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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
49
Citations
8651
World Ranking
262
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Rachel Gibson is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Artificial Intelligence, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics in Gibson's work include Social Media and Politics, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Gender, Feminism, and Media, as well as Privacy, Security, and Data Protection.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Scientific and subversive: The two faces of the fourth era of political campaigning, 2020, published in New Media & Society
  • Facebook affordances and citizen engagement during elections: European political parties and their benefit from online strategies?, 2020, published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics
  • Just what is data-driven campaigning? A systematic review, 2023, published in Information Communication & Society
  • Automation on Twitter: Measuring the Effectiveness of Approaches to Bot Detection, 2021, published in Social Science Computer Review
  • Microcapillary film reactor outperforms single-bore mesocapillary reactors in continuous flow chemical reactions, 2020, published in Chemical Engineering Journal

Frequent publication venues for Gibson include:

  • Media and Communication
  • Journal of Information Technology & Politics
  • Social Science Computer Review
  • New Media & Society
  • Information Communication & Society

Collaborations form a notable part of Gibson's scholarly activity. Frequent coauthors include Esmeralda Bon, Katharine Dommett, Sophie Lecheler, Sanne Kruikemeier, and Andrea Roemmele.

Best Publications

  • Online participation in the UK: Testing a 'contextualised' model of internet effects

    Rachel K Gibson;Wainer Lusoli;Stephen J Ward

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Participation in the Age of the Internet: Is Online Political Engagement Really Different to Offline?

    Rachel Gibson;Marta Cantijoch

  • Changing Campaign Communications: A Party-Centered Theory of Professionalized Campaigning

    Rachel Gibson;Andrea Römmele

  • Online Participation and Mobilisation in Britain: Hype, Hope and Reality

    Stephen Ward;Rachel Gibson;Wainer Lusoli

  • Measuring the Professionalization of Political Campaigning

    Rachel K. Gibson;Andrea Römmele

  • 140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election

    Peter Burnap;Rachel Gibson;Luke Sloan;Rosalynd Southern

  • A proposed methodology for studying the function and effectiveness of party and candidate web sites

    Rachel Gibson;Stephen Ward

  • Election Campaigning on the WWW in the USA and UK: A Comparative Analysis

    Rachel K. Gibson;Michael Margolis;David Resnick;Stephen J. Ward

  • Do Online Election Campaigns Win Votes? The 2007 Australian “YouTube” Election

    Rachel Kay Gibson;Ian McAllister

  • Party change, social media and the rise of ‘citizen-initiated’ campaigning

    Rachel K Gibson

  • Does Cyber‐Campaigning Win Votes? Online Communication in the 2004 Australian Election

    Rachel K Gibson;Ian McAllister

  • The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters and Activists

    Sarah Oates;Diana Marie Owen;Rachel Kay Gibson

  • Normalising or Equalising Party Competition? Assessing the Impact of the Web on Election Campaigning

    Rachel K. Gibson;Ian McAllister

  • On-Line and on Message? Candidate Websites in the 2001 General Election

    Stephen J Ward;Rachel K Gibson

  • U.K. Political Parties and the Internet

    Rachel K. Gibson;Stephen J. Ward

  • Digital Media and Political Participation: The Moderating Role of Political Interest Across Acts and Over Time

    Bruce Bimber;Marta Cantijoch Cunill;Lauren Copeland;Rachel Gibson

  • Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain?

    Rachel Kay Gibson;Stephen Ward;P. G. Nixon

  • NEW MEDIA AND THE REVITALISATION OF POLITICS

    Rachel K. Gibson

  • Elections Online: Assessing Internet Voting in Light of the Arizona Democratic Primary

    Rachel K Gibson

  • Australian Social Attitudes: The First Report

    Shaun Wilson;Gabrielle Meagher;Rachel K Gibson;David Denemark

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Ward
Stephen Ward University of Salford
Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister Australian National University
Edward Fieldhouse
Edward Fieldhouse University of Manchester
John H. Aldrich
John H. Aldrich Duke University
Darren G. Lilleker
Darren G. Lilleker Bournemouth University
Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Burnap
Peter Burnap Cardiff University
Gerard P. Hodgkinson
Gerard P. Hodgkinson University of Manchester
David Cutts
David Cutts Brown University
Barrie Gunter
Barrie Gunter University of Leicester

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