OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mass Communication and Society is 5. 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
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	47
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	31
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	30
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	27
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance	27
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	25
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	25
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence	23
The Perils of Social Media: Cyberbullying Shame and Fame	23
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	22
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	22
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	20
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	20
News from Every Angle: On the Potential of Implementing Virtual Reality Technology in Journalistic Contexts	20
Moral Comments in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Ideology-Matching Moral Framing and Impression Motivation in the Persuasive Effect of User Comments on YouTube	19
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	19
Threat Level Midnight: Examining the Relationship Between Threatening Language and Engagement with Non-Partisan, Partisan, and Hyper-Partisan Media on Facebook	15
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	15
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies	14
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	14
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	14
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	13
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	13
Communicating Science, Climate Change, and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths	13
Unmasking Media Narratives: Shaping Public Perspectives on China–U.S. Relations Amid the Pandemic	13

Countering Misinformation in Political Reporting: Enhancing Journalistic Legitimacy	12
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data	12
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	12
The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media	12
A Direct and Indirect Effect of Third-Person Perception of COVID-19 Fake News on Support for Fake News Regulations on Social Media: Investigating the Role of Negative Emotions and Political Views	9
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	9
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	9
Uncovering Frame Building in German Media? The Influence of German Politicians on Media Framing During the Energy and Gas Crisis 2022	9
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective	9
Unequal Framing in Times of Hardship? How Newspapers from Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland Portray Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees – Evidence from a Deductive and Inductive Automated C	9
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).	9
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	9
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	8
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	8
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	8
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	8
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	8
Agenda-Setting Dynamics Between Local, National Media and Twitter in the Context of the Uvalde School Shooting	8
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	7
Understanding the Impact of Anger-Evoking and Efficacy-Eliciting Tweets in White Support for the BLM Movement	7
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	7
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	7
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users	7
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	7
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	7
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media	7
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	7
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television	6
Threatened or Activated? Exploring Dual Mechanisms Underlying the Longitudinal Pro-Environmental Effect of Science Fiction Engagement	6
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	6
On the Road to Sustainability: Themes and Strategies Used by Greenfluencers on Instagram and Their Impact on User Engagement	6
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	6
“Truth Sandwich” To Dispel Crisis Misinformation: Exploring the Separate and Combined Impacts of Inoculation, Narratives, and Stealing Thunder on Correcting Crisis Misinformation on Social Media	6
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	5
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	5
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	5
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	5
Reading Faces: The Power of Facial Expressions as Visual Cues in Reports of Social Movements	5
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	5
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation	5
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	5
The Doctor and the Algorithm: Promise, Peril, and the Future of Health AI	5
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact	5