Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Learning from YouTube? The role of exposure to partisan YouTube channels and news literacy in political learning during the South Korean general election campaign53
Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates32
Does news help us become knowledgeable or think we are knowledgeable? Examining a linkage of traditional and social media use with political knowledge31
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged27
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election26
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion25
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments23
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica21
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?20
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China19
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives16
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums15
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity15
Correction14
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities13
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication12
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems10
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches10
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections10
Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand10
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence10
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena9
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news9
Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers’ perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing intention8
Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov8
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new7
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies7
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads7
This is why we can’t have nice things: examining the relationship between frequency of disagreeable political discussion, content moderation, re-platforming, and affective polarization7
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus6
Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions6
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?6
Correction6
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations6
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?6
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues6
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content5
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies5
Incentives to cultivate a diaspora vote and rhetorical involvement in foreign elections: Lessons from Colombian politicians’ involvement in the 2020 US presidential election5
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship5
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood4
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China4
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling4
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan4
Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election4
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful4
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe4
Fake news self-efficacy, fake news identification, and content sharing on Facebook4
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data4
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram4
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research4
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum4
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram4
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