Research Interests
- Race, ethnicity, and politics
- Alt-right and far-right digital movements
- Online political identity
- Social media mobilization and radicalization
- Censorship and deplatformed social media communities
- AI and society; political effects of algorithmic bias
Articles With Reviewers
Ferrillo, Vivian. “r/The_Donald Had a Forum: An Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Political Socialization in Far-Right Social Media Communities.” With reviewers at American Political Science Review.
Ferrillo, Vivian and Matthew C. Lucky. “HAL’s Training Data: Contingent AI and American Polarization.” With reviewers at New Media and Society.
Working Papers
Ferrillo, Vivian. “Ban Waves and the Far Right: Censorship and Circumvention on Reddit.”
Ferrillo, Vivian. “The View from the Capitol Steps: Social Media Mobilization and Missing Data during the January 6 Uprising.”