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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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	78
Drawing boundaries of pursuit and response of digital rise: TikTok as a friction space of techplomacy	35
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	34
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	27
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	25
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	23
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	21
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	20
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	16
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	15
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	15
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	14
Correction	13
Resistant gratification? National identity and political reactance in TikTok use across Korea and China	13
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	13
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	12
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	11
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	10
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	10
Digital transformation and contested sovereignty in humanitarian action	10
Uncertainty, agency, and the future context of internet governance: a foresightful conversation	9
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	9
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	9
Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	9
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	9

Does political efficacy reduce self-censorship? A quantitative analysis of perceived ideological diversity and fear of isolation in Thailand’s digital sphere	9
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	9
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	8
Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	8
An experiment in forecasting out-of-sample coup events with artificial intelligence	8
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus	7
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	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
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	6
Search engines in polarized media environment: auditing political information curation on Google and Bing prior to 2024 US elections	6
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	6
The anti-democratic prism: democratic values and political use of social media in six European countries	6
Youth political information seeking and political participation from the perspective of platform swinging: observations from China	6
Correction	6
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	5
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	5
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	5
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	5
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	5
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	5
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	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
When the political becomes private: longitudinal dynamics between privacy concerns, cost–benefit calculations, and political expression in social media	5
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Angry tweets: How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	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
Book review: technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful	5
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
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	4
Pakistan’s content moderation paradox: combating violent radicalism in a competitive authoritarian regime	4
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	4
Beyond partisan leaning: a comparative analysis of political bias in large language models	4
When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms	4
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	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
Social media diplomacy for social visibility and social approval: strategic communication of the Taliban de facto government on Twitter	4
Trusting dating algorithms in love and politics: algorithmic belief, political partner vetting, dating motivation types and emotional experience	3
Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers	3
Resisting right-wing populism in power: a comparative analysis of the Facebook activities of social movements in Italy and the UK	3
Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning	3
State apparatus vs. surrogate sphere: a comparative analysis of domestic and international media in Turkish elections	3
AI chatbots and political learning	3
Effects of state-sponsored political posts on perceived credibility and persuasion	3
Pictures from the primaries: Black presidential hopefuls and representation differences across the media bias and reliability spectrum	3
Election night’s alright for feeling: emotional appeals by British political parties on Facebook during and outside election campaigns	3
Repression through anti-repression tools: an analysis of the coordinated campaign of Iranian Telegram channels at times of crisis	3
TIDEM: measuring political distance and polarization through retweet networks in Spanish regional elections	3

“TikTok refugees”: motivations and political correlates of international platform migration	3
A tale of heroes and villains: Russia’s strategic narratives on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism: the roles of group cohesion and perceived group threat	3
Social media news use and polarized partisan perceptions: mediating roles of like-minded and cross-cutting discussion	2
Regime characteristics and online government disinformation	2
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook	2
Critical social media and political engagement in authoritarian regimes: the role of state media fairness perceptions	2
Exploring the mediating role of exposure to partisan media between the authoritarian personality and gun control attitudes	2
Trust in online voting under different regime settings: evidence from public opinion on online voting in national elections in Estonia and Russia	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
How negativity and policy content drive the spread of political messages	2
Correction	2
Exploring digital campaign competence: the role of knowledge in data-driven election campaigns	2
Factors that influence a country to exercise its capacity for digital repression	2
Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?	2
Generative artificial intelligence, misinformation and political polarization: a content analysis of deepfake propaganda during the 2024 US presidential election	2
How TikTok works for digital diplomacy during conflict/war times: the cases of Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza conflicts	2
Heat and affiliation: platform incentives in party leaders’ Facebook communication during COVID-19	2
Public opinion effects of digital state repression: How internet outages shape government evaluation in Africa	2
How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy	2
Dissemination of false information and societal polarization: an empirical investigation	2
Social media, conspiracy theories, and authoritarianism: between bread and geopolitics in Egypt	2
Political-RAG: using generative AI to extract political information from media content	2
The unverified era: politicians’ Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition	2
Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines	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
China’s digital diplomacy agenda and public engagement: an analysis in Africa on Twitter (X)	2
Far-right conspiracies and online engagement: how #StopTheSteal leveraged moral appeals, group identity, and #BlackLivesMatter to capture audience attention on Parler	2
Attributing digital election advertising to races and candidates: a multimodal approach to measuring outside group influence	2
Exploring the influence of online media on political participation in a postcolonial multi-ethnic context: evidence from Bolivia	1
Trust in ChatGPT for political information consumption: the roles of use, perceived threat, and political ideology	1
Good and pissed: gendered emotional appeals on Twitter	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
The limits of social media as a source of political information during routine and crisis times across 17 countries	1
News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge	1
Challenges of and approaches to data collection across platforms and time: Conspiracy-related digital traces as examples of political contention	1
A platform penalty for news? How social media context can alter information credibility online	1
Fear over facts: how preconceptions explain perceptions of threat following cyberattacks	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
Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?	1
Artificial intelligence and democracy: pathway to progress or decline?	1
Just can't get enough – profiling users of multiple Voting Advice Applications	1
Together we stand? The evolution of online interactions by Southern European LGBTQIA* organizations	1
Constrained cyber power: authoritarian legacies on Indonesia’s cyber capabilities development	1
Expanding integrated storytelling networks: the role of AI newsbots and mobile apps in civic engagement	1
The multimodal use of Instagram in Italian politics: how do candidates use verbal and non-verbal strategies during regional elections?	1
To express or not express: a motivational approach to studying political expression on social media	1
The Impact of Political Memes: a Longitudinal Field Experiment	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
Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication	1
Out of sight, out of mind: The impact of lockdown measures on sentiment towards refugees	1
“Incivility makes me angrier than uncivil disagreement”: a survey experiment using news comments	1
Disinformation, social inequalities and young people’s digital citizenship during conflict and crisis in Ethiopia	1
Does digital campaigning matter, and if so, how? Testing a broadcast versus network effects model of candidates Twitter use	1
Accidentally persuaded: a moderated mediation model of incidental news exposure and political persuasion in social media	1
When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy	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
White supremacists anonymous: how digital media emotionally energize far-right movements	1
Correction	1
Streaming the divide? Political video viewing, intergenerational unfairness, and media distrust in Japan’s 2025 election	1
Pill epistemology	1
Official yet questionable: examining misinformation in U.S. state legislators’ tweets	1
Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning	1
Campaigning across platforms: how party status, social profiles, and emotional tone shaped user engagement with French MPs during the 2022 presidential election	1