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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias60
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information31
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy30
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies25
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic25
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China20
Together We Rise: The Role of Communication and Community Connectedness in Transgender Citizens’ Civic Engagement in the United States19
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application19
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data18
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive17
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic17
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning15
Unfriending and Muting During Elections: The Antecedents and Consequences of Selective Avoidance on Social Media15
Mobile (Self-)Socialization: The Role of Mobile Media and Communication in Autonomy and Relationship Development in Adolescence15
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power14
Moral Comments in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Ideology-Matching Moral Framing and Impression Motivation in the Persuasive Effect of User Comments on YouTube14
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach14
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies13
The Effects of Virtual Reality News on Learning about Climate Change13
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences13
Communities Going Virtual: Examining the Roles of Online and Offline Social Capital in Pandemic Perceived Community Resilience-Building12
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy12
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison12
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research12
The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media10
A Direct and Indirect Effect of Third-Person Perception of COVID-19 Fake News on Support for Fake News Regulations on Social Media: Investigating the Role of Negative Emotions and Political Views9
Unequal Framing in Times of Hardship? How Newspapers from Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland Portray Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees – Evidence from a Deductive and Inductive Automated C9
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data9
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”: A Panel Study on the Reciprocal Effects of Negative, Dirty, and Positive Campaigning on Political Distrust9
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men8
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors8
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).8
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions8
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective8
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning8
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues7
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism7
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs7
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users7
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports7
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?6
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology6
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News6
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands6
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use6
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study6
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media6
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television6
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict6
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety6
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters6
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert6
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation5
Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs5
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement5
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television5
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters5
Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysis5
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives5
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection5
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact5
The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships5
Social Media, Messaging Apps, and Affective Polarization in the United States and Japan5
Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and CommoditiesSuddhabrata Deb Roy. Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and Commodities 4
Beyond the Text: Testing Narrative Persuasion Mechanisms with Audio Messages4
A Meta-Analytical Review of the Determinants of Social Media Discontinuance Intentions4
The Attention Economy and How Media WorksKaren Nelson-Field. The Attention Economy and How Media Works . Singapore: Palgrave, MacMilla4
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides4
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat4
Solutions Journalism: News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise4
Worn Out & Tuned Out: Does Politics Fatigue on Social Media Foster Participatory Inequality Among Americans?4
Beyond Perceived Similarity: Development and Validation of the Character Recognizability Scale (CRS)4
Intention to Participate in Social Activism Activities in Response to Corporate Social Advocacy: A Third-Person Effect Perspective4
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs4
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits4
The Role of Audiovisuals in Counter-Framing Dynamics: A Longitudinal Experiment on Causal Responsibility Attribution4
Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective4
News Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Pacific: Evidence from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands4
Life in Media: A Global Introduction to Media Studies3
Mobile Media (Non-)Use as Expression of Agency3
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation3
I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption3
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic: Exploring the Impact of Need for Orientation, Epistemic Beliefs and Type of Media Use on Knowledge and Misperception about COVID-193
Breaking Agenda Setting Boundaries: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Understanding Salience of Gun Control in the Polarized Public Sphere3
Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception3
Opinion Leadership via Conversation: How Opinion Leaders Talk About the Media3
The Viral Water Cooler: Talking About Political Satire Promotes Further Political Discussion3
Young Adults’ Folk Theories of How Social Media Harms Its Users3
Gender Stereotypes in Young Children’s Magazines3
Resisting Privilege: Effects of a White Privilege Message Intervention and Conservative Media Use on Freedom Threat and Racial Attitudes2
Politically Contested Beliefs: Support for Trump Better Predicts Having Inaccurate Beliefs About COVID-19 Than Conservative/Republican Political Identity2
Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China: Becoming Activists Over Wild Public Networks2
Explaining Mainstream News Media Use in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Partisanship, Perceptions of Threat, Negative Emotions, and News Media Trust2
Communication Technology and Gender Violence2
Political Leadership in Disaster and Crisis Communication and Management: International Perspectives and Practices2
An Experiment on the Press Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: Can Readers Differentiate Between Good and Bad Reporting?2
Judging “Them” by My Media Use: Exploring the Cause and Consequences of Perceived Selective Exposure2
The Effects of Responsibility Frames and Stigmatizing Headlines in News on Support for COVID-19 Policies in Korea2
Linguistic Inference Framing: A Linguistic Category Approach to Framing Crisis2
The Effects of Peer Mental Illness Narratives on Reducing Stigma Among U.S. Marginalized College Students2
Endlessly Connected: Moving Forward with Agentic Perspectives of Mobile Media (Non-)Use2
Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings2
An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication2
I Like What You Like: Social Norms and Media Enjoyment2
Local Storytelling, Collective Efficacy, and Civic Participation in Fukushima, Japan: An Ecological Approach2
Enjoyment of Unoriginal Characters: Individual Differences in Nostalgia-Proneness and Parasocial Relationships2
Picturing Tragedy: A Content Analysis of the Publication of Graphic Images in Newspapers2
Moral Foundations, Ideological Divide, and Public Engagement with U.S. Government Agencies’ COVID-19 Vaccine Communication on Social Media2
More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter1
Are We Past the Heterosexual Script? A Content Analysis of Contextual Cues Within the Heterosexual Script in Tween, Teen, and Young Adult Television Programs1
The Interrelationships Between Adolescents’ Online Affective Perceptions and Momentary Affect: An ESM Study on Affective Social Media Use1
‘Look at How Corrupt They Are!’: How Anti-Political Discourse from Politicians Affects Their Own Image and the Image of Politics1
Media & Mental Health: A Complex Relationship Worth Empirical Investigation1
Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence1
Norm Setting in Times of Crisis: A Time-Series Analysis of the Dynamics Between Media Reporting and Perceived Norms in the Context of the COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-Out1
Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News1
Why Do People Underestimate Polling Effects? Examining the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Polling Effects1
Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust1
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity1
Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-191
Same Scandal, Different Standards: The Effect of Partisanship on Expectations of News Reports about Whistleblowers1
How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness1
The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014)1
Does Social Media Promote or Hinder Health Learning? The Roles of Media Attention, Information Discussion, Information Elaboration, and Information Seeking Experience1
Encouraging Positive Dialog Toward COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media Using Hope Appeals, Celebrity Types, and Emoticons1
Graphic Violence: Illustrated Theories About Violence, Popular Media, and Our Social Lives1
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation1
We Like the Boyfriend! The Changing Nature of Political Comedy, COVID-19, and Interview Conversations with Governor Andrew Cuomo1
How Music Awakens the Heart: An Experimental Study on Music, Emotions, and Connectedness1
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