Ceren Budak
Faculty Associate
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BIO
Professor Budak’s research interests lie in the area of computational social science– and particularly in the use of large scale data sets and computational techniques to study problems with policy, social and political implications.
- Ceren Budak, Lia Bozarth, Robert M Bond, Drew Margolin, Jason J Jones, R Kelly Garrett. 2025. Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers. New Media & Society 27(2):726-746.
- Ashkinaze, J., Mendelsohn, J., Ceren Budak, et al. 2025. How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experiment. Proceedings of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference :198-213.
- Julia Mendelsohn, Maya Vijan, Dallas Card, Ceren Budak. 2024. Framing Social Movements on Social Media: Unpacking Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Motivational Strategies. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 4
- Ceren Budak, Nyhan, Brendan, Rothschild, David M., Thorson, Emily, Watts, Duncan J.. 2024. Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation. Nature 630(8015):45-53.
- Singh, Lisa, Bao, Le, Bode, Leticia, Ceren Budak, Josh Pasek, Trivellore E Raghunathan, Michael W Traugott, Wang, Yanchen, Wycoff, Nathan. 2024. Understanding the rationales and information environments for early, late, and nonadopters of the COVID-19 vaccine. npj Vaccines 9(1):1-12.
- Ceren Budak, Natalie Jomini Stroud, Ashley Muddiman, Caroline C. Murray, Yujin Kim. 2023. The Stability of Cable and Broadcast News Intermedia Agenda Setting Across the COVID-19 Issue Attention Cycle. Political Communication 40(6):827-847.
- Rajadesingan, Ashwin , Choo, Daniel , Zhang, Jessica , Inakage, Mia , Ceren Budak, Resnick, Paul . 2023. GuesSync!: An Online Casual Game To Reduce Affective Polarization. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7:341.
- Singh, Lisa, Bansal, Shweta, Bode, Leticia, Ceren Budak, et al. 2020. A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter. Social and Information Networks
- Josh Pasek, Bode, Leticia , Ceren Budak, Ladd, Jonathan M, Newport, Frank , Michael W Traugott. 2018. Words That Matter How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign..
- Ceren Budak, Goel, Sharad, Rao, Justin M.. 2016. Fair and Balanced? Quantifying Media Bias through Crowdsourced Content Analysis. Public Opinion Quarterly 80(S1):250-271.