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Impactful Papers from the Journal
‘Mass Communication and Society’
1
Altmetric Attention Score: 169
Managing Social Media Use in an “Always-On” Society: Exploring Digital Wellbeing Strategies That People Use to Disconnect
Mass Communication and Society2021-09-21
Communication
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 158
Eudaimonic Media in Lived Experience: Retrospective Responses to Eudaimonic vs. Non-Eudaimonic Films
Mass Communication and Society2021-04-09
Communication
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 53
Exploring Genetic Contributions to News-Use Motives and Frequency of News Consumption: A Study of Identical and Fraternal Twins
Mass Communication and Society2020-04-22
Communication
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 46
The Influence of Perceived Fake News Influence: Examining Public Support for Corporate Corrective Response, Media Literacy Intervention, and Governmental Regulation
Mass Communication and Society2020-04-07
Communication
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
“Fake News is Anything They Say!” – Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News Among the American Public
Mass Communication and Society2020-07-07
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
Unchecked vs. Uncheckable: How Opinion-based Claims can Impede Corrections of Misinformation
Mass Communication and Society2021-01-10
Communication
7
Altmetric Attention Score: 35
Protest Coverage Matters: How Media Framing and Visual Communication Affects Support for Black Civil Rights Protests
Mass Communication and Society2021-02-06
Communication
8
Altmetric Attention Score: 31
The Power of a Genre: Political News Presented as Fact-Checking Increases Accurate Belief Updating and Hostile Media Perceptions
Mass Communication and Society2021-06-02
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 31
Probing the Mechanisms Through Which Social Media Erodes Political Knowledge: The Role of the News-Finds-Me Perception
Mass Communication and Society2020-09-21
Communication
10
Altmetric Attention Score: 30
They Are Watching Me: A Self-Presentational Approach to Political Expression on Facebook
Mass Communication and Society2020-03-10
Communication
11
Altmetric Attention Score: 25
Hyperpartisan news use: Relationships with partisanship and cognitive and affective involvement
Mass Communication and Society2020-10-30
Communication
12
Altmetric Attention Score: 22
Political Events in a Partisan Media Ecology: Asymmetric Influence on Candidate Appraisals
Mass Communication and Society2022-02-01
Communication
13
Altmetric Attention Score: 21
The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014)
Mass Communication and Society2021-09-29
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 21
“The Rent is Too Damn High”: News Portrayals of Housing Security and Homelessness in the United States
Mass Communication and Society2021-01-29
Communication
15
Altmetric Attention Score: 20
From Context Collapse to “Safe Spaces”: Selective Avoidance Through Tie Dissolution on Social Media
Mass Communication and Society2021-02-06
Communication
16
Altmetric Attention Score: 19
Interlocking Among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited: “Pressure from the Top” and Its Influence on Newsroom and Content
Mass Communication and Society2020-12-28
Communication
17
Altmetric Attention Score: 18
The role of media use and misinformation perceptions in optimistic bias and third-person perceptions in times of high media dependency: Evidence from four countries in the first stage of the COVID-19 pandemic
Mass Communication and Society2022-02-11
Communication
18
Altmetric Attention Score: 17
Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-19
Mass Communication and Society2022-03-10
Communication
19
Altmetric Attention Score: 16
“Give Me a Break!” Prevalence and Predictors of Intentional News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mass Communication and Society2022-10-27
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 16
Tweets and Source Diversity: Newspapers’ Sourcing of Twitter Posts from 2009 to 2016
Mass Communication and Society2021-02-02
Communication
21
Altmetric Attention Score: 15
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat
Mass Communication and Society2022-12-20
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 15
Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News
Mass Communication and Society2022-01-28
Communication
23
Altmetric Attention Score: 14
Crafting Our Own Biased Media Diets The Effects of Confirmation, Source, and Negativity Bias on Selective Attendance to Online News
Mass Communication and Society2020-06-16
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 14
Resisting Privilege: Effects of a White Privilege Message Intervention and Conservative Media Use on Freedom Threat and Racial Attitudes
Mass Communication and Society2021-10-22
Communication
25
Altmetric Attention Score: 12
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert
Mass Communication and Society2022-07-13
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 12
Competing Identity Cues in the Hostile Media Phenomenon: Source, Nationalism, and Perceived Bias in News Coverage of Foreign Affairs
Mass Communication and Society2021-02-06
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 12
The Will of the People? Effects of Politicians’ Subjective Claims About Public Opinion on Perceived Public Opinion and Evaluative Judgments
Mass Communication and Society2020-11-19
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 12
Agenda Setting by News and by the Audience in a News Portal Panel Experiment
Mass Communication and Society2021-10-27
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 12
Prospect Theory in Times of a Pandemic: The Effects of Gain versus Loss Framing on Risky Choices and Emotional Responses During the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak - Evidence from the US and the Netherlands
Mass Communication and Society2021-01-10
Communication
30
Altmetric Attention Score: 11
Who’s Afraid of Terror News? The Interplay between News Consumption Patterns, Personal Experiences and Fear of Terrorism
Mass Communication and Society2022-01-11
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 11
How Reel Middle Easterners’ Portrayals Cultivate Stereotypical Beliefs and Policy Support
Mass Communication and Society2022-05-18
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 11
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic: Exploring the Impact of Need for Orientation, Epistemic Beliefs and Type of Media Use on Knowledge and Misperception about COVID-19
Mass Communication and Society2022-03-18
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 11
You Can’t Handle the Lies!: Exploring the Role of Gamson Hypothesis in Explaining Third-person Perceptions of Being Fooled by Fake News and Fake News Sharing
Mass Communication and Society2022-01-14
Communication
34
Altmetric Attention Score: 10
Us and them: the role of group identity in explaining cultural resonance and framing effects
Mass Communication and Society2022-01-06
Communication
35
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Breaking Your Boundaries: How TikTok Use Impacts Privacy Concerns Among Influencers
Mass Communication and Society2022-12-20
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement
Mass Communication and Society2022-12-20
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study
Mass Communication and Society2022-03-18
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Local Storytelling, Collective Efficacy and Civic Participation in Fukushima, Japan: An Ecological Approach
Mass Communication and Society2022-01-11
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Fatigued by Ongoing News Issues? How Repeated Exposure to the Same News Issue Affects the Audience
Mass Communication and Society2021-07-27
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. A Panel Study on the Reciprocal Effects of Negative, Dirty, and Positive Campaigning on Political Distrust
Mass Communication and Society2021-06-02
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings
Mass Communication and Society2021-10-26
Communication
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Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides
Mass Communication and Society2022-11-08
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
The Fifty-Year Legacy of Agenda-Setting: Storied Past, Complex Conundrums, Future Possibilities
Mass Communication and Society2022-07-01
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Voices of the Gatekeepers: Examining the Olympic Channel Production through a Gendered Lens
Mass Communication and Society2021-02-06
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
They said it’s ‘fake’: Effects of discounting cues in online comments on information quality judgments and information authentication
Mass Communication and Society2021-01-07
Communication
46
Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Politically Contested Beliefs: Support for Trump Better Predicts Having Inaccurate Beliefs About COVID-19 Than Conservative/Republican Political Identity
Mass Communication and Society2022-12-23
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 7
That’s not news: Audience perceptions of ‘news-ness’ and why it matters
Mass Communication and Society2020-02-13
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Reflections on a Legacy: Thoughts from Scholars about Agenda-Setting Past and Future
Mass Communication and Society2022-07-01
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Only for Friends, Definitely Not for Parents: Adolescents’ Sharing of Alcohol References on Social Media Features
Mass Communication and Society2022-02-04
Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Together We Rise: The Role of Communication and Community Connectedness in Transgender Citizens’ Civic Engagement in the United States
Mass Communication and Society2021-07-09
Communication