OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Protest Coverage Matters: How Media Framing and Visual Communication Affects Support for Black Civil Rights Protests	47
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 Netherlands	45
Managing Social Media Use in an “Always-On” Society: Exploring Digital Wellbeing Strategies That People Use to Disconnect	42
Social Media, Messaging Apps, and Affective Polarization in the United States and Japan	25
Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-19	22
Digging Deeper into the Reasons for Self-Control Failure: Both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations to Use Mobile Communication Shape Self-Control Processes	18
The Effects of Virtual Reality News on Learning about Climate Change	17
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	17
Unchecked vs. Uncheckable: How Opinion-Based Claims Can Impede Corrections of Misinformation	17
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	15
What Makes Gun Violence a (Less) Prominent Issue? A Computational Analysis of Compelling Arguments and Selective Agenda Setting	14
From Context Collapse to “Safe Spaces”: Selective Avoidance through Tie Dissolution on Social Media	14
Only for Friends, Definitely Not for Parents: Adolescents’ Sharing of Alcohol References on Social Media Features	14
Hyperpartisan News Use: Relationships with Partisanship and Cognitive and Affective Involvement	14
Young Adults’ Folk Theories of How Social Media Harms Its Users	13
Trust Over Use: Examining the Roles of Media Use and Media Trust on Misperceptions in the 2016 US Presidential Election	13
“Give Me a Break!” Prevalence and Predictors of Intentional News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Mobile Media (Non-)Use as Expression of Agency	12
The Fifty-Year Legacy of Agenda-Setting: Storied Past, Complex Conundrums, Future Possibilities	12
Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief in COVID Misinformation?	12
Endlessly Connected: Moving Forward with Agentic Perspectives of Mobile Media (Non-)Use	12
Eudaimonic Media in Lived Experience: Retrospective Responses to Eudaimonic vs. Non-Eudaimonic Films	11
Competing Identity Cues in the Hostile Media Phenomenon: Source, Nationalism, and Perceived Bias in News Coverage of Foreign Affairs	10
The Power of a Genre: Political News Presented as Fact-Checking Increases Accurate Belief Updating and Hostile Media Perceptions	10
Communities Going Virtual: Examining the Roles of Online and Offline Social Capital in Pandemic Perceived Community Resilience-Building	10

“Authentically” Maintaining Populism in Hungary – Visual Analysis of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Instagram	10
Beyond the Text: Testing Narrative Persuasion Mechanisms with Audio Messages	9
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	9
Fatigued by Ongoing News Issues? How Repeated Exposure to the Same News Issue Affects the Audience	8
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”: A Panel Study on the Reciprocal Effects of Negative, Dirty, and Positive Campaigning on Political Distrust	8
They Said It’s “Fake“: Effects of Discounting Cues in Online Comments on Information Quality Judgments and Information Authentication	8
Unfriending and Muting During Elections: The Antecedents and Consequences of Selective Avoidance on Social Media	8
How Reel Middle Easterners’ Portrayals Cultivate Stereotypical Beliefs and Policy Support	8
The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014)	8
Moral Foundations, Ideological Divide, and Public Engagement with U.S. Government Agencies’ COVID-19 Vaccine Communication on Social Media	8
News Distribution and Sustainable Journalism: Effects of Social Media News Use and Media Skepticism on Citizens’ Paying Behavior	8
Climate Change Frame Acceptance and Resistance: Extreme Weather, Consonant News, and Personal Media Orientations	8
The Effects of Celebrity Silence Breakers: Liking and Parasocial Relationship Strength Interact to Predict the Social Influence of Celebrities’ Sexual Harassment Allegations	8
“I Love My Body; I Love It All” : Body Positivity Messages in Youth-Oriented Television Series	7
“The Rent Is Too Damn High”: News Portrayals of Housing Security and Homelessness in the United States	7
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study	7
We Like the Boyfriend! The Changing Nature of Political Comedy, COVID-19, and Interview Conversations with Governor Andrew Cuomo	6
The Third-Person Effect 40 Years After Davison Penned It: What We Know and Where We Should Traverse	6
When Others Are Here: The Combinative Effects of Social Presence and Threat Appeals in Climate Change Message Effectiveness	6
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides	6
Mobile (Self-)Socialization: The Role of Mobile Media and Communication in Autonomy and Relationship Development in Adolescence	6
Does Social Media Promote or Hinder Health Learning? The Roles of Media Attention, Information Discussion, Information Elaboration, and Information Seeking Experience	6
Voices of the Gatekeepers: Examining the Olympic Channel Production Through a Gendered Lens	6
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic: Exploring the Impact of Need for Orientation, Epistemic Beliefs and Type of Media Use on Knowledge and Misperception about COVID-19	6
Conceptualizing the Role of Social Context in Media Selectivity: The Social Embeddedness of Media Reliance and Internalization (SEMRI) Model	5
How Types of Facebook Users Approach News Verification in the Mobile Media Age: Insights from the Dual-Information-Processing Model	5
“It’s that ‘There but for the Grace of God Go I’ Piece of It”: Domestic Violence Survivors in True Crime Podcast Audiences	5
“Everything Else is Public Relations” How Rural Journalists Draw the Boundary Between Journalism and Public Relations in Rural Communities	5
Engaging the Dark Side: Exploring Identification with Morally Complex Antagonists	5
The Impact of Political Identity and Outgroup Partisan Media Contact on Intergroup Bias and Unwillingness to Compromise with the Opposing Party: An Intergroup Threat Approach	5
Reflections on a Legacy: Thoughts from Scholars about Agenda-Setting Past and Future	5
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	5
How Music Awakens the Heart: An Experimental Study on Music, Emotions, and Connectedness	5
Are We Past the Heterosexual Script? A Content Analysis of Contextual Cues Within the Heterosexual Script in Tween, Teen, and Young Adult Television Programs	4
Terrorist Organizations in the News: A Computational Approach to Measure Media Attention Toward Terrorism	4
Russian Meddling in U.S. Elections: How News of Disinformation’s Impact Can Affect Trust in Electoral Outcomes and Satisfaction with Democracy	4
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 Sharing	4
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 Ma	4
Us and Them: The Role of Group Identity in Explaining Cultural Resonance and Framing Effects	4
Tweets and Source Diversity: Newspapers’ Sourcing of Twitter Posts from 2009 to 2016	4
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	4
More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter	4
Enjoyment of Unoriginal Characters: Individual Differences in Nostalgia-Proneness and Parasocial Relationships	4
Resisting Privilege: Effects of a White Privilege Message Intervention and Conservative Media Use on Freedom Threat and Racial Attitudes	4
Together We Rise: The Role of Communication and Community Connectedness in Transgender Citizens’ Civic Engagement in the United States	4
“Horizontal” Two-Step Flow: The Role of Opinion Leaders in Directing Attention to Social Movements in Decentralized Information Environments	3
Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News	3
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat	3
Ethnic Selective Exposure: A Test of Cultural-Identity Based Media Selectivity Theory	3
The Viral Water Cooler: Talking About Political Satire Promotes Further Political Discussion	3

White Apathy and Allyship in Uncivil Racial Social Media Comments	3
I Like What You Like: Social Norms and Media Enjoyment	3
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	3
Real-World Developments Predict Immigration News in Right-Wing Media: Evidence from Germany	3
The Power of Humor: The Role of Political Entertainment Programming in South Korea for Enhancing Attitudes Toward the Oppositional Message Source	3
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	3
News Organizations and Social Cohesion in Small, Large, and Global-Local Communities	3
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	2
An Overdue Contribution: Mass Communication Theory in the Security of Democracy	2
Agenda Setting by News and by the Audience in a News Portal Panel Experiment	2
Pathways to Youth Political Participation: Media Literacy, Parental Intervention, and Cognitive Mediation	2
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application	2
The Role of Contact Richness in Mediated Intergroup Contact: A Test of the Contact Space Framework	2
Breaking Your Boundaries: How TikTok Use Impacts Privacy Concerns Among Influencers	2
Where Local Meets Plethora: Media Usage and Community Integration in Rural Communities	2
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	2
I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption	2
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement	2
Proactive Opinion Expression Avoidance about Same-Sex Marriage on Social Media: Acceptance, Reactance, and Self-Censorship	2
The Will of the People? Effects of Politicians’ Subjective Claims about Public Opinion on Perceived Public Opinion and Evaluative Judgments	2
Gender Stereotypes in Young Children’s Magazines	2
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited: “Pressure from the Top” and Its Influence on Newsroom and Content	2
Deep Mediatization	2
Taking Political Alternative Media into Account: Investigating the Linkage Between Media Repertoires and (Mis)perceptions	2
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation	2
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity	2
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	2
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	2
Judging “Them” by My Media Use: Exploring the Cause and Consequences of Perceived Selective Exposure	2
Police, Violence, and the “Logic of Damage”: Comparing U.S. and Chilean Media Portrayals of Protests	2
Quantity vs. Quality of Interactions: The Combinatory Effects of Website Interactivity and Need for Cognition on Anti-Smoking Message Perceptions and Smoking Attitudes	2
Feeling Better...But Also Less Lonely? An Experimental Comparison of How Parasocial and Social Relationships Affect People’s Well-Being	2
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 Crisis	2
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	2
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits	1
How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness	1
When are Fact-Checks Effective? An Experimental Study on the Inclusion of the Misinformation Source and the Source of Fact-Checks in 16 European Countries	1
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs	1
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies	1
Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings	1
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	1
Examining the Dynamics of Uncivil Discourse Between Sub-National Political Officials and the Public on Twitter	1
Beyond Perceived Similarity: Development and Validation of the Character Recognizability Scale (CRS)	1
Why We Broke Up with X (And You Should Too)	1
Picturing Tragedy: A Content Analysis of the Publication of Graphic Images in Newspapers	1
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters	1
Temporal Framing in Balanced News Coverage of Artificial Intelligence and Public Attitudes	1
Who’s Afraid of Terror News? The Interplay between News Consumption Patterns, Personal Experiences and Fear of Terrorism	1
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	1
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	1
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	1
Daily TV Use and Meaning in Life Among Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Selective and Compensatory TV Use	1
The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships	1
The Disinfectant Diversion: The Use of Narratives in Partisan News Media	1
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	1
Who Says “Muslims Are Not Terrorists”? News Differentiation, Muslim versus Non-Muslim Sources, and Attitudes toward Muslims	1
Time to ‘Wine’: A Content Analysis Investigating How Social Media Influencers Refer to Alcohol Use in Instagram’s Feed Posts and Stories	1
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation	1
When Socialism Meets Terrorism: A Computer-Assisted Discursive News Values Analysis of Chinese Newspapers’ Coverage of Domestic and International Terrorist Attacks	1