Misinformation, Politics, and Public Discourse

 
 
JSOMER Thematic Collection 04

Misinformation, Politics, and Public Discourse

Research on disinformation, political communication, polarization, civic engagement, public discourse, and the reliability of information circulating through social media.

This thematic collection brings together previously published JSOMER articles on misinformation, politics, and public discourse. The collection is intended to support topic-based discovery across volumes and issues and will be reviewed as new JSOMER content is published.

Inclusion Criterion

Articles are included when political communication, elections, disinformation, misinformation, polarization, civic discourse, public narratives, or information reliability is a primary focus.

Collection Information

Curated by: JSOMER Editorial Office
Last updated: July 21, 2026

This curated discovery collection is not a separately published issue. Every article retains its original bibliographic record and version of record.

Articles in This Collection

01
 

Extracting emerging events from social media: X/Twitter and the multilingual analysis of emerging geopolitical topics in near real time

John Burns, Tom Kelsey, Carl Donovan

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 1 (2025)  ·  2025

02
 

Disinformation and democratic threats: Insights from the 2019 Canadian federal election

Rachelle Louden, Richard Frank

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 2 (2025)  ·  2025

03
 

Us vs. Them: Moral, Cognitive and Affective Language in Group Identity Tweets

Ares Boira-Lopez, Joseph Stewart, Hairong Song, Marina Mery, Divya Patel, Cecelia Gordon, Bachazile Sikhondze, Shane Connelly, Matthew Jensen, Shaila Miranda

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 2 (2025)  ·  2025

04
 

Multilingual X/Twitter sentiment analysis of geopolitical risk using granger causality focusing on the Ukraine war and financial markets

John Burns, Tom Kelsey, Carl Donovan

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 2 (2025)  ·  2025

05
 

Comparison of commercial decoder-only large language models for multilingual sentiment analysis of short text

John Burns, Tom Kelsey

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 4 (2025)  ·  2025

06
 

Changes over time in TikTok behaviors and motivations and perceived consequences for public discourse and political polarization

Michael Langlais, Miya Shimada, Sofia Rhorer, Cassidy Bilsing

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 4 (2025)  ·  2025

07
 

The vax files: Social media reactions to pandemic plotlines

Giovanna Henery

Original Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 1 (2026)  ·  2026

08
 

The relationship between election-related social media activism and college students’ negative future expectancy

Zoe Waller, Ammie G. Yu, Kamryn M. Kadotani, Samantha L. McMichael, Virginia S. Y. Kwan

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 5 (2025)  ·  2025

09
 

Quality, reliability and misinformation in mental health and neurodivergence content on social media: a systematic review

Alice Carter, Fergus Gracey, Joanna Moody, Amber Ovens, Eleanor Chatburn

Original Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 1 (2026)  ·  2026

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