OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mass Communication and Society is 4. 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
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
What Makes Gun Violence a (Less) Prominent Issue? A Computational Analysis of Compelling Arguments and Selective Agenda Setting	14
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
Young Adults’ Folk Theories of How Social Media Harms Its Users	13
Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief in COVID Misinformation?	12
Endlessly Connected: Moving Forward with Agentic Perspectives of Mobile Media (Non-)Use	12
Mobile Media (Non-)Use as Expression of Agency	12
The Fifty-Year Legacy of Agenda-Setting: Storied Past, Complex Conundrums, Future Possibilities	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
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
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
“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
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
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