Recent Publications
Publications Database
Gómez-Cruces, Juan S. (2024). Forecasting executive approval with social media data: opportunities, challenges and limitations. Journal of Computational Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-024-00299-y
McCoy, Jennifer, Juan S. Gómez-Cruces, Ozlem Tuncel, & Levente Littvay. (2023). Reducing Partisan Animus in Populist Contexts: Limitations of Shared Common Humanity and Perspective-Taking Interventions. In The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation. Routledge Series: Extremism & Democracy.
Ranger, J., & Ranger, W. (2023). Towards a resonant theory of memory politics. Memory Studies, 16(2), 451–464.
Bolsover, G. (2022). Indian Democracy Under Threat: The BJP’s Online Authoritarian Populism as a Means to Advance an Ethnoreligious Nationalist Agenda in the 2019 General Election. International Journal of Communication, 16(2022), 1940–1968. DOI: 1932–8036/20220005
Bolsover, G. (2022). Cultivating and Communicating Nationalism: Marketing China's Foreign Policy to its Citizens in the 20th Chinese Communist Party National Congress. Centre for Democratic Politics, University of Leeds.
Carlin Ryan, E. & Juan S. Gómez-Cruces. (2022). Trust in Latin American Governing Institutions. In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford University Press.
Bolsover, G. (2021). Social media, computational propaganda and control in China and beyond. In The World Information War: Campaigning, Cognition and Effect. Routledge.
Bolsover, G. (2020). COVID's impact on the US 2020 election: insights from social media discourse in the early campaign period. Center for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds.
Bolsover, G. (2020). Black Lives Matter discourse on US social media during COVID: polarized positions enacted in a new event. Center for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds. Aug 21, 2020.
Bolsover, G. (2020). Balancing freedoms, rights and responsibilities during COVID in US: a study of anti-and pro-restriction discourse. Center for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds. Aug 4, 2020.
Bolsover, G., and Tokitsu Tizon, J. (2020). Social Media and Health Misinformation during the US COVID Crisis. Center for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds. July 20, 2020.
Goron, C, and Bolsover, G. (2020). Commitment or control? The Impact of the Chinese Environmental Protection Bureaus' Burgeoning Online Presence in Local Environmental Governance. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 63(1). DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2019.1628716
Ranger, J. (2020). Slow down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social Media. tripleC: communication, capitalism, critique, 18(1), 254-267.
Bolsover, G, and Howard, P.N. (2019). Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo. Information, Communication and Society 22(14). DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1476576
Bolsover, G., and Howard, P.N. (2019). Computational Propaganda in the USA, Europe and China. In N. Vasu, B. Ang, & S. Jayakumar (Eds.), DRUMS: Distortions, Rumors, Untruths, Misinformation, and Smears (pp. 61–81). Singapore: World Scientific. DOI: /10.1142/11115
Bolsover, G. (2018). Computational Propaganda In China: An Alternative Model of a Widespread Practice. In P.N. Howard and S. Woolley (Eds.), Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bolsover, G. (2018). Slacktivist USA and Authoritarian China? Comparing Two Political Public Spheres with a Random Sample of Social Media Users. Policy and Internet 10(4). DOI: 10.1002/poi3.186
Bolsover, G, and Howard, P.N. (2017). Computational propaganda and political big data: Moving towards a more critical research agenda. Big Data 5(4). DOI: 10.1089/big.2017.29024.cpr
Bolsover, G. (2017). Harmonious communitarianism or a rational public sphere: A content analysis of the differences between comments on news stories on Weibo and Facebook. Asian Journal of Communication 27(2). DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2016.1214743
Bolsover, G. (2017). Computational propaganda in China: An alternative model of a widespread practice. COMPROP Research Report 2017.4, June 19, 2017.
Bolsover, G. (2017). Computational propaganda and the networked citizen. Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, October 2017.
Bolsover, G. (2017). Commercialization, representation and political speech on commercial microblogs in the US and China. Presented at the Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 2017.
Desigaud, C., Howard, P.N., Bradshaw, S., Kollanyi, B., and Bolsover, G. (2017). Junk News and Bots during the French Presidential Election: What Are French Voters Sharing Over Twitter In Round Two? COMPROP Data Memo 2017.4, May 4, 2017.
Howard, P.N., Bradshaw, S., Kollanyi, B., Desigaud, C., and Bolsover, G. (2017). Junk news and bots during the French Presidential Election: What are French voters sharing over Twitter? COMPROP Data Memo 2017.3, April 21, 2017.
Howard, P.N., Bolsover, G., Kollanyi, B., Bradshaw, S., and Neudert, L.M. (2017). Junk news and bots during the US election: What were Michigan voters sharing over Twitter? COMPROP Data Memo 2017.1, March 26, 2017.
Blank, G., Bolsover, G., & Dubois, E. (2014). A New Privacy Paradox: Young people and privacy on social network sites. University of Oxford, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2479938). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the American Sociological Association Conference, August 2014.
Bolsover, G., Dutton, W.H., Law, G., and Dutta, S. (2014). China and the US in the New Internet World: A comparative perspective. In M. Graham and W. Dutton (Eds.), Society and the Internet: How Information and Social Networks are Changing our Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661992.003.0008
Bolsover, G. (2014). What are appropriate normative frameworks to analyze the political effects of the Internet in China? (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2981552). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 2014.
Dutton, W., Law, G., Bolsover, G., & Dutta, S. (2014). The Internet Trust Bubble: Global values, beliefs and practices underpinning the future of free expression, privacy and security online.
Bolsover, G. (2013). News in China's new information environment: Dissemination patterns, opinion leaders and news commentary on Weibo. (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2257794). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 2013. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2257794
Bolsover, G., Dutton, W.H., Law, G., & Dutta, S. (2013). Social foundations of the Internet in China and the New Internet World: A cross-national comparative perspective. (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2276482). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the China and the New Internet World Information and Communication Association Pre-conference, June 2013. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2276482
Bolsover, G. (2013). Replay, Replace and Reconfigure – Empowered audiences riding the wave of viral videos to make new meanings and talk about their lives [an analysis of Gangnam style parody videos]. (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 3351099). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network.