All Stories

  1. Creating News Literacy Messages to Enhance Expert Corrections of Misinformation on Twitter

    Article • Communication Research, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emily Vraga

  2. News literacy, social media behaviors, and skepticism toward information on social media

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

    Dr Emily Vraga, Dr Melissa Tully

  3. Testing Logic-based and Humor-based Corrections for Science, Health, and Political Misinformation on Social Media

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  4. Designing and Testing News Literacy Messages for Social Media

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melissa Tully, Dr Emily Vraga, Dr Leticia Bode

  5. What Can I Do? How to Use Social Media to Improve Democratic Society

    Article • Political Communication, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  6. Engaging with the other side: using news media literacy messages to reduce selective exposure and avoidance

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga, Dr Melissa Tully

  7. Who Is Exposed to News? It Depends on How You Measure: Examining Self-Reported Versus Behavioral News Exposure Measures

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emily Vraga, Dr Melissa Tully

  8. What Viewers Want: Assessing the Impact of Host Bias on Viewer Engagement with Political Talk Shows

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leticia Bode, Dr Emily Vraga

  9. Cancer and Social Media: A Comparison of Traffic about Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and Other Reproductive Cancers on Twitter and Instagram

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Dr Emily Vraga

  10. Using Expert Sources to Correct Health Misinformation in Social Media

    Article • Science Communication, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emily Vraga

  11. Studying Politics Across Media

    Article • Political Communication, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leticia Bode, Dr Emily Vraga

  12. Party differences in political content on social media

    Article • Online Information Review, September 2016, Emerald

    Dr Emily Vraga

  13. Effective messaging to communicate news media literacy concepts to diverse publics

    Article • Communication and the Public, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emily Vraga

  14. Beyond Self-Reports: Using Eye Tracking to Measure Topic and Style Differences in Attention to Social Media Content

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  15. Blurred lines: Defining social, news, and political posts on Facebook

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  16. Effectiveness of a Non-Classroom News Media Literacy Intervention Among Different Undergraduate Populations

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emily Vraga

  17. In Related News, That Was Wrong: The Correction of Misinformation Through Related Stories Functionality in Social Media

    Article • Journal of Communication, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Emily Vraga

  18. Issue-Specific Engagement: How Facebook Contributes to Opinion Leadership and Efficacy on Energy and Climate Issues

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga, George Mason University Distinguished University Professor Edward Maibach

  19. How individual sensitivities to disagreement shape youth political expression on Facebook

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Emily Vraga

  20. Media literacy, hostile media perceptions, and biased processing of partisan news

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  21. How Party Affiliation Conditions the Experience of Dissonance and Explains Polarization and Selective Exposure*

    Article • Social Science Quarterly, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Emily Vraga

  22. Navigational Structures and Information Selection Goals: A Closer Look at Online Selectivity

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  23. The Rules of Engagement: Comparing Two Social Protest Movements on YouTube

    Article • Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, March 2014, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Leticia Bode, Dr Emily Vraga

  24. Political influence across generations: partisanship and candidate evaluations in the 2008 election

    Article • Information Communication & Society, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leticia Bode, Dr Emily Vraga

  25. Filmed in Front of a Live Studio Audience: Laughter and Aggression in Political Entertainment Programming

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leticia Bode, Dr Emily Vraga

  26. A New Space for Political Behavior: Political Social Networking and its Democratic Consequences

    Article • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, November 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Leticia Bode, Dr Emily Vraga

  27. Directing the Dialogue: The Relationship Between YouTube Videos and the Comments They Spur

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  28. Hearing and Talking to the Other Side: Antecedents of Cross-Cutting Exposure in Adolescents

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  29. YOUTUBE, TWITTER AND THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT

    Article • Information Communication & Society, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  30. Public Broadcasting, Media Engagement, and 2-1-1

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Emily Vraga

  31. Dealing with Dissonance: Responding to an Incongruent Test Result in a New Media Environment

    Article • Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, November 2011, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Emily Vraga

  32. Who Taught Me That? Repurposed News, Blog Structure, and Source Identification

    Article • Journal of Communication, October 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Emily Vraga

  33. Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  34. Digital Democracy: Reimagining Pathways to Political Participation

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  35. Precision vs. Realism on the Framing Continuum: Understanding the Underpinnings of Message Effects

    Article • Political Communication, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily Vraga

  36. Media Literacy Training Reduces Perception of Bias

    Article • Newspaper Research Journal, September 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emily Vraga