OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology & Politics 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from YouTube? The role of exposure to partisan YouTube channels and news literacy in political learning during the South Korean general election campaign	48
Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates	30
Does news help us become knowledgeable or think we are knowledgeable? Examining a linkage of traditional and social media use with political knowledge	27
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	26
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	23
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica	22
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	22
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	16
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	15
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	15
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	15
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	15
Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand	14
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	13
Correction	13
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	12
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	9
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	9
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	9
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	8
Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers’ perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing intention	8
Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	7
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	7
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies	7
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	6

Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	6
This is why we can’t have nice things: examining the relationship between frequency of disagreeable political discussion, content moderation, re-platforming, and affective polarization	6
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	6
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	6
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	6
Correction	6
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	6
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	5
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	5
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	5
Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news	5
Incentives to cultivate a diaspora vote and rhetorical involvement in foreign elections: Lessons from Colombian politicians’ involvement in the 2020 US presidential election	5
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	5
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	5
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	5
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	5
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign	5
Fake news self-efficacy, fake news identification, and content sharing on Facebook	4
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	4
When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms	4
Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election	4
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum	4
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	4
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	4
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	4
FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision	3
Effects of state-sponsored political posts on perceived credibility and persuasion	3
Depersonalize and attack: facebook campaigns of populist candidates in Greece during the 2019 Greek national elections	3
How negativity and policy content drive the spread of political messages	3
China’s digital diplomacy agenda and public engagement: an analysis in Africa on twitter (X)	3
Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers	3
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods	3
How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy	3
Public “agendamelding” in the United States: assessing the relative influence of different types of online news on partisan agendas from 2015 to 2020	3
Correction	3
AI chatbots and political learning	3
Resisting right-wing populism in power: a comparative analysis of the Facebook activities of social movements in Italy and the UK	3
Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism: the roles of group cohesion and perceived group threat	3
Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning	3
A tale of heroes and villains: Russia’s strategic narratives on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Far-right conspiracies and online engagement: how #StopTheSteal leveraged moral appeals, group identity, and #BlackLivesMatter to capture audience attention on Parler	2
Measuring the impact of candidates’ tweets on their electoral results	2
Trust in online voting under different regime settings: evidence from public opinion on online voting in national elections in Estonia and Russia	2
Exploring digital campaign competence: the role of knowledge in data-driven election campaigns	2
Belief bias and censorship of religious extremism on digital media in 15 EU states: exploring individual and country-level moderators, a cross-country multilevel analysis	2
Critical social media and political engagement in authoritarian regimes: the role of state media fairness perceptions	2
Complaining and sharing personal concerns as political acts: how everyday talk about childcare and parenting on online forums increases public deliberation and civic engagement in China	2
Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines	2
The unverified era: politicians’ Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition	2
Social media news use and polarized partisan perceptions: mediating roles of like-minded and cross-cutting discussion	2

The role of sources of fake political news in corrective intentions on Facebook: investigating a moderated mediating model of perceived news fakeness and candidate preference in the 2022 Korean presid	2
Public opinion effects of digital state repression: How internet outages shape government evaluation in Africa	2
Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning	1
What is political expression on social media anyway?: A systematic review	1
Regime characteristics and online government disinformation	1
Official yet questionable: examining misinformation in U.S. state legislators’ tweets	1
How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook	1
Artificial intelligence and democracy: pathway to progress or decline?	1
Trusting tech firms’ big data for political microtargeting? A qualitative analysis of parties’ communication managers risk and trust perceptions	1
Constituent connections: senators’ reputation building in the age of social media	1
Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication	1
Social media, conspiracy theories, and authoritarianism: between bread and geopolitics in Egypt	1
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook	1
Exploring the influence of online media on political participation in a postcolonial multi-ethnic context: evidence from Bolivia	1
“Incivility makes me angrier than uncivil disagreement”: a survey experiment using news comments	1
Out of sight, out of mind: The impact of lockdown measures on sentiment towards refugees	1
News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge	1
Pill epistemology	1
Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?	1
Selective rating: partisan bias in crowdsourced news rating systems	1
Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?	1
Political-RAG: using generative AI to extract political information from media content	1
Race, social media news use, and political participation	1
Explaining digital campaign expenses: The case of the 2018 legislative elections in Colombia	1
Lenin, Putin, and Rage Guy: Internet memes in the discourse of a Russian far-right community	1