Publications of Christopher A. Bail    :recent first  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

We've launched a new site so please go to People & Research for current information on our faculty and staff.

Books

  1. Bail, C. Terrified: How anti-Muslim fringe organizations became mainstream. Princeton University Press, December, 2014. 1-223 pp.  [abs]
  2. Bail, Christopher A.. The Cultural Environment: An Invitation to Computational Cultural Sociology. Contracting, Forthcoming.

Journal Articles

  1. Bail, Christopher A. (with Michele Lamont). "Sur les frontieres de la reconnaissance: Les categories internes et externes de l’identite collective (On the Boundaries of Recognition: Internal and External Categories of Collective Identity)." Revue Europeene de Migrations Internationales 21.2 (2005): 61-90.
  2. Bail, CA. "The configuration of symbolic boundaries against immigrants in Europe." American Sociological Review 73.1 (January, 2008): 37-59. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Bail, CA. "The Fringe Effect: Civil Society Organizations and the Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since the September 11th Attacks." American Sociological Review 77.6 (December, 2012): 855-879. (- Lead article
    -Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
    -Best Published Article Award, Communication and Information Technologies Section, American Sociological Association
    -Honorable Mention, Best Article Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion) [doi]  [abs]
  4. Bail, CA. "The cultural environment: Measuring culture with big data." Theory and Society 43.3 (January, 2014): 465-482. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Bail, Christopher A.. ""Taming Big Data: Using App Technology to Study Organizational Behavior on Social Media Sites." Sociological Methods and Research (Forthcoming).
  6. Bail, Christopher A.. ""The Public Life of Secrets: Deception, Disclosure, and Discursive Framing in the Policy Process." Sociological Theory (Forthcoming).
  7. Bail, CA. "The public life of secrets: Deception, disclosure, and discursive framing in the policy process." Sociological Theory 33.2 (June, 2015): 97-124. [doi]  [abs]
  8. Bail, CA. "Lost in a random forest: Using Big Data to study rare events." Big Data and Society 2.2 (December, 2015). [doi]  [abs]
  9. Bail, CA. "Emotional Feedback and the Viral Spread of Social Media Messages About Autism Spectrum Disorders.." American journal of public health 106.7 (July, 2016): 1173-1180. [doi]  [abs]
  10. Bail, CA. "Cultural carrying capacity: Organ donation advocacy, discursive framing, and social media engagement.." Social science & medicine (1982) 165 (September, 2016): 280-288. [doi]  [abs]
  11. Bail, CA. "Combining natural language processing and network analysis to examine how advocacy organizations stimulate conversation on social media.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113.42 (October, 2016): 11823-11828. [doi]  [abs]
  12. McDonnell, TE; Bail, CA; Tavory, I. "A Theory of Resonance." Sociological Theory 35.1 (March, 2017): 1-14. [doi]  [abs]
  13. Bail, CA. "Taming Big Data: Using App Technology to Study Organizational Behavior on Social Media." Sociological Methods and Research 46.2 (March, 2017): 189-217. [doi]  [abs]
  14. Bail, CA; Brown, TW; Mann, M. "Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation." American Sociological Review 82.6 (December, 2017): 1188-1213. [doi]  [abs]
  15. Bail, CA; Merhout, F; Ding, P. "Using Internet search data to examine the relationship between anti-Muslim and pro-ISIS sentiment in U.S. counties.." Science advances 4.6 (June, 2018): eaao5948. [doi]  [abs]
  16. Bail, CA; Argyle, LP; Brown, TW; Bumpus, JP; Chen, H; Hunzaker, MBF; Lee, J; Mann, M; Merhout, F; Volfovsky, A. "Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115.37 (September, 2018): 9216-9221. [doi]  [abs]
  17. Bail, CA; Brown, TW; Wimmer, A. "Prestige, proximity, and prejudice: how google search terms diffuse across the world." American Journal of Sociology 124.5 (March, 2019): 1496-1548. [doi]  [abs]
  18. Bail, CA; Guay, B; Maloney, E; Combs, A; Hillygus, DS; Merhout, F; Freelon, D; Volfovsky, A. "Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117.1 (January, 2020): 243-250. [doi]  [abs]
  19. Finkel, EJ; Bail, CA; Cikara, M; Ditto, PH; Iyengar, S; Klar, S; Mason, L; McGrath, MC; Nyhan, B; Rand, DG; Skitka, LJ; Tucker, JA; Van Bavel, JJ; Wang, CS; Druckman, JN. "Political sectarianism in America.." Science (New York, N.Y.) 370.6516 (October, 2020): 533-536. [doi]
  20. Bail, C. "Social-media reform is flying blind.." Nature 603.7903 (March, 2022): 766. [doi]
  21. Hartman, R; Blakey, W; Womick, J; Bail, C; Finkel, EJ; Han, H; Sarrouf, J; Schroeder, J; Sheeran, P; Van Bavel, JJ; Willer, R; Gray, K. "Interventions to reduce partisan animosity.." Nature human behaviour 6.9 (September, 2022): 1194-1205. [doi]  [abs]
  22. Jahani, E; Gallagher, N; Merhout, F; Cavalli, N; Guilbeault, D; Leng, Y; Bail, CA. "An Online experiment during the 2020 US-Iran crisis shows that exposure to common enemies can increase political polarization.." Scientific reports 12.1 (November, 2022): 19304. [doi]  [abs]
  23. Combs, A; Tierney, G; Alqabandi, F; Cornell, D; Varela, G; Castro Araújo, A; Argyle, LP; Bail, CA; Volfovsky, A. "Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election.." Scientific reports 13.1 (August, 2023): 14051. [doi]  [abs]
  24. Combs, A; Tierney, G; Guay, B; Merhout, F; Bail, CA; Hillygus, DS; Volfovsky, A. "Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform.." Nature human behaviour 7.9 (September, 2023): 1454-1461. [doi]  [abs]
  25. Argyle, LP; Bail, CA; Busby, EC; Gubler, JR; Howe, T; Rytting, C; Sorensen, T; Wingate, D. "Leveraging AI for democratic discourse: Chat interventions can improve online political conversations at scale.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120.41 (October, 2023): e2311627120. [doi]  [abs]

Book Chapters

  1. Edelmann, A; Wolff, T; Montagne, D; Bail, CA. "Computational Social Science and Sociology.." Annual Review of Sociology 46July, 2020. 61-81. [doi]  [abs]

Christopher A. Bail