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

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	69
Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates	35
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	34
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	28
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	27
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	26
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	20
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	19
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica	19
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	18
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	17
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	16
Correction	15
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	14
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	14
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	13
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	13
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	11
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	11
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	11
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	10
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	10
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	10
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	9
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	9

Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	8
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	7
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies	7
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus	7
Uncertainty, agency, and the future context of internet governance: a foresightful conversation	7
Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	7
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	7
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	6
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	6
Correction	6
Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	6
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	6
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	6
Youth political information seeking and political participation from the perspective of platform swinging: observations from China	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
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	5
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	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
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	5
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	5
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	5
TIDEM: measuring political distance and polarization through retweet networks in Spanish regional elections	4
Pakistan’s content moderation paradox: combating violent radicalism in a competitive authoritarian regime	4
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	4
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum	4
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	4
Social media diplomacy for social visibility and social approval: strategic communication of the Taliban de facto government on Twitter	4
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	4
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	4
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	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
Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers	4
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	4
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign	4
Digital protest and transnational mediation: exploring key mediators and narratives in the #StepDownHasina hashtivism in social media	4
Effects of state-sponsored political posts on perceived credibility and persuasion	3
A tale of heroes and villains: Russia’s strategic narratives on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy	3
Trusting dating algorithms in love and politics: algorithmic belief, political partner vetting, dating motivation types and emotional experience	3
Public opinion effects of digital state repression: How internet outages shape government evaluation in Africa	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
Pictures from the primaries: Black presidential hopefuls and representation differences across the media bias and reliability spectrum	3
Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning	3
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	3
Far-right conspiracies and online engagement: how #StopTheSteal leveraged moral appeals, group identity, and #BlackLivesMatter to capture audience attention on Parler	3
Resisting right-wing populism in power: a comparative analysis of the Facebook activities of social movements in Italy and the UK	3
AI chatbots and political learning	3
Depersonalize and attack: facebook campaigns of populist candidates in Greece during the 2019 Greek national elections	3

Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism: the roles of group cohesion and perceived group threat	3
Correction	3
How negativity and policy content drive the spread of political messages	3
Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?	2
Selective rating: partisan bias in crowdsourced news rating systems	2
China’s digital diplomacy agenda and public engagement: an analysis in Africa on twitter (X)	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
Measuring the impact of candidates’ tweets on their electoral results	2
Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines	2
Exploring the mediating role of exposure to partisan media between the authoritarian personality and gun control attitudes	2
Regime characteristics and online government disinformation	2
Exploring digital campaign competence: the role of knowledge in data-driven election campaigns	2
Trust in online voting under different regime settings: evidence from public opinion on online voting in national elections in Estonia and Russia	2
Social media news use and polarized partisan perceptions: mediating roles of like-minded and cross-cutting discussion	2
Critical social media and political engagement in authoritarian regimes: the role of state media fairness perceptions	2
Political-RAG: using generative AI to extract political information from media content	2
How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook	2
How TikTok works for digital diplomacy during conflict/war times: the cases of Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza conflicts	2
Dissemination of false information and societal polarization: an empirical investigation	2
The unverified era: politicians’ Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition	2
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook	2
Official yet questionable: examining misinformation in U.S. state legislators’ tweets	1
Does digital campaigning matter, and if so, how? Testing a broadcast versus network effects model of candidates Twitter use	1
Constrained cyber power: authoritarian legacies on Indonesia’s cyber capabilities development	1
Trolling and insulting others on social media in Spain: the role of social media news use, culture of impunity, and social media envy	1
To express or not express: a motivational approach to studying political expression on social media	1
Pill epistemology	1
The composition and amplification of mainstream political memes: evidence from 4 U.S. election cycles	1
Affecting voters through eyes and mind? An eye-tracking study to understand how political preferences affect attention and memory of political advertisements	1
Trusting tech firms’ big data for political microtargeting? A qualitative analysis of parties’ communication managers risk and trust perceptions	1
What makes stories effective: a strategic narratives comparison between Russia and Ukraine on Chinese social media	1
Social media, conspiracy theories, and authoritarianism: between bread and geopolitics in Egypt	1
Artificial intelligence and democracy: pathway to progress or decline?	1
The Impact of Political Memes: a Longitudinal Field Experiment	1
Together we stand? The evolution of online interactions by Southern European LGBTQIA* organizations	1
Good and pissed: gendered emotional appeals on Twitter	1
Challenges of and approaches to data collection across platforms and time: Conspiracy-related digital traces as examples of political contention	1
The limits of social media as a source of political information during routine and crisis times across 17 countries	1
A platform penalty for news? How social media context can alter information credibility online	1
The hidden threat of cyber-attacks – undermining public confidence in government	1
Lenin, Putin, and Rage Guy: Internet memes in the discourse of a Russian far-right community	1
Out of sight, out of mind: The impact of lockdown measures on sentiment towards refugees	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
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement	1
Accidentally persuaded: a moderated mediation model of incidental news exposure and political persuasion in social media	1
Fear over facts: how preconceptions explain perceptions of threat following cyberattacks	1
Just can't get enough – profiling users of multiple Voting Advice Applications	1
White supremacists anonymous: how digital media emotionally energize far-right movements	1
When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy	1
Correction	1
News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge	1
Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning	1
Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication	1
Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?	1