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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	41
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	26
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	24
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	23
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	23
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	21
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	20
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application	20
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	19
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence	19
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	18
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies	17
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	17
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	17
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	17
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	16
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	15
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	14
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	13
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	13
Communicating Science, Climate Change, and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths	12
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	12
The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media	12
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	11
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

How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	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
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	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	9
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	9
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).	9
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	9
“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	8
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users	8
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	8
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	8
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	7
Understanding the Impact of Anger-Evoking and Efficacy-Eliciting Tweets in White Support for the BLM Movement	7
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	7
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	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
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	6
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	6
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television	6
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	6
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study	6
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	6
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	6
On the Road to Sustainability: Themes and Strategies Used by Greenfluencers on Instagram and Their Impact on User Engagement	6
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	6
Reading Faces: The Power of Facial Expressions as Visual Cues in Reports of Social Movements	6
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation	5
Does Creativity Make Even Cruel Prank TV Shows Funny? Exploring the double-Edged Sword Effects of Creativity	5
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	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
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement	5
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	5
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	5
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters	5
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs	5
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	5
Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs	4
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat	4
Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and CommoditiesSuddhabrata Deb Roy. *Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and Commodities*	4
Worn Out & Tuned Out: Does Politics Fatigue on Social Media Foster Participatory Inequality Among Americans?	4
The Attention Economy and How Media WorksKaren Nelson-Field. *The Attention Economy and How Media Works* . Singapore: Palgrave, MacMilla	4
Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysis	4
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact	4
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits	4
Beyond the Text: Testing Narrative Persuasion Mechanisms with Audio Messages	4
A Meta-Analytical Review of the Determinants of Social Media Discontinuance Intentions	4
The Role of Audiovisuals in Counter-Framing Dynamics: A Longitudinal Experiment on Causal Responsibility Attribution	4
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	4

The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships	4
Solutions Journalism: News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise	4
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides	4
“Sometimes, We Do Bad Things for the People We Love”: Exploring Emerging Adults’ Perceptions and Endorsement of Intimate Partner Violence on Television	4
Intention to Participate in Social Activism Activities in Response to Corporate Social Advocacy: A Third-Person Effect Perspective	3
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation	3
Beyond Perceived Similarity: Development and Validation of the Character Recognizability Scale (CRS)	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
Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective	3
Life in Media: A Global Introduction to Media Studies	3
The Viral Water Cooler: Talking About Political Satire Promotes Further Political Discussion	3
Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception	3
Opinion Leadership via Conversation: How Opinion Leaders Talk About the Media	3
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
Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings	2
Losing the Plot: Transportation as a Predictor of Engagement with Misinformation	2
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	2
An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication	2
Politically Contested Beliefs: Support for Trump Better Predicts Having Inaccurate Beliefs About COVID-19 Than Conservative/Republican Political Identity	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
Political Economy of Media and Communication: Methodological Approaches	2
Linguistic Inference Framing: A Linguistic Category Approach to Framing Crisis	2
Gender Stereotypes in Young Children’s Magazines	2
Who Says “Muslims Are Not Terrorists”? News Differentiation, Muslim versus Non-Muslim Sources, and Attitudes toward Muslims	1
Social Media and Substance Use Among Young Hispanic EDM Attendees: A Perspective on Prototype Perceptions	1
Sharing Behavior of Brand Crisis Information on Social Media: A Case Study of Chinese Weibo	1
How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness	1
Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-19	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
‘Look at How Corrupt They Are!’: How Anti-Political Discourse from Politicians Affects Their Own Image and the Image of Politics	1
It Sounds Important: Examining the Effects of Background Music and Popularity Cues on Evaluations of Risk-Related Short-Form News Videos	1
The Impact of Political Ideology on News Consumption: The Mediating Role of Trust and the Moderating Role of Interest in Politics	1
Communication Technology and Gender Violence	1
Local Storytelling, Collective Efficacy, and Civic Participation in Fukushima, Japan: An Ecological Approach	1
More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter	1
Graphic Violence: Illustrated Theories About Violence, Popular Media, and Our Social Lives	1
Politics of Disinformation: The Influence of Fake News on the Public SphereGuillermo López-García, Dolors Palau-Sampio, Bella Palomo, Eva Campos-Domínguez, Pere Masip.	1
Exploring Smart Device Privacy: An Examination of Factors Affecting User Concerns, Protection, Satisfaction with Privacy Defense, and Need for Regulations	1
Time to ‘Wine’: A Content Analysis Investigating How Social Media Influencers Refer to Alcohol Use in Instagram’s Feed Posts and Stories	1
Political Leadership in Disaster and Crisis Communication and Management: International Perspectives and Practices	1
The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society	1
The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014)	1
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity	1
Does Social Media Promote or Hinder Health Learning? The Roles of Media Attention, Information Discussion, Information Elaboration, and Information Seeking Experience	1
Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust	1
Picturing Tragedy: A Content Analysis of the Publication of Graphic Images in Newspapers	1
The Effects of Peer Mental Illness Narratives on Reducing Stigma Among U.S. Marginalized College Students	1
The Effects of Responsibility Frames and Stigmatizing Headlines in News on Support for COVID-19 Policies in Korea	1
Moral Foundations, Ideological Divide, and Public Engagement with U.S. Government Agencies’ COVID-19 Vaccine Communication on Social Media	1
The Interrelationships Between Adolescents’ Online Affective Perceptions and Momentary Affect: An ESM Study on Affective Social Media Use	1
The Model Family: The Effect of Multiracial Families in Advertising on Emerging Adult Consumers’ Attitudes and Intentions	1
Gothic Pride: Examining the Effects of American Gothic Television on Sexual Minority Youth’s Sexual Identity Affirmation and Psychological well-Being	1
Media & Mental Health: A Complex Relationship Worth Empirical Investigation	1
Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News	1
Seeing “Us” and “Them”: How Political Symbols Polarize Through Anger, Anxiety, and Enthusiasm	1
Why Do People Underestimate Polling Effects? Examining the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Polling Effects	1
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation	1
Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence	1
Encouraging Positive Dialog Toward COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media Using Hope Appeals, Celebrity Types, and Emoticons	1
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	1
Resisting Privilege: Effects of a White Privilege Message Intervention and Conservative Media Use on Freedom Threat and Racial Attitudes	1
An Experiment on the Press Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: Can Readers Differentiate Between Good and Bad Reporting?	1
Intimate and Opinion-Oriented Communication? Examining Social Media Influencers’ Opinion Leader Potential Through Their Political Content	1
The Disinfectant Diversion: The Use of Narratives in Partisan News Media	1
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	1