Welcome and thanks for visiting! I am an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State University. My research investigates social interactions, social networks, and frequently uses computational methods. Below you will find links to my published work and my coauthors' webpages.

For more information about my professional background and my research please see my CV and my Google Scholar profile.

I am a faculty co-lead of the Computational Social Sciences Community of Practice in the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at OSU.

I am a co-founder of the Computational and Statistical Models group (COSMOS) at OSU. Please check out the amazing work that our group is doing!

 

Publications

  1. Ceren Budak, Lia Bozarth, Robert M. Bond, Drew Margolin, Jason J. Jones, and R. Kelly Garrett. Garrett. Bursts of co-publication among high and low credibility online news publishers observed on Facebook. New Media & Society (forthcoming).

  2. Qin Li, Robert M. Bond, and R. Kelly Garrett. Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: Belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation. Journal of Communication (forthcoming).

  3. Qin Li, Hans Hassell, and Robert M. Bond. Journalists' Networks: Homophily and Peering Over the Shoulder of other Journalists. PLoS One 18 (10): e0291544 (2023).

  4. Yue Li, William Gee, Jin Kun, and Robert M. Bond. Examining Homophily, Language Coordination, and Analytical Thinking in Web-Based Conversations About Vaccines on Reddit: Study Using Deep Neural Network Language Models and Computer-Assisted Conversational Analyses. Journal of Medical Internet Research 25: e41882 (2023).

  5. Yue Li and Robert M. Bond. Examining semantic (dis)similarity in news through news organizations' ideological similarity, similarity in truthfulness, and public engagement on social media: A network approach. Human Communication Research 49 (1): 47-60 (2023).

  6. Robert M. Bond and R. Kelly Garrett. Engagement with fact-checked posts on Reddit. PNAS Nexus 2 (3): pgad018 (2023). [Supplementary Information]

  7. Shannon Poulsen, R. Kelly Garrett, and Robert M. Bond. Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news. PLoS One 18 (1): e0278639 (2023). [Supplementary Information]

  8. Austin Hubner and Robert M. Bond. I Am a Scientist… Ask Me Anything: Explicating the role of past behavioral attitudes on scientists’ future public engagement intentions. Journal of Science Communication 21 (7): A02 (2022).

  9. Hillary Shulman, Matthew D. Sweitzer, Jason Coronel, Olivia Bullock, Shannon Poulsen, and Robert M. Bond. Predicting Vote Choice and Election Outcomes from Ballot Wording: The Role of Processing Fluency in Low Information Direct Democracy Elections. Political Communication 39 (5): 652-673 (2022). [Supplementary Information]

  10. Matthew Osborne, Samuel S. Malloy, Erik C. Nisbet, Robert M. Bond, and Joseph H. Tien. Sentinel node approach to monitoring online COVID-19 misinformation. Scientific Reports 12: 9832 (14 June 2022). [Supplementary Information]

  11. Yue Li and Robert M. Bond. Evidence of the persistence and consistency of social signatures. Applied Network Science 7 (10): 1-19 (2022).

  12. Tasleem J. Padamsee, Robert M. Bond, Graham N. Dixon, Shelly R. Hovick, Kilhoe Na, Erik C. Nisbet, Duane T. Wegener, and R. Kelly Garrett. Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black and White Individuals in the US. JAMA Network Open 5 (1): e2144470 (2022).

  13. Robert M. Bond and Matthew D. Sweitzer. Political Homophily in a Large-scale Online Communication Network. Communication Research 49 (1): 93-115 (2022). [Supplementary Information]

  14. Robert M. Bond. Social network determinants of screen time in adolescents. The Social Science Journal 59 (2): 236-251 (2022).

  15. Austin Hubner and Robert M. Bond. I Am A Scientist... Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session. Public Understanding of Science 31 (4): 458-472 (2022).

  16. Robert M. Bond. Building a foundation for data science researchers in political science, in Brown, Nordyke, and Thies (Eds.) Teaching Graduate Methodology: Edward Elgar (2022).

  17. Jason Coronel, Olivia Bullock, Hillary Shulman, Matthew D. Sweitzer, Robert M. Bond, and Shannon Poulsen. Eye movements predict large-scale voting decisions. Psychological Science 32 (6): 836-848 (2021). [Supplementary Information]

  18. Elias Assaf, Robert M. Bond, Skyler J. Cranmer, Eloise E. Kaizar, Lauren Ratliff Santoro, Susumu Shikano, and David J. Sivakoff. Understanding the Relationship Between Official and Social Information about Infectious Disease: An Experimental Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research 23 (11) e25287 (2021).

  19. Lauren Ratliff Santoro, Elias Assaf, Robert M. Bond, Eloise E. Kaizar, David J. Sivakoff, and Skyler J. Cranmer. Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Elite Influence on Public Opinion. PLoS One 16 (11): e0257335 (2021).

  20. R. Kelly Garrett and Robert M. Bond. Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions. Science Advances 7: eabf1234 (2 June 2021). [Supplementary Information]

  21. Austin Hubner, Jessica McKnight, Matthew D. Sweitzer, and Robert M. Bond. Down to a r/science: Integrating Computational Approaches to the Study of Communication on Reddit. Computational Communication Research 3 (1): 91-115 (2021).

  22. Caleb Pomeroy, Robert M. Bond, Peter J. Mucha, and Skyler Cranmer. Dynamics of Social Network Emergence Explain Network Evolution. Scientific Reports 10: 21876 (14 December 2020). [Supplementary Information]

  23. Robert M. Bond, Lia C. Bozarth, Ceren Budak, R. Kelly Garrett, Jason J. Jones, and Drew Margolin. The case for studying obscure falsehoods. In Pasquetto, I., Swire-Thompson, B., Amazeen, M.A., Benevenuto, F., Brashier, N.M., Bond, R.M., Bozarth, L.C., Budak, C., Ecker, U.K.H. , Fazio, L.K., Ferrara, E., Flanagin, A.J., Flammini, A., Freelon, D., Grinberg, N., Hertwig, R., Jamieson, K.H., Joseph, K., Jones, J.J. …Yang, K.C. Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 1 (8): 5-6 (2020).

  24. Elizabeth A. Bond and Robert M. Bond. Topic Modelling Eighteenth-Century French Newspapers, in Burrows, Simon and Glenn Roe (Eds.) Digitising Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies: Liverpool University Press (2020).

  25. Robert M. Bond. Low-cost, high-impact altruistic punishment promotes cooperation cascades in human social networks. Scientific Reports 9: 2061 (14 February 2019). [Supplementary Information]

  26. Megan Vendemia, Robert M. Bond, and David DeAndrea. The Strategic Presentation of User Comments Affects How Political Messages Are Evaluated on Social Media Sites: Evidence for Robust Effects Across Party Lines. Computers in Human Behavior 91: 279-289 (2019).

  27. Robert M. Bond, Hillary Shulman, and Michael Gilbert. Does Having a Political Discussion Help or Hurt Intergroup Perceptions? Drawing Guidance From Social Identity Theory and the Contact Hypothesis. International Journal of Communication 12: 4332–4352 (2018).

  28. Robert M. Bond. Contagion in social attitudes about prejudice. Social Influence 13 (2): 104-116 (2018). [Supplementary Information]

  29. Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, and Jaime E. Settle. Network experiments through academic-industry collaboration, in Ahn, Yong Teol and Sune Lehman (Eds.) Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems: Springer (2018).

  30. Jason J. Jones, Robert M. Bond, Eytan Bakshy, Dean Eckles, and James H. Fowler. Social influence and political mobilization: Further evidence from a randomized experiment in the 2012 US presidential election. PLoS One 12 (4): e0173851. (2017). [Supplementary Information]

  31. Robert M. Bond. Complex Networks: Network Healing After Loss. Nature Human Behaviour 1 (5): 10.1038/s41562-017-0087. (2017).

  32. Robert M. Bond, Volha Chykina, and Jason J. Jones. Social network effects on academic achievement. The Social Science Journal 54 (4): 438-449 (2017).

  33. Robert M. Bond and Brad J. Bushman. The contagious spread of violence among US adolescents through social networks. American Journal of Public Health 107 (2): 288-294 (2017). [Supplementary Information]

  34. Robert M. Bond, Jaime E. Settle, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, and James H. Fowler. Social Endorsement Cues and Political Participation. Political Communication 34 (2): 261-281 (2016).

  35. Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Lorenzo Coviello, Jason J. Jones, Christopher J. Fariss, James H. Fowler, Adam D.I. Kramer, and Cameron Marlow. From Posting to Voting: The Effects of Political Competition on Online Political Engagement. Political Science Research & Methods 4 (2): 361-378 (2016).

  36. Robert M. Bond and Solomon Messing. Quantifying Social Media's Political Space: Estimating Ideology from Publicly Revealed Preferences on Facebook. American Political Science Review 109 (1): 62-78 (2015).

  37. Jason J. Jones, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jaime E. Settle, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, and James H. Fowler. Yahtzee: An Anonymized Group Level Matching Procedure, PLoS One 8 (2):e55760 (2013).

  38. Jason J. Jones, Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Cameron Marlow, and James H. Fowler. Inferring Tie Strength from Online Directed Behavior, PLoS One 8 (1):e52168 (2013).

  39. Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime Settle, and James H. Fowler. A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization, Nature 489: 295-298 (13 September 2012). [Supplementary Information] [Commentary]

  40. Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, and Justin Levitt. The Social Origins of Adult Political Behavior, American Politics Research 39 (2): 239-263 (2011).