Journal Articles

Lawson, B (2027) Influential Climate Data: A case study of how train passengers experience CO2-avoided data on the Trainline app, Environmental Communication, ISSN: 1752-4032.

Lawson, B, Coulentianos, M, Vrain, E, Mitchell, V (2025) CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app, Big Data & Society, 12(4), 20539517251367695, ISSN: 2053-9517. DOI: 10.1177/20539517251367695.

Lawson, B, Coulentianos, M, Mitchell, O (2025) Can we trust green apps? Mapping out 14 trustworthiness indicators, Sustainability, 17(14), 6444, DOI: 10.3390/su17146444.

Vaccari, C, Chadwick, A, Hall, N-A, Lawson, B (2025) Credibility as a double-edged sword: the effects of deceptive source misattribution on disinformation discernment on personal messaging, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 103(1), pp.35-64, ISSN: 1077-6990. DOI: 10.1177/10776990251350563.

Malhotra, P, Hall, N-A, Xia, Y, Stahl, L, Chadwick, A, Vaccari, C, Lawson, B (2025) Unpacking credibility evaluation on digital media: A case for interpretive qualitative approaches, Annals of the International Communication Association, 49(3), ISSN: 2380-8985. DOI: 10.1093/anncom/wlaf008.

Lawson, B, Chadwick, A, Hall, N-A, Vaccari, C (2024) The trustworthiness of peers and public discourse: exploring how people navigate numerical dis/misinformation on personal messaging platforms, Information, Communication and Society, 28(4), pp.633-650, ISSN: 1369-118X. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2400141.

Lawson, BT (2024) Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation, Leslie Stebbins (2023), Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, 13(3), pp.442-444, ISSN: 2001-0818. DOI: 10.1386/ajms_00126_5.

Deacon, D, Kay, J, Lawson, B, Ritchie, N, Smith, D, Wring, D (2024) A taxing campaign, UK Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign, pp.119-119.

Lawson, BT (2024) Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation, Leslie Stebbins (2023), Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, ISSN: 2001-0818. DOI: 10.1386/ajms_00126_1.

Glasman, J and Lawson, B (2023) Ten things we know about humanitarian numbers, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 5(1), pp.1-10, DOI: 10.7227/jha.098.

Lawson, B, Glasman, J, Mützelburg, I (2023) Humanitarian numbers in the Russian–Ukrainian War: an interview with Irina Mützelburg (October 2022), Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 5(1), pp.52-61, DOI: 10.7227/jha.102.

Lawson, B (2023) Hiding behind databases, institutions and actors: how journalists use statistics in reporting humanitarian crises, Journalism Practice, 17(3), pp.429-449, ISSN: 1751-2786. DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2021.1930106.

Lawson, BT and Lugo-Ocando, J (2022) Political communication, press coverage and public interpretation of public health statistics during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, European Journal of Communication, 37(6), pp.646-662, ISSN: 0267-3231. DOI: 10.1177/02673231221099407.

Lawson, BT (2022) Re-imagining the quantitative-qualitative relationship through colouring and anchoring, Journalism, 23(8), pp.1736-1750, ISSN: 1464-8849. DOI: 10.1177/1464884920969085.

Ortega, J and Lawson, B (2022) How journalists do memory work with numbers: The case of the 220,000 deaths during the Colombian conflict (1958–2012), Journalism, 24(8), pp.1657-1678, ISSN: 1464-8849. DOI: 10.1177/14648849221075434.

Lawson, BT (2022) Realizing the benefits of open government data: Journalists’ coverage of the NHS winter crisis, 2016–17, The Information Society, 38(1), pp.25-35, ISSN: 0197-2243. DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2021.1998274.

Lawson, B and Lovatt, M (2021) Towards a rhetorical understanding of statistics in politics: Quantifying the National Health Service ‘Winter Crisis’, European Journal of Communication, 36(2), pp.110-124, ISSN: 0267-3231. DOI: 10.1177/0267323120966842.

Books

Lawson, BT (2023) The Life of a Number Measurement, Meaning and the Media, Policy Press, ISBN: 9781529225358. DOI: 10.2307/jj.2430362.

Chapters

Lawson, B (2023) Political communication about data. In Handbook of Digital Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.388-417, ISBN: 9781800377578. DOI: 10.4337/9781800377585.00037.

Reports

Hall, N-A, Chadwick, A, Vaccari, C, Lawson, B, Akolgo, P (2024) Research update: Misinformation on personal messaging—are WhatsApp’s warnings effective? (Public report), pp.1-26.

Hall, N-A, Lawson, B, Vaccari, C, Chadwick, A (2023) Beyond quick fixes: How users make sense of misinformation warnings on personal messaging, pp.1-42, Online Civic Culture Centre, Loughborough University.

Nguyen, A, Zhao, X, Lawson, B, Jackson, D (2021) Reporting from a statistical chaos: journalistic lessons from the first year of Covid-19 data and science in the news, Bournemouth University.