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Cristian Vaccari
Researcher at Loughborough University
Publications - 81
Citations - 3686
Cristian Vaccari is an academic researcher from Loughborough University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Social media. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 72 publications receiving 2377 citations. Previous affiliations of Cristian Vaccari include Royal Holloway, University of London & University of Bologna.
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Social media, political polarization, and political disinformation: a review of the scientific literature
Joshua A. Tucker,Andrew M. Guess,Pablo Barberá,Cristian Vaccari,Cristian Vaccari,Alexandra A. Siegel,Alexandra A. Siegel,Sergey Sanovich,Denis Stukal,Brendan Nyhan +9 more
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the current state of the literature on the relationship between social media; political polarization; and political "disinformation", a term used to encompass a wide range of types of information about politics found online.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus Explanations, Attitudes, and Narratives Survey (OCEANS) II.
Daniel Freeman,Daniel Freeman,Bao Sheng Loe,Andrew Chadwick,Cristian Vaccari,Felicity Waite,Laina Rosebrock,Lucy Jenner,Ariane Petit,Stephan Lewandowsky,Samantha Vanderslott,Stefania Innocenti,Michael Larkin,Alberto Giubilini,Ly-Mee Yu,Helen McShane,Andrew J. Pollard,Sinéad Lambe,Sinéad Lambe +18 more
TL;DR: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is relatively evenly spread across the population and factors such as conspiracy beliefs that foster mistrust and erode social cohesion will lower vaccine up-take.
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Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
TL;DR: Findings suggest that inadvertent encounters with political content on social media are likely to reduce the gap in online engagement between citizens with high and low interest in politics, potentially broadening the range of voices that make themselves heard.
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Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Deception, Uncertainty, and Trust in News:
Cristian Vaccari,Andrew Chadwick +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enable the mass creation of what have become known as "deepfakes" which are synthetic videos that closely resemble real videos.
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Political expression and action on social media: Exploring the relationship between lower- and higher-threshold political activities among Twitter users in Italy
Cristian Vaccari,Cristian Vaccari,Augusto Valeriani,Pablo Barberá,Richard Bonneau,John T. Jost,Jonathan Nagler,Joshua A. Tucker +7 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the more respondents acquire political information via social media and express themselves politically on these platforms, the more they are likely to contact politicians via e-mail, campaign for parties and candidates using social media, and attend offline events to which they were invited online.