Publications

The team’s research reflects our specific interests and collaborative efforts to build on our knowledge base relating to information ecologies. We have broad-raging and inter-disciplinary interests in philosophy, politics, media and communication, journalism, government policy and public trust.

2026

Schwenkenbecher, Anne (forthcoming). Are terrorists collectively responsible for their extreme beliefs? In Rik Peels, Chris Ranalli & Naomi Kloosterboer, Responsibility for Extreme Beliefs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHATC-11

2025

Alnemr, N. (2025). Deliberative democracy in an algorithmic society: harms, contestations and deliberative capacity in the digital public sphere. Democratization, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2025.2522920

Fuller, G., Harper, T., & Buchanan, I. (2025). “End your weekend”: populism, identity, and the politics of energy transition assemblages in Australia. Continuum39(5), 683–691. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2545532

Tomkinson, S., & Harper, T. (2025). If it looks like violent extremism, and acts like violent extremism … : comparing the framing of two Sydney stabbing attacks. Communication Research and Practice11(3), 384–400. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2025.2528393

2024

Alnemr, N., Ercan, S. A., Vlahos, N., Dryzek, J. S., Leigh, A., & Neblo, M. (2024). Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation. European Political Science Review16(2), 242–259. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773923000292

Lee, H. (2024). “Shut up and take my money” – narrating state funding, independent journalism, and public trust in Singapore. Communication Research and Practice, 10(2), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2024.2326370

Malkin, C., & Alnemr, N. (2024). Big Tech-driven deliberative projects (, Ill.). GloCAN. https://glocan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Technical-Paper-5-2024-Malkin-and-Alnemr.pdf

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2024). What are collective epistemic reasons and why do we need them? Asian Journal of Philosophy, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-024-00197-0

Attwell, K., Harper, T., Carlson, S. J., Tchilingirian, J., Westphal, D., & Blyth, C. C. (2024). Facilitating knowledge transfer during Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: an examination of ‘Functional Dialogues’ as an approach to bridge the evidence–policy gap. Evidence & Policy, 21(3), 324–346. https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000038

2023

Alnemr, N. (2023). Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society. Contemporary Political Theory, 23, 205–227. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-023-00656-y

Lee, H. (2023). Singapore’s ‘fake news’ fixer risks undermining public confidence. https://eastasiaforum.org/2023/10/24/singapores-fake-news-fixer-risks-undermining-public-confidence/

Abid, A., Harrigan, P., Wang, S., Roy, S. K., & Harper, T. (2023). Social media in politics: how to drive engagement and strengthen relationships. Journal of Marketing Management, 39(3-4), 298–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2022.2117235

2022

Harper, T., & Attwell, K. (2022). How Vaccination Rumours Spread Online: Tracing the Dissemination of Information Regarding Adverse Events of COVID-19 Vaccines. International Journal of Public Health, 67 . https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604228

Denemark, D., Harper, T., & Attwell, K. (2022). Vaccine hesitancy and trust in government: a cross-national analysis. Australian Journal of Political Science, 57(2), 145–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2022.2037511

Attwell, K., & Harper, T. (2022). Social media spreads rumours about COVID vaccine harms … but it doesn’t always start them. The Conversation (Australia Edition). https://theconversation.com/social-media-spreads-rumours-about-covid-vaccine-harms-but-it-doesnt-always-start-them-184169

Harper, T., Tomkinson, S., & Attwell, K. (2022). Communication Is Not a Virus: COVID-19 Vaccine-Critical Activity on Facebook and Implications for the ‘Infodemic’ Concept. Journal of Health Communication, 27(8), 563–573. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2136307

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2022). How we fail to know: Group-Based ignorance and collective epistemic obligations. Political Studies, 70(4), 901–918. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211000926

2021 and earlier

Schwenkenbecher, A. (2021). Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations (, Ill.; 1st ed.). Routledge as part of the Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097136

Lee, H., & Lee, T. (2019). Sanitising and scrutinising social media in Singapore – fake news or just politics? https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/03/13/sanitising-and-scrutinising-social-media-in-singapore-fake-news-or-just-politics/

Roy, O., & Schwenkenbecher, A. (2019). Shared intentions, loose groups, and pooled knowledge. Synthese, 198, 4523–4541. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02355-x

Harper, T., & Taylor, J. (2021). Low bar for ‘genuine consultation’ set by UWA case feeds into crisis of legitimacy for Australian institutions. The Conversation, . https://doi.org/

Harper, T. (2021). Do We Care About What We Share? A Proposal for Dealing With the Proliferation of False Information by Creating a Public Platform. Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity, 9(1), 87–107. https://doi.org/10.69970/gjlhd.v9i1.1214

Harper, T. (2021). We can’t trust big tech or the government to weed out fake news, but a public-led approach just might work. The Conversation, . https://doi.org/

Harper, T. (2021). Laws making social media firms expose major COVID myths could help Australia’s vaccine rollout. The Conversation, . https://doi.org/

Harper, T. (2017). The big data public and its problems: Big data and the structural transformation of the public sphere. New Media & Society, 19(9), 1424–1439. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816642167