Topic · Social Media and Politics
Most cited papers in Social Media and Politics
What are the most cited papers in Social Media and Politics?
The most cited paper in Social Media and Politics is "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" (danah boyd, Nicole B. Ellison, 2007), with 16,252 citations. Next come "Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm" (16,026) and "The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites" (9,954).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,398 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship danah boyd, Nicole B. Ellison · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | Oct 2007 | 16,252 |
| 2 | Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm Robert M. Entman · Journal of Communication | Dec 1993 | 16,026 |
| 3 | The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites Nicole B. Ellison, Charles W Steinfield, Cliff A.C. Lampe · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | Jul 2007 | 9,954 |
| 4 | The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media Maxwell McCombs, Donald Lewis Shaw · Public Opinion Quarterly | 1972 | 9,297 |
| 5 | Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election Hunt Allcott, Matthew Aaron Gentzkow · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2017 | 6,749 |
| 6 | Uses and Gratifications Research Elihu Katz, Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch · Public Opinion Quarterly | 1973 | 3,911 |
| 7 | Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out Andrew K Przybylski, Kou Murayama, Cody R. DeHaan et al. · Computers in Human Behavior | 9 Apr 2013 | 3,903 |
| 8 | Identifying careless responses in survey data. Adam W. Meade, S. Bartholomew Craig · Psychological Methods | 13 Apr 2012 | 3,766 |
| 9 | Why should i share? examining social capital and knowledge contribution in electronic networks of practice Molly McLure Wasko, Samer A Faraj · MIS Quarterly | Mar 2005 | 3,554 |
| 10 | Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being? Robert E. Kraut, Michael Patterson, Vicki A. Lundmark et al. · American Psychologist | 1998 | 3,547 |
| 11 | Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America Robert D. Putnam · PS Political Science & Politics | Dec 1995 | 3,529 |
| 12 | Framing as a Theory of Media Effects Dietram A. Scheufele · Journal of Communication | Mar 1999 | 3,316 |
| 13 | The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, Matthew S. Levendusky et al. · Annual Review of Political Science | 10 Dec 2018 | 3,297 |
| 14 | Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook Eytan Bakshy, Solomon Messing, Lada A. Adamic · Science | 7 May 2015 | 3,297 |
| 15 | Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Renee John R. Repique · Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association | Mar 2013 | 3,259 |
| 16 | Framing Theory Dennis Chong, James N. Druckman · Annual Review of Political Science | 4 May 2007 | 3,058 |
| 17 | THE LOGIC OF CONNECTIVE ACTION W. Lance Bennett, Alexandra Segerberg · Information Communication & Society | 10 Apr 2012 | 2,999 |
| 18 | Should We Trust Web-Based Studies? A Comparative Analysis of Six Preconceptions About Internet Questionnaires. Samuel D. Gosling, Simine Vazire, Sanjay Srivastava et al. · American Psychologist | 2004 | 2,959 |
| 19 | Stochastic blockmodels: First steps Paul W. Holland, Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Samuel Leinhardt · Social Networks | Jun 1983 | 2,908 |
| 20 | The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment Damon M. Centola · Science | 2 Sep 2010 | 2,745 |
| 21 | Affect, Not Ideology Shanto Iyengar, Gaurav Sood, Yphtach Lelkes · Public Opinion Quarterly | Sep 2012 | 2,718 |
| 22 | Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp Sandner et al. · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | 16 May 2010 | 2,691 |
| 23 | Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy Anne Larason Schneider, Helen Ingram · American Political Science Review | Jun 1993 | 2,659 |
| 24 | A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason Jeffrey Jones et al. · Nature | Sep 2012 | 2,639 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance Archon Fung · Public Administration Review | 9 Nov 2006 | 2,406 |
| 28 | Framing European politics: A Content Analysis of Press and Television News Holli A. Semetko, Patti M. Valkenburg · Journal of Communication | Jun 2000 | 2,405 |
| 29 | The politics of ‘platforms’ Tarleton Gillespie · New Media & Society | 9 Feb 2010 | 2,393 |
| 30 | The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public's Views of Global Warming, 2001–2010 Aaron M. McCright, Riley E. Dunlap · Sociological Quarterly | 18 Apr 2011 | 2,349 |
| 31 | The Spiral of Silence a Theory of Public Opinion Elisabeth Noëlle-Neumann · Journal of Communication | Jun 1974 | 2,335 |
| 32 | Opinions and Social Pressure Solomon E. Asch · Scientific American | Nov 1955 | 2,311 |
| 33 | Living with Television: The Violence Profile George Gerbner, Larry P. Gross · Journal of Communication | Jun 1976 | 2,301 |
| 34 | Using ICTs to create a culture of transparency: E-government and social media as openness and anti-corruption tools for societies John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, Justin M. Grimes · Government Information Quarterly | 28 Apr 2010 | 2,292 |
| 35 | Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation Sebastián Valenzuela, Namsu Park, Kerk F. Kee · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | Jul 2009 | 2,243 |
| 36 | Internet Paradox Revisited Robert E. Kraut, Sara B. Kiesler, Bonka S. Boneva et al. · Journal of Social Issues | 2002 | 2,215 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | Political Trust and Trustworthiness Margaret Levi, Laura Stoker · Annual Review of Political Science | Jun 2000 | 2,168 |
| 39 | Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions Harrison C. White, Scott A. Boorman, Ronald L. Breiger · American Journal of Sociology | 1976 | 2,100 |
| 40 | College students' social networking experiences on Facebook Tiffany A. Pempek, Yevdokiya Yermolayeva, Sandra L. Calvert · Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology | 12 Jan 2009 | 2,085 |
| 41 | Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning Gordon Pennycook, David Gertler Rand · Cognition | 20 Jun 2018 | 2,066 |
| 42 | Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter danah boyd, Su Golder, Gilad Lotan | 2010 | 2,060 |
| 43 | Social Implications of the Internet Paul DiMaggio, Eszter Hargittai, W. Russell Neuman et al. · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 2001 | 2,048 |
| 44 | Digital divide research, achievements and shortcomings Jan A. G. M. van Dijk · Poetics | 26 Jul 2006 | 2,016 |
| 45 | Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the “post-truth” era. Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, John Cook · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition | 12 Oct 2017 | 2,008 |
| 46 | Red Media, Blue Media: Evidence of Ideological Selectivity in Media Use Shanto Iyengar, Kyu S. Hahn · Journal of Communication | Mar 2009 | 1,975 |
| 47 | Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption Seth Flaxman, Sharad Goel, Justin M. Rao · Public Opinion Quarterly | 2016 | 1,969 |
| 48 | Computers are social actors Clifford Nass, Jonathan Steuer, Ellen R. Tauber | 24 Apr 1994 | 1,961 |
| 49 | Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites: A longitudinal analysis Charles W Steinfield, Nicole B. Ellison, Cliff A.C. Lampe · Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology | 18 Aug 2008 | 1,923 |
| 50 | Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization Christopher A. Bail, Lisa P. Argyle, Taylor Brown et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 28 Aug 2018 | 1,903 |
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