Brian E. Weeks

Best Publications

• Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics

  Homero Gil de Zúñiga;Homero Gil de Zúñiga;Brian E. Weeks;Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu

  491
  Citations

• Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions: How Anger and Anxiety Moderate the Effect of Partisan Bias on Susceptibility to Political Misinformation

  Brian E. Weeks

  455
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• Online Influence? Social Media Use, Opinion Leadership, and Political Persuasion

  Brian E. Weeks;Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu;Homero Gil de Zúñiga;Homero Gil de Zúñiga

  400
  Citations

• Predicting Dissemination of News Content in Social Media: A Focus on Reception, Friending, and Partisanship

  Brian E. Weeks;R. Lance Holbert

  345
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• Incidental Exposure, Selective Exposure, and Political Information Sharing: Integrating Online Exposure Patterns and Expression on Social Media

  Brian E. Weeks;Daniel S. Lane;Dam Hee Kim;Slgi S. Lee

  273
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• Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media

  A. Hasell;Brian E. Weeks

  227
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• Political persuasion on social media: Tracing direct and indirect effects of news use and social interaction

  Trevor Diehl;Brian E. Weeks;Homero Gil de Zúñiga

  203
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• The Symbiosis of News Coverage and Aggregate Online Search Behavior: Obama, Rumors, and Presidential Politics

  Brian Weeks;Brian Southwell

  200
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• The promise and peril of real-time corrections to political misperceptions

  R. Kelly Garrett;Brian E. Weeks

  183
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• Driving a Wedge Between Evidence and Beliefs: How Online Ideological News Exposure Promotes Political Misperceptions

  R. Kelly Garrett;Brian E. Weeks;Rachel L. Neo

  174
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• Epistemic beliefs' role in promoting misperceptions and conspiracist ideation.

  R. Kelly Garrett;Brian E. Weeks

  148
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• From Online Disagreement to Offline Action: How Diverse Motivations for Using Social Media Can Increase Political Information Sharing and Catalyze Offline Political Participation:

  Daniel S. Lane;Dam Hee Kim;Slgi S. Lee;Brian E. Weeks

  139
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• Partisan Enclaves or Shared Media Experiences? A Network Approach to Understanding Citizens’ Political News Environments

  Brian E. Weeks;Thomas B. Ksiazek;R. Lance Holbert

  123
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• Motivations for Political Discussion: Antecedents and Consequences on Civic Engagement

  Homero Gil de Zúñiga;Sebastián Valenzuela;Brian E. Weeks

  114
  Citations

• Behavioral Consequences of Conflict-Oriented Health News Coverage: The 2009 Mammography Guideline Controversy and Online Information Seeking

  Brian E. Weeks;Laura M. Friedenberg;Brian G. Southwell;Jonathan S. Slater

  86
  Citations

• What’s Next? Six Observations for the Future of Political Misinformation Research

  Brian E. Weeks;Homero Gil de Zúñiga

  85
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• Social Media Expression and the Political Self

  Daniel S Lane;Slgi S Lee;Fan Liang;Dam Hee Kim

  82
  Citations

• No Polarization From Partisan News: Over-Time Evidence From Trace Data:

  Magdalena Wojcieszak;Magdalena Wojcieszak;Sjifra de Leeuw;Ericka Menchen-Trevino;Seungsu Lee

  80
  Citations

• Clarifying Relationships Between Ideology and Ideologically Oriented Cable TV News Use A Case of Suppression

  R. Lance Holbert;Jay D. Hmielowski;Brian E. Weeks

  66
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• Perceptions of Social Media for Politics: Testing the Slacktivism Hypothesis

  Nojin Kwak;Daniel S. Lane;Brian E. Weeks;Dam Hee Kim

  50
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