Mass Communication and Society

Papers
(The H4-Index of Mass Communication and Society is 13. 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
Life in Media: A Global Introduction to Media Studies58
Viewpoint Diversity, Balance, Deliberativeness: Assessing the Media Performance of Migration Coverage Multi-Dimensionally Based on Deliberative Democratic Theories31
Graphic Violence: Illustrated Theories About Violence, Popular Media, and Our Social Lives28
Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-1925
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy22
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation18
“Give Me a Break!” Prevalence and Predictors of Intentional News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic18
A Social Identity Model of Localized Social Media Dependency During Post-Earthquake Disaster18
Correction15
Ethnic Selective Exposure: A Test of Cultural-Identity Based Media Selectivity Theory14
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors14
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions14
Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic: Exploring the Impact of Need for Orientation, Epistemic Beliefs and Type of Media Use on Knowledge and Misperception about COVID-1913
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men13
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information13
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).13
All Talk, Not Enough Action: Civic Engagement in U.S. Entertainment TV at a Time of Crisis13
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