ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2026

  • Umansky, N., Kubli, M., Kotarcic, A., Bronner, L., Kurer, S., Grech, P., Hangartner, D., Gilardi, F., & Donnay, K. (2026). Improving hate speech detection with large language models European Journal of Political Research, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1475676525100546

• 2025

  • Gennaro, G., Bronner, L., Derksen, L., Kubli, M., Kotarcic, A., Kurer, S., Grech, P., Donnay, K., Gilardi, F., & Hangartner, D. (2025). The distribution of hate speech and its implications for content moderation Political Science Research and Methods, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2025.10063
  • Gennaro, G., Derksen, L., Abdelrahman, A., Broggini, E., Green, M. A., Haerter, V. A., Heer, E., Heidler, I., Kauer, F., Kim, H.-N., Landry, B., Levis, A., Li, J., Şimşir, Ş., Srbinovska, I., Vital, R. A., Donnay, K., Gilardi, F., & Hangartner, D. (2025). Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media Scientific Reports, 15, 22018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05041-w
  • Hoes, E., & Gilardi, F. (2025). Existential risk narratives about AI do not distract from its immediate harms Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, e2419055122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419055122
  • Gessler, T., Gilardi, F., & Kubli, M. (2025). Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections Political Science Research and Methods, 13, 979–993. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.63

• 2024

  • Alizadeh, M., Kubli, M., Samei, Z., Dehghani, S., Zahedivafa, M., Bermeo, J. D., Korobeynikova, M., & Gilardi, F. (2024). Open-source LLMs for text annotation: a practical guide for model setting and fine-tuning Journal of Computational Social Science, 8, 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-024-00345-9
  • Gilardi, F., Kasirzadeh, A., Bernstein, A., Staab, S., & Gohdes, A. (2024). We need to understand the effect of narratives about generative AI Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 2251–2252. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02026-z
  • Altay, S., & Gilardi, F. (2024). People are skeptical of headlines labeled as AI-generated, even if true or human-made, because they assume full AI automation PNAS Nexus, 3, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae403
  • Alizadeh, M., Zare, D., Samei, Z., Alizadeh, M., Kubli, M., Aliahmadi, M., Ebrahimi, S., & Gilardi, F. (2024). Comparing methods for creating a national random sample of twitter users Social Network Analysis and Mining, 14, 160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-024-01327-5

• 2023

  • Gilardi, F., & Trechsel, A. H. (2023). Digital Democracy In P. Emmenegger, F. Fossati, S. Häusermann, Y. Papadopoulos, P. Sciarini, & A. Vatter (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics (pp. 430–448). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192871787.013.22
  • Alizadeh, M., Hoes, E., & Gilardi, F. (2023). Tokenization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it Scientific Reports, 13, 13703. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40716-2
  • Fischer, M., & Gilardi, F. (2023). Level Playing Field or Politics as Usual? Equalization–Normalization in Direct Democratic Online Campaigns Media and Communication, 11, 43–55. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6004
  • Gilardi, F., Alizadeh, M., & Kubli, M. (2023). ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305016120

• 2022

  • Kotarcic, A., Hangartner, D., Gilardi, F., Kurer, S., & Donnay, K. (2022). Human-in-the-Loop Hate Speech Classification in a Multilingual Context 7414–7442. https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.548
  • Progin, J. (2022). Don’t be evil, Google: Effects of Google’s Digital News Initiative on Media Coverage in Switzerland (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-229850
  • Alizadeh, M., Gilardi, F., Hoes, E., Klüser, K. J., Kubli, M., & Marchal, N. (2022). Content Moderation As a Political Issue: The Twitter Discourse Around Trump’s Ban. Journal of Quantitative Description, 2022, 1–44. https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2022.023
  • Gilardi, F. (2022). Digital Technology, Politics, and Policy-Making Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108887304
  • Gilardi, F., Gessler, T., Kubli, M., & Müller, S. (2022). Issue Ownership and Agenda Setting in the 2019 Swiss National Elections Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft, 28, 190–208. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12496
  • Gilardi, F., Baumgartner, L., Dermont, C., Donnay, K., Gessler, T., Kubli, M., Leemann, L., & Müller, S. (2022). Building research infrastructures to study digital technology and politics: lessons from Switzerland PS : Political Science & Politics, 55, 354–359. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521000895
  • Gilardi, F., Gessler, T., Kubli, M., & Müller, S. (2022). Social media and political agenda setting Political Communication, 39, 39–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2021.1910390

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