Political Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Communication is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Disinformation as Political Communication205
Political Polarization on the Digital Sphere: A Cross-platform, Over-time Analysis of Interactional, Positional, and Affective Polarization on Social Media156
A Picture Paints a Thousand Lies? The Effects and Mechanisms of Multimodal Disinformation and Rebuttals Disseminated via Social Media97
Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter80
Social Media and Political Agenda Setting71
Can Interparty Contact Reduce Affective Polarization? A Systematic Test of Different Forms of Intergroup Contact65
Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign62
Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News: How Social Media Conditions Individuals to Be Less Critical of Political Misinformation46
The Impact of Political Sophistication and Motivated Reasoning on Misinformation39
In Validations We Trust? The Impact of Imperfect Human Annotations as a Gold Standard on the Quality of Validation of Automated Content Analysis39
Capturing Clicks: How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait to Compete for Visibility37
Why Don’t We Learn from Social Media? Studying Effects of and Mechanisms behind Social Media News Use on General Surveillance Political Knowledge35
Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict, and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus30
Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication27
Uncivil Communication and Simplistic Argumentation: Decreasing Political Trust, Increasing Persuasive Power?27
Collective Civic Moderation for Deliberation? Exploring the Links between Citizens’ Organized Engagement in Comment Sections and the Deliberative Quality of Online Discussions26
Allies or Agitators? How Partisan Identity Shapes Public Opinion about Violent or Nonviolent Protests24
Dynamics of Campaign Reporting and Press-Party Parallelism: Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism and the Media System in Turkey23
Sorting the News: How Ranking by Popularity Polarizes Our Politics22
Choosing to Avoid? A Conjoint Experimental Study to Understand Selective Exposure and Avoidance on Social Media21
Asymmetry of Partisan Media Effects?: Examining the Reinforcing Process of Conservative and Liberal Media with Political Beliefs20
Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities19
Media Coverage of Campaign Promises Throughout the Electoral Cycle17
Framing Refugees: The Impact of Religious Frames on U.S. Partisans and Consumers of Cable News Media16
The Impact of News Consumption on Anti-immigration Attitudes and Populist Party Support in a Changing Media Ecology14
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes? The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting14
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy14
When Do Partisans Stop Following the Leader?14
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Voting Advice Applications13
Politicians’ Self-depiction and Their News Portrayal: Evidence from 28 Countries Using Visual Computational Analysis13
From the Living Room to the Meeting Hall? Citizens’ Political Talk in the Deliberative System13
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis12
Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries12
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking12
Cross-Platform Emotions and Audience Engagement in Social Media Political Campaigning: Comparing Candidates’ Facebook and Instagram Images in the 2020 US Election12
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement11
Dictionaries, Supervised Learning, and Media Coverage of Public Policy11
Testing Inequality and Identity Accounts of Racial Gaps in Political Expression on Social Media11
Listening During Political Conversations: Traits and Situations11
Correcting the Misinformed: The Effectiveness of Fact-checking Messages in Changing False Beliefs11
Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources: An Experiment11
Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 201610
When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble10
How Propaganda Techniques Leverage Their Advantages: A Cross-national Study of the Effects of Chinese International Propaganda on the U.S. and South Korean Audiences9
Widening the Divide between Them and Us? The Effects of Populist Communication on Cognitive and Affective Stereotyping in a Comparative European Setting9
An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence9
Data Ops, Objectivity, and Outsiders: Journalistic Coverage of Data Campaigning9
How the Politicization of Everyday Activities Affects the Public Sphere: The Effects of Partisan Stereotypes on Cross-Cutting Interactions9
Does Talking to the Other Side Reduce Inter-party Hostility? Evidence from Three Studies9
Corrective Actions in the Information Disorder. The Role of Presumed Media Influence and Hostile Media Perceptions for the Countering of Distorted User-Generated Content9
The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts8
Facing the Electorate: Computational Approaches to the Study of Nonverbal Communication and Voter Impression Formation8
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election8
Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter8
Gendered News Coverage and Women as Heads of Government8
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation8
The Effect of Associative Racial Cues in Elections8
Muslims Take Action. How Exposure to Anti-Islamic Populist Political Messages Affects Young Muslims’ Support for Collective Action: A Longitudinal Experiment8
Information Credibility under Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from China8
Strategy News Is Good News: How Journalistic Coverage of Politics Reduces Affective Polarization7
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences7
Seeing Spanish: The Effects of Language-Based Media Choices on Resentment and Belonging7
Raising the Floor or Closing the Gap? How Media Choice and Media Content Impact Political Knowledge7
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication7
Increased Media Choice and Political Knowledge Gaps: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of 18 Established Democracies 1995-20157
Negatively Affecting Voters’ Issue Considerations. An Experimental Study of Parties’ Attack Communication6
The Data Abyss: How Lack of Data Access Leaves Research and Society in the Dark6
Nothing More than Feelings? How Emotions Affect Attitude Change during the 2016 General Election Debates6
Moral Conviction, Emotion, and the Influence of Episodic versus Thematic Frames6
Successfully Overcoming the “Double Bind”? A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Self-Presentation of Female Right-wing Populists on Instagram and the Impact on Voter Attitudes6
Editor’s Note6
When “Following” the Leader Inspires Action: Individuals’ Receptivity to Discursive Frame Elements on Social Media6
Advancing Interdisciplinary Work in Computational Communication Science6
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications6
Strategy Framing in News Coverage and Electoral Success: An Analysis of Topic Model Networks Approach6
New Conflicts in the Briefing Room: Using Sentiment Analysis to Evaluate Administration-press Relations from Clinton through Trump5
The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse5
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy5
Does the Ideology of the Newsroom Affect the Provision of Media Slant?5
Biased Representation of Politicians in Google and Wikipedia Search? The Joint Effect of Party Identity, Gender Identity and Elections5
Explaining Media Coverage of Constitutional Court Decisions in Germany: The Role of Case Characteristics5
Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media5
In-House Vs. Outsourced Trolls: How Digital Mercenaries Shape State Influence Strategies5
The Trouble with Sharing Your Privates: Pursuing Ethical Open Science and Collaborative Research across National Jurisdictions Using Sensitive Data4
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth4
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests4
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships4
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis4
The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries3
Commercial Companies in Party Networks: Digital Advertising Firms in US Elections from 2006-20163
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism3
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics3
Issue Importance and the Correction of Misinformation3
How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison3
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns3
Politicization of Science in COVID-19 Vaccine Communication: Comparing US Politicians, Medical Experts, and Government Agencies3
Abating Dissonant Public Spheres: Exploring the Effects of Affective, Ideological and Perceived Societal Political Polarization on Social Media Political Persuasion3
“Stick to Sports”: Evidence from Sports Media on the Origins and Consequences of Newly Politicized Attitudes3
Predicting Vote Choice and Election Outcomes from Ballot Wording: The Role of Processing Fluency in Low Information Direct Democracy Elections3
Media Effects in the Viewer’s Choice Era: Testing Revised Agenda-Setting and Priming Hypotheses3
Do Gender Cues from Images Supersede Partisan Cues Conveyed via Text? Eye Movements Reveal Political Stereotyping in Multimodal Information Environments3
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