OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Localized social media and civic life: Motivations, trust, and civic participation in local community contexts	35
A tale of two cybers - how threat reporting by cybersecurity firms systematically underrepresents threats to civil society	34
Algorithmic social media use and its relationship to attitude reinforcement and issue-specific political participation – The case of the 2015 European immigration movements	31
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	23
Facebook affordances and citizen engagement during elections: European political parties and their benefit from online strategies?	21
The hidden threat of cyber-attacks – undermining public confidence in government	20
Increasing citizen participation in e-participatory budgeting processes	18
Fake news self-efficacy, fake news identification, and content sharing on Facebook	18
Peripheral elaboration model: The impact of incidental news exposure on political participation	15
A market of black boxes: The political economy of Internet surveillance and censorship in Russia	13
What explains popular support for government monitoring in China?	13
What is political expression on social media anyway?: A systematic review	13
Indonesia’s rise in digital democracy and youth’s political participation	12
The Influence of Goals and Timing: How Campaigns Deploy Ads on Facebook	12
A territorial dispute or an agenda war? A cross-national investigation of the network agenda-setting (NAS) model	10
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
Efficient detection of online communities and social bot activity during electoral campaigns	9
Invisible transparency: Visual attention to disclosures and source recognition in Facebook political advertising	8
Post-Soviet migrants in Germany, transnational public spheres and Russian soft power	8
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement	8
Tweeting in echo chambers? Analyzing Twitter discourse between American Jewish interest groups	8
Social network matters: The influence of online social capital on youth political participation in Pakistan	8
Dubious until officially censored: Effects of online censorship exposure on viewers’ attitudes in authoritarian regimes	7

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	7
The politics of AI: democracy and authoritarianism in developing countries	7
Stephen Colbert takes on Election 2020: #betterknowaballot, voter mobilization, and the return to playful participatory satire	7
Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news	7
Ideological homophily or political interest: Factors affecting Twitter friendship network between politicians	7
“Unpresidented!” or: What happens when the president attacks the federal judiciary on Twitter	7
Does news help us become knowledgeable or think we are knowledgeable? Examining a linkage of traditional and social media use with political knowledge	7
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods	6
Neural blockchain technology for a new anticorruption token: towards a novel governance model	6
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	6
The social media commons: Public sphere, agonism, and algorithmic obligation	6
How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook	6
Race, social media news use, and political participation	5
The role of online technologies and digital skills in the political participation of citizens with disabilities	5
Attack or Block? Repertoires of Digital Censorship in Autocracies	5
A wall of incivility? Public discourse and immigration in the 2016 U.S. Primaries	4
Manufacturing conflict or advocating peace? A study of social bots agenda building in the Twitter discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war	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
FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision	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
Between analogue and digital: A critical exploration of strategic social media use in Greek election campaigns	4
Constituent connections: senators’ reputation building in the age of social media	4
Government websites as data: a methodological pipeline with application to the websites of municipalities in the United States	4
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	4
Public responses to COVID-19 information from the public health office on Twitter and YouTube: implications for research practice	4
Understanding the democratic role of perceived online political micro-targeting: longitudinal effects on trust in democracy and political interest	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