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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	57
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	36
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	34
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	31
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance	31
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	28
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence	28
The Perils of Social Media: Cyberbullying Shame and Fame	27
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	24
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	24
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	24
News from Every Angle: On the Potential of Implementing Virtual Reality Technology in Journalistic Contexts	22
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	21
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	19
Threat Level Midnight: Examining the Relationship Between Threatening Language and Engagement with Non-Partisan, Partisan, and Hyper-Partisan Media on Facebook	18
Unmasking Media Narratives: Shaping Public Perspectives on China–U.S. Relations Amid the Pandemic	16
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	16
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	16
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	15
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	13
Moral Comments in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Ideology-Matching Moral Framing and Impression Motivation in the Persuasive Effect of User Comments on YouTube	13
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	13
Audience as Epistemic Agent: Negotiating Truth Through Online Memes in Russia’s War in Ukraine	13
Communicating Science, Climate Change, and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths	12
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	11

Countering Misinformation in Political Reporting: Enhancing Journalistic Legitimacy	10
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 Views	10
Who Speaks Out, Why, and How? The Influence of Hostile Media Perception, Attitude Extremity, and Political Efficacy on Social Media Outspokenness	10
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data	10
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 C	9
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	9
Uncovering Frame Building in German Media? The Influence of German Politicians on Media Framing During the Energy and Gas Crisis 2022	9
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	9
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).	9
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	9
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective	8
Agenda-Setting Dynamics Between Local, National Media and Twitter in the Context of the Uvalde School Shooting	8
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	8
Depicting Democracy as Chaos: An Analysis of International News in Chinese Media	8
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	8
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	8
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	8
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	8
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	7
Understanding the Impact of Anger-Evoking and Efficacy-Eliciting Tweets in White Support for the BLM Movement	7
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	7
On the Road to Sustainability: Themes and Strategies Used by Greenfluencers on Instagram and Their Impact on User Engagement	7
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media	7
“Truth Sandwich” To Dispel Crisis Misinformation: Exploring the Separate and Combined Impacts of Inoculation, Narratives, and Stealing Thunder on Correcting Crisis Misinformation on Social Media	7
Mass Media Depictions of Victim Suffering: Testing Implications for Exemplification and Moral Influence	7
Threatened or Activated? Exploring Dual Mechanisms Underlying the Longitudinal Pro-Environmental Effect of Science Fiction Engagement	6
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	6
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	6
Rainbow Fatigue: The Effect of LGBTQIA+ Corporate Social Advocacy-Communication on Organizational Legitimacy	6
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	6
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	6
Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs	5
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	5
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	5
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	5
The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships	5
Reading Faces: The Power of Facial Expressions as Visual Cues in Reports of Social Movements	5
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	5
“Media Pressure is What Makes Law Enforcement Move”: Insights from Co-victims About the Positive Impacts of True Crime Media Attention	5
Does Creativity Make Even Cruel Prank TV Shows Funny? Exploring the double-Edged Sword Effects of Creativity	5
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	5
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	5
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television	5
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters	4
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	4
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs	4
Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and CommoditiesSuddhabrata Deb Roy. *Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and Commodities*	4
The Doctor and the Algorithm: Promise, Peril, and the Future of Health AI	4
“There’s Always a Way to Get the Story”: Rural Journalism and Resourcefulness at the Periphery	4
Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysis	4

The Role of Audiovisuals in Counter-Framing Dynamics: A Longitudinal Experiment on Causal Responsibility Attribution	4
Are We Ready for AI? A Latent Profile Analysis Based on AI Readiness Among Singaporeans	4
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat	4
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact	4
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement	4
Worn Out & Tuned Out: Does Politics Fatigue on Social Media Foster Participatory Inequality Among Americans?	4
Guidance Misaligned? The Moderating Role of Perceptual Discrepancies in Parental Mediation Effects	3
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides	3
The Attention Economy and How Media Works	3
Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective	3
“Sometimes, We Do Bad Things for the People We Love”: Exploring Emerging Adults’ Perceptions and Endorsement of Intimate Partner Violence on Television	3
Breaking Agenda Setting Boundaries: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Understanding Salience of Gun Control in the Polarized Public Sphere	3
News Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Pacific: Evidence from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands	3
A Meta-Analytical Review of the Determinants of Social Media Discontinuance Intentions	3
Beyond Perceived Similarity: Development and Validation of the Character Recognizability Scale (CRS)	3
Intention to Participate in Social Activism Activities in Response to Corporate Social Advocacy: A Third-Person Effect Perspective	3
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits	3
Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception	2
How Does Misinformation Affect Health Behavior? Examining the Roles of Information Source, Information Processing, and Health Belief in the Context of COVID-19	2
Action Frames, Network Structure, and Online Movement Mobilization: Evidence from the Facebook Ad Boycott Campaign	2
I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption	2
How Right-Wing Media, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Circulated Antipathy and Threat Cues About Immigrants: A Cross-Media and Cross-Platform Approach	2
Moral Foundations, Ideological Divide, and Public Engagement with U.S. Government Agencies’ COVID-19 Vaccine Communication on Social Media	2
An Experiment on the Press Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: Can Readers Differentiate Between Good and Bad Reporting?	2
An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication	2
Addressing “Political Anger” And “Non-Political Fear” In News Engagement: The Impact of Human-AI Interactions on Emotional and Behavioral Responses	2
Empowerment or Strain: How Social Media Shapes Parenting Ideologies and Mental Health Among New Mothers in China?	2
Opinion Leadership via Conversation: How Opinion Leaders Talk About the Media	2
The Viral Water Cooler: Talking About Political Satire Promotes Further Political Discussion	2
How Propagandistic is International News Channels’ Reporting? A Content Analysis of YouTube Uploads from the Nine Most Important International News Channels	2
Losing the Plot: Transportation as a Predictor of Engagement with Misinformation	2
Cumulative Exposure: Scholarly Responses to 50 Years of Cultivation Research	2
It Sounds Important: Examining the Effects of Background Music and Popularity Cues on Evaluations of Risk-Related Short-Form News Videos	2
The Effects of Responsibility Frames and Stigmatizing Headlines in News on Support for COVID-19 Policies in Korea	2
Linguistic Inference Framing: A Linguistic Category Approach to Framing Crisis	2
A Toxic Feedback Loop? The Relationship Between Performance-Contingent Self-Esteem and Toxic Communication in Adolescent Videogame Play	2
Unpacking the Effects of Media Racism Exposure on Multidimensional Activism Among Asian Americans	2
From Intentional Avoidance to Estrangement? A Longitudinal Study of News Avoidance and News Media Repertoires in Sweden	2
Life in Media: A Global Introduction to Media Studies	2
Tactics of Reluctance: Navigating (Dis)connection on WeChat in Everyday Life	2
Political Economy of Media and Communication: Methodological Approaches	2
Picturing Tragedy: A Content Analysis of the Publication of Graphic Images in Newspapers	2
Communication Technology and Gender Violence	2
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 Trust	2
Politically Contested Beliefs: Support for Trump Better Predicts Having Inaccurate Beliefs About COVID-19 Than Conservative/Republican Political Identity	2
Intimate and Opinion-Oriented Communication? Examining Social Media Influencers’ Opinion Leader Potential Through Their Political Content	1
The Impact of Political Ideology on News Consumption: The Mediating Role of Trust and the Moderating Role of Interest in Politics	1
More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter	1
Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence	1
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-Out	1
The Effects of Peer Mental Illness Narratives on Reducing Stigma Among U.S. Marginalized College Students	1
Unique Motivations of the Underserved: Exploring Repertoire, Self-Identified, and Topical News Avoidance Among Black Adults	1
Cultural Dimensions of Fake News Exposure: A Cross-National Analysis among European Union Countries	1
Exploring Smart Device Privacy: An Examination of Factors Affecting User Concerns, Protection, Satisfaction with Privacy Defense, and Need for Regulations	1
Media & Mental Health: A Complex Relationship Worth Empirical Investigation	1
The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society	1
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation	1
Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Communication: A Critical Review of Two Perspectives	1
AI in the Newsroom: How Presentation of AI Anchor and Viewers’ Familiarity with AI Shape Perceptions of AI Anchor	1
Resurrecting Historical Figures: The Persuasive Power of Deepfakes versus Text-Based First-Person Narratives	1
Social Media and Substance Use Among Young Hispanic EDM Attendees: A Perspective on Prototype Perceptions	1
Encouraging Positive Dialog Toward COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media Using Hope Appeals, Celebrity Types, and Emoticons	1
Disentangling the Two Cognitive Outcomes of Corrective Information: The Role of Motivation, Cognitive Abilities, and Partisanship in Recall and Belief	1
Gothic Pride: Examining the Effects of American Gothic Television on Sexual Minority Youth’s Sexual Identity Affirmation and Psychological well-Being	1
Automating Distrust? How Concerns About Algorithmic News Curation Influence News Use and Trust	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
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity	1
Understanding Social Media Use and Political Participation: A Lens of Social Media Social Capital and Gender Dynamics	1
The Interrelationships Between Adolescents’ Online Affective Perceptions and Momentary Affect: An ESM Study on Affective Social Media Use	1
The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Cosmetic Surgery Consideration: A Systematic Review and Three-Level Meta-Analysis	1
Why Do People Underestimate Polling Effects? Examining the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Polling Effects	1
How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness	1
‘Look at How Corrupt They Are!’: How Anti-Political Discourse from Politicians Affects Their Own Image and the Image of Politics	1
The Model Family: The Effect of Multiracial Families in Advertising on Emerging Adult Consumers’ Attitudes and Intentions	1
News Consumption, Military Interventionism, and Support for Anti-Democratic Movements	1
Seeing “Us” and “Them”: How Political Symbols Polarize Through Anger, Anxiety, and Enthusiasm	1
Negativity vs. Incivility: How We Engage with Partisan Content on Facebook Over Time	1