Political Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Communication is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora125
Trump Goes to Tulsa on Juneteenth: Placing the Study of Identity, Social Groups, and Power at the Center of Political Communication Research69
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies30
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives28
The Honest Broker versus the Epistocrat: Attenuating Distrust in Science by Disentangling Science from Politics27
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media26
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina25
Abating Dissonant Public Spheres: Exploring the Effects of Affective, Ideological and Perceived Societal Political Polarization on Social Media Political Persuasion23
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool22
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance21
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention19
Media-centric or Politics-centric Political Communication Research? Some Reflections19
Do Online Ads Sway Voters? Understanding the Persuasiveness of Online Political Ads16
Editor’s Note15
The Impact of New Transparency in Digital Advertising on Media Coverage15
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research14
Editor’s Note14
A Little More Conversation A Little Less Prejudice: The Role of Classroom Political Discussions for Youth’s Attitudes toward Immigrants13
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences13
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres13
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics12
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers12
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter12
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications11
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege11
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests10
Auditing Entertainment Traps on YouTube: How Do Recommendation Algorithms Pull Users Away from News10
Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter10
The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress10
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level9
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–20209
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy8
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication8
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?8
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship8
Editor’s Note Jan 20258
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis7
Correction7
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda7
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century7
What’s on and who’s Watching? Combining People-Meter Data and Subtitle Data to Explore Television Exposure to Political News7
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes6
Does the Losing Side Lose the Democratic Faith? Partisan Media Flow and Democratic Values During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election6
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election6
The Interplay of Actors in Political Communication: The State of the Subfield6
Defending Democracy: Prioritizing the Study of Epistemic Inequalities6
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together5
Logics of Exclusion: How Ukrainian Audiences Renegotiate Propagandistic Narratives in Times of Conflict5
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions5
Community Matters: Content Analysis of Children in Immigration Media Coverage, 1990-20205
Forum Editor’s Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Political Ad Libraries, and Transgender Health Misinformation5
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation: Nationalist Polarization in the 2020 American Presidential Election and the Threat to Democracy5
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships4
Reconceptualizing Cross-Cutting Political Expression on Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook Comments During the 2016 Brexit Referendum4
Correction4
Journalism and Democratic Backsliding: Critical Realism as a Diagnostic and Prescription for Reform4
Fake News for All: How Citizens Discern Disinformation in Autocracies4
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking4
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition4
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts4
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse4
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility4
Correction3
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–20223
The Data Abyss: How Lack of Data Access Leaves Research and Society in the Dark3
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation3
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia3
“No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event3
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries3
Ethnic Campaign Appeals: To Bond, Bridge, or Bypass?2
Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination2
Forum Editor’s Farewell: Long Live the Forum2
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals2
In-House Vs. Outsourced Trolls: How Digital Mercenaries Shape State Influence Strategies2
Politicization of Science in COVID-19 Vaccine Communication: Comparing US Politicians, Medical Experts, and Government Agencies2
Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context. Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data2
Prevalence, Presentation, and Popularity of Political Topics in Social Media Influencers’ Content Across Two Countries2
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy2
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis2
Politicians, Newspapers, and Immigration Referendums: Exploring the Boundaries of Media Effects2
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy2
Uninformed or Misinformed in the Digital News Environment? How Social Media News Use Affects Two Dimensions of Political Knowledge2
Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait2
Highlighting Similarities between Political Parties Reduced Perceived Disagreement on Global Warming2
Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election2
Anti-Woke Publics2
The International and Post-disciplinary Journey of Political Communication: Reflections on “Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Political Commun2
Corrective Actions in the Information Disorder. The Role of Presumed Media Influence and Hostile Media Perceptions for the Countering of Distorted User-Generated Content2
Going Beyond Affective Polarization: How Emotions and Identities are Used in Anti-Vaccination TikTok Videos2
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 Attitudes2
Information Credibility under Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from China2
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction2
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study2
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