Topic · Media Studies and Communication
Most cited papers in Media Studies and Communication
What are the most cited papers in Media Studies and Communication?
The most cited paper in Media Studies and Communication is "Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm" (Robert M. Entman, 1993), with 16,026 citations. Next come "The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media" (9,297) and "Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach" (4,990).
Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 707 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm Robert M. Entman · Journal of Communication | Dec 1993 | 16,026 |
| 2 | The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media Maxwell McCombs, Donald Lewis Shaw · Public Opinion Quarterly | 1972 | 9,297 |
| 3 | Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 1989 | 4,990 |
| 4 | I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience Alice Emily Marwick, danah boyd · New Media & Society | 7 Jul 2010 | 4,584 |
| 5 | The Silent Language E. T. Hall | 1959 | 3,479 |
| 6 | The Structure of Foreign News Johan Galtung, Mari Holmboe Ruge · Journal of Peace Research | Mar 1965 | 3,371 |
| 7 | Framing as a Theory of Media Effects Dietram A. Scheufele · Journal of Communication | Mar 1999 | 3,316 |
| 8 | Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook Eytan Bakshy, Solomon Messing, Lada A. Adamic · Science | 7 May 2015 | 3,297 |
| 9 | Framing Theory Dennis Chong, James N. Druckman · Annual Review of Political Science | 4 May 2007 | 3,058 |
| 10 | News that matters : television and American opinion Shanto Iyengar, Donald R. Kinder | 1987 | 2,680 |
| 11 | Framing, Agenda Setting, and Priming: The Evolution of Three Media Effects Models Dietram A. Scheufele, David H. Tewksbury · Journal of Communication | 9 Nov 2006 | 2,564 |
| 12 | The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, Hazel Gaudet | 1968 | 2,429 |
| 13 | Framing European politics: A Content Analysis of Press and Television News Holli A. Semetko, Patti M. Valkenburg · Journal of Communication | Jun 2000 | 2,405 |
| 14 | The Spiral of Silence a Theory of Public Opinion Elisabeth Noëlle-Neumann · Journal of Communication | Jun 1974 | 2,335 |
| 15 | Living with Television: The Violence Profile George Gerbner, Larry P. Gross · Journal of Communication | Jun 1976 | 2,301 |
| 16 | Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications Walter L. Willigan, Elihu Katz, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld · The American Catholic Sociological Review | Dec 1956 | 2,197 |
| 17 | Postfeminist media culture Rosalind Gill · European Journal of Cultural Studies | May 2007 | 2,174 |
| 18 | Framing analysis: An approach to news discourse Zhongdang Pan, Gerald M. Kosicki · Political Communication | 1993 | 1,998 |
| 19 | Red Media, Blue Media: Evidence of Ideological Selectivity in Media Use Shanto Iyengar, Kyu S. Hahn · Journal of Communication | Mar 2009 | 1,975 |
| 20 | Defining Identification: A Theoretical Look at the Identification of Audiences With Media Characters Jonathan Cohen · Mass Communication & Society | Aug 2001 | 1,907 |
| 21 | Race after technology. Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code Sibille Merz · Ethnic and Racial Studies | 27 Jan 2020 | 1,898 |
| 22 | Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Nakwon Jung, Sebastián Valenzuela · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | Apr 2012 | 1,831 |
| 23 | Toward a Theory of Press-State Relations in the United States W. Lance Bennett · Journal of Communication | Jun 1990 | 1,804 |
| 24 | Framing Bias: Media in the Distribution of Power Robert M. Entman · Journal of Communication | 28 Feb 2007 | 1,764 |
| 25 | What is journalism? Mark Deuze · Journalism | 29 Sep 2005 | 1,758 |
| 26 | Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press Maxwell Boykoff, Jules Boykoff · Global Environmental Change | Jul 2004 | 1,692 |
| 27 | Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman Andrew Tudor, Paul du Gay, Stuart A. Hall et al. · British Journal of Sociology | Dec 1997 | 1,691 |
| 28 | On the Use of the Mass Media for Important Things Elihu Katz, Hadassah Haas, Michael Gurevitch · American Sociological Review | Apr 1973 | 1,648 |
| 29 | The Internet, Public Spheres, and Political Communication: Dispersion and Deliberation Peter Dahlgren · Political Communication | Apr 2005 | 1,587 |
| 30 | Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society Manuel Castells | 8 Feb 2007 | 1,546 |
| 31 | A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication W. Lance Bennett, Shanto Iyengar · Journal of Communication | Dec 2008 | 1,535 |
| 32 | Media Framing of a Civil Liberties Conflict and Its Effect on Tolerance Thomas E. Nelson, Rosalee A. Clawson, Zoe M. Oxley · American Political Science Review | Sep 1997 | 1,443 |
| 33 | Framing U.S. Coverage of International News: Contrasts in Narratives of the KAL and Iran Air Incidents Robert M. Entman · Journal of Communication | Dec 1991 | 1,389 |
| 34 | Four Phases of Mediatization: An Analysis of the Mediatization of Politics Jesper Strömbäck · The International Journal of Press/Politics | 25 Jun 2008 | 1,371 |
| 35 | Toward a Theory of Entertainment Persuasion: Explaining the Persuasive Effects of Entertainment-Education Messages Emily Moyer‐Gusé · Communication Theory | Aug 2008 | 1,370 |
| 36 | Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy Bartholomew H. Sparrow · Perspectives on Politics | Dec 2004 | 1,354 |
| 37 | Entertainment?Education and Elaboration Likelihood: Understanding the Processing of Narrative Persuasion Michael D. Slater, Donna Rouner · Communication Theory | May 2002 | 1,332 |
| 38 | A Dependency Model of Mass-Media Effects Sandra J. Ball‐Rokeach, Melvin L. DeFleur · Communication Research | 1976 | 1,332 |
| 39 | Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality William A. Gamson, DAVID A. CROTEAU, William Hoynes et al. · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 1992 | 1,274 |
| 40 | A Look at Agenda-setting: past, present and future Maxwell McCombs · Journalism Studies | 6 Oct 2005 | 1,252 |
| 41 | Parasocial Interaction: A Review of the Literature and a Model for Future Research David Giles · Media Psychology | Aug 2002 | 1,235 |
| 42 | The public disclosure of environmental performance information—a dual test of media agenda setting theory and legitimacy theory Noel Brown, Craig Michael Deegan · Accounting and Business Research | Dec 1998 | 1,230 |
| 43 | To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter Alice Emily Marwick, danah boyd · Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies | May 2011 | 1,178 |
| 44 | Using Narrative Communication as a Tool for Health Behavior Change: A Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Overview Leslie Hinyard, Matthew W. Kreuter · Health Education & Behavior | 15 Dec 2006 | 1,166 |
| 45 | The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance Manuel Castells · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | 13 Feb 2008 | 1,163 |
| 46 | Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S., 2002–2010 Robert Joseph Brulle, Jason T. Carmichael, J. Craig Jenkins · Climatic Change | 3 Feb 2012 | 1,143 |
| 47 | LONELINESS, PARASOCIAL INTERACTION, AND LOCAL TELEVISION NEWS VIEWING ALAN M. RUBIN, Elizabeth M. Perse, Robert A. Powell · Human Communication Research | Dec 1985 | 1,135 |
| 48 | The objectivity norm in American journalism* Michael S. Schudson · Journalism | Aug 2001 | 1,134 |
| 49 | What is News? Tony Harcup, Deirdre O’Neill · Journalism Studies | Mar 2016 | 1,133 |
| 50 | Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass-media coverage Maxwell Boykoff, Jules Boykoff · Geoforum | 29 Mar 2007 | 1,083 |
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