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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
36
Citations
14302
World Ranking
656
National Ranking
103

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Jay G. Blumler was affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on the social sciences, with notable contributions in communication and political science and international relations.

Their work encompassed several key topics, including:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Globalization and political ideologies
  • Media Studies and Communication

Blumler published research in several academic venues with a notable presence in:

  • Javnost - The Public
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Among the recent papers authored by Blumler were:

  • After the Crisis, A "New Normal" for Democratic Citizenship?, 2021, Javnost - The Public
  • Book Review: Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe, by Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer (Eds.), 2020, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Their research collaborations included frequent co-authors such as Stephen Coleman, with whom they worked on multiple occasions.

Best Publications

  • USES AND GRATIFICATIONS RESEARCH

    Elihu Katz;Jay G. Blumler;Michael Gurevitch

  • The uses of mass communications : current perspectives on gratifications research

    Elihu Katz;Jay G. Blumler

  • The Third Age of Political Communication: Influences and Features

    Jay G. Blumler;Dennis Kavanagh

  • The Role of Theory in Uses and Gratifications Studies

    Jay G. Blumler

  • The Crisis of Public Communication

    Jay G. Blumler;Michael Gurevitch

  • The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy

    Stephen Coleman;Jay G. Blumler

  • The Formation of campaign agendas : a comparative analysis of party and media roles in recent American and British elections

    Holli A. Semetko;Jay G. Blumler;Michael Gurevitch;David H. Weaver

  • Wired Cities: Shaping the Future of Communications

    William H. Dutton;Jay G. Blumler;Kenneth L. Kraemer

  • Television in politics : its uses and influence

    Jay G. Blumler;Denis McQuail

  • Political Communication —Old and New Media Relationships:

    Michael Gurevitch;Stephen Coleman;Jay G. Blumler

  • Political communication systems and democratic values

    Michael Gurevitch;Jay G. Blumler

  • The Uses of Mass Communications: Current Perspectives on Gratifications Research. Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research Volume III.

    Jay G. Blumler;Elihu Katz

  • Television and the public interest : vulnerable values in West European broadcasting

    Jay G. Blumler

  • THE NEW MEDIA AND OUR POLITICAL COMMUNICATION DISCONTENTS: DEMOCRATIZING CYBERSPACE

    Jay G. Blumler;Michael Gurevitch

  • Communicating to Voters : Television in the First European Parliamentary Elections

    Jay G. Blumler;Anthony D. Fox;IIC東京総会国内組織委員会

  • The third age of political communication

    Jay G. Blumler

  • Comparatively Speaking: Communication and Culture across Space and Time.

    William B. Gudykunst;Jay G. Blumler;Jack M. McLeod;Karl Erik Rosengren

  • Mediated Politics: “Americanization” Reconsidered: U.K.–U.S. Campaign Communication Comparisons Across Time

    Jay G. Blumler;Michael Gurevitch

  • Comparing Political Communication: State of the Art of Comparative Political Communication Research: Poised for Maturity?

    Michael Gurevitch;Jay G. Blumler

  • Comparative research : The extending frontier

    Jay Blumler;Michael Gurevitch

  • The Fourth Age of Political Communication

    Jay G. Blumler

  • The Crisis of Public Communication, 1995–2017

    Jay G. Blumler

  • The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

    Michael Gurevitch;Stephen Coleman;Jay G. Blumler

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman University of Leeds
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
Elihu Katz
Elihu Katz University of Pennsylvania
Holli A. Semetko
Holli A. Semetko Emory University
David H. Weaver
David H. Weaver Indiana University
Frank Esser
Frank Esser University of Zurich

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