Research Bibliography

What scholars have found studying Reddit — peer-reviewed work on moderation, toxicity, community dynamics, and platform governance, each linked to the paper itself.

2025governance
AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content
Lloyd, Gosciak, Nguyen, Naaman · ACM CHI
2025governance
Deplatforming Norm-Violating Influencers on Social Media Reduces Overall Online Attention Toward Them
Horta Ribeiro, Jhaver, Cluet-i-Martinell, Reignier-Tayar, West · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2025mental-health
Participant behavior and community response in online mental health communities: Insights from Reddit
Morini, Sansoni, Rossetti, Pedreschi, Castillo · Computers in Human Behavior
2025moderation
Platform Governance with Algorithm-Based Content Moderation: An Empirical Study on Reddit
He, Hong, Raghu · Information Systems Research
2025mental-health
Safe spaces or toxic places? Content moderation and social dynamics of online eating disorder communities
Lerman, Chu, Bickham, Luceri, Ferrara · EPJ Data Science
2025community-dynamics
Shaping collective action in financial markets through popular expertise: An analysis of Due Diligence posts on WallStreetBets
Gendron, Madelaine, Paugam, Stolowy · Accounting, Organizations and Society
2024moderation
"Positive reinforcement helps breed positive behavior": Moderator Perspectives on Encouraging Desirable Behavior
Lambert, Choi, Chandrasekharan · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2024harassment
A Cross Community Comparison of Muting in Conversations of Gendered Violence on Reddit
Foriest, Mittal, Bray, Tran, De Choudhury · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2024community-dynamics
Abortion access barriers shared in "r/abortion" after Roe: a qualitative analysis of a Reddit community post-Dobbs decision leak in 2022
Pleasants, Weidert, Parham, Anderson, Dolgins, Cheshire, Marshall, Prata, Upadhyay · Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
2024misinformation
Crowdsourcing the Mitigation of disinformation and misinformation: The case of spontaneous community-based moderation on Reddit
Corsi, Seger, Ó hÉigeartaigh · Online Social Networks and Media
2024mental-health
Digital Catharsis or Harmful Exposure? A Thematic Analysis of Self-Directed Violence Reddit Posts
Lundeen, McCall, Bradshaw, LeBlanc, Humphrey · Social Media + Society
2024community-dynamics
From femcels to 'femcelcore': Women's involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism
Johanssen, Kay · European Journal of Cultural Studies
2024governance
Governance of the Black Experience on Reddit: r/BlackPeopleTwitter as a Case Study in Supporting Sense of Virtual Community for Black Users
Smith, Klassen, Prinster, Tan, Keegan · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2024bots
Quantifying the vulnerabilities of the online public square to adversarial manipulation tactics
Bao, Yang, Flammini, Menczer et al. · PNAS Nexus
2024community-dynamics
Social media attention and retail investor behavior: Evidence from r/wallstreetbets
Warkulat, Pelster · International Review of Financial Analysis
2024bots
The Effect of Bots on Human Interaction in Online Communities
Safadi, Lalor, Berente · MIS Quarterly
2024moderation
The Great Ban: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of a Massive Deplatforming Operation on Reddit
Cima, Trujillo, Avvenuti, Cresci · ACM Web Science Conference
2023hate-speech
Quantifying How Hateful Communities Radicalize Online Users
Schmitz, Burghardt, Muric · ICWSM (AAAI) / arXiv
2023moderation
Spillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning
Russo et al. · ICWSM (AAAI)
2022misinformation
COVID-19 vaccine perceptions in the initial phases of US vaccine roll-out: an observational study on Reddit
Melton et al. · BMC Public Health / medRxiv
2022moderation
Make Reddit Great Again: Assessing Community Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald
Trujillo, Cresci · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2022moderation
Quarantined! Examining the Effects of a Community-Wide Moderation Intervention on Reddit
Chandrasekharan, Jhaver, Bruckman, Gilbert · ACM TOCHI / arXiv
2022bots
TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Saeed, Ali, Blackburn, De Cristofaro, Zannettou, Stringhini · IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P)
2021moderation
Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
Horta Ribeiro et al. · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2021moderation
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter
Jhaver, Boylston, Yang, Bruckman · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2021community-dynamics
Quantifying Social Organization and Political Polarization in Online Platforms
Waller, Anderson · Nature
2021community-dynamics
The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web
Horta Ribeiro et al. · ICWSM (AAAI)
2020hate-speech
A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism
Finkelstein, Zannettou, Bradlyn, Blackburn · ICWSM (AAAI)
2020community-dynamics
Quick, Community-Specific Learning: How Distinctive Toxicity Norms Are Maintained in Political Subreddits
Rajadesingan, Resnick, Budak · ICWSM (AAAI)
2020dataset
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
Baumgartner, Zannettou, Keegan, Squire, Blackburn · ICWSM (AAAI)
2020moderation
Through the Looking Glass: Study of Transparency in Reddit's Moderation Practices
Juneja, Subramanian, Mitra · PACM HCI (GROUP)
2019governance
Did You Suspect the Post Would be Removed? Understanding User Reactions to Content Removals on Reddit
Jhaver, Appling, Gilbert, Bruckman · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2019community-dynamics
Extracting Inter-community Conflicts in Reddit
Datta, Adar · ICWSM (AAAI)
2019governance
Human-Machine Collaboration for Content Regulation: The Case of Reddit Automoderator
Jhaver, Birman, Gilbert, Bruckman · ACM TOCHI
2019misinformation
Pathways to Conspiracy: The Social and Linguistic Precursors of Involvement in Reddit's Conspiracy Theory Forum
Klein, Clutton, Dunn · PLOS ONE
2019community-dynamics
Something's Brewing! Early Prediction of Controversy-causing Posts from Discussion Features
Hessel, Lee · NAACL-HLT
2019governance
The Civic Labor of Volunteer Moderators Online
Matias · Social Media + Society
2018community-dynamics
Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web
Kumar, Hamilton, Leskovec, Jurafsky · WWW (The Web Conference)
2018mental-health
Mental Health Support and its Relationship to Linguistic Accommodation in Online Communities
Sharma, De Choudhury · CHI
2018misinformation
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Zannettou et al. · ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
2018governance
The Internet's Hidden Rules: An Empirical Study of Reddit Norm Violations at Micro, Meso, and Macro Scales
Chandrasekharan et al. · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2017governance
#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit's Algorithm, Governance, and Culture Support Toxic Technocultures
Massanari · New Media & Society
2017hate-speech
A Web of Hate: Tackling Hateful Speech in Online Social Spaces
Saleem, Dillon, Benesch, Ruths · TA-COS workshop / arXiv
2017moderation
You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech
Chandrasekharan et al. · PACM HCI (CSCW)
2016mental-health
Discovering Shifts to Suicidal Ideation from Mental Health Content in Social Media
De Choudhury, Kiciman, Dredze, Coppersmith, Kumar · CHI
2016governance
Going Dark: Social Factors in Collective Action Against Platform Operators in the Reddit Blackout
Matias · ACM CHI
2016community-dynamics
Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions
Tan, Niculae, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lee · WWW (The Web Conference)
2014mental-health
Mental Health Discourse on Reddit: Self-Disclosure, Social Support, and Anonymity
De Choudhury, De · ICWSM (AAAI)