Shannon Poulsen, PhD Candidate

My work with Dr. Jason Coronel and Matthew Sweitzer is now available online. There is also an OSU article about the project that includes an interview with my co-authors and I. Access that here.  

My article with Dr. R. Kelly Garrett is now available online. Here is an OSU article summarizing the project as well as an interview with Dr. Garrett and I.

Dr. R. Kelly Garrett, Dr. Robert Bond, and I wrote an essay in The Conversation sharing findings from an upcoming project. In the project, we find that a sizable number of people believe that the content of satirical news is truthful. Our essay is available here.

My latest project, with co-authors Dr. Jason Coronel and Matt Sweitzer, has been accepted for publication at Human Communication Research.  Coronel, J. C., Poulsen, S., & Sweitzer, M. D. (2019). Investigating the generation and spread of numerical misinformation: A combined eye movement monitoring and social transmission approach. Human Communication Research, hqz012. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqz012 More information is…

A recent project with Dr. Kelly Garrett has been accepted at the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Garrett, R. K., & Poulsen, S. (2019). Flagging Facebook Falsehoods: Self-Identified Humor Warnings Outperform Fact Checker and Peer Warnings. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 24(5), 240–258. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmz012 More information about the project can be found on my Papers page.

I just returned from the the 69th International Communication Association conference in Washington, DC, where two of my projects were accepted for panel presentations. I presented Dr. Kelly Garrett and I’s project, “Flagging Facebook Falsehoods: Sites Disclosures Outperform Fact Checker and Peer Warnings” on the “Correcting Political Misperceptions” panel. My co-authors presented “Using Eye Movements…

I recently joined a collaborative project examining how language difficulty affects vote choice. We will conduct two studies that capture both self-report data and real-time eye-tracking data to help us test our various claims. Given the design of the studies, our team has several papers planned for publication. I will keep you all posted as…

My project with Dr. Dannagal Young, Dr. Kathleen Hall-Jamieson, and Abigail Goldring is being considered as a finalist for the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Outstanding Research Article Award of 2018. The paper, “Fact-Checking Effectiveness as a Function of Format and Tone: Evaluating FactCheck.org and FlackCheck.org,” is available here. Other finalists can be found here.

I’m pleased to announce I’ve been selected to serve as a graduate fellow for the upcoming Misinformation Solutions forum with major support from the Rita Allen foundation. Information about the Misinformation Solutions forum is available here. In short, the forum hosted a call for ideas that “sought interventions focused on reducing behaviors that lead to…