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Media, Religion, Digital Communication

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
R.J. William Gilfeather
Unknown
2
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
University of Toronto
3
Leah Henrickson
The University of Queensland
4
Ruth Tsuria
Seton Hall University
5
Khoa Tran
Da Nang Hospital
6
Belén Jiménez-Alonso
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
7
Pranav Malhotra
University of Washington
8
Adel Nikjoo
Sheikh Bahaei University
9
Devin Proctor
Elon University
10
Rafał Leśniczak
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw

Rising Stars Papers

1
Artificial Intelligence’s Understanding of Religion: Investigating the Moralistic Approaches Presented by Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools
Religions|2024
31 cit.
2
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models
Learning Media and Technology|2024
13 cit.
3
Cohabitant: The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Interfaith Learning and Empathy Building
Unknown Journal|2024
10 cit.
4
The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2024
10 cit.
5
Combating Islamophobia: Compromise, Community, and Harmony in Mitigating Harmful Online Content
ACM Transactions on Social Computing|2024
9 cit.
6
Data, Annotation, and Meaning-Making: The Politics of Categorization in Annotating a Dataset of Faith-based Communal Violence
Unknown Journal|2024
9 cit.
7
“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places
Social Media + Society|2024
9 cit.
8
Toward Conceptualizing Bounded Social Media Places
Political Communication|2025
8 cit.
9
Deathbots. Discussing the use of Artificial Intelligence in grief / Deathbots. <i>Debatiendo el uso de la Inteligencia Artificial en el duelo</i>
Studies in Psychology Estudios de Psicología|2024
7 cit.
10
Promoting gender inclusivity through community-based tourism
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights|2025
7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Alexander Bor
Aarhus University
2
Hanna Vonk
Unknown
3
Lim Zheng Wei
Nanyang Technological University
4
Giulia Evolvi
Ruhr University Bochum
5
Devdeep Maity
Delaware State University
6
Eiad Yafi
University of Technology Sydney
7
Carla Henriques
Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
8
Steven Wengrovitz
Meta (Israel)
9
Faith Shin
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10
Riccardo Ladini
University of Milan

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Anthropomorphism and social presence in Human–Virtual service assistant interactions: The role of dialog length and attitudes
Computers in Human Behavior|2022
188 cit.
2
Discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated people during the pandemic
Nature|2022
115 cit.
3
“Victims of feminism”: exploring networked misogyny and #MeToo in the manosphere
Feminist Media Studies|2022
103 cit.
4
The Theory of Hypermediation: Anti-Gender Christian Groups and Digital Religion
Journal of Media and Religion|2022
55 cit.
5
Moralizing the <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 Pandemic: <scp>Self‐Interest</scp> Predicts Moral Condemnation of Other's Compliance, Distancing, and Vaccination
Political Psychology|2022
45 cit.
6
Opposing effects of Spirituality and Religious Fundamentalism on environmental attitudes
Journal of Environmental Psychology|2022
38 cit.
7
Spirituality of Science: Implications for Meaning, Well-Being, and Learning
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin|2023
13 cit.
8
Applicability of classifier to discovery knowledge for future prediction modelling
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing|2022
10 cit.
9
The role of party preferences in explaining acceptance of freedom restrictions in a pandemic context: the Italian case
Quality & Quantity|2022
9 cit.
10
The COVID-19 pandemic eroded system support but not social solidarity
PLoS ONE|2023
9 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jonathan Haidt
New York University
2
Jörg Matthes
University of Vienna
3
Michael Bang Petersen
Aarhus University
4
Anja Bechmann
Aarhus University
5
Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup
Aarhus University
6
Paul Dourish
University of California System
7
Malik Shahzad Shabbir
University of Lahore
8
Rajiv Kumar
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
9
Hamdzun Haron
National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia
10
Soumhya Venkatesan
University of Manchester

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.
Psychological Review|2001
7.9k cit.
2
Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
Unknown Journal|1992
2.5k cit.
3
Computational procedures for probing interactions in OLS and logistic regression: SPSS and SAS implementations
Behavior Research Methods|2009
2.4k cit.
4
When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals may not Recognize
Social Justice Research|2007
2.1k cit.
5
Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion
Cognition & Emotion|2003
2k cit.
6
Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues
Daedalus|2004
1.9k cit.
7
What (and Why) is Positive Psychology?
Review of General Psychology|2005
1.7k cit.
8
Social Functions of Emotions at Four Levels of Analysis
Cognition & Emotion|1999
1.7k cit.
9
Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors
Personality and Individual Differences|1994
1.6k cit.
10
What we talk about when we talk about context
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing|2004
1.5k cit.

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