Publications/Working Papers

M. Maier, S. Adam, T. Gil Lopez, M. Makhortykh, L. Bromme, C. Christner, E. de León, A. Urman (2025). Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Political Involvement and Selective Information Consumption: Who Tunes Out and Who Prefers Attitude-Consonant Information. Mass Communication and Society.

C. Valli, E. de León, M. Makhortykh (2024). Personality and political news consumption online: A comparison between self-reports and webtracking data. Personality and Individual Differences.

Silke Adam, Mykola Makhortykh, Michaela Maier, Viktor Aigenseer, Aleksandra Urman, Teresa Gil-Lopez, Clara Christner, Ernesto de León, Roberto Ulloa (2024). Improving the quality of individual-level web tracking: Challenges of existing approaches and introduction of a new content and long-tail sensitive academic solution. Social Science Computer Review.

Ernesto de León (2024). Hyperpartisan News. **.

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D. Vigneswaran, E. de León Williams (2024). The inconsistency of immigration policy: the limits of “Top-down” approaches. Ethnic and Racial Studies.

E. de León, M. Makhortykh, S. Adam (2024). Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait. Political Communication.

Ernesto de León (2023). On issue survival: News media and how political issues remain salient in the face of crisis. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Ernesto de León, Susan Vermeer, Damian Trilling (2023). Distant Political News Classification: Facilitating Machine Learning Identification of News Topics Across Multilingual Text Corpora. **.

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E. de León, S. Vermeer, D. Trilling (2023). Electoral news sharing: a study of changes in news coverage and Facebook sharing behaviour during the 2018 Mexican elections. Information, Communication & Society.

Teresa Gil-Lopez, Clara Christner, Ernesto de León, Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Michaela Maier, Silke Adam (2023). Do (Not!) track me: Relationship between willingness to participate and sample composition in online information behavior tracking research. Social Science Computer Review.

E. de León, S. Vermeer, D. Trilling (2023). URLs can facilitate machine learning classification of news stories across languages and contexts. Computational Communication Research.

E. de León Williams, S. Vermeer (2023). The news sharing gap: Divergence in online political news publication and dissemination patterns across elections and countries. Digital Journalism.

Ernesto de León, Mykola Makhortykh, Teresa Gil-Lopez, Aleksandra Urman, Silke Adam (2022). News, threats, and trust: How COVID-19 news shaped political trust, and how threat perceptions conditioned this relationship. The International Journal of Press/Politics.

E. de León, D. Trilling (2021). A Sadness Bias in Political News Sharing? The Role of Discrete Emotions in the Engagement and Dissemination of Political News on Facebook. Social Media + Society.