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Overview

Michael A. Xenos is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, communication, literature and literary theory, artificial intelligence, and political science and international relations. Across these fields, Xenos has contributed significantly to understanding the intersections of media, politics, and society.

Their scholarly work addresses multiple key research topics, including:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Xenos has published numerous articles in respected academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • New Media & Society
  • Public Understanding of Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • Social Media + Society
  • Journal of Science Communication

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Whose AI? How different publics think about AI and its social impacts," 2022, published in Computers in Human Behavior
  • "The science of YouTube: What factors influence user engagement with online science videos?" 2022, published in PLoS ONE
  • "Incidental news exposure via social media and political participation: Evidence of reciprocal effects," 2020, published in New Media & Society
  • "Deference and decision-making in science and society: How deference to scientific authority goes beyond confidence in science and scientists to become authoritarianism," 2020, published in Public Understanding of Science
  • "Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms," 2021, published in New Media & Society

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Dietram A. Scheufele
  • Dominique Brossard
  • Emily L. Howell
  • Todd P. Newman
  • Shiyu Yang

Best Publications

  • The Nasty Effect: Online Incivility and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies

    Ashley A. Anderson;Dominique Brossard;Dietram A. Scheufele;Michael A. Xenos

  • Direct and Differential Effects of the Internet on Political and Civic Engagement

    Michael Xenos;Patricia Moy

  • The great equalizer? Patterns of social media use and youth political engagement in three advanced democracies

    Michael Andrew Xenos;Ariadne Vromen;Brian Loader

  • The networked young citizen: social media, political participation and civic engagement

    Brian Loader;Ariadne Vromen;Michael Andrew Xenos

  • Communication and Citizenship: Mapping the Political Effects of Infotainment

    Patricia Moy;Michael A. Xenos;Verena K. Hess

  • Media Framing and Effective Public Deliberation

    Adam Simon;Michael Xenos

  • Young people, social media and connective action: from organisational maintenance to everyday political talk

    Ariadne Vromen;Michael A. Xenos;Brian Loader

  • Moments of Zen: Effects of The Daily Show on Information Seeking and Political Learning

    Michael A. Xenos;Amy B. Becker

  • Priming Effects of Late-Night Comedy

    Patricia Moy;Michael A. Xenos;Verena K. Hess

  • Building Buzz: (Scientists) Communicating Science in New Media Environments

    Xuan Liang;Leona Yi-Fan Su;Sara K. Yeo;Dietram A. Scheufele

  • Analyzing Linking Practices: Candidate Sites in the 2002 US Electoral Web Sphere

    Kirsten A. Foot;Steven M. Schneider;Meghan Dougherty;Michael Xenos

  • Of Attitudes and Engagement: Clarifying the Reciprocal Relationship Between Civic Attitudes and Political Participation

    John Gastil;Michael Andrew Xenos

  • Coverage of emerging technologies: A comparison between print and online media:

    Michael A. Cacciatore;Ashley A. Anderson;Doo-Hun Choi;Dominique Brossard

  • Toxic Talk: How Online Incivility Can Undermine Perceptions of Media

    Ashley A Anderson;Sara K Yeo;Dominique Brossard;Dietram A Scheufele

  • U.S. attitudes on human genome editing

    Dietram A. Scheufele;Dietram A. Scheufele;Michael A. Xenos;Emily L. Howell;Kathleen M. Rose

  • Politics As Usual, or Politics Unusual? Position Taking and Dialogue on Campaign Websites in the 2002 U.S. Elections

    Michael A. Xenos;Kirsten A. Foot

  • Uncivil and personal? Comparing patterns of incivility in comments on the Facebook pages of news outlets:

    Leona Yi-Fan Su;Leona Yi-Fan Su;Michael A Xenos;Kathleen M Rose;Christopher Wirz

  • Effects of Campaign‐to‐User and Text‐Based Interactivity in Political Candidate Campaign Web sites

    Barbara Warnick;Michael Xenos;Danielle Endres;John Gastil

  • New Mediated Deliberation: Blog and Press Coverage of the Alito Nomination

    Michael Xenos

  • Analyzing public sentiments online: combining human- and computer-based content analysis

    Leona Yi-Fan Su;Michael A. Cacciatore;Xuan Liang;Dominique Brossard

  • Social distraction? Social media use and political knowledge in two U.S. Presidential elections

    Sangwon Lee;Michael Xenos

  • Performing for the young networked citizen? Celebrity politics, social networking and the political engagement of young people:

    Brian D Loader;Ariadne Vromen;Michael A Xenos

  • Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected

    Michael A. Xenos

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Brossard
Dominique Brossard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dietram A. Scheufele
Dietram A. Scheufele University of Wisconsin–Madison
John Gastil
John Gastil Pennsylvania State University
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
W. Lance Bennett
W. Lance Bennett University of Washington
Paul F. Nealey
Paul F. Nealey University of Chicago
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson University of Pennsylvania
David Domke
David Domke University of Washington

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