Most cited papers in Media, Communication, and Education
What are the most cited papers in Media, Communication, and Education?
The most cited paper in Media, Communication, and Education is "Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity" (John Easton Law, 1992), with 3,226 citations. Next come "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties" (2,866) and "Sequencing in Conversational Openings 1" (2,449).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 202 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity John Easton Law · Systemic Practice and Action Research | Aug 1992 | 3,226 |
| 2 | Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties Sherry B. Ortner · Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1984 | 2,866 |
| 3 | Sequencing in Conversational Openings 1 Emanuel A. Schegloff · American Anthropologist | Dec 1968 | 2,449 |
| 4 | DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP J. B. Harley · Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization | Jun 1989 | 2,119 |
| 5 | The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Ann Forsyth · Journal of Planning Education and Research | Dec 1999 | 1,811 |
| 6 | More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor Thomas Leddy, George P. Lakoff, Mark A. Turner · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1990 | 1,704 |
| 7 | Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be? Sally Haslanger · Noûs | Mar 2000 | 1,558 |
| 8 | Information as thing Michael K. Buckland · Journal of the American Society for Information Science | Jun 1991 | 1,156 |
| 9 | Verbal Art as Performance1 Richard W Bauman · American Anthropologist | Jun 1975 | 1,124 |
| 10 | The Bimodal Perception of Speech In Infancy Patricia K. Kuhl, Andrew N. Meltzoff · Science | 10 Dec 1982 | 930 |
| 11 | The Consequences of Literacy Jack R. Goody, Ian Watt · Comparative Studies in Society and History | Apr 1963 | 909 |
| 12 | Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing Anna Sfard | 21 Jan 2008 | 805 |
| 13 | A study in language and cognition. Roger Brown, Eric H. Lenneberg · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology | Jul 1954 | 781 |
| 14 | The Social Life of Information Vincent di Norcia · Canadian Journal of Communication | Apr 2000 | 750 |
| 15 | Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication 1 Dell H. Hymes · American Anthropologist | Dec 1964 | 742 |
| 16 | Information extraction Jim Cowie, Wendy G. Lehnert · Communications of the ACM | 1996 | 737 |
| 17 | Limits of the Local: Expanding Perspectives on Literacy as a Social Practice Deborah Brandt, Katie Clinton · Journal of Literacy Research | Sep 2002 | 735 |
| 18 | From Cyber to Hybrid Adriana de Souza e Silva · Space and Culture | 14 Jul 2006 | 684 |
| 19 | The Social Life of Information John M. Silvester · The Internet and Higher Education | Jul 2000 | 674 |
| 20 | Functions of the Nonverbal in CMC: Emoticons and Illocutionary Force Eli Dresner, Susan C. Herring · Communication Theory | 20 Jul 2010 | 659 |
| 21 | A typology of English texts Douglas Biber · Linguistics | 1989 | 653 |
| 22 | On the Mediation of Everything: ICA Presidential Address 2008 Sonia Livingstone · Journal of Communication | Mar 2009 | 620 |
| 23 | Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Cultures Stephen R. Barley · Administrative Science Quarterly | Sep 1983 | 569 |
| 24 | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An Overview of the Iterated Learning Model Simon Kirby, James R. Hurford | 2002 | 534 |
| 25 | The Command Language Grammar: a representation for the user interface of interactive computer systems Thomas P. Moran · International Journal of Man-Machine Studies | Jul 1981 | 523 |
| 26 | What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices Charles Bazerman, Paul A. Prior | Sep 2003 | 522 |
| 27 | Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? Faye Ginsburg · Cultural Anthropology | Feb 1991 | 518 |
| 28 | The World's Writing Systems Edwin Gerow, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright · Journal of the American Oriental Society | 1997 | 515 |
| 29 | Foundations for an anthropology of the senses Constance Classen · International Social Science Journal | Sep 1997 | 494 |
| 30 | Ethnographic Research and the Problem of Data Reduction1 JUDITH PREISSLE GOETZ, Margaret Diane LeCompte · Anthropology & Education Quarterly | Mar 1981 | 484 |
| 31 | Theory and Research in Mass Communication Jennings Bryant, Dorina Miron · Journal of Communication | Dec 2004 | 479 |
| 32 | What is a ?document?? Michael K. Buckland · Journal of the American Society for Information Science | Sep 1997 | 473 |
| 33 | The concept of information Rafael Capurro, Birger Hjørland · Annual Review of Information Science and Technology | 2003 | 465 |
| 34 | Examining Teachers’ Beliefs About the Role of Technology in the Elementary Classroom Peggy A. Ertmer, A A Paul, Lane Molly et al. · Journal of Research on Computing in Education | Sep 1999 | 465 |
| 35 | A Dual-Route Approach to Orthographic Processing Jonathan Grainger, Johannes Christoph Ziegler · Frontiers in Psychology | 2011 | 457 |
| 36 | The literary transaction: Evocation and response Louise M. Rosenblatt · Theory Into Practice | Sep 1982 | 422 |
| 37 | Becoming symbol-minded Judy S. DeLoache · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 22 Dec 2003 | 420 |
| 38 | Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis Florian Coulmas | 23 Dec 2002 | 417 |
| 39 | Silences and secrecy: The hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe J. B. Harley · Imago Mundi | 1988 | 413 |
| 40 | Communicative and Cultural Memory Jan und Aleida Assmann · Knowledge and space | 2011 | 400 |
| 41 | Against the current. Essays in the history of ideas Michael J. Moran · History of European Ideas | 1981 | 344 |
| 42 | The “Virtual Classroom”: Using Computer-Mediated Communication for University Teaching Starr Roxanne Hiltz · Journal of Communication | Jun 1986 | 342 |
| 43 | Otherness and the Actor Network Nick J. Lee, Steve Brown · American Behavioral Scientist | May 1994 | 342 |
| 44 | Two decades of structure building Morton Ann Gernsbacher · Discourse Processes | 1997 | 338 |
| 45 | Children's use of analogy in learning to read: A developmental study Usha Goswami · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | Aug 1986 | 337 |
| 46 | Cultural Transmission Theory and the Archaeological Record: Providing Context to Understanding Variation and Temporal Changes in Material Culture Jelmer W. Eerkens, Carl P. Lipo · Journal of Archaeological Research | 3 Aug 2007 | 335 |
| 47 | The Medium Can Obscure the Message: Young Children's Understanding of Video Georgette L. Troseth, Judy S. DeLoache · Child Development | Aug 1998 | 331 |
| 48 | Literacy and literacies texts, power, and identity James Collins, Richard K. Blot | 2003 | 329 |
| 49 | The challenges of interdisciplinarity Garry D. Brewer · Policy Sciences | Dec 1999 | 328 |
| 50 | Are social networks technologically embedded? Christian Licoppe, Zbigniew Smoreda · Social Networks | 11 Jan 2005 | 327 |
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