OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 1. 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
Learning from YouTube? The role of exposure to partisan YouTube channels and news literacy in political learning during the South Korean general election campaign	58
Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates	33
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	29
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	29
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	26
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	23
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica	21
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	21
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	16
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	16
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	15
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	15
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	14
Correction	12
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	11
Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand	10
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	10
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	10
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	10
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	10
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	9
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	9
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	8
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	8
Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers’ perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing intention	8

Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	7
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	7
Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	7
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	6
This is why we can’t have nice things: examining the relationship between frequency of disagreeable political discussion, content moderation, re-platforming, and affective polarization	6
Correction	6
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	6
Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	6
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus	6
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies	6
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	5
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	5
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	5
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	5
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	5
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	4
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	4
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	4
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	4
Incentives to cultivate a diaspora vote and rhetorical involvement in foreign elections: Lessons from Colombian politicians’ involvement in the 2020 US presidential election	4
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	4
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	4
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	4
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	4
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	3
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign	3
Digital protest and transnational mediation: exploring key mediators and narratives in the #StepDownHasina hashtivism in social media	3
Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers	3
Resisting right-wing populism in power: a comparative analysis of the Facebook activities of social movements in Italy and the UK	3
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	3
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	3
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum	3
AI chatbots and political learning	3
When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms	3
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	3
Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election	3
Social media diplomacy for social visibility and social approval: strategic communication of the Taliban de facto government on Twitter	3
Effects of state-sponsored political posts on perceived credibility and persuasion	3
Depersonalize and attack: facebook campaigns of populist candidates in Greece during the 2019 Greek national elections	2
A tale of heroes and villains: Russia’s strategic narratives on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
How negativity and policy content drive the spread of political messages	2
Far-right conspiracies and online engagement: how #StopTheSteal leveraged moral appeals, group identity, and #BlackLivesMatter to capture audience attention on Parler	2
Public opinion effects of digital state repression: How internet outages shape government evaluation in Africa	2
Belief bias and censorship of religious extremism on digital media in 15 EU states: exploring individual and country-level moderators, a cross-country multilevel analysis	2
Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning	2
Pictures from the primaries: Black presidential hopefuls and representation differences across the media bias and reliability spectrum	2
How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy	2
The role of sources of fake political news in corrective intentions on Facebook: investigating a moderated mediating model of perceived news fakeness and candidate preference in the 2022 Korean presid	2
Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines	2
Exploring digital campaign competence: the role of knowledge in data-driven election campaigns	2

Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism: the roles of group cohesion and perceived group threat	2
Public “agendamelding” in the United States: assessing the relative influence of different types of online news on partisan agendas from 2015 to 2020	2
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods	2
China’s digital diplomacy agenda and public engagement: an analysis in Africa on twitter (X)	2
Trust in online voting under different regime settings: evidence from public opinion on online voting in national elections in Estonia and Russia	2
Social media news use and polarized partisan perceptions: mediating roles of like-minded and cross-cutting discussion	2
Correction	2
Dissemination of false information and societal polarization: an empirical investigation	1
“Incivility makes me angrier than uncivil disagreement”: a survey experiment using news comments	1
The composition and amplification of mainstream political memes: evidence from 4 U.S. election cycles	1
The Impact of Political Memes: a Longitudinal Field Experiment	1
Explaining digital campaign expenses: The case of the 2018 legislative elections in Colombia	1
Social media, conspiracy theories, and authoritarianism: between bread and geopolitics in Egypt	1
Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?	1
Artificial intelligence and democracy: pathway to progress or decline?	1
The unverified era: politicians’ Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition	1
News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge	1
Measuring the impact of candidates’ tweets on their electoral results	1
Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?	1
What is political expression on social media anyway?: A systematic review	1
Correction	1
A platform penalty for news? How social media context can alter information credibility online	1
When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy	1
Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning	1
Lenin, Putin, and Rage Guy: Internet memes in the discourse of a Russian far-right community	1
How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook	1
Out of sight, out of mind: The impact of lockdown measures on sentiment towards refugees	1
Regime characteristics and online government disinformation	1
Critical social media and political engagement in authoritarian regimes: the role of state media fairness perceptions	1
Political-RAG: using generative AI to extract political information from media content	1
Exploring the influence of online media on political participation in a postcolonial multi-ethnic context: evidence from Bolivia	1
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement	1
Just can't get enough – profiling users of multiple Voting Advice Applications	1
Trusting tech firms’ big data for political microtargeting? A qualitative analysis of parties’ communication managers risk and trust perceptions	1
Selective rating: partisan bias in crowdsourced news rating systems	1
Blending positivity energy and fun: dominant discourse patterns of popular short videos in China’s mobile media communication	1
Official yet questionable: examining misinformation in U.S. state legislators’ tweets	1
Exploring the mediating role of exposure to partisan media between the authoritarian personality and gun control attitudes	1
What makes stories effective: a strategic narratives comparison between Russia and Ukraine on Chinese social media	1
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook	1