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Overview

Magdalena Wojcieszak is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Political Science and International Relations, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics of their work include Social Media and Politics, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Media Influence and Politics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Media Studies and Communication, and Social and Intergroup Psychology.

Recent notable publications by Magdalena Wojcieszak include:

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook (2023, Science)
  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? (2023, Science)
  • Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing (2023, Nature)
  • Can Interparty Contact Reduce Affective Polarization? A Systematic Test of Different Forms of Intergroup Contact (2020, Political Communication)
  • Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions (2023, Science)

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Andrew M. Guess, Joshua A. Tucker, Sandra González-Bailón, and Hunt Allcott.

Magdalena Wojcieszak has published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Harvard Dataverse, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Political Behavior, and Science. The volume of publications in these venues reflects sustained contributions across several outlets important for social and political sciences.

Best Publications

  • Online Groups and Political Discourse: Do Online Discussion Spaces Facilitate Exposure to Political Disagreement?

    Magdalena E. Wojcieszak;Diana C. Mutz

  • ‘Don’t talk to me’: effects of ideologically homogeneous online groups and politically dissimilar offline ties on extremism

    Magdalena Wojcieszak

  • Online versus face-to-face deliberation: Who? Why? What? With what effects?:

    Young Min Baek;Magdalena Wojcieszak;Michael X. Delli Carpini

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

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  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

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  • Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing

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  • “Carrying Online Participation Offline”-Mobilization by Radical Online Groups and Politically Dissimilar Offline Ties

    Magdalena Wojcieszak

  • Participation, Representation and Expertise: Citizen Preferences for Political Decision‐Making Processes

    Joan Font;Magdalena Wojcieszak;Clemente J. Navarro

  • Can Interparty Contact Reduce Affective Polarization? A Systematic Test of Different Forms of Intergroup Contact

    Magdalena Wojcieszak;Benjamin R. Warner

  • Deliberation and Attitude Polarization

    Magdalena Wojcieszak

  • Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions

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  • Social Identity, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization: How Priming National Identity Shapes Attitudes Toward Immigrants Via News Selection

    Magdalena Wojcieszak;R Kelly Garrett

  • Why Are Others So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries

    JungHwan Yang;Hernando Rojas;Magdalena Wojcieszak;Toril Aalberg

  • Don’t Expect Too Much! Learning From Late-Night Comedy and Knowledge Item Difficulty

    Young Min Baek;Magdalena E. Wojcieszak

  • Effects of fact-checking social media vaccine misinformation on attitudes toward vaccines.

    Jingwen Zhang;Jieyu Ding Featherstone;Christopher Calabrese;Magdalena Wojcieszak

  • Partisan News and Political Participation: Exploring Mediated Relationships

    Magdalena E. Wojcieszak;Bruce Bimber;Lauren Feldman;Natalie Jomini Stroud

  • What Underlies the False Consensus Effect? How Personal Opinion and Disagreement Affect Perception of Public Opinion

    Magdalena E. Wojcieszak;Vincent Price

  • False Consensus Goes Online Impact of Ideologically Homogeneous Groups on False Consensus

    Magdalena Wojcieszak

  • Will politics be tweeted? New media use by Iranian youth in 2011

    Magdalena Wojcieszak;Briar Smith

  • Bridging the Divide or Intensifying the Conflict? How Disagreement Affects Strong Predilections about Sexual Minorities

    Magdalena Wojcieszak;Vincent Price

  • Assessing Selective Exposure in Experiments: The Implications of Different Methodological Choices

    Lauren Feldman;Natalie Jomini Stroud;Bruce Bimber;Magdalena Wojcieszak

  • How to Improve Attitudes Toward Disliked Groups: The Effects of Narrative Versus Numerical Evidence on Political Persuasion

    Magdalena Wojcieszak;Nuri Kim

  • Deliberative and Participatory Democracy? Ideological Strength and the Processes Leading from Deliberation to Political Engagement

    Magdalena E. Wojcieszak;Young Min Baek;Michael X.Delli Carpini

  • Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights

    Magdalena Wojcieszak

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Price
Vincent Price Duke University
Michael X. Delli Carpini
Michael X. Delli Carpini University of Pennsylvania
Diana C. Mutz
Diana C. Mutz University of Pennsylvania
Claes H. de Vreese
Claes H. de Vreese University of Amsterdam
Yphtach Lelkes
Yphtach Lelkes University of Pennsylvania
Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna
Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
James Curran
James Curran University of Sydney
David Rowe
David Rowe Western Sydney University

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