ד"ר אלון צויזנר

Scientific Books

• Van Aelst, P., Gehle, L., Schemer, C., Strömbäck, J., & Zoizner, A. (forthcoming). News use, political knowledge, and misperceptions in 18 countries across the global north. Cambridge University Press

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Zoizner, A., & Levy, A. (forthcoming). How social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup and outgroup accounts. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Cardenal, A.S., Terren, L., Hopmann, D., Majó-Vázquez, S., Van Aelst, P., & Zoizner, A. (forthcoming). Does online news exposure increase political knowledge? A validity test of exogenous measures of exposure differing in granularity. Public Opinion Quarterly.
• Castro, L., Theocharis, Y., Stępińska, A., Hopmann, D. N., Schemer, C., Aalberg, T., Cardenal, A. S., Corbu, N., de Vreese, C., Matthes, J., Van Aelst, P., Strömbäck, J., Koc-Michalska, K., Esser, F., Sheafer, T., Splendore, S., Stanyer, J., Štětka, V., & Zoizner, A. (forthcoming). How do healthy political discussions invigorate online participation? Evidence from 17 European countries. Social Media + Society.
• Zoizner, A., Matthes, J., Corbu, N., de Vreese, C., Esser, F., Koc-Michalska, K., Schemer, C., Theocharis, Y., Zilinsky, J. (2025). Can AI-Attributed News Challenge Partisan News Selection? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment. International Journal of Press/Politics.
• Zoizner, A., & Amsalem, E. (2025). When Do Broken Campaign Promises Matter? Evidence from Four Experiments. International Journal of Press/Politics.
• Matthes, J., Zoizner, A., Nanz, A., Hopmann, D. N., Theocharis, Y., & Noetzel, S. (2025). The relationship between incidental exposure and political participation: A cross-country, multilevel analysis. Digital Journalism.
• Pendzel, S., Lotan, N., Zoizner, A., & Minkov, E. (2024). A Closer Look at Multidimensional Online Political Incivility. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
• Schemer, C., Stanyer, J., Meltzer, C. E., Gehle, L., Van Aelst, P., Theocharis, Y., Strömbäck, J., Štětka, V., Stępińska, A., Splendore, S., Zoizner, A., Matthes, J., Koc-Michalska, K., Hopmann, D. N., Esser, F., de Vreese, C., David, Y., Corbu, N., Castro, L., Cardenal, A. S., Aalberg, T., van Erkel, P., Terren, L., & Halagiera, D. (2024). The relationship between political entertainment media use and political efficacy: A comparative study in 18 countries. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 36(4), 1-14.
• Gehle, L., Hameleers, M., Tulin, M., de Vreese, C., Aalberg, T., Van Aelst, P., Cardenal, A. S., Corbu, N., van Erkel, P., Esser, F., Halagiera, D., Hopmann, D., Koç-Michalska, K., Matthes, J., Meltzer, C., Splendore, S., Stanyer, J., Stępińska, A., Štětka, V., Strömbäck, J., Terren, L., Theocharis, Y., & Zoizner, A. (2024). Misinformation detection in the context of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Evidence from original survey data collected in 19 democracies. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 36(3), 1-12.
• Zilinsky, J., Theocharis, Y., Pradel, F., Tulin, M., de Vreese, C., Aalberg, T., Cardenal, A. S., Corbu, N., Esser, F., Gehle, L., Halagiera, D., Hameleers, M., Hopmann, D. N., Koc-Michalska, K., Matthes, J., Schemer, C., Štětka, V., Strömbäck, J., Terren, L., Splendore, S., Stanyer, J., Stępińska, A., Van Aelst, P., & Zoizner, A. (2024). Justifying an Invasion: When Is Disinformation Successful?. Political Communication 41(6), 965-986.
• Amsalem, E., & Zoizner, A. (2024). The causal effect of candidate extremity on citizens’ preferences: Evidence from conjoint experiments. Public Opinion Quarterly, 88(3), 859-885.
• Hameleers, M., Tulin, M., de Vreese, C. H., Aalberg. T., Van Aelst, P., Cardenal, A. S., Corbu, N., Van Erkel, P., Esser, F., Gehle, L., Halagiera, D., Hopmann, D. N., Koc-Michalska, K., Matthes, J., Meltzer, C., Mihelj, S., Schemer, S., Sheafer, T., Splendore, S., Stanyer, J., Stępińska, A., Štětka, V., Strömbäck, J., Terren, L., Theocharis, Y., & Zoizner, A. (in press). Mistakenly Misinformed or Intentionally Deceived? Misinformation Perceptions on the Russian War in Ukraine. European Journal of s
• Amsalem, E., & Zoizner, A. (2023). Do people learn about politics on social media? A meta-analysis of 76 studies. Journal of Communication, 73(1), 3-13.
• Matthes, J., Corbu, N., Soyeon, J., Theocharis, Y., Schemer, C., Van Aelst, P., … Zoizner, A. (2022). Perceived prevalence of misinformation fuels emotional concerns about covid-19: A cross-country, multi-method investigation. Information, Communication and Society.
• Dvir-Gvirsman, S., Tsuriel, K., Shenhav, S.R., Sheafer, T., Zoizner, A., Lavi, L., Shamir, M., & Waismel-Manor, I. (2022). Mediated representation at the age of social media: How connection with politicians contributes to citizens’ feelings of representation. Evidence from a longitudinal study. Political Communication, 39(6), 779-800.
• Zoizner, A., Sheafer, T., Castro, L., Aalberg, T., Cardenal, A. S., Corbu, N., … Van Aelst, P. (2022). The effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on selective exposure: Evidence from 17 countries. Political Communication, 39(5), 674-696.
• Amsalem, E., & Zoizner, A. (2022). Real, but limited: A meta-analytic assessment of framing effects in the political domain. British Journal of Political Science, 52(1), 221-237.
• Zoizner, A., Shenhav, S.R., Fogel-Dror, Y., & Sheafer, T. (2021). Strategy news is good news: How journalistic coverage of politics reduces affective polarization. Political Communication, 38(5), 604-623.
• Zoizner, A. (2021). The consequences of strategic news coverage for democracy: A meta-analysis. Communication Research, 48(1), 3-25.
• Shenhav, S.R., Sheafer, T., Zoizner, A., van Hoof, A., Kleinnijenhuis, J., Kaplan, Y.R., & Hopmann, D.N. (2021). Story incentive: The effect of national stories on voting turnout. European Political Science Review, 13(2), 249-264.
• Amsalem, E., Zoizner, A., Sheafer, T., Walgrave, S., & Loewen, P.J. (2020). The effects of politicians’ personality on their media visibility. Communication Research, 47(7), 1079-1102.
• Zoizner, A., Sheafer, T., & Walgrave, S. (2017). How politicians' attitudes and goals moderate political agenda-setting by the media. International Journal of Press/Politics, 22(4), 431-449.

Chapters in Books

• Zoizner, A., Tsuriel, K., Markus, D., Porzycki, V., Mor, G., Green, A., Levi, E., Tsfati, Y., Waismel-Manor, I., Sheafer, T., & Shenhav, S.R. (2022). Three in a (right-wing) boat: media, politicians, and the public in the age of digital media. In G. Rahat & M. Shamir (Eds.), The Elections in Israel 2019-2021. Routledge.
• Zoizner, A., Fogel-Dror, Y., & Sheafer, T. (2017). When politicians react to the media: How the attitudes and goals of political elites moderate the effect of the media on the political agenda. In P. Van Aelst & S. Walgrave (Eds.), How political actors use the media: A functional analysis of the media’s role in politics (pp. 147-163). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Walgrave, S., Sevenans, J., Zoizner, A., & Ayling M. (2017). The media independency of political elites. In P. Van Aelst & S. Walgrave (Eds.), How political actors use the media: A functional analysis of the media’s role in politics (pp. 127-145). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

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• דעת קהל
• התנהגות פוליטית
• מדעי החברה החישוביים
• פוליטיקה השוואתית
• פסיכולוגיה חברתית
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• רשתות חברתיות
• סיקור עיתונאי בעידן הדיגיטלי והשפעותיו
• ניתוחי טקסט ממוחשבים

מלגת אלון

• “Broken political promises in Israeli politics”, covered by Kan – Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (2021).
• "Elections science: Why do the media cover the elections as a horse race?”, covered by Kan – Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (2019).
• “How do we perceive the journalistic coverage?”, covered by 103fm (2018).
• “We don't know anything substantive about the candidate. We only know how he will gain public support”, covered by The 7th Eye (2018).