Research

My research interests include political communication, gender and politics, and quantitative/computational social science methods.

Peer-reviewed publications

• De Angelis, I. (2024). Torrential Twitter? Measuring the Severity of Harassment When Canadian Female Politicians Tweet About Climate Change. Social Media + Society, 10(4), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241304493

Works in progress

Papers

• The Cost of Comments: Gendered Online Harassment of Canadian Politicians on YouTube (revise and re-submit)

• What are Canadian Members of Parliament doing on Bluesky? (with Rohan Alexander) (under review)

• Inundated and Intimidated: An Intersectional Analysis of Online Harassment of Canadian Politicians on YouTube (paper in preparation)

• Toxic Comments: Harassment of Canadian Political Party Leaders on YouTube (paper in preparation)

Book

• Leaders’ Debates in Canada (with Spencer McKay and Jacob Robbins-Kanter) (book manuscript in preparation)

Master’s thesis

• De Angelis, I. (2024). Torrential Twitter: Climate Change, Female Politicians, and Harassment [Master’s thesis]. University of Toronto. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/140754.

Other papers

• De Angelis, I. (2023). Do More Subdivisions in Wards Increase Voter Turnout? An Analysis of the 2022 Toronto Municipal Election.

• De Angelis, I. (2023). Women on the Ballot? Investigating Gendered Perceptions of the Emotional Viability of Women to Serve in Politics.

Datasets

• De Angelis, I. (2024). Canadian Politicians on YouTube [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12746968