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.
  • Lutscher, P. M., & Donnay, K. (2025). Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States Perspectives on Politics, 23(4), 1426–1443. https://doi.org/10.1017/s153759272400272x
  • Lutscher, Philipp M; Donnay, Karsten (2025). A difficult test for hard propaganda: Evidence from a choice experiment in Venezuela Journal of Peace Research, 62(2):462-478.

• 2024

  • Mayer, Benedikt; Donnay, Karsten; Lawonn, Kai; Preim, Bernhard; Meuschke, Monique (2024). Expert exploranation for communicating scientific methods - A case study in conflict research Computers & Graphics, 120:103937.
  • Penić, Sandra; Donnay, Karsten; Bhavnani, Ravi; Elcheroth, Guy; Albzour, Mai (2024). How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action? Political Psychology, 45(2):319-340.
  • Penić, Sandra; Vollhardt, Johanna Ray; Donnay, Karsten; Albzour, Mai; Bhavnani, Ravi (2024). The geography of military occupation and its effect on Palestinian community cohesion, norms, and resistance motivation Peace and Conflict, 30(1):94-106.

• 2023

  • Schlager, Nina; Donnay, Karsten; Kim, Hyunjung; Bhavnani, Ravi (2023). Drivers of COVID-19 protest across localities in Israel: a machine-learning approach Political Research Exchange, 5(1):2257368.
  • Spinde, Timo; Richter, Elisabeth; Wessel, Martin; Kulshrestha, Juhi; Donnay, Karsten (2023). What do Twitter comments tell about news article bias? Assessing the impact of news article bias on its perception on Twitter Online social networks and media, 37-38:100264.
  • Bhavnani, Ravi; Schlager, Nina; Reul, Mirko; Donnay, Karsten (2023). Trajectories of resilience to acute malnutrition in the Kenyan drylands Frontiers in sustainable food systems, 7:1091346.
  • Zhukova, Anastasia; Ruas, Terry; Hamborg, Felix; Donnay, Karsten; Gipp, Bela (2023). What's in the News? Towards Identification of Bias by Commission, Omission, and Source Selection (COSS) In: 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Santa Fe, NM, USA, 26 June 2023 - 30 June 2023.
  • Bhavnani, Ravi; Schlager, Nina; Donnay, Karsten; Reul, Mirko; Schenker, Laura; Stauffer, Maxime; Patel, Tirtha (2023). Household behavior and vulnerability to acute malnutrition in Kenya Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 10(1):63.

• 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.
  • 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.
  • Zhukova, Anastasia; Hamborg, Felix; Donnay, Karsten; Gipp, Bela (2022). XCoref: Cross-document Coreference Resolution in the Wild In: Smits, Malte . Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future : 17th International Conference, iConference 2022, Virtual Event, February 28 – March 4, 2022, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer, 272-291.

• 2021

  • Hangartner, Dominik; Gennaro, Gloria; Alasiri, Sary; Bahrich, Nicholas; Bornhoft, Alexandra; Boucher, Joseph; Demirci, Buket Buse; Derksen, Laurenz; Hall, Aldo; Jochum, Matthias; Munoz, Maria Murias; Richter, Marc; Vogel, Franziska; Wittwer, Salomé; Wüthrich, Felix; Gilardi, Fabrizio; Donnay, Karsten (2021). Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(50):e2116310118.
  • Thouvenin, Florent; Christen, Markus; Bernstein, Abraham; Braun Binder, Nadja; Burri, Thomas; Donnay, Karsten; Jäger, Lena A; Jaffé, Mariela; Krauthammer, Michael; Lohmann, Melinda; Mätzener, Anna; Mützel, Sophie; Obrecht, Liliane; Ritter, Nicole; Spielkamp, Matthias; Volz, Stephanie (2021). Positionspapier: Ein Rechtsrahmen für Künstliche Intelligenz In: Workshop of the DSI (Digital Society Initiative) Strategy Lab, Balsthal, 26 August 2021 - 28 August 2021. Digital Society Initiative, 1-7.
  • Weeber, Franziska; Hamborg, Felix; Donnay, Karsten; Gipp, Bela (2021). Assisted Text Annotation Using Active Learning to Achieve High Quality with Little Effort In: 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Champaign, IL, USA, 27 September 2021 - 30 September 2021. ACM/IEEE, 287-288.
  • Hamborg, Felix; Heinser, Kim; Zhukova, Anastasia; Donnay, Karsten; Gipp, Bela (2021). Newsalyze: Effective Communication of Person-Targeting Biases in News Articles In: 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Champaign, IL, USA, 27 September 2021 - 30 September 2021. ACM/IEEE, 130-139.

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