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37
Citations
16113
World Ranking
6048
National Ranking
2

Best Publications

  • Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Namsu Park;Kerk F. Kee

  • Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation

    Homero Gil de Zúñiga

  • Being immersed in social networking environment: Facebook groups, uses and gratifications, and social outcomes.

    Namsu Park;Kerk F. Kee;Sebastián Valenzuela

  • Unpacking the Use of Social Media for Protest Behavior: The Roles of Information, Opinion Expression, and Activism

    Sebastián Valenzuela

  • The Social Media Basis of Youth Protest Behavior: The Case of Chile

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Arturo Arriagada;Andrés Scherman

  • The Mediating Path to a Stronger Citizenship: Online and Offline Networks, Weak Ties, and Civic Engagement:

    Homero Gil de Zúñiga;Sebastián Valenzuela

  • Social Networks that Matter: Exploring the Role of Political Discussion for Online Political Participation

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Yonghwan Kim;Homero Gil de Zuniga

  • Citizen Journalism and Democracy: How User-Generated News Use Relates to Political Knowledge and Participation:

    Kelly Kaufhold;Sebastian Valenzuela;Homero Gil de Zúñiga

  • Ties, Likes, and Tweets: Using Strong and Weak Ties to Explain Differences in Protest Participation Across Facebook and Twitter Use

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Teresa Correa;Homero Gil de Zúñiga

  • The Paradox of Participation Versus Misinformation: Social Media, Political Engagement, and the Spread of Misinformation

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Daniel Halpern;James E. Katz;Juan Pablo Miranda

  • Behavioral Effects of Framing on Social Media Users: How Conflict, Economic, Human Interest, and Morality Frames Drive News Sharing

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Martina Piña;Josefina Ramírez

  • We Face, I Tweet: How Different Social Media Influence Political Participation through Collective and Internal Efficacy

    Daniel Halpern;Sebastián Valenzuela;James E. Katz

  • “Selfie-ists” or “Narci-selfiers”?: A cross-lagged panel analysis of selfie taking and narcissism

    Daniel Halpern;Sebastián Valenzuela;James E. Katz

  • Facebook, Twitter, and Youth Engagement: A Quasi-experimental Study of Social Media Use and Protest Behavior Using Propensity Score Matching

    Sebastián. Valenzuela

  • Selective Exposure to Cable News and Immigration in the U.S.: The Relationship Between FOX News, CNN, and Attitudes Toward Mexican Immigrants

    Homero Gil de Zúñiga;Teresa Correa;Sebastian Valenzuela

  • Student and Environmental Protests in Chile: The Role of Social Media:

    Andrés Scherman;Arturo Arriagada;Sebastián Valenzuela

  • Lessons from Facebook: The Effect of Social Network Sites on College Students' Social Capital 1

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Namsu Park;Kerk F. Kee

  • Agenda-Setting Theory

    Maxwell McCombs;Sebastián Valenzuela

  • Social network sites, marriage well-being and divorce

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Daniel Halpern;James E. Katz

  • One Step, Two Step, Network Step? Complementary Perspectives on Communication Flows in Twittered Citizen Protests:

    Martin Hilbert;Javier Vásquez;Daniel Halpern;Sebastián Valenzuela

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