OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mass Communication and Society 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	72
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	40
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	21
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	21
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	21
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence	20
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	20
Mobile (Self-)Socialization: The Role of Mobile Media and Communication in Autonomy and Relationship Development in Adolescence	19
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	19
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application	19
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	18
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	17
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	17
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	15
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies	15
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	15
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	15
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	14
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	14
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	14
Communities Going Virtual: Examining the Roles of Online and Offline Social Capital in Pandemic Perceived Community Resilience-Building	13
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data	13
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	13
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	12

The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media	11
How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	10
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	10
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	10
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	9
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective	9
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).	9
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	9
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	8
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users	8
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	8
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	7
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	7
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	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
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	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
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	6
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	6
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	6
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	6
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	6
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	6
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	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
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	6
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	6
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study	6
Reading Faces: The Power of Facial Expressions as Visual Cues in Reports of Social Movements	5
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation as Mediators Between News Media Consumption and Perceived Migrant Threat	5
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television	5
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters	5
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	5
Exploring Attitudes Toward Discrimination: The Role of News Media Consumption, News Media Trust, Discriminatory Experiences, and Intergroup Contact	5
The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships	5
Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysis	4
Does Creativity Make Even Cruel Prank TV Shows Funny? Exploring the double-Edged Sword Effects of Creativity	4
The Role of Audiovisuals in Counter-Framing Dynamics: A Longitudinal Experiment on Causal Responsibility Attribution	4
Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and CommoditiesSuddhabrata Deb Roy. *Social Media & Capitalism: People, Communities and Commodities*	4
A Meta-Analytical Review of the Determinants of Social Media Discontinuance Intentions	4
Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs	4
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs	4
“Media Pressure is What Makes Law Enforcement Move”: Insights from Co-victims About the Positive Impacts of True Crime Media Attention	4
Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits	4
Solutions Journalism: News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise	4
“Sometimes, We Do Bad Things for the People We Love”: Exploring Emerging Adults’ Perceptions and Endorsement of Intimate Partner Violence on Television	4
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation	4
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement	4
Beyond the Text: Testing Narrative Persuasion Mechanisms with Audio Messages	4

Worn Out & Tuned Out: Does Politics Fatigue on Social Media Foster Participatory Inequality Among Americans?	4
Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides	4