Mass Communication and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Mass Communication and Society is 1. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Fake News Is Anything They Say!” — Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News among the American Public58
Protest Coverage Matters: How Media Framing and Visual Communication Affects Support for Black Civil Rights Protests42
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 Netherlands42
Managing Social Media Use in an “Always-On” Society: Exploring Digital Wellbeing Strategies That People Use to Disconnect39
Crafting Our Own Biased Media Diets: The Effects of Confirmation, Source, and Negativity Bias on Selective Attendance to Online News34
Probing the Mechanisms Through Which Social Media Erodes Political Knowledge: The Role of the News-Finds-Me Perception25
Social Media Use and Offline Interpersonal Outcomes during Youth: A Systematic Literature Review24
Social Media, Messaging Apps, and Affective Polarization in the United States and Japan22
“I (Don’t) Respect My Body”: Investigating the Role of Mass Media Use and Self-Objectification on Adolescents’ Positive Body Image in a Cross-National Study22
Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-1920
Unchecked vs. Uncheckable: How Opinion-Based Claims Can Impede Corrections of Misinformation17
Digging Deeper into the Reasons for Self-Control Failure: Both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations to Use Mobile Communication Shape Self-Control Processes17
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert16
The Effects of Virtual Reality News on Learning about Climate Change15
Binge-Watching Serial Video Content: Exploring the Subjective Phenomenology of the Binge-Watching Experience15
From Context Collapse to “Safe Spaces”: Selective Avoidance through Tie Dissolution on Social Media14
Hyperpartisan News Use: Relationships with Partisanship and Cognitive and Affective Involvement14
Examining News Engagement on Facebook: Effects of News Content and Social Networks on News Engagement13
Are We Deliberately Captivated in Homogeneous Cocoons? An Investigation on Political Tie Building on Facebook13
What Makes Gun Violence a (Less) Prominent Issue? A Computational Analysis of Compelling Arguments and Selective Agenda Setting13
Only for Friends, Definitely Not for Parents: Adolescents’ Sharing of Alcohol References on Social Media Features13
Mobile Media (Non-)Use as Expression of Agency12
The Fifty-Year Legacy of Agenda-Setting: Storied Past, Complex Conundrums, Future Possibilities12
Trust Over Use: Examining the Roles of Media Use and Media Trust on Misperceptions in the 2016 US Presidential Election12
Young Adults’ Folk Theories of How Social Media Harms Its Users12
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning12
Endlessly Connected: Moving Forward with Agentic Perspectives of Mobile Media (Non-)Use12
“Give Me a Break!” Prevalence and Predictors of Intentional News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic12
Exposure to Difference on Facebook, Trust, and Political Knowledge10
Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief in COVID Misinformation?9
The Influence of Anonymity and Incivility on Perceptions of User Comments on News Websites9
Communities Going Virtual: Examining the Roles of Online and Offline Social Capital in Pandemic Perceived Community Resilience-Building9
Eudaimonic Media in Lived Experience: Retrospective Responses to Eudaimonic vs. Non-Eudaimonic Films9
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”: A Panel Study on the Reciprocal Effects of Negative, Dirty, and Positive Campaigning on Political Distrust8
“Authentically” Maintaining Populism in Hungary – Visual Analysis of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Instagram8
News Distribution and Sustainable Journalism: Effects of Social Media News Use and Media Skepticism on Citizens’ Paying Behavior8
Climate Change Frame Acceptance and Resistance: Extreme Weather, Consonant News, and Personal Media Orientations8
The Power of a Genre: Political News Presented as Fact-Checking Increases Accurate Belief Updating and Hostile Media Perceptions8
Competing Identity Cues in the Hostile Media Phenomenon: Source, Nationalism, and Perceived Bias in News Coverage of Foreign Affairs8
Me, Myself, and My Favorite Media Figure: An Objectification Perspective on the Role of Media and Peers in Early Adolescents’ Self-sexualization8
How Reel Middle Easterners’ Portrayals Cultivate Stereotypical Beliefs and Policy Support7
Moral Foundations, Ideological Divide, and Public Engagement with U.S. Government Agencies’ COVID-19 Vaccine Communication on Social Media7
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study7
They Said It’s “Fake“: Effects of Discounting Cues in Online Comments on Information Quality Judgments and Information Authentication7
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 7
“I Love My Body; I Love It All” : Body Positivity Messages in Youth-Oriented Television Series7
Unfriending and Muting During Elections: The Antecedents and Consequences of Selective Avoidance on Social Media7
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides6
We Like the Boyfriend! The Changing Nature of Political Comedy, COVID-19, and Interview Conversations with Governor Andrew Cuomo6
Does Social Media Promote or Hinder Health Learning? The Roles of Media Attention, Information Discussion, Information Elaboration, and Information Seeking Experience6
Mobile (Self-)Socialization: The Role of Mobile Media and Communication in Autonomy and Relationship Development in Adolescence6
Politicizing What’s News: How Partisan Media Bias Occurs in News Production6
Voices of the Gatekeepers: Examining the Olympic Channel Production Through a Gendered Lens6
The Effects of Celebrity Silence Breakers: Liking and Parasocial Relationship Strength Interact to Predict the Social Influence of Celebrities’ Sexual Harassment Allegations6
Fatigued by Ongoing News Issues? How Repeated Exposure to the Same News Issue Affects the Audience5
Beyond the Text: Testing Narrative Persuasion Mechanisms with Audio Messages5
The Third-Person Effect 40 Years After Davison Penned It: What We Know and Where We Should Traverse5
How Types of Facebook Users Approach News Verification in the Mobile Media Age: Insights from the Dual-Information-Processing Model5
The Impact of Political Identity and Outgroup Partisan Media Contact on Intergroup Bias and Unwillingness to Compromise with the Opposing Party: An Intergroup Threat Approach5
“It’s that ‘There but for the Grace of God Go I’ Piece of It”: Domestic Violence Survivors in True Crime Podcast Audiences5
Reflections on a Legacy: Thoughts from Scholars about Agenda-Setting Past and Future5
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters5
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic: Exploring the Impact of Need for Orientation, Epistemic Beliefs and Type of Media Use on Knowledge and Misperception about COVID-195
When Others Are Here: The Combinative Effects of Social Presence and Threat Appeals in Climate Change Message Effectiveness5
The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014)5
Conceptualizing the Role of Social Context in Media Selectivity: The Social Embeddedness of Media Reliance and Internalization (SEMRI) Model5
“The Rent Is Too Damn High”: News Portrayals of Housing Security and Homelessness in the United States5
From What IS News to How Vital Is News4
“Everything Else is Public Relations” How Rural Journalists Draw the Boundary Between Journalism and Public Relations in Rural Communities4
Resisting Privilege: Effects of a White Privilege Message Intervention and Conservative Media Use on Freedom Threat and Racial Attitudes4
Terrorist Organizations in the News: A Computational Approach to Measure Media Attention Toward Terrorism4
Enjoyment of Unoriginal Characters: Individual Differences in Nostalgia-Proneness and Parasocial Relationships4
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 Sharing4
The Effects of Social Identities and Issue Involvement on Perceptions of Media Bias Against Gun Owners and Intention to Participate in Discursive Activities: In the Context of the Media Coverage of Ma4
Us and Them: The Role of Group Identity in Explaining Cultural Resonance and Framing Effects4
Engaging the Dark Side: Exploring Identification with Morally Complex Antagonists4
Together We Rise: The Role of Communication and Community Connectedness in Transgender Citizens’ Civic Engagement in the United States4
Are We Past the Heterosexual Script? A Content Analysis of Contextual Cues Within the Heterosexual Script in Tween, Teen, and Young Adult Television Programs3
More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter3
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat3
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict3
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy3
Real-World Developments Predict Immigration News in Right-Wing Media: Evidence from Germany3
Russian Meddling in U.S. Elections: How News of Disinformation’s Impact Can Affect Trust in Electoral Outcomes and Satisfaction with Democracy3
I Like What You Like: Social Norms and Media Enjoyment3
Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media3
How Music Awakens the Heart: An Experimental Study on Music, Emotions, and Connectedness3
Tweets and Source Diversity: Newspapers’ Sourcing of Twitter Posts from 2009 to 20163
Leave the Attacking to Others: Assessing the Effectiveness of Candidate Endorsed and Independently Sourced Televised Attack Ads in the 2016 Presidential Election3
Deep Mediatization2
Breaking Your Boundaries: How TikTok Use Impacts Privacy Concerns Among Influencers2
The Power of Humor: The Role of Political Entertainment Programming in South Korea for Enhancing Attitudes Toward the Oppositional Message Source2
Agenda Setting by News and by the Audience in a News Portal Panel Experiment2
Judging “Them” by My Media Use: Exploring the Cause and Consequences of Perceived Selective Exposure2
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application2
Ethnic Selective Exposure: A Test of Cultural-Identity Based Media Selectivity Theory2
I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption2
“Horizontal” Two-Step Flow: The Role of Opinion Leaders in Directing Attention to Social Movements in Decentralized Information Environments2
Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News2
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement2
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives2
Pathways to Youth Political Participation: Media Literacy, Parental Intervention, and Cognitive Mediation2
The Will of the People? Effects of Politicians’ Subjective Claims about Public Opinion on Perceived Public Opinion and Evaluative Judgments2
News Organizations and Social Cohesion in Small, Large, and Global-Local Communities2
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias2
The Viral Water Cooler: Talking About Political Satire Promotes Further Political Discussion2
Quantity vs. Quality of Interactions: The Combinatory Effects of Website Interactivity and Need for Cognition on Anti-Smoking Message Perceptions and Smoking Attitudes2
White Apathy and Allyship in Uncivil Racial Social Media Comments2
Fuming Mad and Jumping with Joy: Emotional Responses to Uncivil and Post-Truth Communication by Populist and Non-Populist Politicians on Facebook During the COVID-19 Crisis2
Proactive Opinion Expression Avoidance about Same-Sex Marriage on Social Media: Acceptance, Reactance, and Self-Censorship2
Gender Stereotypes in Young Children’s Magazines2
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety2
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men2
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation1
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use1
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions1
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research1
Feeling Better...But Also Less Lonely? An Experimental Comparison of How Parasocial and Social Relationships Affect People’s Well-Being1
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs1
Where Local Meets Plethora: Media Usage and Community Integration in Rural Communities1
An Overdue Contribution: Mass Communication Theory in the Security of Democracy1
Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings1
Time to ‘Wine’: A Content Analysis Investigating How Social Media Influencers Refer to Alcohol Use in Instagram’s Feed Posts and Stories1
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity1
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited: “Pressure from the Top” and Its Influence on Newsroom and Content1
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits1
Daily TV Use and Meaning in Life Among Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Selective and Compensatory TV Use1
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters1
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television1
Taking Political Alternative Media into Account: Investigating the Linkage Between Media Repertoires and (Mis)perceptions1
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports1
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation1
The Role of Contact Richness in Mediated Intergroup Contact: A Test of the Contact Space Framework1
How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness1
The Disinfectant Diversion: The Use of Narratives in Partisan News Media1
Temporal Framing in Balanced News Coverage of Artificial Intelligence and Public Attitudes1
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies1
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