKernan, Brian, Martey, Rosa Mikael, Clegg, Benjamin, Østerlund, Carsten and Schooler, Lael (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, Rousiley C.M., Cal, Danila, Oliveira, Vanessa V., Vimeiro, Ana Carolina, Hauber, Gabriella and Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2018) Deliberation across a space of reasons: assessing epistemic changes in group discussions. Human Communication Research, 44(4), pp. 399-426. (doi: 10.1093/hcr/hqy007)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Tanupabrungsun, Sikana, Zhang, Feifei and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2018) Social media, opinion polls, and the use of persuasive messages during the 2016 US election primaries. Social Media and Society, 4(3), (doi: 10.1177/2056305118784774)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Stromer-Galley, Jennifer, Kenski, Kate, Hemsley, Jeff, Zhang, Feifei and Dobreski, Brian (2018) The relationship between race competitiveness, standing in the polls, and social media communication strategies during the 2014 U.S. gubernatorial campaigns. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 15(3), pp. 245-261. (doi: 10.1080/19331681.2018.1485606)

Maia, Rousiley C.M., Cal, Danila, Bargas, Janine K.R., Oliveira, Vanessa V., Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Sampaio, Rafael 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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Oliveira, Vanessa Veiga de (2016) E-democracy and collaborative lawmaking: the discussion of the political reform in Brazil. International Journal of Communication, 10, pp. 4620-4640.

Maia, Rousiley, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, De Oliveira, Vanessa . and De Oliveira, Alicianne G. (2015) About the importance of analyzing different online environments in deliberation studies. Opinião Pública, 21(2), pp. 490-513.

Book Sections

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2024) Farewell to Big Data? Studying misinformation in mobile messaging applications. In: Koc-Michalska, Karolina, Klinger, Ulrike, Bennett, Lance and Rommele, Andrea (eds.) Dissonant Public Spheres: Communication, Campaigns and Crises. Routledge: New York, pp. 26-31. ISBN 9781003479598 (doi: 10.4324/9781003479598-6)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2020) Beyond toxicity in the online public sphere: understanding incivility in online political talk. In: Dutton, William H. (ed.) A Research Agenda for Digital Politics. Series: Elgar Research Agendas. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 160-170.

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2019) Toxic for whom? Examining targets of uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. In: Moy, Patricia and Matheson, Donald (eds.) Voices: exploring the shifting contours of communication. Series: ICA International Communication Association. Annual Conference Theme Book Series, 6. Peter Lang: New York, pp. 221-242. ISBN 9781433162541

Rossini, Patrícia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2019) Disentangling uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk. In: Boatright, Robert G., Shaffer, Timothy J., Sobieraj, Sarah and Young, Dannagal Goldthwaite (eds.) A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and Its Discontents. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 142-157. ISBN 9781138484429 (doi: 10.4324/9781351051989-9)

Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Maia, Rousiley C. M. (2016) Is political participation online effective?: A case study of the e-democracy initiative conducted by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. In: Politics and Social Activism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, pp. 844-865. (doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9461-3.ch043)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Queiroz, João (2013) Interaction agency on social network profiles: an approach of semiotic niches on virtual identities. In: van Orden, Nicholas (ed.) Navigating Cybercultures. Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, pp. 21-30. ISBN 9781848881631

Book Reviews

Rossini, Patricia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 (2017) Pax Technica: How The Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up Philip N. Howard. Journal of Communication, 67(3), E4-E5. (doi: 10.1111/jcom.12303)[Book Review]

Conference Proceedings

Hada, Rishav, Ebrahimi Fard, Amir, Shugars, Sarah, Bianchi, Federico, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hovy, Dirk, Tromble, Rebekah and Tintarev, Nava (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, Bertie, Nguyen, Dong, Margetts, Helen, Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444 and Tromble, Rebekah (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, Patrícia G.C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Tanupabrungsun, Sikana, Zhang, Feifei, Robinson, Jerry and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (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)

Rossini, Patricia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-6444, Hemsley, Jeff, Tanupabrungsun, Sikana, Zhang, Feifei, Robinson, Jerry and Stromer-Galley, Jennifer (2017) Social media, US Presidential Campaigns, and Public Opinion Polls: Disentangling Effects. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, Toronto, ON. Canada, 28-30 July 2017, p. 56. ISBN 9781450348478

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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)
  • Democratic backsliding

 

2023

Martina Novotná (co-supervision, PhD in Communication at Masaryk University, Czech Republic): “Cross-Cutting Online Political Discussions in Times of Crisis: The Perception and Implications of Incivility, and Intolerance”. Awarded the Vice-Rector’s Prize at Masaryk University.

Teaching

Politics & Social Media (Honours)

Additional information

Associate editor, Politics


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