Problem Definition in the Digital Democracy

Project Information

PRODIGI

Grant agreement ID: 883121

DOI

10.3030/883121

EC signature date 24 April 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 483 765,00

EU contribution

€ 2 483 765,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
Switzerland

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Open-source LLMs for text annotation: a practical guide for model setting and fine-tuning

Author(s): Meysam Alizadeh, Maël Kubli, Zeynab Samei, Shirin Dehghani, Mohammadmasiha Zahedivafa, Juan D. Bermeo, Maria Korobeynikova, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: Journal of Computational Social Science, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2432-2717
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s42001-024-00345-9

A survey of expert views on misinformation: Definitions, determinants, solutions, and future of the field

Author(s): Sacha Altay, Manon Berriche, Hendrik Heuer, Johan Farkas, Steven Rathje
Published in: Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, Issue 4(4), 2023, ISSN 2766-1652
Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-119

How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance: Evidence from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube

Author(s): Nahema Marchal, Emma Hoes, K. Jonathan Klüser, Felix Hamborg, Meysam Alizadeh, Mael Kubli, Christian Katzenbach
Published in: Political Communication, Issue 42, 2025, Page(s) 215-233, ISSN 1058-4609
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2377992

Media literacy tips promoting reliable news improve discernment and enhance trust in traditional media

Author(s): Sacha Altay, Andrea De Angelis, Emma Hoes
Published in: Communications Psychology, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00121-5

Existential risk narratives about AI do not distract from its immediate harms

Author(s): Emma Hoes, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2419055122

Content Moderation As a Political Issue: The Twitter Discourse Around Trump's Ban

Author(s): Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi, Emma Hoes, K. Jonathan Klüser, Maël Kubli, Nahema Marchal
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, Issue 26738813, 2022, Page(s) 1-44, ISSN 2673-8813
Publisher: HOPE - HBZ Open Publishing Environment
DOI: 10.51685/jqd.2022.023

Tokenization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it

Author(s): Meysam Alizadeh, Emma Hoes, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 13703, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40716-2

People are skeptical of headlines labeled as AI-generated, even if true or human-made, because they assume full AI automation

Author(s): Sacha Altay, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae403

Social Media and Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Switzerland

Author(s): Fabrizio Gilardi, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, Stefan Müller
Published in: Swiss Political Science Review, 2021, ISSN 1424-7755
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12458

Misinformation reloaded? Fears about the impact of generative AI on misinformation are overblown

Author(s): Simon, Felix; Altay, Sacha; Mercier, Hugo
Published in: Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2023, ISSN 2766-1652
Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-127

Comparing methods for creating a national random sample of twitter users

Author(s): Meysam Alizadeh, Darya Zare, Zeynab Samei, Mohammadamin Alizadeh, Mael Kubli, Mohammadhadi Aliahmadi, Sarvenaz Ebrahimi, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 1869-5469
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-024-01327-5

Level Playing Field or Politics as Usual? Equalization–Normalization in Direct Democratic Online Campaigns

Author(s): Manuela Fischer, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: Media and Communication, Issue 11(1), 2023, Page(s) 43-55, ISSN 2183-2439
Publisher: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i1.6004

Building Research Infrastructures to Study Digital Technology and Politics: Lessons from Switzerland

Author(s): Fabrizio Gilardi, Lucien Baumgartner, Clau Dermont, Karsten Donnay, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, Lucas Leemann, Stefan Müller
Published in: PS: Political Science & Politics, Issue 55(2), 2022, Page(s) 354-359, ISSN 1049-0965
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1049096521000895

Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence

Author(s): Sacha Altay, Benjamin A. Lyons, Ariana Modirrousta-Galian
Published in: Mass Communication and Society, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 301-325, ISSN 1520-5436
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2024.2382776

ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks

Author(s): Fabrizio Gilardi, Meysam Alizadeh, Maël Kubli
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 120(30), 2023, Page(s) e2305016120, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2305016120

Social Media and Political Agenda Setting

Author(s): Gilardi, Fabrizio; Gessler, Theresa; Kubli, Mael; Müller, Stefan
Published in: Political Communication, Issue 39(1), 2022, Page(s) 39-60, ISSN 1058-4609
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2021.1910390

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

We need to understand the effect of narratives about generative AI

Author(s): Fabrizio Gilardi, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Abraham Bernstein, Steffen Staab, Anita Gohdes
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 2251-2252, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02026-z

Open-Source Large Language Models Outperform Crowd Workers and Approach ChatGPT in Text-Annotation Tasks

Author(s): Alizadeh, Meysam; Kubli, Maël; Samei, Zeynab; Dehghani, Shirin; Bermeo, Juan Diego; Korobeynikova, Maria; Gilardi, Fabrizio
Published in: arXiv, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.02179

Book chapters (2)

Digital Democracy

Author(s): Gilardi, Fabrizio; Trechsel, Alexander
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics, 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192871787.013.22

Exploring Relationships Between Cryptocurrency News Outlets and Influencers’ Twitter Activity and Market Prices

Author(s): Meysam Alizadeh, Yasaman Asgari, Zeynab Samei, Sara Yari, Shirin Dehghani, Mael Kubli, Darya Zare, Juan Diego Bermeo, Veronika Batzdorfer, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2025, Page(s) 455-471
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78541-2_28

Other (1)

Comparing Methods for Creating a National Random Sample of Twitter Users

Author(s): Meysam Alizadeh, Darya Zare, Zeynab Samei, Mohammadamin Alizadeh, Maël Kubli, Mohammadhadi Aliahmadi, Sarvenaz Ebrahimi, Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: arXiv, 2024
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.04879

Monographic books (1)

Digital Technology, Politics, and Policy-Making

Author(s): Fabrizio Gilardi
Published in: Cambridge Elements in Public Policy, 2022, ISBN 9781108887304
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108887304