Research

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

# denotes co-first authors

Li, Q., Warner, B., & Madrigal, G. (in press). “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats:” Presidential Debates as a Megaphone for Identity-based Disinformation. International Journal of Communication.

#Li, Q., #Bond, R. M., Dixon, G. N., Hovick, S. R., Na, K., Nisbet, C. E., Wegener, D. T., & Garrett, R. K. (2026). The limited effect of social media use on misperceptions PLOS ONE.

Bond, R. M., Li, Q., Nisbet, E. C., & Garrett, R. K. (in press). Rallying the Base, Corroding the Truth: Elite Communication, Misperceptions, and the Communication of Democratic Decline. Political Communication.

Li, Q. Is It Just About the Facts? The Case for a Critical, Pro-Democracy Approach to Information Integrity. Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Warner, B., Li, Q., Gillespie, B., de Braganca Peixoto, J., Winfrey, & K. Madrigal, G. Podcasts, Conservative Identity Politics, and the 2024 Election. Journal of Radio \& Audio Media.

Li, Q., Bond, R. M., & Garrett, R. K. Misperceptions in Sociopolitical Context: Belief Sensitivity’s Relationship with Battleground State Status and Partisan Segregation. Journal of Communication.

Li, Q., Hassell, H. J. G., & Bond, R. M. Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists. PLOS ONE.

Li, Y., Wang, Z., & Li, Q. Presidential Communication and Its Relationship with Partisan Perceptions and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Examination. Human Communication Research.

Nisbet, E. C., Mortenson, C., & Li, Q.. The presumed influence of election misinformation on others reduces our own satisfaction with democracy. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.

Work under review

Li, Q., Wippell, J., Hunt, J., Yadon, N., Bond, R. M., & Tien, J. Discussions of Race in Online Right-Wing Communities: A Cross-platform Computational Analysis of Reddit, Telegram, and Truth Social Using BERT and Structural Topic Modeling. Political Psychology.

Work in progress

#Li, Q., #Garrett, R. K., Bond, R. M., & Nisbet, C. E. Social media use and partisan divergence in misinformation detection in the 2024 US election.

Li, Q. How dyadic trust impacts factual beliefs and (mis)information sharing: Evidence from an online interactive human-agent experiment.

Li, Q. Toward a behavioral measure and manipulation of dyadic trust in computer-mediated communication: An extension of economic trust games using bots.

Book chapters and other writings

Li, Q. Not All Falsehoods Are Equal: A Critical Examination of Mis- and Disinformation during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. In B. R. Warner, D. G. Bystrom, M. S. McKinney, & M. C. Banwart (Eds.), Democracy on the line: The turbulent 2024 presidential election.