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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	75
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	38
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	34
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	27
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	24
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	24
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	23
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	20
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	20
Correction	19
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	16
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	14
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	14
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	13
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	13
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	13
Resistant gratification? National identity and political reactance in TikTok use across Korea and China	12
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	12
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	11
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	11
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	10
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	9
Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	9
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	9

Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	8
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	8
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	8
Uncertainty, agency, and the future context of internet governance: a foresightful conversation	8
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus	8
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	7
Angry tweets: How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	7
Youth political information seeking and political participation from the perspective of platform swinging: observations from China	7
Correction	7
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	7
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	7
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	7
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	6
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	6
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	6
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	6
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	5
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	5
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	5
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	5
When the political becomes private: longitudinal dynamics between privacy concerns, cost–benefit calculations, and political expression in social media	5
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign	5
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	5
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	5
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum	5
Book review: technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful	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
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	5
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	4
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	4
Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers	4
Digital protest and transnational mediation: exploring key mediators and narratives in the #StepDownHasina hashtivism in social media	4
Pakistan’s content moderation paradox: combating violent radicalism in a competitive authoritarian regime	4
TIDEM: measuring political distance and polarization through retweet networks in Spanish regional elections	4
When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms	4
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	4
Beyond partisan leaning: a comparative analysis of political bias in large language models	4
Social media diplomacy for social visibility and social approval: strategic communication of the Taliban de facto government on Twitter	4