Research

Selected works are shown below in reverse chronological order.

PhD Dissertation Work

• Dissertation Draft: Effective and Practical Strategies for Combatting Misinformation
  Catherine King
  Carnegie Mellon University, March 2025
  PDF

• Proposal: Effective and Practical Strategies for Combatting Misinformation
  Catherine King
  Carnegie Mellon University, 2024
  PDF

Tech Reports

• Project OMEN: Designing a Training Game to Fight Misinformation on Social Media
  Catherine King, Christine Sowa Lepird, and Kathleen M. Carley
  CMU Tech Report, 2021
  PDF

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Registered Report: A path forward on online misinformation mitigation based on current user behavior
  Catherine King, Samantha C. Phillips, and Kathleen M. Carley
  Scientific Reports, 2025

• Connecting the Domains: An Investigation of Internet Domains found in COVID-19 Conspiracy Tweets
  J.D. Moffitt, Catherine King, and Kathleen M. Carley
  Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2023

• Gender dynamics on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential primary
  Catherine King and Kathleen M. Carley
  Social Network Mining and Analysis, 2023
  PDF, BLOG, POSTER

• Hunting Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  J.D. Moffitt, Catherine King, and Kathleen M. Carley
  Social Media + Society, 2021
  PDF, BLOG, POSTER

• Deceptive accusations and concealed identities as misinformation campaign strategies
  Daniele Bellutta, Catherine King, and Kathleen M. Carley
  Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2021
  PDF

• Lying About Lying on Social Media: A Case Study of the 2019 Canadian Elections
  Catherine King, Daniele Bellutta, and Kathleen M. Carley
  Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
  Virtual conference, October 2020
  PDF, SLIDES

• System Dynamics for Estimating Suas Operations
  Catherine King and Stephanie Glasser
  Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
  National Harbor, MD. December 2019

• Data analysis and simulation: Optimizing voter wait times
  Catherine King and Lawrence M. Leemis
  Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)
  Charlottesville, VA. April 2016
  PDF

• Dimension and mortality in linear stage class models of Acartia tonsa
  Catherine King, Katherine Shipman, Sarah Day, and Drew LaMar
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research (BEER)
  Arlington, VA. October 2013.
  PDF

Poster Presentations

• Leveraging Media Literacy Training to Promote Social Corrections
  Catherine King and Kathleen M. Carley
  2024 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
  Pittsburgh, PA. September 2024
  Poster

• Citation Network Analysis of Misinformation Interventions
  Catherine King, Peter Carragher, and Kathleen M. Carley
  2023 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
  Pittsburgh, PA. September 2023
  Poster