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Media Studies and Communication

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jan‐Philipp Stein
Chemnitz University of Technology
2
Samantha Hautea
Michigan State University
3
Daniela Jaramillo-Dent
University of Zurich
4
Priska Breves
University of Amsterdam
5
Zackary Okun Dunivin
Indiana University Bloomington
6
Lynge Asbjørn Møller
University of Southern Denmark
7
Kenza Lamot
University of Antwerp
8
Hojin Song
California State University, Monterey Bay
9
Sarah E. Daly
University of Pittsburgh
10
Rebecca Coates Nee
San Diego State University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Attitudes towards AI: measurement and associations with personality
Scientific Reports|2024
255 cit.
2
Scaling hermeneutics: a guide to qualitative coding with LLMs for reflexive content analysis
EPJ Data Science|2025
40 cit.
3
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry
Journal of Agrarian Change|2025
30 cit.
4
A Little of that Human Touch: How Regular Journalists Redefine Their Expertise in the Face of Artificial Intelligence
Journalism Studies|2024
26 cit.
5
The Impact of Following Duration on the Perception of Influencers and Their Persuasive Effectiveness Explained by Parasocial Relationship Stages
Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising|2024
19 cit.
6
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs
Public Understanding of Science|2024
15 cit.
7
Reinforce, readjust, reclaim: How artificial intelligence impacts journalism’s professional claim
Journalism|2024
14 cit.
8
Followers’ Cognitive Elaboration of Sponsored Influencer Content: The Significance of Argument Quality
Journal of Interactive Advertising|2024
12 cit.
9
One Size Fits Some: How Journalistic Roles Shape the Adoption of Generative AI
Journalism Practice|2025
11 cit.
10
After confronting one uncanny valley, another awaits
Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering|2024
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Elisa Shearer
Unknown
2
Jessalynn Keller
University of Calgary
3
Sara K. Yeo
University of Utah
4
Meredith D. Clark
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5
Thomas Schmidt
University of California San Diego
6
Rachel R. Mourão
Michigan State University
7
Lena Frischlich
University of Münster
8
Shana Meganck
James Madison University
9
Joshua McCrain
Emory University
10
Elina Lindgren
Karlstad University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests
Political Communication|2022
57 cit.
2
Challenging journalistic objectivity: How journalists of color call for a reckoning
Journalism|2023
57 cit.
3
Measuring dynamic media bias
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
42 cit.
4
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis
Digital Journalism|2022
36 cit.
5
Trusting the Facts: The Role of Framing, News Media as a (Trusted) Source, and Opinion Resonance for Perceived Truth in Statistical Statements
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly|2022
34 cit.
6
Fostering Employee Support for Corporate Social Advocacy (CSA) Through Dialogic Internal Communication and Transformational Leadership
Journal of Public Relations Research|2024
34 cit.
7
Conspiracy thinking and the role of media use: Exploring the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions
European Journal of Communication|2022
29 cit.
8
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory
Social Science Computer Review|2024
29 cit.
9
Predicting Audience Verification Intention: The Impact of Partisanship, Source, Importance, and Information Familiarity on Willingness to Verify Headlines
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly|2022
25 cit.
10
The Role of Base Crisis Response and Dialogic Competency: Employee Response to COVID-19 Internal Crisis Communication
Journal of Public Relations Research|2023
24 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
danah boyd
Cornell University
2
Claes H. de Vreese
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
3
Shanto Iyengar
Stanford University
4
David Tewksbury
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5
Dietram A. Scheufele
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6
Solomon Messing
Wikimedia Foundation
7
Lada A. Adamic
University of Michigan
8
Homero Gil de Zúñiga
Pennsylvania State University
9
James Druckman
University of Rochester
10
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication|2007
16.1k cit.
2
CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA
Information Communication & Society|2012
5.3k cit.
3
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience
New Media & Society|2010
4.5k cit.
4
Framing as a Theory of Media Effects
Journal of Communication|1999
3.2k cit.
5
Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook
Science|2015
3.2k cit.
6
The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States
Annual Review of Political Science|2018
3.1k cit.
7
Friends and neighbors on the Web
Social Networks|2003
3k cit.
8
Framing Theory
Annual Review of Political Science|2007
2.9k cit.
9
The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election
Unknown Journal|2005
2.6k cit.
10
Affect, Not Ideology
Public Opinion Quarterly|2012
2.6k cit.

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