# Ross Dahlke

> Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Studies political prediction markets and political information exposure and effects online and in private messaging.

Director of the CODE Lab (Computational Observation of Digital Exposure) at UW–Madison. Affiliate of the Elections Research Center, the Data Science Institute, and RISE-AI. Contact: ross.dahlke@wisc.edu

## Site

- [Home](https://rossdahlke.com/): biography, affiliations, and contact
- [Research](https://rossdahlke.com/research): publications and preprints
- [CODE Lab](https://rossdahlke.com/code-lab): lab overview, people, publications, and talks
- [Media](https://rossdahlke.com/media): press coverage
- [CV](https://rossdahlke.com/cv): curriculum vitae (PDF at https://rossdahlke.com/cv/dahlke_ross_cv.pdf)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y2g0vNwAAAAJ): citation profile

## Selected work

- [Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2020 US election](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01564-2): Moore, Dahlke, and Hancock (2023), Nature Human Behaviour. Co-first authored.
- [January 6 arrests and media coverage do not remobilize conservatives on social media](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401239121): Dahlke and Pan (2024), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- [Targeted digital voter suppression efforts likely decrease voter turnout](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519944123): Kim, Dahlke, Song, and Heinrich (2026), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- [Going light: The effects of minimal mobile phone adoption on young adults' well-being depend on motivation](https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791723): Lee et al. (2026), Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Best Paper Honorable Mention.
- [Surviving or thriving political defeat on social media: A temporal analysis of how electoral loss exacerbates the gender gap in political expression](https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad051): Dahlke and Zhang (2024), Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
- [Electoral predictions on Polymarket: A quantitative description of trading, commenting, and reacting](https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2026.011): Dahlke, Mine, Zhao, Huang, and Shah (2026), Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.
- [The public sphere in private spaces: Quantifying political computer-mediated communication in personal messaging](https://osf.io/6cpv8/): Dahlke and Hancock (2025), OSF Preprints.