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Overview

Dhavan V. Shah is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with 95 publications contributing to this broad field. Their work spans several subfields, including communication, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, general health professions, and political science and international relations.

Shah's research topics focus extensively on social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, media studies and communication, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, electoral systems and political participation, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and media influence and politics.

The scientist has published numerous papers, including:

  • Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness: A media systems approach, 2020, New Media & Society
  • Potential Influences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Drug Use and HIV Care Among People Living with HIV and Substance Use Disorders: Experience from a Pilot mHealth Intervention, 2020, AIDS and Behavior
  • Performing populism: Trump's transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response, 2020, New Media & Society
  • Polarization Over Vaccination: Ideological Differences in Twitter Expression About COVID-19 Vaccine Favorability and Specific Hesitancy Concerns, 2021, Social Media + Society
  • Algorithmic Agents in the Hybrid Media System: Social Bots, Selective Amplification, and Partisan News about COVID-19, 2022, Human Communication Research

Frequent coauthors of Dhavan V. Shah include:

  • David H. Gustafson
  • Jiyoun Suk
  • Juwon Hwang
  • Jon Pevehouse
  • Erik P. Bucy

The venues where Shah frequently publishes are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • New Media & Society
  • Health Communication
  • Journal of Health Communication
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research

In addition to journal articles, Shah has published book titles with notable academic presses. These include:

  • "Battleground" (2022) published by Cambridge University Press
  • "Political Rhetoric and the Media" (2022) published by Purdue University Press

Best Publications

  • "Connecting" and "Disconnecting" With Civic Life: Patterns of Internet Use and the Production of Social Capital

    Dhavan V. Shah;Nojin Kwak;R. Lance Holbert

  • Information and Expression in a Digital Age Modeling Internet Effects on Civic Participation

    Dhavan V. Shah;Jaeho Cho;William P. Eveland;Nojin Kwak

  • Communication, Context, and Community An Exploration of Print, Broadcast, and Internet Influences

    Dhavan V. Shah;Jack M. McLEOD;So-Hyang Yoon

  • A Smartphone Application to Support Recovery From Alcoholism: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    David H. Gustafson;Fiona M. McTavish;Ming-Yuan Chih;Amy K. Atwood

  • Digital Democracy: Reimagining Pathways to Political Participation

    Homero Gil de Zúñiga;Aaron Veenstra;Emily Vraga;Dhavan Shah

  • News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes: Explaining Clinton's Public Approval in Spite of Scandal

    Dhavan V. Shah;Mark D. Watts;David Domke;David P. Fan

  • Campaign Ads, Online Messaging, and Participation: Extending the Communication Mediation Model

    Dhavan V. Shah;Jaeho Cho;Seungahn Nah;Melissa R. Gotlieb

  • Civic Engagement, Interpersonal Trust, and Television Use: An Individual-Level Assessment of Social Capital

    Dhavan V. Shah

  • Personality Strength and Social Capital The Role of Dispositional and Informational Variables in the Production of Civic Participation

    Dietram A. Scheufele;Dhavan V. Shah

  • FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS: CENSORSHIP AND THE THIRD-PERSON EFFECT

    Hernando Rojas;Dhavan V. Shah;Ronald J. Faber

  • Assessing Causality in the Cognitive Mediation Model A Panel Study of Motivations, Information Processing, and Learning During Campaign 2000

    William P. Eveland;Dhavan V. Shah;Nojin Kwak

  • MEDIA PRIMING EFFECTS: ACCESSIBILITY, ASSOCIATION, AND ACTIVATION

    David Domke;Dhavan V. Shah;Daniel B. Wackman

  • The Impact of Individual and Interpersonal Factors on Perceived News Media Bias

    William P. Eveland;Dhavan V. Shah

  • Elite Cues and Media Bias in Presidential Campaigns Explaining Public Perceptions of a Liberal Press

    Mark D. Watts;David Domke;Dhavan V. Shah;David P. Fan

  • Environmental Concern, Patterns of Television Viewing, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Integrating Models of Media Consumption and Effects

    R. Lance Holbert;Nojin Kwak;Dhavan V. Shah

  • Understanding the Relationship Between Communication and Political Knowledge: A Model Comparison Approach Using Panel Data

    William P. Eveland;Andrew F. Hayes;Dhavan V. Shah;Nojin Kwak

  • How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination: Hybrid Media Campaigning

    Chris Wells;Dhavan V. Shah;Jon C. Pevehouse;Jung Hwan Yang

  • Framing and the Public Agenda: Media Effects on the Importance of the Federal Budget Deficit

    Amy E. Jasperson;Dhavan V. Shah;Mark Watts;Ronald J. Faber

  • A New Space for Political Behavior: Political Social Networking and its Democratic Consequences

    Leticia Bode;Emily K. Vraga;Porismita Borah;Dhavan V. Shah

  • “To Thine Own Self Be True” Values, Framing, and Voter Decision-Making Strategies

    Dhavan V. Shah;David Domke;Daniel B. Wackman

  • Campaigns, Reflection, and Deliberation: Advancing an O-S-R-O-R Model of Communication Effects

    Jaeho Cho;Dhavan V. Shah;Jack M. McLeod;Douglas M. McLeod

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Gustafson
David H. Gustafson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Fiona McTavish
Fiona McTavish University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bret R. Shaw
Bret R. Shaw University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert P. Hawkins
Robert P. Hawkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jack M. McLeod
Jack M. McLeod University of Wisconsin–Madison
R. Lance Holbert
R. Lance Holbert Temple University
Suzanne Pingree
Suzanne Pingree University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ronald J. Faber
Ronald J. Faber University of Minnesota
Lisa A. Marsch
Lisa A. Marsch Dartmouth College
Michelle R. Nelson
Michelle R. Nelson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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