Political Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Communication is 5. 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
Media-centric or Politics-centric Political Communication Research? Some Reflections19
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention19
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
Editor’s Note14
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research14
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres13
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
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter12
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
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications11
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege11
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
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
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level9
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–20209
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship8
Editor’s Note Jan 20258
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
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
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
The Interplay of Actors in Political Communication: The State of the Subfield6
Defending Democracy: Prioritizing the Study of Epistemic Inequalities6
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
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
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
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