Lazer, David

The science of fake news

Lazer, D. M. J., Baum, M. A., Benkler, Y., Berinsky, A. J., Greenhill, K. M., Menczer, F., Metzger, M. J., Nyhan, B., Pennycook, G., Rothschild, D., et al. (2018) · Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsAcademic Publishing and Open Access

Cited by 4,160

The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis

Lazer, D., Kennedy, R., King, G., & Vespignani, A. (2014) · Science

Data-Driven Disease SurveillanceBig Data Technologies and Applications

Cited by 2,523

Inferring friendship network structure by using mobile phone data

Eagle, N., Pentland, A. (., & Lazer, D. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Human Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisComplex Network Analysis Techniques

Cited by 1,856

Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Grinberg, N., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Swire-Thompson, B., & Lazer, D. (2019) · Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 1,803

Machine behaviour

Rahwan, I., Cebrian, M., Obradovich, N., Bongard, J., Bonnefon, J.-F., Breazeal, C., Crandall, J. W., Christakis, N. A., Couzin, I. D., Jackson, M. O., et al. (2019) · Nature

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIArtificial Intelligence Applications

Cited by 1,364

Public health and online misinformation: challenges and recommendations

Swire-Thompson, B., & Lazer, D. (2020) · Annual Review of Public Health

Misinformation and Its ImpactsHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility

Cited by 1,170

The Network Structure of Exploration and Exploitation

Lazer, D., & Friedman, A. (2007) · Administrative Science Quarterly

Team Dynamics and PerformanceKnowledge Management and Sharing

Cited by 696

Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities

Lazer, D. M. J., Pentland, A., Watts, D. J., Aral, S., Athey, S., Contractor, N., Freelon, D., Gonzalez-Bailon, S., King, G., Margetts, H., et al. (2020) · Science

Scientific Computing and Data ManagementComputational and Text Analysis Methods

Cited by 453

Measuring price discrimination and steering on e-commerce web sites

Hannak, A., Soeller, G., Lazer, D., Mislove, A., & Wilson, C. (2014) · Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Internet Measurement Conference

Consumer Market Behavior and PricingWeb Data Mining and Analysis

Cited by 405

Measuring personalization of web search

Hannak, A., Sapiezynski, P., Molavi Kakhki, A., Krishnamurthy, B., Lazer, D., Mislove, A., & Wilson, C. (2013) · Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorRecommender Systems and Techniques

Cited by 396

How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., et al. (2023) · Science

Social Media and PoliticsMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 363

Searching for the backfire effect: Measurement and design considerations.

Swire-Thompson, B., DeGutis, J., & Lazer, D. (2020) · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 360

Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing

Nyhan, B., Settle, J., Thorson, E., Wojcieszak, M., Barberá, P., Chen, A. Y., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., et al. (2023) · Nature

Social Media and PoliticsMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 333

Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

González-Bailón, S., Lazer, D., Barberá, P., Zhang, M., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., Guess, A. M., et al. (2023) · Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 315

Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in media, higher trust in government when your side is in power

Ognyanova, K., Lazer, D., Robertson, R. E., & Wilson, C. (2020) · Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Misinformation and Its ImpactsMedia Influence and Politics

Cited by 261

Social sensing for epidemiological behavior change

Madan, A., Cebrian, M., Lazer, D., & Pentland, A. (2010) · Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing

Human Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

Cited by 219

Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search

Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., & Wilson, C. (2018) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 209

Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions

Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., et al. (2023) · Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 184

The rise of the social algorithm

Lazer, D. (2015) · Science

Social Media and PoliticsEthics and Social Impacts of AI

Cited by 133

Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search

Robertson, R. E., Green, J., Ruck, D. J., Ognyanova, K., Wilson, C., & Lazer, D. (2023) · Nature

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 126

The Incidental Pundit: Who Talks Politics with Whom, and Why?

Minozzi, W., Song, H., Lazer, D. M. J., Neblo, M. A., & Ognyanova, K. (2020) · American Journal of Political Science

Social Media and PoliticsElectoral Systems and Political Participation

Cited by 123

Association Between Social Media Use and Self-reported Symptoms of Depression in US Adults

Perlis, R. H., Green, J., Simonson, M., Ognyanova, K., Santillana, M., Lin, J., Quintana, A., Chwe, H., Druckman, J., Lazer, D., et al. (2021) · JAMA Network Open

Impact of Technology on AdolescentsMental Health via Writing

Cited by 61

Constance: modeling annotation contexts to improve stance classification

Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Hobbs, W., Lazer, D., & Tsur, O. (2017) · Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningComputational and Text Analysis Methods

Cited by 33

Media use and vaccine resistance

Green, J., Druckman, J. N., Baum, M. A., Ognyanova, K., Simonson, M. D., Perlis, R. H., & Lazer, D. (2023) · PNAS Nexus

Vaccine Coverage and HesitancyCommunication and COVID-19 Impact

Cited by 25