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Overview

Cristian Vaccari is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with particular emphasis on sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, statistical and nonlinear physics, and health.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, opinion dynamics and social influence, media influence and politics, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and media studies and communication.

Cristian Vaccari has contributed research to several publication venues. These include:

  • The International Journal of Press/Politics
  • Political Communication
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Social Media + Society
  • Mass Communication & Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vaccari comprise Andrew Chadwick, Natalie-Anne Hall, Daniel Freeman, Bao Sheng Loe, and Felicity Waite.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Cristian Vaccari include:

  • Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Deception, Uncertainty, and Trust in News, 2020, Social Media + Society
  • COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: the Oxford coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (Oceans) II, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Effects of different types of written vaccination information on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK (OCEANS-III): a single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial, 2021, The Lancet Public Health
  • Injection fears and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom, 2021, Social Media + Society

Best Publications

  • Social media, political polarization, and political disinformation: a review of the scientific literature

    Joshua A. Tucker;Andrew Guess;Pablo Barbera;Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari

  • COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus Explanations, Attitudes, and Narratives Survey (OCEANS) II.

    Daniel Freeman;Daniel Freeman;Bao S. Loe;Andrew Chadwick;Cristian Vaccari

  • Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Deception, Uncertainty, and Trust in News:

    Cristian Vaccari;Andrew Chadwick

  • Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom

    Augusto Valeriani;Cristian Vaccari

  • Dual Screening the Political: Media Events, Social Media, and Citizen Engagement

    Cristian Vaccari;Andrew Chadwick;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Political expression and action on social media: Exploring the relationship between lower- and higher-threshold political activities among Twitter users in Italy

    Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari;Augusto Valeriani;Pablo Barberá;Richard Bonneau

  • Effects of different types of written vaccination information on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK (OCEANS-III): a single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.

    Daniel Freeman;Daniel Freeman;Bao Sheng Loe;Ly Mee Yu;Jason Freeman

  • Do tabloids poison the well of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing:

    Andrew Chadwick;Cristian Vaccari;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Digital Politics in Western Democracies: A Comparative Study

    Cristian Vaccari

  • Follow the leader! Direct and indirect flows of political communication during the 2013 Italian general election campaign:

    Cristian Vaccari;Augusto Valeriani

  • Of Echo Chambers and Contrarian Clubs: Exposure to Political Disagreement Among German and Italian Users of Twitter

    Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari;Augusto Valeriani;Pablo Barberá;John T. Jost

  • From the air to the ground: the internet in the 2004 US presidential campaign:

    Cristian Vaccari

  • Injection fears and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

    Daniel Freeman;Sinéad Lambe;Sinéad Lambe;Ly Mee Yu;Jason Freeman

  • Social media and political communication: A survey of Twitter users during the 2013 Italian general election

    Cristian Vaccari;Augusto Valeriani;Pablo Barberá;Richard Bonneau

  • “Technology Is a Commodity”: The Internet in the 2008 United States Presidential Election

    Cristian Vaccari

  • News sharing on UK social media: misinformation, disinformation, and correction

    Andrew Chadwick;Cristian Vaccari

  • Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom

    Andrew Chadwick;Johannes Kaiser;Cristian Vaccari;Daniel Freeman;Daniel Freeman

  • Research Note: Italian Parties' Websites in the 2006 Elections

    Cristian Vaccari

  • Do People “Like” Politicians on Facebook? Not really. Large-Scale Direct Candidate-to-Voter Online Communication as an Outlier Phenomenon

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Cristian Vaccari

  • Surfing to the Élysée: The Internet in the 2007 French Elections

    Cristian Vaccari

  • From echo chamber to persuasive device? Rethinking the role of the Internet in campaigns:

    Cristian Vaccari

  • What Drives Politicians' Online Popularity? An Analysis of the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Cristian Vaccari

  • Digital Politics in Western Democracies

    Cristian Vaccari

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Chadwick
Andrew Chadwick Loughborough University
Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman University of Oxford
Ben O'Loughlin
Ben O'Loughlin Royal Holloway University of London
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Joshua A. Tucker
Joshua A. Tucker New York University
Jonathan Nagler
Jonathan Nagler New York University
Helen McShane
Helen McShane University of Oxford
Andrew J. Pollard
Andrew J. Pollard University of Oxford
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University

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