Research Bibliography

What scholars have found studying Reddit — peer-reviewed work on moderation, toxicity, community dynamics, and platform governance, each linked to the paper itself.

2024bots
Quantifying the vulnerabilities of the online public square to adversarial manipulation tactics
Bao, Yang, Flammini, Menczer et al. · PNAS Nexus
2023hate-speech
Quantifying How Hateful Communities Radicalize Online Users
Schmitz, Burghardt, Muric · ICWSM (AAAI) / arXiv
2023moderation
Spillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning
Russo et al. · ICWSM (AAAI)
2022misinformation
COVID-19 vaccine perceptions in the initial phases of US vaccine roll-out: an observational study on Reddit
Melton et al. · BMC Public Health / medRxiv
2022moderation
Quarantined! Examining the Effects of a Community-Wide Moderation Intervention on Reddit
Chandrasekharan, Jhaver, Bruckman, Gilbert · ACM TOCHI / arXiv
2021moderation
Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
Horta Ribeiro et al. · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2021moderation
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter
Jhaver, Boylston, Yang, Bruckman · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2021community-dynamics
The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web
Horta Ribeiro et al. · ICWSM (AAAI)
2020hate-speech
A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism
Finkelstein, Zannettou, Bradlyn, Blackburn · ICWSM (AAAI)
2020dataset
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
Baumgartner, Zannettou, Keegan, Squire, Blackburn · ICWSM (AAAI)
2019governance
Did You Suspect the Post Would be Removed? Understanding User Reactions to Content Removals on Reddit
Jhaver, Appling, Gilbert, Bruckman · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2019community-dynamics
Extracting Inter-community Conflicts in Reddit
Datta, Adar · ICWSM (AAAI)
2019governance
Human-Machine Collaboration for Content Regulation: The Case of Reddit Automoderator
Jhaver, Birman, Gilbert, Bruckman · ACM TOCHI
2019community-dynamics
Something's Brewing! Early Prediction of Controversy-causing Posts from Discussion Features
Hessel, Lee · NAACL-HLT
2018community-dynamics
Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web
Kumar, Hamilton, Leskovec, Jurafsky · WWW (The Web Conference)
2018mental-health
Mental Health Support and its Relationship to Linguistic Accommodation in Online Communities
Sharma, De Choudhury · CHI
2018misinformation
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Zannettou et al. · ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
2018governance
The Internet's Hidden Rules: An Empirical Study of Reddit Norm Violations at Micro, Meso, and Macro Scales
Chandrasekharan et al. · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2017hate-speech
A Web of Hate: Tackling Hateful Speech in Online Social Spaces
Saleem, Dillon, Benesch, Ruths · TA-COS workshop / arXiv
2017moderation
You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech
Chandrasekharan et al. · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2016mental-health
Discovering Shifts to Suicidal Ideation from Mental Health Content in Social Media
De Choudhury, Kiciman, Dredze, Coppersmith, Kumar · CHI
2016community-dynamics
Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions
Tan, Niculae, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lee · WWW (The Web Conference)