Russo, R., & Blikstein, P. (2023). Just asking questions: Can a far-right president turn agentic knowledge construction into political manipulation? Information and Learning Sciences, 124(7/8), 197-220. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-10-2022-0118. [PDF]

Russo, R., Literat, I., & Blikstein, P. (2023). Weaponizing John 8:32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter. Social Media + Society, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231220328. [PDF]

Russo, R. & Blikstein, P. (abstract accepted, in submission). Knowledge-building practices on social media. [Journal title omitted/title greatly changed for anonymity]

Russo, R. , & Blikstein, P. (2023). An inoculation theory-grounded, AI-based conversational agent to empower learners to recognize disinformation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 (pp. 2210-2213). Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences. [PDF]

Russo, R. & Blikstein, P. (2023). Beyond disinformation: An agent-based modeling and curriculum for the post-truth world. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023 (pp. 2126-2127). Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences. [PDF]

Hong, E., Schechter, B., Sousa, I., Prasetyo, M., Russo, R., Blikstein, P. (2023). Can AI disrupt disinformation? Assisting learners in identifying fake news through an AI-powered platform informed by inoculation theory. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023 (pp. 2102-2103). Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences. [PDF]

Russo, R., Lei, Y., Blikstein, P. (2023). Disinformation as an emergent phenomenon: An agent-based modeling curriculum to address fake news. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023 (pp. 2156-2157). Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences. [PDF]

Rosenbaum, L., Russo, R., & Blikstein, P., [chairs]. (2023, April 13-16). Cultural making: practices, priorities, and perspectives. [Symposium]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, AERA 2023, Chicago, USA.

Russo, R., Rosenbaum, L., Blikstein, P., Zheng, Y., Bora, A., Liu, Y., Aggarwal, R., Nyakoa, B. (2023). Emancipatory maker practices in the Global South. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, AERA 2023, Chicago, USA.[LS SIG full paper/Best Student Paper Award] 🏆

Russo, R. & Blikstein, P. (2022), Beyond Belief: Disinformation strategies and collective knowledge building led by Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022 (pp. 1561-1564). Hiroshima, Japan. International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://dx.doi.org/10.22318/icls2022.1561. [PDF]

Russo, R. & Blikstein, P. (2022). Ministry of Theory Building: a President’s Dialogues Guiding Political Manipulation and Knowledge Construction. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, AERA 2022. San Diego, CA, USA. (LS SIG full paper).

Russo, R., Goya, A., Fuhrmann, T., Blikstein, P. (2022). Can schools fix the gender gap in STEM? A comparative study in the Global South about gender participation in maker education. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022 (pp. 2168-2169). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences. [PDF]

Gutiérrez, K., Dasgupta, C., Aldemir, T., de Royston, M. M., de Roock, R., Roscoe, R., ... & Eloy, A. Invited symposium—Regional and socio-epistemic heterogeneity in the learning sciences: Supporting transnational dialogues on equity and justice. In A. Weinberger, W. Chen, D. Hernández-Leo, & B. Chen (Eds.), 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2022. International Society of the Learning Sciences. Hiroshima, Japan/remote.

Russo, R., Goya, W., Fernandez, C., Macedo L., Fuhrmann, T., Blikstein, P. (2021). Making Space for Gender Equity in Makerspaces. In E. de Vries, J. Ahn, & Y. Hod (Eds.), 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2021. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2021. [PDF]

Shaw, M., Kafai, Y., Zhang, Y., Ji, G., Russo, R., Aftab, A. (2021). Connecting with Computer Science: Two Case Studies of Restorying CS Identity with Electronic Textile Quilts. In E. de Vries, J. Ahn, & Y. Hod (Eds.), 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2021. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2021. [PDF]

Russo, R., Blikstein, P., da Silva, R.P.V. (2021), Can Knowledge Construction Be Harmful? A Theory Building Approach to Explain Mr. Bolsonaro. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58: 830-832. [PDF]

Gouvea, G. F. P., Russo, R. (2019). O fim das utopias e a formacao de professores (free translation from the Portuguese: "The end of utopias and teacher education"), in Liberali, F. C. & Megale, A. (Eds), Alfabetizacao, letramento e multiletramentos em tempos de resistencia (pp. 23-30). Pontes Editores.

Russo, R. (2021), Political knowledge construction in the e-wild. Paper presented at the Learning Sciences Graduate Students Conference, LSGSC 2021. Urbana-Champaigne, IL, USA/remote

Russo, R. (2020, August 20). Developing a high school curriculum on the ethics of AI. EASST/4S 2020 Conference.

Russo, R.(2020, October 30). eqode: An experimental curriculum for computational literacy guided by students' values. 46th Conference of the Association for Moral Education.