Facciani’s research interests include media literacy, social networks, political polarization, and misinformation. Facciani’s forthcoming book, Misguided: Where misinformation starts, how it spreads, and what to do about it, will be available for pre-order soon.
Below are links to his peer-reviewed publications:
Academic Publications:
Facciani, M., Lazić, A., Viggiano, G., & McKay, T. (2023). Political network composition predicts vaccination attitudes. Social Science & Medicine, 116004.
Facciani, M., Idris, I. K., & Weninger, T. (2023). Comparison of News Literacy, Media Consumption, and Trust Between Indonesia and Malaysia. Asian Journal of Media and Communication, 7(2).
Ford, T., Yankoski, M., Facciani, M., & Weninger, T. (2023). Online media literacy intervention in Indonesia reduces misinformation sharing intention. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 15(2), 99-123.
Facciani, M., McKay, T. Network loss following the 2016 Presidential Election among LGBTQ+ adults. (2022). Applied Network Science. 7, 41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00474-y
Facciani, M.J. (2021). A Novel Approach for Measuring Self-Affirmation. Current Research in Social Psychology, 12-20.
Facciani, M.J., Brashears, M.E., & Zhong, J. (2020) Visual vignettes for cross-national research, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2020.1844897
Facciani, M.J. (2020). How Self-Sentiments and Personal Networks Impact Political Polarization. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Facciani, M.J. & Brashears, M.E. (2019). Sacred Alters: The Effects of Ego Network Structure on Religious and Political Beliefs. Socius, 5.
Facciani, M.J. (2019). The Effects of Power on the Processing of Identity Threat. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences. 9(1): 116-130.
Langston, J. Albanesi, H.P. & Facciani, M.J. (2019). Toward Faith: A Qualitative Study of How Atheists Convert to Christianity. Journal of Religion & Society, (21), 1-23.
Schnabel, L, Facciani, M.J., Sincoff-Yedid, A., &. Fazzino. L (2016). Gender and Atheism: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and an Agenda for Future Research. Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion: Sociology of Atheism, 75-97.
Facciani, M. J., Warren, P., & Vendemia, J. (2016). A Content-Analysis of American Comic Books. Race, Gender, & Class.22(3/4), 216-226.
Facciani, M.J. (2015) Developing Affective Mental Imagery Stimuli with Multidimensional Scaling. Quantitative Methods for Psychology. 11 (2), 113-125.
Shinkareva, S., Wang, J., Kim, J., Facciani, M., Baucom, L., & Wedell, D. (2013) Representations of modality-specific affective processing for visual and auditory stimuli derived from fMRI data. Human Brain Mapping. DOI:10.1002/hbm.22421
