OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mass Communication and Society is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	67
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	37
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	32
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	25
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	21
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	21
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	21
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application	20
Mobile (Self-)Socialization: The Role of Mobile Media and Communication in Autonomy and Relationship Development in Adolescence	19
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	19
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	18
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	18
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	17
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	17
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	16
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	15
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies	15
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	15
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	14
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	14
Communities Going Virtual: Examining the Roles of Online and Offline Social Capital in Pandemic Perceived Community Resilience-Building	14
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	14
The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media	13
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	13
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data	13

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	13
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	12
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	11
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	10
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	10
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users	9
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	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
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective	9
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media	8
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	7
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	7
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	7
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	7
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study	7
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	7
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	7
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	6
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	6
Social Media, Messaging Apps, and Affective Polarization in the United States and Japan	6
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	6
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	6
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	6
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	6
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	6
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	6
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	6
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television	6
“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	6
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	6
Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysis	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
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact	5
Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs	5
The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships	5
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat	5