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  1. “Why can’t I just be fat and exist on the internet?”: The embeddedness of antifatness on TikTok

    Article • Platforms & Society, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  2. TikTok as a Tool for Identity Work Among the Hoa Ethnic Community

    Article • Social Media + Society, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Bryan Dosono, Dr. Kelley Cotter

  3. Disrupting echo chambers? How social media is related to social tolerance through network diversity: linked lives over a major life course event

    Article • Information Communication & Society, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  4. Taking Responsibility for Meaning and Mattering: An Agential Realist Approach to Generative AI and Literacy

    Article • Reading Research Quarterly, August 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  5. If you’re reading this, it’s meant for you: The reflexive ambivalence of algorithmic conspirituality

    Article • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, June 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  6. "We happen to be different and different is not bad": Designing for Intersectional Fat-Positive Information-Seeking

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rebecca Jonas, Dr. Kelley Cotter

  7. "I Got Flagged for Supposed Bullying, Even Though It Was in Response to Someone Harassing Me About My Disability.": A Study of Blind TikTokers’ Content Moderation Experiences

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr John M. Carroll, Dr. Kelley Cotter

  8. Technology is a wish your heart makes: How Disney harnesses practical magic discourse to legitimize MyMagic+

    Article • New Media & Society, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  9. Algorithmic conspirituality: Explicating its emergence, dimensions, and persuasibility

    Article • New Media & Society, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  10. Practical knowledge of algorithms: The case of BreadTube

    Article • New Media & Society, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  11. Judging Value in a Time of Information Cacophony: Young Adults, Social media, and the Messiness of do-it-Yourself Expertise

    Article • The International Journal of Press/Politics, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  12. Correcting Sample Selection Bias of Historical Digital Trace Data: Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW) and Type II Tobit Model

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  13. Fact-Checking the Crisis: COVID-19, Infodemics, and the Platformization of Truth

    Article • Social Media + Society, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  14. Selling Political Data: How Political Ad Tech Firms’ Discourses Legitimate Microtargeting

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  15. “Shadowbanning is not a thing”: black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms

    Article • Information Communication & Society, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  16. “Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting

    Article • Big Data & Society, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  17. Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure

    Article • Digital Journalism, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  18. Algorithmic inference, political interest, and exposure to news and politics on Facebook

    Article • Information Communication & Society, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  19. Playing the visibility game: How digital influencers and algorithms negotiate influence on Instagram

    Article • New Media & Society, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  20. Explanations as Mechanisms for Supporting Algorithmic Transparency

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  21. Explaining the News Feed Algorithm

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Kelley Cotter

  22. Libraries Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Sharing without "Oversharing"

    Article • Pennsylvania Libraries Research & Practice, November 2016, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Kelley Cotter