Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship

Informazioni relative al progetto

SoMe4Dem

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101094752

DOI

10.3030/101094752

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 12 Dicembre 2022

Data di avvio 1 Marzo 2023

Data di completamento 28 Febbraio 2026

Finanziato da

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Costo totale

€ 3 376 955,34

Contributo UE

€ 3 376 955,09

Coordinato da

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

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Risultati finali

Documents, reports (5)

Attitudinally-positioned European sample dataset

This deliverable will provide the first version of the data set together with the conceptual and methodological framework required to leverage attitudinal inference for large populations of users in Europe.

Survey on experiments about trust and collaborative vs conflictual language

The survey will focus on different experimental paradigms and the implications of previous experimental work for understanding the causal antecedents of trust and conflictual language in social media.

Platform affordances

This deliverable presents an empirically-informed taxonomy of platform affordances.

Democracy theory and social media

Research paper on Democracy theory and social media: Challenges to liberal democracy and democracy theory

Dissemination and Exploitation Plan

Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities. Itwill be periodically updated.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

This deliverable will establish the management of the data with in the project, establishing the protocols for anonymization, pseudonymization, collection, treatment, transfer, storage, encryption, and publication (for reproducibility of results in articles).

Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Nature Communications

Autori: Maertens, R; Roozenbeek, J; Simons, JS; Lewandowsky, S; Maturo, V; Goldberg, B; Xu, R; van der Linden, S
Pubblicato in: Nature Communications, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-57205-X

Knowledge refracted. A bibliometric analysis of conspiracy texts on Telegram

Autori: Willaert, Tom; Meyer, Trisha
Pubblicato in: Radices, 2024, ISSN 2736-7770
Editore: CUTA
DOI: 10.21825/RADICES.91992

Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding

Autori: Abels, Christoph M.; Huttunen, Kiia Jasmin Alexandra; Hertwig, Ralph; Lewandowsky, Stephan
Pubblicato in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2024, ISSN 2398-0648
Editore: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/BPP.2024.43

Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition

Autori: Segun T. Aroyehun; Almog Simchon; Fabio Carrella; Jana Lasser; Stephan Lewandowsky; David Garcia
Pubblicato in: Nature Human Behaviour, Numero 9, pages 1122–1133, 2025, ISSN 2397-3374
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.07323

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

Autori: Anastasia Kozyreva; Philipp Lorenz-Spreen; Stefan M. Herzog; Ullrich K. H. Ecker; Stephan Lewandowsky; Ralph Hertwig; Ayesha Ali; Joe Bak-Coleman; Sarit Barzilai; Melisa Basol; Adam J. Berinsky; Cornelia Betsch; John Cook; Lisa K. Fazio; Michael Geers; Andrew M. Guess; Haifeng Huang; Horacio Larreguy; Rakoen Maertens; Folco Panizza; Gordon Pennycook; David G. Rand; Steve Rathje; Jason Reifler; Philipp Schmid; Mark Smith; Briony Swire-Thompson; Paula Szewach; Sander van der Linden; Sam Wineburg
Pubblicato in: Nature Human Behaviour, Numero 8, 1044-1052, 2024, ISSN 2397-3374
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-024-01881-0

Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption

Autori: Lewandowsky, Stephan; Robertson, Ronald E.; DiResta, Renee
Pubblicato in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023, ISSN 1745-6924
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17456916231180809

Polarization in Social Media: A Virtual Worlds-based Approach

Autori: Dennis Jacob and Sven Banisch
Pubblicato in: Journal of artificial societies and social simulation, Numero 26, 2023, ISSN 1460-7425
Editore: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5170

A Formal Model of Affiliative Interpersonality

Autori: Stefan Westermann; Sven Banisch
Pubblicato in: Clinical Psychological Science, 2024, ISSN 2167-7034
Editore: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/21677026241229663

PLoS ONE

Autori: Cassells, Duncan; Vendeville, Antoine; Tabourier, Lionel; Ramaciotti, Pedro
Pubblicato in: PLOS One, Numero 20(12): e0338486, 2025, ISSN 1932-6203
Editore: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/783HB

Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement

Autori: Stephan Lewandowsky; Ullrich K. H. Ecker; John Cook; Sander van der Linden; Jon Roozenbeek; Naomi Oreskes; Lee McIntyre
Pubblicato in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024, ISSN 2807-5390
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/OSF.IO/Q7VBR

A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification

Autori: Rogers, R.; Zhang, X.
Pubblicato in: Communication and Change, Numero 1(13), 2025, ISSN 3059-2011
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S44382-025-00013-0

Seeing is Believing: The Continued Influence of Known AI-Generated ‘Deepfake’ Videos

Autori: Simon Clark; Stephan Lewandowsky
Pubblicato in: Communications psychology, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/OSF.IO/T7JFK

Revolution by other memes: on the playful subcultures of r/PoliticalCompassMemes

Autori: Tuters, M.; Mueller, G.
Pubblicato in: Information, Communication & Society, 2024, ISSN 1468-4462
Editore: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423340

Multidimensional political polarization in online social networks

Autori: Antonio F. Peralta, Pedro Ramaciotti, János Kertész, and Gerardo Iñiguez
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Research, Numero 6, 2024, ISSN 2643-1564
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013170

Thinking clearly about misinformation

Autori: Li Qian Tay, Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark J. Hurlstone, Tim Kurz & Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Pubblicato in: communications psychology, Numero 2, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Editore: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00054-5

Validating Argument-Based Opinion Dynamics with Survey Experiments

Autori: Sven Banisch and Hawal Shamon
Pubblicato in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2024, ISSN 1460-7425
Editore: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5305

Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines

Autori: Ralph Hertwig, Stefan M. Herzog, Anastasia Kozyreva
Pubblicato in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, Numero 19, 2025, ISSN 1745-6916
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17456916231188052

Different honesty conceptions align across US politicians' tweets and public replies

Autori: Fabio Carrella, Segun T. Aroyehun, Jana Lasser, Almog Simchon, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky
Pubblicato in: Nature Communications, Numero 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Editore: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-56753-6

A computational analysis of Telegram’s narrative affordances

Autori: Tom Willaert
Pubblicato in: PLoS ONE, 2023, ISSN 1932-6203
Editore: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293508

Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone

Autori: Gordon Pennycook; Adam J. Berinsky; Puneet Bhargava; Hause Lin; Rocky Cole; Beth Goldberg; Stephan Lewandowsky; David G. Rand
Pubblicato in: Nature Human Behaviour, Numero 8, pages 2330–2341, 2024, ISSN 2397-3374
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-024-02023-2

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored

Autori: Ullrich K. H. Ecker; Li Qian Tay; Jon Roozenbeek; Sander van der Linden; John Cook; Naomi Oreskes; Stephan Lewandowsky
Pubblicato in: American Psychologist, 2024, ISSN 1935-990X
Editore: APA
DOI: 10.1037/AMP0001448

Artnodes

Autori: Marco Paladini,Carlo R. M. A. Santagiustina, Costanza Sartoris, Giulia Saya, Michele Schiavinato, Gabriella Traviglia
Pubblicato in: artnodes, Numero 33, 2024, ISSN 1695-5951
Editore: Barcelona: Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
DOI: 10.7238/artnodes.v0i33.417840

A focus shift in the evaluation of misinformation interventions

Autori: L. Tay, S. Lewandowsky, M.J. Hurlstone, T. Kurz, U. K.H. Ecker
Pubblicato in: Harvard Misinformation Review, Numero 4, 2023, ISSN 2766-1652
Editore: Harvard Kennedy School
DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-124

Coupled infectious disease and behavior dynamics. A review of model assumptions

Autori: Andreas Reitenbach; Fabio Sartori; Sven Banisch; Anastasia Golovin; André Calero Valdez; Mirjam Kretzschmar; Viola Priesemann; Michael Mäs
Pubblicato in: Reports on Progress in Physics, 2024, ISSN 1361-6633
Editore: IOP
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000179516

Extracting narrative signals from public discourse: a network-based approach

Autori: Pournaki, Armin; Willaert, Tom
Pubblicato in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, ISSN 2807-5390
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.00702

Auditing the audits: evaluating methodologies for social media recommender system audits

Autori: Bouchaud, Paul; Ramaciotti Morales, Pedro
Pubblicato in: Applied Network Science, Numero 59(9), 2024, ISSN 2364-8228
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S41109-024-00668-6

Issues in Science and Technology

Autori: Tuters, Marc, Tom Willaert, and Trisha Meyer
Pubblicato in: Numeros in Science and Technology, Numero 39, ISSN 0748-5492
Editore: University of Texas at Dallas
DOI: 10.58875/POZR1536

Warning people that they are being microtargeted fails to eliminate persuasive advantage

Autori: Fabio Carrella; Almog Simchon; Matthew Edwards; Stephan Lewandowsky
Pubblicato in: Communications Psychology, 2025, ISSN 2731-9121
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00188-8

The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and Implications for Journal Reform

Autori: Trueblood, Jennifer S.; Allison, David B.; Field, Sarahanne M.; Fishbach, Ayelet; Gaillard, Stefan D. M.; Gigerenzer, Gerd; Holmes, William R.; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Matzke, Dora; Murphy, Mary C.; Musslick, Sebastian; Popov, Vencislav; Roskies, Adina L.; ter Schure, Judith; Teodorescu, Andrei R.
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, ISSN 1091-6490
Editore: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2401231121

Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US

Autori: Fintan Smith; Almog Simchon; Dawn Holford; Stephan Lewandowsky
Pubblicato in: Communications Psychology, 2023, ISSN 2731-9121
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44271-025-00189-7

From denazification to the Golden Billion: an inductive analysis of the Kremlin’s weaponisation of digital diplomacy on Telegram

Autori: Willaert, Tom; Tuters, Marc
Pubblicato in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, ISSN 2807-5390
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1057/S41599-025-05382-X

Scientific Reports

Autori: Hendrik Bruns; François J. Dessart; Michal Wiktor Krawczyk; Stephan Lewandowsky; Myrto Pantazi; Gordon Pennycook; Philipp Schmid; Laura Smillie
Pubblicato in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-024-71599-6

Conference proceedings (4)

Discovering ideological structures in representation learning spaces in recommender systems on social media data

Autori: Tim Faverjon, Pedro Ramaciotti
Pubblicato in: 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2023
DOI: 10.1145/3625007.3627336

Modeling Both Pairwise Interactions and Group Effects in Polarization on Interaction Networks

Autori: Duncan Cassells; Lionel Tabourier; Pedro Ramaciotti
Pubblicato in: Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-57515-0
Editore: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57515-0_4

The Candide model: How narratives emerge where observations meet beliefs

Autori: Paul Van Eecke, Lara Verheyen, Tom Willaert, Katrien Beuls
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on narrative understanding, 2023
Editore: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.wnu-1.7

Emoji, Language Games and Political Polarisation

Autori: Sara Luxmoore, Pedro Ramaciotti Morales, Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023, 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Editore: ceur-ws.org

Monographic books (1)

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding

Autori: Lewandowsky, Stephan; Kempe, Vera; Armaos, Konstantinos; Hahn, Ulrike; Abels, Christoph M.; Wibisono, Susilo; Louis, Winnifred; Sah, Sunita; Pagel, Christina; Jankowicz, Nina; DiResta, Renee; Markolin, Philipp; Schönemann, Henrik; Hertwig, Ralph; Crull, Henry; Mauer, Barry; Holford, Dawn; Lopez-Lopez, Ezequiel; Cook, John
Pubblicato in: EU Open Research Repository, 2025
Editore: European Commission
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15696097