Peer-reviewed journal articles

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2026

Artificial Intelligence in Election Campaigns: Perceptions, Penalties, and Implications

Andreas Jungherr, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Alexander Wuttke

Political Communication

2025

Winning and Losing with Artificial Intelligence: What Public Discourse About ChatGPT Tells Us About How Societies Make Sense of Technological Change

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Joshua Philip Suarez, Nikka Marie Sales, Andreas Jungherr

Telematics and Informatics

2025

Trust in Scientists and Their Role in Society Across 68 Countries

Viktoria Cologna, et al.

Nature Human Behaviour

2025

Tracking the Roots of Low News Usage on Smartphones - Do Individual Interests, Political Attitudes, and Media Consumption Habits Affect the Mobile News Use of Young Adults?

Morley Weston, Daniel Vogler, Pascal Jürgens, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mark Eisenegger

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

2025

The Short-Term Impact of an On-Site Literacy Intervention on Discerning Deepfake Videos Based on Visual Features

Daniel Vogler, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Gabriele de Seta

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

2025

Soft Disempowerment Dynamics in the 2022 FIFA World Cup

Joshua Philip Suarez, Nikka Marie Sales, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

2025

Public Opinion on the Politics of AI Alignment: Cross-National Evidence on Expectations for AI Moderation From Germany and the United States

Andreas Jungherr, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Social Media + Society

2025

Public Communication About Science in 68 Countries

Niels G. Mede, et al.

Science Communication

2025

Perceptions of Science, Science Communication, and Climate Change Attitudes in 68 Countries – The TISP Dataset

Niels G. Mede, et al.

Scientific Data

2025

Extreme Weather Event Attribution Predicts Climate Policy Support Across the World

Viktoria Cologna, et al.

Nature Climate Change

2025

Explaining Public Preferences for Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Election Campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Andreas Jungherr, Alexander Wuttke

Telecommunications Policy

2025

Deepfakes or Synthetic Media? The Effect of Euphemisms for Labeling Technology on Risk and Benefit Perceptions

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Daniel Vogler, Gabriele de Seta

Social Media + Society

2025

Days, Schedules, and Attention: How Time Affects Mobile News Consumption Among Young Swiss People

Morley Weston, Daniel Vogler, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Pascal Jürgens, Mark Eisenegger

Mobile Media & Communication

2025

Artificial Intelligence in Deliberation: The AI Penalty and the Emergence of a New Deliberative Divide

Andreas Jungherr, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Government Information Quarterly

2024

The System Is Corrupted, and the Mainstream Media Is Lying to Us! Exploring the Relation Between Affinity Toward Conspiracy Myths and Alternative News Media Usage

Daniel Vogler, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Lisa Schwaiger

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

2024

The Interplay of Knowledge Overestimation, Social Media Use, and Populist Ideas

Niels G. Mede, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer

Communication Research

2024

The Impact of Deplatforming the Far Right: An Analysis of YouTube and BitChute

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jonas Kaiser

Information, Communication & Society

2024

Negative Downstream Effects of Alarmist Disinformation Discourse: Evidence from the United States

Andreas Jungherr, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Political Behavior

2024

Blame and Obligation: The Importance of Libertarianism and Political Orientation in the Public Assessment of Disinformation in the United States

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Andreas Jungherr

Policy & Internet

2023

Taiwan’s Public Discourse About Disinformation: The Role of Journalism, Academia, and Politics

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, Jo-Ju Kao, Yi-Ting Liu

Journalism Practice

2023

Mobile News Consumption and Its Relation to Young Adults - Knowledge About and Participation in Referendums

Daniel Vogler, Morley Weston, Quirin Ryffel, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Pascal Jürgens, Mark Eisenegger, Lisa Schwaiger, Urs Christen

Media and Communication

2023

Maximizing Science Outreach on Facebook: An Analysis of Scientists’ Communication Strategies in Taiwan

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jo-Ju Kao, Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, Chia-Tzu Ho, Lu-Yi Li

Media and Communication

2023

How COVID-19 Displaced Climate Change: Mediated Climate Change Activism and Issue Attention in the Swiss Media and Online Sphere

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Dario Siegen, Daniel Vogler

Environmental Communication

2023

Bayesian Multilevel Modeling and Its Application in Comparative Journalism Studies

Chung-Hong Chan, Adrian Rauchfleisch

International Journal of Communication

2022

Understanding the #MilkTeaAlliance Movement

Austin Horng-En Wang, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Wilson China Fellowship Essays

2022

Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments

Lisa Schwaiger, Jörg Schneider, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mark Eisenegger

Convergence

2022

How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter

Lev Nachman, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Brian Hioe

Media and Communication

2021

Public Sphere in Crisis Mode: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Influenced Public Discourse and User Behaviour in the Swiss Twitter-sphere

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Daniel Vogler, Mark Eisenegger

Javnost - The Public

2021

Fighting Zika With Honey: An Analysis of YouTube’s Video Recommendations on Brazilian YouTube

Jonas Kaiser, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Yasodara Córdova

International Journal of Communication

2021

Close to Beijing: Geographic Biases in People’s Daily

Morley J. Weston, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Media and Communication

2021

Beyond the ivory tower: Measuring and explaining academic engagement with journalists, politicians and industry representatives among Swiss professors

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mike S. Schäfer, Dario Siegen

PLOS ONE

2020

Untangling Taiwan’s Hybridity With Structural Dysfunctions

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jo-yao Chi

Social Media + Society

2020

Transnational News Sharing on Social Media: Measuring and Analysing Twitter News Media Repertoires of Domestic and Foreign Audience Communities

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Daniel Vogler, Mark Eisenegger

Digital Journalism

2020

The German Far-right on YouTube: An Analysis of User Overlap and User Comments

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jonas Kaiser

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

2020

The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jonas Kaiser

PLOS ONE

2020

Connecting the (Far-)Right Dots: A Topic Modeling and Hyperlink Analysis of (Far-)Right Media Coverage during the US Elections 2016

Jonas Kaiser, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Nikki Bourassa

Digital Journalism

2020

Birds of a Feather Get Recommended Together: Algorithmic Homophily in YouTube’s Channel Recommendations in the United States and Germany

Jonas Kaiser, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Social Media + Society

2020

Beyond normalization and equalization on Twitter: Politicians’ Twitter use during non-election times and influences of media attention

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies

2019

State-aligned trolling in Iran and the double-edged affordances of Instagram

Simin Kargar, Adrian Rauchfleisch

New Media & Society

2019

Integrating Concepts of Counterpublics into Generalised Public Sphere Frameworks: Contemporary Transformations in Radical Forms

Jonas Kaiser, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Javnost - The Public

2018

The different audiences of science communication: A segmentation analysis of the Swiss population’s perceptions of science and their information and media use patterns

Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin, Julia Metag, Silje Kristiansen, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Public Understanding of Science

2018

Structure and development of science communication research: co-citation analysis of a developing field

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mike S. Schäfer

Journal of Science Communication

2018

Digital astroturfing in politics: Definition, typology, and countermeasures

Marko Kovic, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Marc Sele, Christian Caspar

Studies in Communication Sciences

2018

Climate change politics and the role of China: a window of opportunity to gain soft power?

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mike S. Schäfer

International Communication of Chinese Culture

2018

Between Fragmentation and Dialogue. Twitter Communities and Political Debate About the Swiss “Nuclear Withdrawal Initiative”

Dorothee Arlt, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mike S. Schäfer

Environmental Communication

2017

The public sphere as an essentially contested concept: A co-citation analysis of the last 20 years of public sphere research

Adrian Rauchfleisch

Communication and the Public

2017

Journalists’ Use of Political Tweets: Functions for journalistic work and the role of perceived influences

Julia Metag, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Digital Journalism

2017

How journalists verify user-generated content during terrorist crises. Analyzing Twitter communication during the Brussels attacks

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Xenia Artho, Julia Metag, Senja Post, Mike S. Schäfer

Social Media + Society

2017

Brute force effects of mass media presence and social media activity on electoral outcome

Marko Kovic, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag, Christian Caspar, Julian Szenogrady

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

2016

The special case of Switzerland: Swiss politicians on Twitter

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag

New Media & Society

2016

The Internet and Generalized Functions of the Public Sphere: Transformative Potentials From a Comparative Perspective

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Marko Kovic

Social Media + Society

2014

Multiple public spheres of Weibo: a typology of forms and potentials of online public spheres in China

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mike S. Schäfer

Information, Communication & Society

2013

The Swiss “Tina Fey Effect”: The Content of Late-Night Political Humor and the Negative Effects of Political Parody on the Evaluation of Politicians

Jörg Matthes, Adrian Rauchfleisch

Communication Quarterly