Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Conference Papers
2017
- Rathnayake, C. & Winter, J.S. (2017). Connecting Political Tolerance and Dogmatism with Social Media Uses and Gratifications: A Discriminant Analysis, Policy & Internet http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2016/programme-2016/track-b-governance/user-behaviour-ii/chamil-rathnayake-jenifer-sunrise-winter
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-2866/earlyview - Rathnayake, C. & Winter, J.S. (2017). 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, [Status: Accepted].
- Rathnayake, C. & Suthers, D. (2017). Twitter Issue-response Hashtags as Affordances for Momentary Connectedness, Social Media and Society Conference 2017, Toronto, Canada, https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3097302
2016
- Rathnayake, C. & Suthers, D. (2016). Dissidents versus allegiants on Facebook: An examination of Facebook page networks related to Channel 4 war crime videos on Sri Lanka, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2016, Kauai, USA [available via IEEE Xplore Digital Library].https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2016/5670/00/5670c246-abs.html
- Rathnayake, C. & Suthers, D. (2016). Networked solidarity: An exploratory network perspective on Twitter activity related to #illridewithyou, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2016, Kauai, USA [available via IEEE Xplore Digital Library].http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7427440/
- Buente, W. & Rathnayake, C. (2016). Celebrity involvement in the Maunakea telescope issue in Hawaii: A study of the hashtag #WeareMaunakea, iConference 2016, Philadelphia, USA [available via IDEALS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign].https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/88873/browse?value=Buente%2C+Wayne%3B+Rathnayake%2C+Chamil&type=author
2015
- Rathnayake, C. (2015). From street protests to Facebook campaigns: Political cynicism, efficacy and online political engagement of Sri Lankan students. International Journal of E-Politics. 6(1), 42-58.
- Rathnayake, C. (2015). Social construction of Colombo Lotus Tower: Intertwined narratives of religion, economic development, and telecommunication. International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change. 6(3), 1-14.
Manuscripts in Progress
- Rathnayake, C. & Buente, W. Sociotechnical traces in Sri Lanka’s 2015 presidential election hashtags: An exploratory study of #PresPollSL, Bulletin of Science Technology and Society [Status: Major revision under review].
- Rathnayake, C. & Winter, J.S. Examining social media acceptance for politics: An extension to the Technology Acceptance Model, Bulletin of Science Technology and Society, [Status: Under review].
- Rathnayake, C. & Suthers, D. Cross-ideology Exposure in Contexts of Political Controversy: A Study of Engagement and Inter-ethnic Interaction on Facebook Networks Related to Channel 4 War Crime Videos on Sri Lanka [Status: In preparation].
- Rathnayake, C. & Winter, J.S. Characterizing Potential Dissidence and Allegiance based on Social Media Uses and Gratifications [Status: In preparation].
- Rathnayake, C., A Bipartite Graph Based Analytical Framework for Examining Twitter Issue-response Retweet Networks [Status: In preparation].
- Rathnayake, C., Winter, J.S., & Buente, W. #BlackLivesMatter and #AliveWhileBlack: A Study of Topical Orientation of Hashtags and Message Content [Status: In preparation].
- Rathnayake, C. Tweeting Satire in the Post-Truth World: A Comparison between The Onion, The Daily Show, and The Late Show [Status: In preparation].
Conference Presentations
- Rathnayake, C. & Winter, J.S. Connecting Political Tolerance and Dogmatism with Social Media Uses and Gratifications: A Discriminant Analysis, Platform Society Conference, September 2016, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK.
- Rathnayake, C. & Suthers, D. Dissidents versus allegiants on Facebook: An examination of Facebook page networks related to Channel 4 war crime videos on Sri Lanka, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 2016, HI, USA.
- Rathnayake, C. & Suthers, D. Networked solidarity: An exploratory network perspective on twitter activity related to #illridewithyou, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 2016, HI, USA.
- Rathnayake, C. From street protests to Facebook campaigns: Political cynicism, efficacy and online political engagement of Sri Lankan Students, American Sociological Association Media Sociology Preconference, August 2014, Oakland, CA, USA.