Kjerstin Thorson

Best Publications

• Curated Flows: A Framework for Mapping Media Exposure in the Digital Age

  Kjerstin Thorson;Chris Wells

  559
  Citations

• Relationships Between Blogs as EWOM and Interactivity, Perceived Interactivity, and Parasocial Interaction

  Kjerstin S. Thorson;Shelly Rodgers

  543
  Citations

• Partisan Selective Sharing: The Biased Diffusion of Fact-Checking Messages on Social Media

  Jieun Shin;Kjerstin Thorson

  420
  Citations

• Moderation, Response Rate, and Message Interactivity: Features of Online Communities and Their Effects on Intent to Participate

  Kevin R. Wise;Brian Hamman;Kjerstin Thorson

  330
  Citations

• Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility

  Kjerstin Thorson;Emily Vraga;Brian Ekdale

  269
  Citations

• Integrating Survey Data and Digital Trace Data: Key Issues in Developing an Emerging Field:

  Sebastian Stier;Johannes Breuer;Pascal Siegers;Kjerstin Thorson

  266
  Citations

• YOUTUBE, TWITTER AND THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT: Connecting content and circulation practices

  Kjerstin Thorson;Kevin Driscoll;Brian Ekdale;Stephanie Edgerly

  246
  Citations

• How individual sensitivities to disagreement shape youth political expression on Facebook

  Emily K. Vraga;Kjerstin Thorson;Neta Kligler-Vilenchik;Emily Gee

  233
  Citations

• New Media, New Relationship to Participation? A Closer Look at Youth News Repertoires and Political Participation:

  Stephanie Edgerly;Emily K. Vraga;Leticia Bode;Kjerstin Thorson

  197
  Citations

• Algorithmic inference, political interest, and exposure to news and politics on Facebook

  Kjerstin Thorson;Kelley Cotter;Mel Medeiros;Chankyung Pak

  195
  Citations

• Facing an uncertain reception: young citizens and political interaction on Facebook

  Kjerstin Thorson

  158
  Citations

• Good citizenship as a frame contest: Kony2012, memes, and critiques of the networked citizen

  Neta Kligler-Vilenchik;Kjerstin Thorson

  118
  Citations

• Combining Big Data and Survey Techniques to Model Effects of Political Content Flows in Facebook

  Chris Wells;Kjerstin Thorson

  118
  Citations

• What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? Citizenship Vocabularies as Resources for Action

  Kjerstin Thorson

  105
  Citations

• Attracting the news: Algorithms, platforms, and reframing incidental exposure:

  Kjerstin Thorson

  82
  Citations

• Youtube and proposition 8: A case study in video activism

  Kjerstin Thorson;Brian Ekdale;Porismita Borah;Kang Namkoong

  58
  Citations

• Do parents still model news consumption? Socializing news use among adolescents in a multi-device world:

  Stephanie Edgerly;Kjerstin Thorson;Esther Thorson;Emily K. Vraga

  53
  Citations

• Posting about politics: Media as resources for political expression on Facebook

  Stephanie Lynn Edgerly;Kjerstin Thorson;Leila Bighash;Mark Hannah

  46
  Citations

• “Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting:

  Kelley Cotter;Mel Medeiros;Chankyung Pak;Kjerstin Thorson

  39
  Citations

• Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure

  Kjerstin Thorson;Mel Medeiros;Kelley Cotter;Yingying Chen

  29
  Citations