Publications

Cotter, K., DeCook, J., Kanthawala, S., Foyle, K. (2022). In FYP we trust: The divine force of Algorithmic conspirituality. International Journal of Communication. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19289

Cotter, K. (2022). Practical knowledge of algorithms: The case of BreadTube. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/14614448221081802

DeCook, J., Cotter, K., Kanthawala, S., Foyle, K. (2022). Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms. Policy & Internet. DOI: doi.org/10.1002/poi3.290

Cotter, K., DeCook, J.R., Kanthawala, S. (2022). Fact-Checking the crisis: COVID-19, infodemics, and the platformization of truth. Social Media + Society. DOI: 10.1177/20563051211069048

Cotter, K. (2021). “Shadowbanning is not a thing”: black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms. Information, Communication & Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1994624

Cotter, K., Medeiros, M., Pak, C., Thorson, K. (2021). “Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting. Big Data & Society. DOI: 10.1177/2053951721996046

Thorson, K., Medeiros, M., Cotter, K., Chen, Y., Rodgers, K., Bae, A., Baykaldi, S. (Forthcoming). Platform civics: Facebook in the local information infrastructure. Digital Journalism. DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2020.1842776.

Thorson, K., Cotter, K., Medeiros, M., Pak, C. (2021). Algorithmic inference, political interest, and exposure to news and politics on Facebook. Information, Communication & Society, 24(2), 183-200. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1642934

Cotter, K., Reisdorf, B. (2020) Algorithmic knowledge gaps: A new dimension of (digital) inequality. International Journal of Communication, 20, 745-765. Link.

Cotter, K. (2019). Playing the visibility game: How digital influencers and algorithms negotiate influence on Instagram. New Media & Society, 21(4), 895-913. DOI: 10.1177/1461444818815684. Supplementary Materials

​Rader, E., Cotter, K., Cho, J. Explanations as mechanisms for supporting algorithmic transparency. In the Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Montreal, Canada, April 2018. DOI: 10.1145/3173574.3173677.

Cotter, K., Cho, J., and Rader, E. Explaining the News Feed algorithm: An analysis of the “News Feed FYI” blog. In CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts. Denver, CO, 2017. DOI: 10.1145/3027063.3053114.

Cotter, K., & Sasso, M.D. (2016). Libraries protecting privacy on social media: Sharing without “oversharing.” Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 4(2), 73–89.