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Media Influence and Politics

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Steve Rathje
New York University
2
Luca Braghieri
Stanford University
3
Leonardo Bursztyn
National Bureau of Economic Research
4
Bruno Castanho Silva
Central European University
5
Federico Bianchi
Stanford University
6
Nicolas Berlinski
Dartmouth College
7
Manuel Funke
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
8
Kevin Aslett
University of Central Florida
9
Gregory Eady
University of Copenhagen
10
Anastassia Fedyk
University of California, Berkeley

Rising Stars Papers

1
GPT is an effective tool for multilingual psychological text analysis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
235 cit.
2
The Immigrant Next Door
American Economic Review|2024
56 cit.
3
Blending in or standing out? Gendered political communication in 24 democracies
American Journal of Political Science|2024
26 cit.
4
Asymmetric Naïveté: Beliefs About Self-Control
Management Science|2024
16 cit.
5
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission
American Economic Review|2024
13 cit.
6
ChatGPT and Perception Biases in Investments: An Experimental Study
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
12 cit.
7
Artificial intelligence chatbots mimic human collective behaviour
British Journal of Psychology|2024
11 cit.
8
No votes for old men: Leaders' age and youth turnout in comparative perspective
European Journal of Political Research|2024
10 cit.
9
News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public
Political Analysis|2024
9 cit.
10
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies
American Political Science Review|2024
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Zheng Wei Lim
Nanyang Technological University
2
Carlo Schwarz
Bocconi University
3
Levi Boxell
Stanford University
4
Grant Graziani
University of California, Berkeley
5
Michelle A. Amazeen
Boston University
6
Baird Howland
University of Pennsylvania
7
Alexey Makarin
Northwestern University
8
Erik Peterson
Rice University
9
Jessica R. Collier
Purdue University West Lafayette
10
Oleg Zhilin
McGill University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction
Nature Reviews Psychology|2022
1.3k cit.
2
Social Media and Mental Health
American Economic Review|2022
477 cit.
3
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment
American Economic Journal Applied Economics|2023
236 cit.
4
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis
American Economic Review|2022
170 cit.
5
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from The United States
Journal of the European Economic Association|2023
81 cit.
6
Cutting the Bunk: Comparing the Solo and Aggregate Effects of Prebunking and Debunking Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
Science Communication|2022
64 cit.
7
Narrative counters: Understanding the efficacy of narratives in combating anecdote-based vaccine misinformation
Public Relations Review|2022
41 cit.
8
The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition
Human Communication Research|2023
24 cit.
9
Taxing dissent: The impact of a social media tax in Uganda
World Development|2022
23 cit.
10
Visual Representation and Stereotypes in News Media
SSRN Electronic Journal|2022
21 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Matthew Gentzkow
National Bureau of Economic Research
2
Xavier D’Haultfœuille
Centre for Research in Engineering Surface Technology
3
Lada A. Adamic
University of Michigan
4
Jesse M. Shapiro
Harvard University Press
5
Donald P. Green
Columbia University
6
Jonathan Zittrain
Lackland Independent School District
7
Noam Chomsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8
Solomon Messing
Wikimedia Foundation
9
Claes H. de Vreese
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
10
Shanto Iyengar
Stanford University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
The Journal of Economic Perspectives|2017
6.6k cit.
2
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1989
5.5k cit.
3
Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use.
The Philosophical Review|1988
4.7k cit.
4
Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
American Economic Review|2020
4.5k cit.
5
The science of fake news
Science|2018
3.8k cit.
6
<b>Verbal behavior.</b> By B. F. Skinner. (The Century Psychology Series.) Pp. viii, 478. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1957.
Language|1959
3.4k cit.
7
Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook
Science|2015
3.2k cit.
8
The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States
Annual Review of Political Science|2018
3.1k cit.
9
Friends and neighbors on the Web
Social Networks|2003
3k cit.
10
Rules and Representations.
The Philosophical Review|1982
2.8k cit.

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