11. Targeted digital voter suppression efforts likely decrease voter turnout
Kim, Y. M., Dahlke, R., Song, H., & Heinrich, R. (2026). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(5), e2519944123.
Research
My research uses computational methods, novel digital trace data collection, and field experiments to study how people interact with information online.
Published Research
10. Contextualizing Misinformation: A User-Centric Approach to Linguistic and Topical Patterns in News Consumption
Dahlke*, R., Tu*, F., Wang*, Y.-C., Lu, Y., Engeda, B. W., & Hancock, J. T. (2025). Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(CSCW1), 1-40.
* Co-first authors
Read Paper9. Untrustworthy Website Exposure and Election Beliefs: Selective Exposure and Ideological Asymmetry
Dahlke, R., & Hancock, J. (2025). Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 3(1).
8. Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 US Midterm Elections
Lukito, J., Macdonald, M., Dahlke, R., Bao, L., Yang, Y., Chen, B., Sun, Y., & Shah, D. (2025). Social Media + Society, 11(2).
7. Quantifying the Systematic Bias in the Accessibility and Inaccessibility of Web Scraping Content from URL-Logged Web-Browsing Digital Trace Data
Dahlke, R., Kumar, D., Durumeric, Z., & Hancock, J. T. (2025). Social Science Computer Review, 43(5), 1071-1086.
6. January 6 arrests and media coverage do not remobilize conservatives on social media
Dahlke, R., & Pan, J. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(23), e2401239121.
5. The Private Life of QAnon: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Americans' Exposure to QAnon Content on the Web
Moore, R. C.*, Dahlke, R.*, Forberg, P. L., & Hancock, J. T. (2024). Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), 1-34.
* Co-first authors
Read Paper4. Surviving or thriving political defeat on social media: a temporal analysis of how electoral loss exacerbates the gender gap in political expression
Dahlke, R., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 29(1), zmad051.
3. Battle for Inbox and Bucks: Comparing Email Fundraising Strategies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Chen, B., Borah, P., Dahlke, R., & Lukito, J. (2024). Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 4.
2. Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing
Lukito, J., Greenfield, J., Yang, Y., Dahlke, R., Brown, M. A., Lewis, R., & Chen, B. (2024). Media and Communication, 12.
1. Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2020 US election
Moore, R. C.*, Dahlke, R.*, & Hancock, J. T. (2023). Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1096-1105.
* Co-first authors
Read PaperMedia Coverage: The New York Times · World Economic Forum · Star Tribune · The Daily Beast
Preprints & Non-Peer Reviewed
4. Exposure to (AI-generated) untrustworthy websites in the 2024 US election
Dahlke*, R., Moore*, R. C., & Hancock, J. T. (2026). OSF Preprints.
* Co-first authors
Read Paper3. The Consumption of Pink Slime Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?
Dahlke*, R., Moore*, R. C., Bengani, P., & Hancock, J. (2026). OSF Preprints.
* Co-first authors
Top Student Paper, ICA Political Communication Division, 2024
Read PaperMedia Coverage: Northwestern Local News Initiative · The Boston Globe
2. The Public Sphere in Private Spaces: Quantifying Political Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Messaging
Dahlke, R., & Hancock, J. (2025). OSF Preprints.
1. The state of digital media data research, 2023
Lukito, J., Brown, M. A., Dahlke, R., Suk, J., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y., Chen, B., Kim, S. J., & Soorholtz, K. (2023). Social Science Research Council.