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2024

Rathnayake, Chamil and Winter, Jenifer Sunrise (2024) Affective affordances, networked status quo and climate communication : an analysis of the mobilization of affect on Facebook. Social Media + Society, 10 (4). pp. 1-15. ISSN 2056-3051

Wijesundara, Tharaka and Rathnayake, Chamil (2024) Attachment to AI- generated self-image in a twinning society : a perspective from empty self. Discover Artificial Intelligence, 4 (1). 68.

Boyle, Karen and Flynn, Emma and House, Melody and Rathnayake, Chamil (2024) #CannesYouNot? Oppositional and asymmetrical versions of believability in the Depp/Heard case. European Journal of Cultural Studies. pp. 1-19. ISSN 1367-5494

2023

Rathnayake, Chamil and Suthers, Daniel D (2023) A template for mapping emotion expression within hashtag publics. Communication and the Public, 8 (3). pp. 135-155.

Rathnayake, Chamil and Smith, Angela and Higgins, Michael (2023) Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal : an example from the Covid-19 Crisis in the UK. Journal of Language and Politics, 22 (4). pp. 458-484. ISSN 1569-2159

Rathnayake, Chamil and Suthers, Daniel (2023) Towards a 'pluralist' approach for examining structures of interwoven multimodal discourse on social media. New Media and Society. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1461-7315

2021

Rathnayake, Chamil and Winter, Jenifer Sunrise (2021) Do platforms favour dissidents? Characterizing political actor types based on social media uses and gratifications. Human Systems Management, 40 (2). pp. 249-263. ISSN 1875-8703

Rathnayake, Chamil and Caliandro, Alessandro; Toeppe, Katharina and Yan, Hui and Chu, Samuel Kai, eds. (2021) Repurposing sentiment analysis for social research scopes : an inquiry into emotion expression within affective publics on Twitter during the Covid-19 emergency. In: Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue - 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) . Springer, CHN, pp. 396-410. ISBN 978-3-030-71292-1

Rathnayake, Chamil and Suthers, Daniel (2021) A link communities analysis of the UK Instagram Covid-19 searchable metadiscourse. In: International Conference on System Sciences, 2021-01-05 - 2021-01-08, Virtual.

2020

Rathnayake, Chamil (2020) Uptake, polymorphism, and the construction of networked events on twitter. Telematics and Informatics. 101518. ISSN 0736-5853

Boyle, Karen and Rathnayake, Chamil (2020) #HimToo and the networking of misogyny in the age of #MeToo. Feminist Media Studies, 20 (8). pp. 1259-1277. ISSN 1471-5902

Rathnayake, Chamil (2020) Uptake, polymorphism, and memetic construction within #HimToo. In: 11th International Conference on Social Media & Society, 2020-07-22 - 2020-07-24.

Rathnayake, Chamil and Ntalla, Irida (2020) 'Visual affluence' in social photography : applicability of image segmentation as a visually-oriented approach to study Instagram hashtags. Social Media + Society, 6 (2). pp. 1-24.

Buente, Wayne and Rathnayake, Chamil and Neo, Rachel and Dalisay, Francis and Kurihara Kramer, Hanae (2020) Tradition gone mobile : an exploration of #Betelnut on instagram. Substance Use and Misuse, 55 (9). pp. 1483-1492. ISSN 1082-6084

2018

Rathnayake, Chamil (2018) Conceptualizing satirical fakes as a new media genre : an attempt to legitimize 'post-truth journalism'. In: The Internet, Policy & Politics Conference 2018, 2018-09-20, University of Oxford.

Barling, Kurt and Rathnayake, Chamil (2018) A topic model analysis approach to understand twitter public discourse : Grenfell tower fire case study. In: The Internet, Policy & Politics Conference 2018, 2018-09-20, University of Oxford.

Rathnayake, Chamil and Suthers, Daniel D. (2018) 'Enclaves of exposure' : a conceptual viewpoint to explore cross-ideology exposure on social network sites. The Social Science Journal. ISSN 0362-3319

Rathnayake, Chamil and Suthers, Daniel D. (2018) Twitter issue response hashtags as affordances for momentary connectedness. Social Media + Society, 4 (3). pp. 1-14.

Rathnayake, Chamil and Winter, Jenifer (2018) Carrying forward the uses and grats 2.0 agenda : an affordance-driven measure of social media uses and gratifications. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 62 (3). pp. 371-389.

Rathnayake, Chamil and Winter, Jenifer and Buente, Wayne (2018) #BlackLivesMatter and #AliveWhileBlack : A study of topical orientation of hashtags and message content. In: The 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, 2018-05-24 - 2018-05-28, Hilton Prague Hotel.

2017

Rathnayake, Chamil and Winter, Jenifer S. (2017) Examining the link between social media uses and gratifications, and political tolerance and dogmatism. Policy and Internet, 9 (4). pp. 444-466.

Rathnayake, Chamil and Buente, Wayne (2017) Incidental effects of automated retweeting : an exploratory network perspective on bot activity during Sri Lanka’s presidential election in 2015. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 37 (1). pp. 57-65.