Political Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Communication is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora159
Trump Goes to Tulsa on Juneteenth: Placing the Study of Identity, Social Groups, and Power at the Center of Political Communication Research102
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media40
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina38
Abating Dissonant Public Spheres: Exploring the Effects of Affective, Ideological and Perceived Societal Political Polarization on Social Media Political Persuasion35
What’s on and who’s Watching? Combining People-Meter Data and Subtitle Data to Explore Television Exposure to Political News34
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes33
Editor’s Note Jan 202531
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool31
The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress29
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–202027
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level26
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance24
Do Online Ads Sway Voters? Understanding the Persuasiveness of Online Political Ads22
The Impact of New Transparency in Digital Advertising on Media Coverage21
Editor’s Note18
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research18
Editor’s Note18
A Little More Conversation A Little Less Prejudice: The Role of Classroom Political Discussions for Youth’s Attitudes toward Immigrants17
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship15
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers15
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives15
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies15
Media-centric or Politics-centric Political Communication Research? Some Reflections15
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention14
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege13
Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter13
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics11
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis11
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences11
The Honest Broker versus the Epistocrat: Attenuating Distrust in Science by Disentangling Science from Politics10
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications10
Auditing Entertainment Traps on YouTube: How Do Recommendation Algorithms Pull Users Away from News10
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter10
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests10
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century9
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?9
Correction8
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy8
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election8
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda8
The Interplay of Actors in Political Communication: The State of the Subfield7
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition7
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres7
Community Matters: Content Analysis of Children in Immigration Media Coverage, 1990-20207
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication7
Logics of Exclusion: How Ukrainian Audiences Renegotiate Propagandistic Narratives in Times of Conflict6
The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980–20236
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions6
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts6
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–20226
Reconceptualizing Cross-Cutting Political Expression on Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook Comments During the 2016 Brexit Referendum6
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries6
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