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, Epub ahead of print. 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, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2025.10063
  • Gennaro, Gloria; Derksen, Laurenz; Abdelrahman, Aya; Broggini, Emma; Green, Mariya Alexandra; Haerter, Victoria Andrea; Heer, Elia; Heidler, Isabel; Kauer, Fiona; Kim, Han-Nuri; Landry, Benjamin; Levis, Alessio; Li, Jiazhen; Şimşir, Şevval; Srbinovska, Iva; Vital, Robin Anna; Donnay, Karsten; Gilardi, Fabrizio; Hangartner, Dominik (2025). Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media Scientific Reports, 15(1):22018.
  • Hoes, Emma; Gilardi, Fabrizio (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(16):e2419055122.

• 2024

  • Alizadeh, Meysam; Kubli, Maël; Samei, Zeynab; Dehghani, Shirin; Zahedivafa, Mohammadmasiha; Bermeo, Juan D; Korobeynikova, Maria; Gilardi, Fabrizio (2024). Open-source LLMs for text annotation: a practical guide for model setting and fine-tuning Journal of computational social science, 8:17.
  • Gessler, T., Gilardi, F., & Kubli, M. (2024). Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections Political Science Research and Methods, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.63
  • Gilardi, Fabrizio; Kasirzadeh, Atoosa; Bernstein, Abraham; Staab, Steffen; Gohdes, Anita (2024). We need to understand the effect of narratives about generative AI Nature Human Behaviour, 8(12):2251-2252.
  • Altay, Sacha; Gilardi, Fabrizio (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(10):1-11.
  • Alizadeh, Meysam; Zare, Darya; Samei, Zeynab; Alizadeh, Mohammadamin; Kubli, Maël; Aliahmadi, Mohammadhadi; Ebrahimi, Sarvenaz; Gilardi, Fabrizio (2024). Comparing methods for creating a national random sample of twitter users Social Network Analysis and Mining, 14:160.

• 2023

  • Gilardi, Fabrizio; Trechsel, Alexander H (2023). Digital Democracy In: Emmenegger, Patrick; Fossati, Flavia; Häusermann, Silja; Papadopoulos, Yannis; Sciarini, Pascal; Vatter, Adrian . The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 430-448.
  • Alizadeh, Meysam; Hoes, Emma; Gilardi, Fabrizio (2023). Tokenization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it Scientific Reports, 13(1):13703.
  • Fischer, Michaela; Gilardi, Fabrizio (2023). Level Playing Field or Politics as Usual? Equalization–Normalization in Direct Democratic Online Campaigns Media and Communication, 11(1):43-55.
  • Gilardi, Fabrizio; Alizadeh, Meysam; Kubli, Maël (2023). ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(30):1-3.

• 2022

  • Kotarcic, Ana; Hangartner, Dominik; Gilardi, Fabrizio; Kurer, Selina; Donnay, Karsten (2022). Human-in-the-Loop Hate Speech Classification in a Multilingual Context In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 7 December 2022 - 11 December 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics, 7414-7442.
  • Progin, Jonathan . Don’t be evil, Google: Effects of Google’s Digital News Initiative on Media Coverage in Switzerland 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
  • Alizadeh, Meysam; Gilardi, Fabrizio; Hoes, Emma; Klüser, K Jonathan; Kubli, Maël; Marchal, Nahema (2022). Content Moderation As a Political Issue: The Twitter Discourse Around Trump's Ban Journal of Quantitative Description, 2022(2):1-44.
  • Gilardi, Fabrizio (2022). Digital Technology, Politics, and Policy-Making Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gilardi, Fabrizio; Gessler, Theresa; Kubli, Maël; Müller, Stefan (2022). Issue Ownership and Agenda Setting in the 2019 Swiss National Elections Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 28(2):190-208.
  • Gilardi, Fabrizio; Baumgartner, Lucien; Dermont, Clau; Donnay, Karsten; Gessler, Theresa; Kubli, Maël; Leemann, Lucas; Müller, Stefan (2022). Building research infrastructures to study digital technology and politics: lessons from Switzerland PS : Political Science & Politics, 55(2):354-359.
  • Gilardi, Fabrizio; Gessler, Theresa; Kubli, Maël; Müller, Stefan (2022). Social media and political agenda setting Political Communication, 39(1):39-60.

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