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Social Sciences and Humanities
Singapore
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
12185
World Ranking
2898
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Edson C. Tandoc is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, focusing on research within the social sciences. Their research predominantly spans sociology, political science, and communication, with additional contributions to gender studies, artificial intelligence, and social psychology.

Their main research topics include social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, media studies and communication, the impact of technology on adolescents, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, gender, feminism, and media, as well as public relations and crisis communication.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Edson C. Tandoc include Zhang Hao Goh, Seth Seet, Hye Kyung Kim, Langcheng Zhang, and Oscar Westlund.

Publication venues where Edson C. Tandoc has frequently contributed comprise Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Health Communication, Journalism, and New Media & Society.

Significant recent papers by Edson C. Tandoc are:

  • Man vs. Machine? The Impact of Algorithm Authorship on News Credibility, 2020, Digital Journalism
  • When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, 2020, New Media & Society
  • What Is (Fake) News? Analyzing News Values (and More) in Fake Stories, 2021, Media and Communication

These works address critical aspects of news credibility, the spread of misinformation during public health crises, and the characteristics of fake news.

Best Publications

  • Defining “Fake News”: A typology of scholarly definitions

    Edson Castro Tandoc;Zheng Wei Lim;Richard Ling

  • Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students

    Edson C. Tandoc;Patrick Ferrucci;Margaret Duffy

  • Journalism is twerking? How web analytics is changing the process of gatekeeping

    Edson C. Tandoc

  • Communicating on Twitter during a disaster

    Bruno Takahashi;Edson C. Tandoc;Christine Carmichael

  • Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: A conceptual framework:

    Edson C Tandoc;Richard Ling;Oscar Westlund;Andrew Duffy

  • THE JOURNALIST IS MARKETING THE NEWS

    Edson C. Tandoc;Tim P. Vos

  • Diffusion of disinformation: How social media users respond to fake news and why:

    Edson C Tandoc;Darren Lim;Rich Ling

  • The facts of fake news: A research review

    Edson C. Tandoc

  • Too good to be true, too good not to share: the social utility of fake news

    Andrew Duffy;Edson Tandoc;Rich Ling

  • The Audience-Oriented Editor: Making sense of the audience in the newsroom

    Raul Ferrer-Conill;Edson C. Tandoc

  • MIND THE GAP: Between journalistic role conception and role enactment

    Edson C. Tandoc;Lea Hellmueller;Tim P. Vos

  • When News Meets the Audience: How Audience Feedback Online Affects News Production and Consumption

    Eun-Ju Lee;Edson C. Tandoc

  • Fake News as a Critical Incident in Journalism

    Edson C. Tandoc;Joy Jenkins;Stephanie Craft

  • The Ethics of Web Analytics

    Edson C. Tandoc;Ryan J. Thomas

  • The hybridization of journalistic cultures : a comparative study of journalistic role performance

    Claudia Mellado;Lea Hellmueller;Mireya Márquez-Ramírez;Maria Luisa Humanes

  • Media sources, credibility, and perceptions of science: Learning about how people learn about science

    Bruno Takahashi;Edson C. Tandoc

  • Comments, analytics, and social media: The impact of audience feedback on journalists’ market orientation:

    Folker Hanusch;Edson C Tandoc

  • Science Literacy or Value Predisposition? A Meta-Analysis of Factors Predicting Public Perceptions of Benefits, Risks, and Acceptance of Nuclear Energy

    Shirley Soo Yee Ho;Alisius Deon Leong;Jiemin Looi;Liang Chen

  • The Buzzfeedication of journalism? How traditional news organizations are talking about a new entrant to the journalistic field will surprise you!:

    Edson Tandoc;Joy Michelle Jenkins

  • Why Web Analytics Click

    Edson C. Tandoc

  • The real you? The role of visual cues and comment congruence in perceptions of social attractiveness from facebook profiles.

    Seoyeon Hong;Edson C. Tandoc;Eunjin Anna Kim;Bokyung Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Folker Hanusch
Folker Hanusch University of Vienna
May O. Lwin
May O. Lwin Nanyang Technological University

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