Publications

Full Publication List

Forthcoming

Hodson, J. (2026). Understanding Misinformation [book chapter]. In The Oxford Handbook of Misinformation and Disinformation. Accepted, Pending Publication.

Weselowski, M. and Hodson, J. (2026). “My Favourite Type of Weed was Cocaine”: Parasocial Relationships as Positive Exposure to Addiction Recovery [book chapter]. Media Studies Meet Drug Research  Routledge. Accepted, Pending Publication.

2026

Nooman, N., & Hodson, J. (2026). Shaping queerphobia: How X amplified hate speech against Iranian queer activists. Journal of Online Trust & Safety, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.54501/jots.v3I3.313

Hodson, J., Morales, E., Hooman, N., Davoudi, N., Lee, F. Y., & Pande, N. (2026). Unflattening the Cultures of Violence on Digital Platforms: A Knowledge Synthesis Report. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.32582580

O'Meara, V., Morales, E., & Hodson, J. (2026). Beyond verifications | authentic expertise: Influencers, misinformation, and authenticity in the online cancer community. International Journal of Communication, 20. https://doi.org/10.65476/b9mpk350

Hodson, J. (2026) Disinformation by omission: Discourses of anti-trans disinformation on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Recherches en communication, 58. https://doi.org/10.14428/rec.v58i58.89783 

2025

Hodson, J., Morales, E., & Owen, J. (2025). Using Syndemic Theory as a Framework for Understanding and Addressing Polarization and Other Anti-Social Behavior on Social Media. Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2025.800 

Hodson, J., Owen, J., & Homer-Dixon, T. (2025). Mapping Solutions to Affective Polarization: An Ecological Review of the Literature. Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2025.296

Kassam, I., & Hodson, J. (2025). Trust in the Age of Algorithms: How Gen Z Canadians navigate news, skepticism, and selective exposure. Facts & Frictions: Emerging Debates, Pedagogies and Practices in Contemporary Journalism, 5(1), 13–32. https://doi.org/10.22215/ff/v5.i1.03

Morales, E., Hodson, J., Chen, Y., Mendes, K., Veletsianos, G., & Gosse, C. (2025). "Stop being so Fkn soft": Masculinity, politics, and the acceptance of gender-based online violence myths among young Canadian men. Social Media + Society 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251358754 

Morales, E., Hodson, J., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2025). I 👍 your Hate: Emojis as Infrastructural Platform Violence on Telegram. Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2025.284

Morales, E., Hodson, J., O'Meara, V., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2025). Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging. New Media & Society, 28 (7). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338493 

O'Meara, V., Hodson, J., Gosse, C., & Velatsianos, G. (2025). Invisible, unmanageable, and inevitable: Online abuse as inequality in the academic workplace. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 18 (5), 608-620. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000545  

Chen, Y., Mendes, K., Gosse, C., Hodson, J., & Velatsianos, G. (2025). Canadian gender-based violence prevention programs: Gaps and opportunities. Violence against women 31 (10), 2682-2704. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241259727 

2024

O'Meara, V., Hodson, J., Jacobson, J., & Gruzd, A. (2024). Just being a bit bitchy: The gendered valences of online anti-social behavior on Tattle Life. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2024 (HICSS-57). 2. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/107233 

Hodson, J. (2024). BC - breaking cancer. In N. Kaplan-Myrth (Ed.), Breaking Canadians (pp. 45-48). University of Toronto Press.  

Hodson, J., O’Meara, V., Owen, J., Veletsianos, G., & Morales, E. (2024). Why don’t faculty members report incidents of online abuse and what can be done about it? Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 15, 100469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100469

Morales, E., Hodson, J., Chen, Y., Gosse, C., Mendes, K., & Veletsianos, G. (2024). “You Did It to Yourself”: An Exploratory Study of Myths About Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse Among Men. Sex Roles, 90(11), 1521–1533. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01514-w

O’Meara, V., & Hodson, J. (2024). “This Is My House!”: Producing and Protecting Intimacy in the Platformed Cancer Community. TOPIA, 48, 39–57. https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2023-0038

2023

Gosse, C., O’Meara, V., Hodson, J., & Veletsianos, G. (2023). Too rigid, too big, and too slow: institutional readiness to protect and support faculty from technology facilitated violence and abuse. Higher Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01043-7

Gruzd, A., Hodson, J., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., & O’Meara, V. (2023). The State of Anti-Social Behaviour on Social Media. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.24417271 

Hodson, J., (2023). Digital marketing and misinformation: Why we need a new professional ethics to guide our practice. Journal of Digital and Social Media Marketing.

Hodson, J., & O’Meara, V. (2023). Curating Hope: The Aspirational Self and Social Engagement in Early-Onset Cancer Communities on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231196868

Soares, F. B., Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., & Hodson, J. (2023). To troll or not to troll: Young adults’ anti-social behaviour on social media. PLoS one, 18(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284374

2022

Hodson, J., O’Meara, V., Thompson, C., Houlden, S., Gosse, C., & Veletsianos, G. (2022). “My People Already Know That”: The Imagined Audience and COVID-19 Health Information Sharing Practices on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221122463

Hazenberg, R., Hodson, J., Mittelman, R., & Ryu, J. (2022). Guest editorial. Social Enterprise Journal, 18(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1108/sej-02-2022-139

Hodson, J., & Gosse, C. (2022a). Lost in the Information Maze: Understanding the Multiple Drivers of QAnon Online Conspiracy Theories. Canadian Journal of Communication, 47(4), 730–744. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-07-26

Hodson, J., & Gosse, C. (2022b). Where We Go One, We Go All: QAnon, Networked Individualism, and the Dark Side of Participatory (Fan) Culture. Baltic Screen Media Review, 10(1), 46–51. https://doi.org/10.2478/bsmr-2022-0005

Hodson, J., & Lefevre, L. (2022). Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of social media data: Tools and techniques. In L. Sloan & A. Quan-Haase (Eds.), The Sage handbook of social media research methods (pp. 228-239). Sage.

Hodson, J., Reid, D., Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S., & Thompson, C. (2022). Heuristic responses to pandemic uncertainty: Practicable communication strategies of “reasoned transparency” to aid public reception of changing science. Public Understanding of Science, 32(4), 428–441. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221135425

Houlden, S., Veletsianos, G., Hodson, J., Reid, D., & Thompson, C. P. (2022). COVID-19 health misinformation: Using design-based research to develop a theoretical framework for intervention. Health Education, 122(5), 506–518. https://doi.org/10.1108/he-05-2021-0073

Jacobson, J., Hodson, J., & Mittelman, R. (2022). Pup-ularity contest: The advertising practices of popular animal influencers on Instagram. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 174, 121226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121226

Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S., Hodson, J., Thompson, C. P., & Reid, D. (2022). An Evaluation of a Microlearning Intervention to Limit COVID-19 Online Misinformation. Journal of Formative Design in Learning, 6(1), 13–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41686-022-00067-z

Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S., Reid, D., Hodson, J., & Thompson, C. P. (2022). Design Principles for an Educational Intervention Into Online Vaccine Misinformation. TechTrends, 66(5), 748–759. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-022-00755-4

2021

Dale, A., Clifton-Ross, J., Jost, F., Hodson, J., Leighton, H., & Bernard, M. (2021). Communicating Environmental Research: Harnessing the Power of Curation. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.54656/ndkb9329

Gosse, C. E., Hodson, J., & Veletsianos, G. (2021). Not Far Enough: How Workplace Harassment Policies Fail to Protect Scholars from Online Abuse. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12176

Gosse, C., Veletsianos, G., Hodson, J., Houlden, S., Dousay, T. A., Lowenthal, P. R., & Hall, N. (2021). The hidden costs of connectivity: Nature and effects of scholars’ online harassment. Learning, Media and Technology, 46(3), 264–280. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1878218

Gruzd, A., & Hodson, J. (2021). Making Sweet Music Together: The Affordances of Networked Media for Building Performance Capital by YouTube Musicians. Social Media + Society, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211025511

Hodson, J., O’Meara, V., Galizia, A., & Gosse, C. (2021). Quietly coping: The impact of online abuse on research innovation and knowledge workers in research and public education. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/istas52410.2021.9629206

Hodson, J., Veletsianos, G., & Houlden, S. (2021). Public responses to COVID-19 information from the public health office on Twitter and YouTube: Implications for research practice. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 19(2), 156–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2021.1945987

Houlden, S., Hodson, J., Veletsianos, G., Gosse, C., Lowenthal, P., Dousay, T., & Hall, N. C. (2021). Support for scholars coping with online harassment: An ecological framework. Feminist Media Studies, 22(5), 1120–1138. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1883086

Houlden, S., Hodson, J., Veletsianos, G., Reid, D., & Thompson-Wagner, C. (2021). The health belief model: How public health can address the misinformation crisis beyond COVID-19. Public Health in Practice, 2, 100151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100151

Houlden, S., Hodson, J., Veletsianos, G., Thompson, C. P., & Reid, D. (2021). Inoculating an Infodemic: An Ecological Approach to Understanding Engagement With COVID-19 Online Information. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(14), 1990–2013. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211050903

2020

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Recuero, R., Hernández-García, Á., Sian Lee, C., Cook, J., Hodson, J., McEwan, B., & Hopke, J. (2020). An Introduction to the 2020 International Conference on Social Media and Society: Diverse Voices—Promises and Perils of Social Media for Diversity. International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety′20, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400807

Lindgren, A., Corbett, J., & Hodson, J. (2020). Mapping Change in Canada’s Local News Landscape: An Investigation of Research Impact on Public Policy. Digital Journalism, 8(6), 758–779. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2020.1724516

2019

Hodson, J. (2019). An ecological model of climate marketing: A conceptual framework for understanding climate science related attitude and behavior change. Cogent Social Sciences, 5(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2019.1625101

Hodson, J. (2019b). Don’t Trust #CDNMedia: Twitter Posts From Eight Canadian Communities During #elxn42. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 38(1).

Hodson, J., & Petersen, B. (2019). Diversity in Canadian election-related Twitter discourses: Influential voices and the media logic of #elxn42 and #cdnpoli hashtags. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 16(3), 307–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1646181

2018

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., Hemsley, J., Kwon, K. H., Vatrapu, R., Quan-Haase, A., Sloan, L., & Hodson, J. (2018a). Introduction to the 2018 International Conference on Social Media and Society. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety ’18, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217891

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., Hemsley, J., Kwon, K. H., Vatrapu, R., Quan-Haase, A., Sloan, L., & Hodson, J. (2018b). Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society: SMSociety’18.

Hodson, J. (2018). THE NEW ARCHIVISTS: SOCIAL MEDIA, MEMORY AND HISTORY. Canadian Issues/Thèmes Canadiens. THE NEW ARCHIVISTS: SOCIAL MEDIA, MEMORY AND HISTORY - ProQuest

Hodson, J., Dale, A., & Clifton-Ross, J. (2018). Sharing sustainability stories: Case study of social media content curation for Canada Research Connections. Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing, 6(3), 198–210.

Hodson, J., Gosse, C., Veletsianos, G., & Houlden, S. (2018). I get by with a little help from my friends: The ecological model and support for women scholars experiencing online harassment. First Monday, 23(8).

Hodson, J., Jackson, S., Cukier, W., & Holmes, M. (2018). Between the corporation and the closet: Ethically researching LGBTQ+ identities in the workplace. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 37(3), 283–297. https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-04-2017-0093

Hodson, J., & Traynor, B. (2018). Design Exploration of Fake News: A Transdisciplinary Methodological Approach to Understanding Content Sharing and Trust on Social Media. 2018 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm.2018.00008

Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S., Hodson, J., & Gosse, C. (2018). Women scholars’ experiences with online harassment and abuse: Self-protection, resistance, acceptance, and self-blame. New Media & Society, 20(12), 4689–4708. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818781324

2017

Hodson, J., & Lindgren, A. (2017). Is No Election News Good News?: The 2015 Canadian Election and Locally Relevant News on Twitter. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, 39.

Hodson, J., Traynor, B., & Wilkes, G. (2017). Free Pile Sort as a Method to Understand Gender Differences: An Ecological Model of Social Media Use. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, 40.

Lindgren, A., Corbett, J., & Hodson, J. (2017). Canada’s local news poverty. Policy Options.

Seaborn, K., Fels, D. I., Bajko, R., & Hodson, J. (2017). Gamifying the Media Classroom: Instructor Perspectives and the Multidimensional Impact of Gamification on Student Engagement. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 7(4), 22–49. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijgbl.2017100102

2016

Bajko, R., Hodson, J., Seaborn, K., Livingstone, P., & Fels, D. (2016). Edugamifying Media Studies: Student Engagement, Enjoyment, and Interest in Two Multimedia and Social Media Undergraduate Classrooms. Information Systems Education Journal, 14(6), 55.

Hodson, J. (2016). Folk Classification of Social Media Platforms: Preliminary Findings. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. July, 2016.

Hodson, J., & Livingstone, P. (2016). Playing in Drag: A Study on Gender In Virtual and Non-Virtual Gaming. Loading..., 10(16).

Traynor, B., Hodson, J., & Wilkes, G. (2016). Media Selection: A Method for Understanding User Choices Among Popular Social Media Platforms. In HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations: eCommerce and Innovation (pp. 106–117). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39396-4_10

Critical education technology and approaches to AI and education futures

Veletsianos, G. & Houlden, S. (2026). Imagination as contested terrain: Elite futurism, disimagination politics, and education futures.Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2026.103839 

Blanchard, K. & Houlden, S. (2026). Postdigital radical flexibility. In P. Jandrić (Ed.), Encyclopaedia  of Postdigital Science and Education. Cham: Springer.  

Houlden, S. & Veletsianos, G. (2025). Midwifing liberatory education futures with education fiction: on the need to cultivate decolonial imagination. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–14.  

Houlden, S. & Veletsianos, G. (2025). Reflexive Futures Literacies: Using Story Completion Methods with Youth to Envision Diverse Education Futures. In: Jandrić, P., Suoranta, J., Teräs, M., Davis, H. (eds) Postdigital (Re)Imaginations. Postdigital Science and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01539-6_13 

Veletsianos, G. & Houlden, S. (2024). Youth perspectives on three speculative futures for higher education. Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.25619/gv5shv76 

Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S., Ross, J., Alhadad, S. & Dickson-Deane, C. (2024). Higher education futures at the intersection of justice, hope, and educational technology. International Journal of Education Technology in Higher Education 21, 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-024-00475-0 

Veletsianos, G., Houlden, S. & Johnson, N. (2024). Is Artificial Intelligence in Education an Object or a Subject? Evidence from a Story Completion Exercise on Learner-AI Interactions. TechTrends 68, 411–422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-024-00942-5