Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Philipp Lutscher and Karsten Donnay. (2024). A Difficult Test for Hard Propaganda: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Venezuela. Journal of Peace Research. Online First https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231220269. [OSF]
• Benedikt Mayer, Karsten Donnay, Kai Lawonn, Bernhard Preim and Monique Meuschke. (2024). Expert Exploranation for Communicating Scientific Methods – A Case Study in Conflict Research. Computers & Graphics 120: 103937. [arXiv]
• Sandra Penić, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Karsten Donnay, Mai Albzour and Ravi Bhavnani. (2024). The Geography of Military Occupation and its Effect on Palestinian Community Cohesion, Norms, and Resistance Motivation. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 30(1): 94–106. [PsyArXiv]
• Sandra Penić, Karsten Donnay, Ravi Bhavnani, Guy Elcheroth and Mai Albzour. (2024). How Does the Geography of Surveillance Affect Collective Action? Political Psychology 45(2): 319–340. [Open Access, PsyArXiv]
• Nina Schlager, Karsten Donnay, Hyunjung Kim and Ravi Bhavnani. (2023). Drivers of COVID-19 Protest Across Localities in Israel: A Machine-learning Approach. Political Research Exchange 5(1): 2257368. [Open Access]
• Timo Spinde, Elisabeth Richter, Martin Wessel, Juhi Kulshrestha and Karsten Donnay. (2023). What do Twitter Comments Tell About News Article Bias? Assessing the Impact of News Article Bias on its Perception on Twitter. Online Social Networks and Media 37–38: 100264. [Open Access]
• Ravi Bhavnani, Nina Schlager, Mirko Reul and Karsten Donnay. (2023). Trajectories of Resilience to Acute Malnutrition in the Kenyan Drylands. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7: 1091346. [Open Access]
• Anastasia Zhukova, Terry Ruas, Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2023). What’s in the News? Towards Identification of Bias by Commission, Omission, and Source Selection (COSS). Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Champaign, IL: IEEE, 258–259. [Preprint]
• Ravi Bhavnani, Nina Schlager, Karsten Donnay, Mirko Reul, Laura Schenker, Maxime Stauffer and Tirtha Patel. (2023). Household Behavior and Vulnerability to Acute Malnutrition in Kenya. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10: 63. [Open Access]
• Ana Kotarcic, Dominik Hangartner, Fabrizio Gilardi, Selina Kurer and Karsten Donnay. (2022). Human-in-the-Loop Hate Speech Classification in a Multilingual Context. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics, 7414–7442. [arXiv]
• Anastasia Zhukova, Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2022). XCoref: Cross-document Coreference Resolution in the Wild. In M. Smits et al. (eds): iConference 2022,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13192. Cham: Springer, 272-291. [arXiv]
• Fabrizio Gilardi, Lucien Baumgartner, Clau Dermont, Karsten Donnay, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, Lucas Leeman and Stefan Müller. (2022). Building Research Infrastructures to Study Digital Technology and Politics: Lessons from Switzerland. PS: Political Science & Politics 55(2): 354-359. [Open Access]
• Dominik Hangartner, Gloria Gennaro, Sary Alasiri, Nicholas Bahrich, Alexandra Bornhoft, Joseph Boucher, Buket Buse Demirci, Laurenz Derksen, Aldo Hall, Matthias Jochum, Maria Murias Munoz, Marc Richter, Franziska Vogel, Salomé Wittwer, Felix Wüthrich, Fabrizio Gilardi and Karsten Donnay. (2021). Empathy-based Counterspeech Can Reduce Racist Hatespeech in a Social Media Field Experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(50): e2116310118. [Open Access]
  
• Felix Hamborg, Timo Spinde, Kim Heinser, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2021). How to Effectively Identify and Communicate Person-Targeting Media Bias in Daily News Consumption? Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 9th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA). Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1-11. [arXiv]
  
• Felix Hamborg, Kim Heinser, Anastasia Zhukova, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2021) Newsalyze: Effective Communication of Person-Targeting Biases in News Articles. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Champaign, IL: IEEE, 130-139. [arXiv]
• Franziska Weeber, Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2021). Assisted Text Annotation Using Active Learning to Achieve High Quality with Little Effort. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Champaign, IL: IEEE, 287-288. [arXiv]
• Benedikt Mayer, Kai Lawonn, Karsten Donnay, Bernhard Preim and Monique Meuschke. (2021). VEHICLE: Validation and Exploration of the Hierarchical Integration of Conflict Event Data. Computer Graphics Forum 40(3): 1–12. [Open Access]
• Felix Hamborg and Karsten Donnay. (2021). NewsMTSC: A Dataset for (Multi-)Target-dependent Sentiment Classification in Political News Articles. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2021. Fully virtual event. Stroudsburg, PA: ACL, 1663–1675. [Open Access]
• Timo Spinde, Lada Rudnitckaia, Jelena Mitrović, Felix Hamborg, Michael Granitzer, Bela Gipp and Karsten Donnay. (2021). Automated Identification of Bias Inducing Words in News Articles Using Linguistic and Context-oriented Features. Information Processing and Management 58(3): 102505. [Open Access]
• Lukas Feick, Karsten Donnay and Katherine T. McCabe. (2021). The Subconscious Effect of Subtle Media Bias on Perceptions of Terrorism. American Politics Research 49(3): 313-318. [SSRN]
• Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2021). Towards Target-Dependent Sentiment Classification in News Articles. In K. Toeppe et al. (eds): iConference 2021,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12646. Cham: Springer, 156-166. [arXiv]
• Timo Spinde, Lada Rudnitckaia, Kanishka Sinha, Felix Hamborg, Bela Gipp and Karsten Donnay. (2021). MBIC – A Media Bias Annotation Dataset Including Annotator Characteristics. Proceedings of the iConference 2021. Beijing, China (Fully virtual event). [arXiv, MBIC Data]
• Anastasia Zhukova, Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2021). Concept Identification of Directly and Indirectly Related Mentions Referring to Groups of Persons.  In K. Toeppe et al. (eds): iConference 2021,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12646. Cham: Springer, 514-526. [arXiv]
• Caleb M. Koch, Izabela Moise, Dirk Helbing and Karsten Donnay (2020). Public Debate in the Media Matters: Evidence From the European Refugee Crisis. EPJ Data Science 9: 12. [Open Access, SSRN]
• Felix Hamborg, Anastasia Zhukova, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2020). Newsalyze: Enabling News Consumers to Understand Media Bias. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). New York, NY: ACM, 455–456. [arXiv]
  
• Timo Spinde, Felix Hamborg, Angelica Becerra, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2020). Enabling News Consumers to View and Understand Biased News Coverage: A Study on the Perception and Visualization of Media Bias. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). New York, NY: ACM, 389-392. [arXiv]
  
• Seth Frey, Karsten Donnay, Dirk Helbing, Robert W. Sumner and Maarten W. Bos. (2019). The Rippling Dynamics of Valenced Messages in Naturalistic Youth Chat. Behavior Research Methods 51(4): 1737-1753. [Open Access]
  
• Karsten Donnay, Eric T. Dunford, Erin C. McGrath, David Backer and David C. Cunningham. (2019). Integrating Conflict Event Data. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(5): 1337-1364 [SSRN, R package].
• Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp. (2019). Automated Identification of Media Bias in News Articles: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review. International Journal on Digital Libraries 20(4): 391-415. [Open Access]
  
• Karsten Donnay. (2017). Big Data for Monitoring Political Instability. International Development Policy 8.1 (Online). [Open Access]
• Viktoria Spaiser, Thomas Chadefaux, Karsten Donnay, Fabian Russmann and Dirk Helbing. (2017). Communication Power Struggles on Social Media: A Case Study of the 2011-12 Russian Protests. Journal of Information Technology & Politics 14(2): 132-153. [SSRN]
  
• Dirk Helbing, Dirk Brockmann, Thomas Chadefaux, Karsten Donnay, Ulf Blanke, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Mehdi Moussaid, Anders Johansson, Jens Krause, Sebastian Schutte and Matjaz Perc. (2015). Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute. Journal of Statistical Physics 158(3): 735-781. [Open Access, SSRN]
• Ravi Bhavnani, Karsten Donnay, Dan Miodownik, Maayan Mor and Dirk Helbing. (2014). Group Segregation and Urban Violence. American Journal of Political Science 58(1): 226-245. [SSRN, received the AJPS Best Article Award 2015]
• Sebastian Schutte and Karsten Donnay. (2014). Matched Wake Analysis: Finding Causal Relationships in Spatiotemporal Event Data. Political Geography 41: 1-10. [SSRN, R package]
• Karsten Donnay and Vladimir Filimonov. (2014). Views to a War: Systematic Differences in Media and Military Reporting of the War in Iraq. EPJ Data Science 3:25. [Open Access]
• Matjaz Perc, Karsten Donnay and Dirk Helbing. (2013). Understanding Recurrent Crime as System-Immanent Collective Behavior. PLoS ONE 8(10):e76063. [SSRN]
• Ravi Bhavnani and Karsten Donnay. (2012). Here’s Looking at You: The Arab Spring and Violence in Gaza, Israel and the West Bank. Swiss Political Science Review 18(1): 124-131.

Contributions to Books

• Ravi Bhavnani, Karsten Donnay and Mirko Reul. (2020). Evidence-Driven Computational Modeling. In Luigi Curini, and Robert Franzese (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. London, UK: SAGE Publications, 60-78.
• Karsten Donnay, Andrew M. Linke and Ravi Bhavnani. (2017). Generalizing Findings from Micro-Level Research on Peace and Conflict: Challenges and Solutions. In David Backer, Ravi Bhavnani, and Paul Huth (eds.) Peace and Conflict 2017. New York, NY: Routledge, 4-15.
• Karsten Donnay and Ravi Bhavnani. (2016). The Cutting Edge of Research on Peace and Conflict. In David A. Backer, Ravi Bhavnani, and Paul K. Huth (eds.) Peace and Conflict 2016. New York, NY: Routledge, 4-18.
• Karsten Donnay, Elena Gadjanova and Ravi Bhavnani. (2014). Disaggregating Conflict by Actors, Time, and Location. In David A. Backer, Paul K. Huth, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld (eds.) Peace and Conflict 2014. New York, NY: Routledge, 44-56. [SSRN]

Thesis

• Karsten Donnay. (2014). Disaggregating Civil Conflict: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Contributions. PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, doi:10.3929/ethz-a-010259246. [Open Access]