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
  • Lutscher, P. M., & Donnay, K. (2025). Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States Perspectives on Politics, 23, 1426–1443. https://doi.org/10.1017/s153759272400272x
  • 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
  • Lutscher, P. M., & Donnay, K. (2025). A difficult test for hard propaganda: Evidence from a choice experiment in Venezuela Journal of Peace Research, 62, 462–478. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231220269

• 2024

  • Mayer, B., Donnay, K., Lawonn, K., Preim, B., & Meuschke, M. (2024). Expert exploranation for communicating scientific methods - A case study in conflict research Computers & Graphics, 120, 103937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2024.103937
  • Penić, S., Donnay, K., Bhavnani, R., Elcheroth, G., & Albzour, M. (2024). How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action? Political Psychology, 45, 319–340. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12925
  • Penić, S., Vollhardt, J. R., Donnay, K., Albzour, M., & Bhavnani, R. (2024). The geography of military occupation and its effect on Palestinian community cohesion, norms, and resistance motivation Peace and Conflict : Journal of Peace Psychology, 30, 94–106. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000684

• 2023

  • Schlager, N., Donnay, K., Kim, H., & Bhavnani, R. (2023). Drivers of COVID-19 protest across localities in Israel: a machine-learning approach Political Research Exchange, 5, 2257368. https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736x.2023.2257368
  • Spinde, T., Richter, E., Wessel, M., Kulshrestha, J., & Donnay, K. (2023). What do Twitter comments tell about news article bias? Assessing the impact of news article bias on its perception on Twitter Online Social Networks and Media, 37–38, 100264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2023.100264
  • Bhavnani, R., Schlager, N., Reul, M., & Donnay, K. (2023). Trajectories of resilience to acute malnutrition in the Kenyan drylands Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1091346. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1091346
  • Zhukova, A., Ruas, T., Hamborg, F., Donnay, K., & Gipp, B. (2023, June 1). What’s in the News? Towards Identification of Bias by Commission, Omission, and Source Selection (COSS). 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Santa Fe. https://doi.org/10.1109/jcdl57899.2023.00050
  • Bhavnani, R., Schlager, N., Donnay, K., Reul, M., Schenker, L., Stauffer, M., & Patel, T. (2023). Household behavior and vulnerability to acute malnutrition in Kenya Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 10, 63. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01547-8

• 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
  • 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
  • Zhukova, A., Hamborg, F., Donnay, K., & Gipp, B. (2022). XCoref: Cross-document Coreference Resolution in the Wild In M. Smits (Ed.), Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future : 17th International Conference, iConference 2022, Virtual Event, February 28 – March 4, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (No. 17; pp. 272–291). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96957-8_25

• 2021

  • Hangartner, D., Gennaro, G., Alasiri, S., Bahrich, N., Bornhoft, A., Boucher, J., Demirci, B. B., Derksen, L., Hall, A., Jochum, M., Munoz, M. M., Richter, M., Vogel, F., Wittwer, S., Wüthrich, F., Gilardi, F., & Donnay, K. (2021). Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, e2116310118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116310118
  • Thouvenin, F., Christen, M., Bernstein, A., Braun Binder, N., Burri, T., Donnay, K., Jäger, L. A., Jaffé, M., Krauthammer, M., Lohmann, M., Mätzener, A., Mützel, S., Obrecht, L., Ritter, N., Spielkamp, M., & Volz, S. (2021). Positionspapier: Ein Rechtsrahmen für Künstliche Intelligenz 1–7. https://www.dsi.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:3a0cb402-c3b3-4360-9332-f800895fdc58/dsi-strategy-lab-21-de.pdf
  • Weeber, F., Hamborg, F., Donnay, K., & Gipp, B. (2021). Assisted Text Annotation Using Active Learning to Achieve High Quality with Little Effort 287–288. https://doi.org/10.1109/jcdl52503.2021.00038
  • Hamborg, F., Heinser, K., Zhukova, A., Donnay, K., & Gipp, B. (2021). Newsalyze: Effective Communication of Person-Targeting Biases in News Articles 130–139. https://doi.org/10.1109/jcdl52503.2021.00025

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