Moderation, Response Rate, and Message Interactivity: Features of Online Communities and Their Effects on Intent to Participate. - Kevin R. Wise; Brian Hamman; Kjerstin Thorson (J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2006)

The Rules of Engagement: Comparing Two Social Protest Movements on YouTube. - Emily K. Vraga; Leticia Bode; Chris Wells; Kevin Driscoll 002; Kjerstin Thorson (Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw., 2014)

How individual sensitivities to disagreement shape youth political expression on Facebook. - Emily K. Vraga; Kjerstin Thorson; Neta Kligler-Vilenchik; Emily Gee (Comput. Hum. Behav., 2015)

Good citizenship as a frame contest: Kony2012, memes, and critiques of the networked citizen. - Neta Kligler-Vilenchik; Kjerstin Thorson (New Media Soc., 2016)

Do parents still model news consumption? Socializing news use among adolescents in a multi-device world. - Stephanie Edgerly; Kjerstin Thorson; Esther Thorson; Emily K. Vraga; Leticia Bode (New Media Soc., 2018)

"Reach the right people": The politics of "interests" in Facebook's classification system for ad targeting. - Kelley Cotter; Mel Medeiros; Chankyung Pak; Kjerstin Thorson (Big Data Soc., 2021)

Does high-quality news attract engagement on social media? Mediatization, media logic, and the contrasting values that shape news sharing, liking, and commenting on Facebook. - Jieun Shin; Seth C. Lewis; Soojong Kim; Kjerstin Thorson (New Media Soc., 2025)

Embracing Dialectic Intersubjectivity: Coordination of Different Perspectives in Content Analysis with LLM Persona Simulation. - Taewoo Kang; Kjerstin Thorson; Tai-Quan Peng; Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice; Sanguk Lee; Stuart Soroka (CoRR, 2025)