OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 2. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Localized social media and civic life: Motivations, trust, and civic participation in local community contexts	38
Algorithmic social media use and its relationship to attitude reinforcement and issue-specific political participation – The case of the 2015 European immigration movements	34
Do “Good Citizens” fight hate speech online? Effects of solidarity citizenship norms on user responses to hate comments	26
“Who is gullible to political disinformation?” : predicting susceptibility of university students to fake news	25
The hidden threat of cyber-attacks – undermining public confidence in government	25
Facebook affordances and citizen engagement during elections: European political parties and their benefit from online strategies?	22
Fake news self-efficacy, fake news identification, and content sharing on Facebook	22
Increasing citizen participation in e-participatory budgeting processes	21
Peripheral elaboration model: The impact of incidental news exposure on political participation	19
What explains popular support for government monitoring in China?	17
A market of black boxes: The political economy of Internet surveillance and censorship in Russia	16
What is political expression on social media anyway?: A systematic review	14
Indonesia’s rise in digital democracy and youth’s political participation	14
The Influence of Goals and Timing: How Campaigns Deploy Ads on Facebook	14
How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook	11
The politics of AI: democracy and authoritarianism in developing countries	11
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods	11
Topics to talk about. The effects of political topics and issue ownership on user engagement with politicians’ Facebook posts during the 2018 Hungarian general election	10
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement	10
Efficient detection of online communities and social bot activity during electoral campaigns	10
Dubious until officially censored: Effects of online censorship exposure on viewers’ attitudes in authoritarian regimes	9
Mixing messages: How candidates vary in their use of Twitter	9
Computer-mediated political expression: A conceptual framework of technological affordances and individual tradeoffs	9
Neural blockchain technology for a new anticorruption token: towards a novel governance model	8
Social network matters: The influence of online social capital on youth political participation in Pakistan	8

Tweeting in echo chambers? Analyzing Twitter discourse between American Jewish interest groups	8
Invisible transparency: Visual attention to disclosures and source recognition in Facebook political advertising	8
Does news help us become knowledgeable or think we are knowledgeable? Examining a linkage of traditional and social media use with political knowledge	8
Stephen Colbert takes on Election 2020: #betterknowaballot, voter mobilization, and the return to playful participatory satire	8
Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news	8
“Unpresidented!” or: What happens when the president attacks the federal judiciary on Twitter	7
Ideological homophily or political interest: Factors affecting Twitter friendship network between politicians	7
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	6
Race, social media news use, and political participation	6
Understanding the democratic role of perceived online political micro-targeting: longitudinal effects on trust in democracy and political interest	6
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	6
Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?	5
Attack or Block? Repertoires of Digital Censorship in Autocracies	5
Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election	5
FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision	5
News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge	5
The effect of traffic light veracity labels on perceptions of political advertising source and message credibility on social media	4
Government websites as data: a methodological pipeline with application to the websites of municipalities in the United States	4
A wall of incivility? Public discourse and immigration in the 2016 U.S. Primaries	4
Public responses to COVID-19 information from the public health office on Twitter and YouTube: implications for research practice	4
Between analogue and digital: A critical exploration of strategic social media use in Greek election campaigns	4
Cookies and content moderation: affective chilling effects of internet surveillance and censorship	4
The mere exposure effect of tweets on vote choice	4
Undercurrents of echo chambers and flame wars: party political correlates of social media behavior	4
The (null) over-time effects of exposure to local news websites: Evidence from trace data	4
Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand	4
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	4
Constituent connections: senators’ reputation building in the age of social media	4
Hashtag framing and stakeholder targeting: An affordance perspective on China’s digital public diplomacy campaign during COVID-19	4
Like, Share, Comment, and Repeat: Far-right Messages, Emotions, and Amplification in Social Media	4
Manufacturing conflict or advocating peace? A study of social bots agenda building in the Twitter discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war	4
The Impact of Political Memes: a Longitudinal Field Experiment	4
Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning	3
Effects of online user comments on public opinion perception, personal opinion, and willingness to speak out: A cross-cultural comparison between Germany and South Korea	3
Depersonalize and attack: facebook campaigns of populist candidates in Greece during the 2019 Greek national elections	3
The ‘new age’ of political participation? WhatsApp and call to action on the Brazilian senate’s consultations on the e-cidadania portal	3
Toward geopolitical gaming: exploring the tension between Blizzard Entertainment and political forces	3
Explaining digital campaign expenses: The case of the 2018 legislative elections in Colombia	3
From xbox to the ballot box? The influence of leisure activities on political engagement and vote choice	3
Social media, quality of democracy, and citizen satisfaction with democracy in central and eastern Europe	3
The humpty dumpty effect: Emerging media diffusion and (Granger) causal democratic change in 122 countries from 1946 to 2014	3
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	3
Civic and political volunteering: the mobilizing role of websites and social media in four countries	2
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	2
The right to stay offline? Not during the pandemic	2
Out of sight, out of mind: The impact of lockdown measures on sentiment towards refugees	2
Don’t talk to strangers? The role of network composition, WhatsApp groups, and partisanship in explaining beliefs in misinformation about COVID-19 in Brazil	2
Going viral: Individual-level predictors of viral behaviors in two types of campaigns	2
How influences of external actors affect Information and Communication Technology policy formation in developing countries: case of Malawi	2
Political institutions and the gendered use of social media among political candidates: evidence from Tunisia	2

Public “agendamelding” in the United States: assessing the relative influence of different types of online news on partisan agendas from 2015 to 2020	2
Is computer-mediated communication more powerful than face-to-face discussion in mobilizing political participation? A study examines participation in electoral campaigns and political advocacy in Tai	2
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	2
Much Ado About Facebook? Evidence from 80 Congressional Campaigns in Chile	2
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	2
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica	2
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies	2
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	2