Mass Communication and Society

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 2021-04-01 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
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
Ethnic Selective Exposure: A Test of Cultural-Identity Based Media Selectivity Theory14
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
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
Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation12
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias12
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective12
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic12
Opinion Leadership via Conversation: How Opinion Leaders Talk About the Media11
To Trust or Not to Trust? Exploring the Roles of Facebook and WhatsApp Use and Network Diversity11
‘Look at How Corrupt They Are!’: How Anti-Political Discourse from Politicians Affects Their Own Image and the Image of Politics10
Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception10
“How Do We Put the Country Back Together?” Mitigating Affective Polarization Through Mediated Intergroup Contact9
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism9
Examining the Dynamics of Uncivil Discourse Between Sub-National Political Officials and the Public on Twitter9
A Qualitative Study Among Adolescents to Unravel the Perceived Group Dynamics Underlying the Use of Closed SNS Stories and the Sharing of Alcohol-Related Content Therein8
Correction8
I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption8
Understanding Knowledge Among White, Black, and Hispanic Audiences: Media Attention and Inequities in Factual and Perceived Knowledge8
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues8
The Dynamics of Information-Seeking Repertoires: A Cross-Sectional Latent Class Analysis of Information-Seeking During the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Young Adults’ Folk Theories of How Social Media Harms Its Users8
Media & Mental Health: A Complex Relationship Worth Empirical Investigation7
Seeing “Us” and “Them”: How Political Symbols Polarize Through Anger, Anxiety, and Enthusiasm7
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users7
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions – The Dual Role of Ideology7
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use7
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs6
Instrumentalization of Fake News and Fake News Laws: A Content Analysis of Hong Kong Newspapers in Transitional Times6
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application6
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media6
Together We Rise: The Role of Communication and Community Connectedness in Transgender Citizens’ Civic Engagement in the United States6
The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society6
News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media CultureMatt Carlson, Sue Robinson, and Seth Lewis. News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relev6
The Power of a Genre: Political News Presented as Fact-Checking Increases Accurate Belief Updating and Hostile Media Perceptions5
I Like What You Like: Social Norms and Media Enjoyment5
Gender Stereotypes in Young Children’s Magazines5
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study5
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data5
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic5
Police, Violence, and the “Logic of Damage”: Comparing U.S. and Chilean Media Portrayals of Protests5
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports5
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety5
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict4
Digging Deeper into the Reasons for Self-Control Failure: Both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations to Use Mobile Communication Shape Self-Control Processes4
Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings4
An Experiment on the Press Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: Can Readers Differentiate Between Good and Bad Reporting?4
Only for Friends, Definitely Not for Parents: Adolescents’ Sharing of Alcohol References on Social Media Features4
Pathways to Youth Political Participation: Media Literacy, Parental Intervention, and Cognitive Mediation4
Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and Practice4
The Model Family: The Effect of Multiracial Families in Advertising on Emerging Adult Consumers’ Attitudes and Intentions4
Total Recall? Examining the Accuracy of Poll Recall during an Election Campaign4
Time to ‘Wine’: A Content Analysis Investigating How Social Media Influencers Refer to Alcohol Use in Instagram’s Feed Posts and Stories4
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?4
Judging “Them” by My Media Use: Exploring the Cause and Consequences of Perceived Selective Exposure4
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