Latest Research in Social Media and Politics

Top Research Topics in Social Media and Politics

• Social Media and Politics — 8 papers
• Electoral Systems and Political Participation — 7 papers
• Social and Intergroup Psychology — 4 papers
• Education, Sociology, Communication Studies — 4 papers
• Migration, Refugees, and Integration — 2 papers
• South Asian Cinema and Culture — 2 papers
• Gender Politics and Representation — 2 papers
• Media Influence and Politics — 1 papers
• Global Educational Policies and Reforms — 1 papers
• African Education and Politics — 1 papers

Highest-Cited Papers

1. Un-categorising ‘the migrant’ to interrogate the roles of migration in social mobility in four Asian cities (3 citations)
2. Colorism, Descriptive Representation, and the Representation of African Americans in the United States House of Representatives
3. Framing GST Reforms in Indian Digital Media: A Content Analysis of News Coverage and Its Role in Shaping Public Understanding Towards Viksit Bharat @2047
4. Cleanup Time: Patronage and Education Reform in Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador, 1990–2019
5. Representative-capacity-making: The strategic backstage work of political representation
6. Social Movements and Socio-Political Development in Nigeria, 2015–2025
7. The intermedia influence of X on legacy media coverage of the 2023 harmonised elections in Zimbabwe
8. Within‐Person Relationships between Adolescents’ Daily Election Exposure, Negative Election‐Related Emotions, and Motivation to Address Social Justice Issues
9. Support for executive aggrandizement under weak polarization
10. What does ideological self-placement manifest? Structural associations with basic values and issue positions
11. Using Media to Popularize Hate: A Study of Henry Ford and Charles E. Coughlin’s Antisemitic Language
12. Teaching Election Inversions in the Electoral College: Two Simple Models
13. German parties shifted towards intuition-based rhetoric after the far right's parliamentary breakthrough
14. ‘Like a Fish in the Water’: Subjective Well‐Being and the Alignment of Perceptions of Democracy With Political Structures
15. Sowing the seeds of exploitation: colonial statecraft and racial capitalism at Britain’s agricultural border
16. Beyond the Mobilization–Participation Paradox: Conditional Hybrid Escalation and Institutional Change in India's 2026 Cockroach Janta Party Movement
17. Beyond the Mobilization–Participation Paradox: Conditional Hybrid Escalation and Institutional Change in India's 2026 Cockroach Janta Party Movement
18. Progressive in Principle, Centrist in Practice: LLM Political Bias Is Instrument-Dependent
19. Generation Z, Social Media, and Algorithmic Power
20. Youth Political Participation in the Age of Social Media: Opportunities, Challenges, and Democratic Implications