Political Communication

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2026

22 papers

• Studying propaganda as a social process
  Baden et al. · 2026
  trust social processes
• Political fact-checking efforts are constrained by deficiencies in coverage, speed, and reach
  Wack et al. · 2026
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · network analysis misinformation fact checking
• Does the method affect the outcome? How measures of partisan slant of media outlets and affective polarization drive results about polarization in the united states
  Schemer et al. · 2026
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics affective polarization measurement methods
• The joe rogan experience: Epistemic style over ideological extremity in the manosphere
  Stecuła et al. · 2026
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics media consumption manosphere
• Evaluating echo chambers, rabbit holes, and radicalization pathways on YouTube
  Brown et al. · 2026
  data · digital trace data data · experiment method · experiment method · descriptive statistics method · nlp echo chambers political communication
• Moving targets, moving politics: The state of play in social media data access
  Vreese & Tromble · 2026
  regulation platform governance
• The prevalence and consequences of women’s algorithmic underrepresentation in cross-national political google searches
  Rohrbach et al. · 2026
  data · digital trace data data · experiment method · experiment method · descriptive statistics method · causal inference algorithmic bias algorithm audit
• The hostile misinformation effect: How ideological congruence drives the assessment of misinformation targets
  Erkel et al. · 2026
  data · survey method · regression method · panel data analysis polarization misinformation
• How national cues polarize perceptions of political figures
  Sievert & Banda · 2026
  data · survey method · experiment method · descriptive statistics polarization candidate evaluation
• What the DSA means outside europe: Research access and its limits
  Edelson · 2026
  platform governance comparative research
• Finally, access: How article 40 DSA changes platform research in practice
  Ohme & Seiling · 2026
  data access research ethics
• From showers to hurricanes: A typology of media storms
  Markus et al. · 2026
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · time series analysis method · descriptive statistics method · machine learning typology attention patterns
• Disinformation as cultural narrative: Conceptualizing disinformation as cross-platform, identity-affirming, cathartic stories
  Marwick et al. · 2026
  data · content analysis method · qualitative coding method · content analysis disinformation cross platform media
• Political communication special issue introduction: Multi-platform research
  Lukito et al. · 2026
  political communication platform comparison
• Negativity and misinformation
  Soroka & Wlezien · 2026
  data · archival records data · content analysis method · regression method · content analysis misinformation media bias
• Newer, larger, better? A critique of the unreflective LLM adoption in communication research
  Balluff et al. · 2026
  academic autonomy environmental costs
• Uneven echoes: Gender’s divergent influence on candidate personalization and voter response in taiwan
  Yang · 2026
  data · content analysis data · experiment method · content analysis method · experiment method · descriptive statistics gender social media
• Artificial intelligence in election campaigns: Perceptions, penalties, and implications
  Jungherr et al. · 2026
  data · experiment data · survey method · experiment method · descriptive statistics regulation political behavior
• Do journalists’ political orientations translate into partisan news reporting? The limits of bias and the limits of counter mechanisms
  Riedl et al. · 2026
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics political orientation journalist bias
• Do beliefs echo? On the persistent effects of misinformation after effective corrections
  Fenger & Larsen · 2026
  data · experiment method · regression method · experiment replication political attitudes
• What kind of depolarization should we aim for? Making communication transformative
  Brüggemann et al. · 2026
  democracy depolarization
• Profit over public good: The impact of investment firm ownership on local news and political behavior
  Ewing · 2026
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · regression method · descriptive statistics method · causal inference political behavior democratic participation

2025

28 papers

• Going local? Localized rhetoric in congressional communications
  Heseltine · 2025
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics method · machine learning social media congressional communication
• The logic of connective faction: How digitally networked elites and hyper-partisan media radicalize politics
  Knüpfer et al. · 2025
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · nlp digital networks connective faction
• The limits of computational propaganda: Investigating underexplored platforms and contexts
  Kermani et al. · 2025
  computational propaganda digital authoritarianism
• Twitter to yell at them, facebook to ask questions and instagram to show support? Exploring platform effects in responses to women politicians on social media
  Harmer & Southern · 2025
  data · content analysis method · multilevel modeling method · content analysis method · descriptive statistics online abuse civility
• Flooding the feed: The politics of social media sharing among defensive publics
  Tittel et al. · 2025
  data · digital trace data data · interview method · qualitative coding method · descriptive statistics method · network analysis political communication defensive publics
• Campaigning in the age of platforms: A longitudinal analysis of german parties & politicians
  Cowburn et al. · 2025
  data · digital trace data method · time series analysis method · descriptive statistics social media political communication
• Towards the comparative study of domestic influence operations: Cyber troops and elite competition in indonesia, the philippines and thailand
  Ruijgrok et al. · 2025
  data · interview data · case study method · qualitative coding method · case study southeast asia comparative politics
• Journalists as reluctant political prophets
  Tenenboim‐Weinblatt et al. · 2025
  data · interview data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · interview method · nlp cross national comparison media discourse
• ‘these guys are weird as hell’: On the democratic party’s use of ‘weird’ during the 2024 US presidential election campaign
  Clark · 2025
  data · content analysis method · qualitative coding us elections memes
• From diplomacy to disrespect: Conversational polarization in the oval office
  Burgsteden et al. · 2025
  data · content analysis method · qualitative coding frame analysis political communication
• Affording fragmented audiences: Multi-platform deliberation within the five star movement
  Marolla et al. · 2025
  data · digital trace data method · descriptive statistics method · network analysis method · nlp deliberation leadership
• Do politicians’ genders influence voter persuasion?
  Miwa & Ogura · 2025
  data · experiment method · regression method · experiment gender voter persuasion
• Self-reported exposure and beliefs about misinformation across a U.S. presidential election cycle: Expressive responding and motivated reasoning
  Garrett et al. · 2025
  data · experiment data · survey method · regression method · panel data analysis method · experiment misinformation partisan bias
• Outsiders in the media: How a sense of “foreignness” shapes support for censorship in China
  Wu · 2025
  data · experiment data · survey method · regression method · experiment nationalism censorship support
• The implications of epistemic polarization and factual relativism for misinformation research and democracy
  Hameleers & Meer · 2025
  democracy misinformation
• Beyond dichotomies: Empathy and listening in deliberative democracy
  Sodoma & Sharp · 2025
  empathy listening
• Toward conceptualizing bounded social media places
  Malhotra · 2025
  visibility political communication
• United in difficult times? Investigating party communication on EU solidarity
  Nasr & Reinl · 2025
  data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · nlp text as data crisis communication
• Misperceptions of public opinion during crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
  León et al. · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · regression method · time series analysis method · descriptive statistics covid19 public opinion
• Listening, race, partisanship, and politics: How socio-demographics, conversational topics, and dyadic properties affect listening
  Eveland et al. · 2025
  data · experiment data · survey method · regression method · experiment method · descriptive statistics race partisanship
• Listening as power in political communication
  Scudder & Neblo · 2025
  democracy political communication
• From entertainment to engagement? Entertainment figures’ political messaging and audience responses in the digital age
  Klüser · 2025
  data · digital trace data method · regression method · descriptive statistics method · machine learning instagram political communication
• Depolarizing within the comfort of your party: Experimental evidence from online workshops
  Blair et al. · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · causal inference method · regression discontinuity affective polarization depolarization
• How (gendered) media portrayals of refugees affect attitudes toward immigration. The moderating role of political ideology
  Meltzer et al. · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · panel data analysis method · content analysis method · fixed effects modeling political ideology gender representation
• The role of framing, race, and symbolic racism in policy support
  Shulman et al. · 2025
  data · experiment method · regression method · experiment method · descriptive statistics race policy support
• The impact of media framing in complex information environments
  Berk · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · panel data analysis method · causal inference method · nlp causal effects public opinion
• Election denial as a news coverage dilemma: A survey experiment with local journalists
  Peterson et al. · 2025
  data · experiment data · survey method · experiment method · descriptive statistics journalism democracy
• Rooted in white identity politics: Tracing the genealogy of critical race theory discourse in identity-based disinformation
  Smith et al. · 2025
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · nlp critical race theory media discourse

2024

31 papers

• What did we learn about political communication from the Meta2020 partnership?
  Munger · 2024
• The cost of reach: Testing the role of ad delivery algorithms in online political campaigns
  Votta et al. · 2024
  data · experiment method · experiment method · descriptive statistics algorithmic bias political campaigns
• Gendered backlash depends on the context. Reassessing negative campaigning sanctions against female candidates via large-scale comparative data
  Nai et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · regression method · descriptive statistics negative campaigning political representation
• Effects of over-time exposure to partisan media and coverage of polarization on perceived polarization
  Heseltine et al. · 2024
  data · digital trace data data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · panel data analysis method · machine learning cross national comparison news coverage
• Overcoming far-right respectability: The case for systemic approaches to studying white supremacy
  Ma · 2024
  far right white supremacy
• Political communication research is unprepared for the far right
  Knüpfer et al. · 2024
  political communication far right
• What’s on and who’s watching? Combining people-meter data and subtitle data to explore television exposure to political news
  Vermeer et al. · 2024
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · nlp media exposure content analysis
• Prevalence, presentation, and popularity of political topics in social media influencers’ content across two countries
  Harff & Schmuck · 2024
  data · content analysis data · survey method · content analysis method · descriptive statistics cross national comparison content popularity
• Political effects of exposure to evidence about racial discrimination
  Bergan et al. · 2024
  data · experiment data · survey method · regression method · experiment political attitudes belief change
• Vladimir putin on channel one, 2000–2022
  Lova · 2024
  data · content analysis method · regression method · nlp sentiment analysis authoritarianism
• How negative media coverage impacts platform governance: Evidence from facebook, twitter, and YouTube
  Marchal et al. · 2024
  data · archival records data · content analysis method · regression method · time series analysis method · nlp social media platform governance
• Defending democracy: Prioritizing the study of epistemic inequalities
  Gagrčin & Moe · 2024
  democracy political communication
• Moralization of rationality can stimulate sharing of hostile and false news on social media, but intellectual humility inhibits it
  Marie & Petersen · 2024
  data · survey method · regression method · descriptive statistics method · factor analysis moralization social media
• Editors’ introduction: Global crises, contentious politics and social media
  Semetko & Sundar · 2024
  social media comparative political communication
• The effects of COVID-19 infection on opposition to COVID-19 policies: Evidence from the U.S. congress
  Dickson & Yıldırım · 2024
  data · digital trace data data · archival records method · causal inference method · nlp polarization covid19
• Epistemic vulnerability: Theory and measurement at the system level
  Labarre · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics misinformation media trust
• Justifying an invasion: When is disinformation successful?
  Zilinsky et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics disinformation cross national comparison
• Emotionalized social media environments: How alternative news media and populist actors drive angry reactions
  Humprecht et al. · 2024
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · nlp populism social media
• The nature of visual disinformation online: A qualitative content analysis of alternative and social media in the netherlands
  Hameleers · 2024
  data · content analysis method · qualitative coding typology content analysis
• Facebook as an avenue to news: A comparison and validation of approaches to identify facebook referrals
  Schmidt et al. · 2024
  data · digital trace data method · regression method · descriptive statistics media consumption news exposure
• Countering the “climate cult” – framing cascades in far-right digital networks
  Knüpfer & Hoffmann · 2024
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · time series analysis method · descriptive statistics method · nlp framing climate change
• Facebook usage and outgroup intolerance in myanmar
  Samet et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics facebook myanmar
• Media coverage, advertising, and electoral volatility: The crucial role of party competence
  Petitpas · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · regression method · mediation analysis method · descriptive statistics mediation media coverage
• Hyperpartisan, alternative, and conspiracy media users: An anti-establishment portrait
  León et al. · 2024
  data · digital trace data data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics covid19 alternative media
• ‘’reenviado muchas veces”: How platform warnings affect WhatsApp users in mexico and colombia
  Munger et al. · 2024
  data · experiment data · survey method · experiment method · descriptive statistics method · survey misinformation digital literacy
• Social media use and political engagement in polarized times. Examining the contextual roles of issue and affective polarization in developed democracies
  Chan & Yi · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics polarization democracy
• The honest broker versus the epistocrat: Attenuating distrust in science by disentangling science from politics
  Post & Bienzeisler · 2024
  data · experiment method · experiment method · descriptive statistics political polarization science communication
• Politicians, newspapers, and immigration referendums: Exploring the boundaries of media effects
  Spirig · 2024
  data · archival records data · content analysis method · panel data analysis method · content analysis method · causal inference political communication media effects
• Discourse networks of the far right: How far-right actors become mainstream in public debates
  Völker & Gonzatti · 2024
  data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · network analysis method · nlp far right mainstreaming
• The fleeting allure of dark campaigns: Backlash from negative and uncivil campaigning in the presence of (better) alternatives
  Mendoza et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · regression electoral behavior negative campaigning
• The geopolitics of deplatforming: A study of suspensions of politically-interested iranian accounts on twitter
  Casas · 2024
  data · digital trace data method · descriptive statistics method · machine learning method · nlp content moderation deplatforming

2023

25 papers

• The battle for the soul of the nation: Nationalist polarization in the 2020 American presidential election and the threat to democracy
  Woods et al. · 2023
  data · content analysis method · qualitative coding method · content analysis nationalism democracy
• Thinking for themselves: Bootstraps discourse and the imagined epistemology of reactionary YouTube audiences
  Ma · 2023
  data · interview method · qualitative coding media trust individualism
• Do online ads sway voters? Understanding the persuasiveness of online political ads
  Chu et al. · 2023
  data · digital trace data data · survey method · regression method · panel data analysis digital campaigns multi party elections
• Attacks and issue competition: Do parties attack based on issue salience or issue ownership?
  Poljak & Seeberg · 2023
• Politicizing masks? Examining the volume and content of local news coverage of face coverings in the U.S. through the COVID-19 pandemic
  Neumann et al. · 2023
  data · archival records data · content analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics method · nlp covid 19 local news
• Non-news websites expose people to more political content than news websites: Evidence from browsing data in three countries
  Wojcieszak et al. · 2023
  data · digital trace data data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics method · nlp cross national comparison political communication
• The media and democratization: A long-term macro-level perspective on the role of the press during a democratic transition
  Arendt · 2023
  data · archival records data · content analysis method · content analysis method · time series analysis democratic transition long term effects
• The unintended consequences of amplifying the radical right on twitter
  Fernandes & Won · 2023
  data · digital trace data method · time series analysis method · embedding method · nlp twitter radical right
• Race and ethnicity as foundational forces in political communication: Special issue introduction
  Coles & Lane · 2023
  epistemology political communication
• Reconceptualizing cross-cutting political expression on social media: A case study of facebook comments during the 2016 brexit referendum
  Bossetta et al. · 2023
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · nlp deliberation brexit
• Uninformed or misinformed in the digital news environment? How social media news use affects two dimensions of political knowledge
  Haugsgjerd et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · panel data analysis method · descriptive statistics misinformation social media news
• Reassessing the role of inclusion in political communication research
  Rossini · 2023
  global south political communication
• Propagandization of relative gratification: How Chinese state media portray the international pandemic
  Fu · 2023
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · embedding method · nlp propaganda china
• (digital) campaigning in dissonant public spheres
  Koç-Michalska et al. · 2023
  public sphere misinformation
• Data-driven campaigning as a disruptive force
  Gibson · 2023
  democracy public attitudes
• Conditions of campaigning in dissonant public spheres and crisis of democracy
  Pfetsch · 2023
  media ecology democratic crisis
• “we never really talked about politics”: Race and ethnicity as foundational forces structuring information disorder within the vietnamese diaspora
  Nguyễn et al. · 2023
  data · interview method · qualitative coding political participation race and ethnicity
• Harnessing distrust: News, credibility heuristics, and war in an authoritarian regime
  Alyukov · 2023
  data · interview method · qualitative coding method · descriptive statistics propaganda media trust
• Misperceptions and minipublics: Does endorsement of expert information by a minipublic influence misperceptions in the wider public?
  Muradova et al. · 2023
  data · experiment method · experiment method · causal inference deliberative democracy expert information
• Farewell to big data? Studying misinformation in mobile messaging applications
  Rossini · 2023
  privacy misinformation
• Differential racism in the news: Using semi-supervised machine learning to distinguish explicit and implicit stigmatization of ethnic and religious groups in journalistic discourse
  Müller et al. · 2023
  data · content analysis method · multilevel modeling method · machine learning method · embedding machine learning news media
• Making their mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention
  Wouters & Lefevere · 2023
  data · content analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics protest collective action
• Do voting advice applications affect party preferences? Evidence from field experiments in five european countries
  Germann et al. · 2023
  data · experiment method · regression method · causal inference field experiment political behavior
• How rally-round-the-flag effects shape trust in the news media: Evidence from panel waves before and during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis
  Knudsen et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · panel data analysis method · fixed effects modeling panel data media trust
• What drives perceptions of foreign news coverage credibility? A cross-national experiment including kazakhstan, russia, and ukraine
  Bryanov et al. · 2023
  data · content analysis data · experiment method · multilevel modeling method · regression method · experiment media trust cross national experiment

2022

11 papers

• Are campaigns getting uglier, and who is to blame? Negativity, dramatization and populism on facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP election campaigns
  Klinger et al. · 2022
  data · content analysis method · regression method · content analysis method · descriptive statistics populism facebook
• Cross-platform emotions and audience engagement in social media political campaigning: Comparing candidates’ facebook and instagram images in the 2020 US election
  Bossetta & Schmøkel · 2022
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics method · machine learning political communication social media platforms
• The campaign disinformation divide: Believing and sharing news in the 2019 UK general election
  Vaccari et al. · 2022
  data · survey method · mediation analysis method · descriptive statistics disinformation elections
• The fiscal politics of immigration: Expert information and concerns over fiscal drain
  Kage et al. · 2022
  data · survey method · experiment method · descriptive statistics immigration attitudes expert information
• How news feels: Anticipated anxiety as a factor in news avoidance and a barrier to political engagement
  Toff & Nielsen · 2022
  data · interview method · qualitative coding political engagement anticipated anxiety
• How political efficacy relates to online and offline political participation: A multilevel meta-analysis
  Oser et al. · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · meta analysis political participation political efficacy
• Predicting vote choice and election outcomes from ballot wording: The role of processing fluency in low information direct democracy elections
  Shulman et al. · 2022
  data · experiment method · mediation analysis method · experiment method · descriptive statistics ballot wording low information elections
• Assessing the validity of survey measures for news exposure through digital footprints: Evidence from spain and the UK
  Cardenal et al. · 2022
• Selective control: The political economy of censorship
  Corduneanu-Huci & Hamilton · 2022
  data · archival records method · regression method · descriptive statistics media freedom media censorship
• An eye for an eye? An integrated model of attitude change toward protest violence
  Zhu et al. · 2022
  data · digital trace data method · regression method · nlp attitude change emotion
• A little more conversation a little less prejudice: The role of classroom political discussions for youth’s attitudes toward immigrants
  Miklikowska et al. · 2022
  data · survey method · multilevel modeling method · mediation analysis method · panel data analysis immigration education

2021

6 papers

• Beyond policy: The use of social group appeals in party communication
  Huber · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis data · content analysis method · regression method · content analysis method · descriptive statistics electoral strategy party communication
• Mobile news learning — investigating political knowledge gains in a social media newsfeed with mobile eye tracking
  Ohme et al. · 2021
  data · experiment method · experiment method · descriptive statistics social media political knowledge
• Power sharing and media freedom in dictatorships
  Sheen et al. · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · panel data analysis method · fixed effects modeling authoritarianism media freedom
• Commercial companies in party networks: Digital advertising firms in US elections from 2006-2016
  Barrett · 2021
  data · archival records method · descriptive statistics method · network analysis platform power digital advertising
• The international and post-disciplinary journey of political communication: Reflections on “media-centric and politics-centric views of media and democracy: a longitudinal analysis of political communication and the international journal of press/politics”
  Vaccari · 2021
  data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics political communication disciplinary boundaries
• Media-centric or politics-centric political communication research? Some reflections
  Strömbäck · 2021
  typology political communication