Publications - Journals

Exposure to Difference on Facebook, Trust, and Political Knowledge

Journals
Hopp, T., Ferrucci, P., Fischer, J., Vargo, C.
Mass Communication & Society. In press.
Publication year: 2020

Attention to issues and facts: Assessing the role of need for orientation as a predictor of political news sharing on Facebook.

Journals
Vargo, C., & Hopp, T.
The Agenda-Setting Journal, 3(2), 186-207.
Publication year: 2019

Social capital as an inhibitor of online political incivility: An analysis of behavioral patterns among politically active Facebook users.

Journals
Hopp, T., & Vargo, C.
International Journal of Communication, 13(2019), 4313–4333.
Publication year: 2019

Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook.

Journals
Ferrucci, P., Hopp, T., & Vargo, C.
New Media & Society, 22(6), 1095-1115.
Publication year: 2019

Associations between advertisement negativity and political advertisement engagement: A computational case study of Russian-linked Facebook and Instagram content

Journals
Vargo, C., & Hopp, T.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Preprint available online.
Publication year: 2020

Why Do People Share Ideologically Extreme, False, and Misleading Content on Social Media? A Self-Report and Trace Data-Based Analysis of Countermedia Content Dissemination on Facebook and Twitter.

Journals
Hopp, T., Ferrucci, P., & Vargo, C.
Human Communication Research, hqz022
Publication year: 2020

Predictors of international news flow: Exploring a networked global media system

Journals
Guo, L., & Vargo, C.
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Publication year: Accepted

eWOM across channels: comparing the impact of self-enhancement, positivity bias and vengeance on Facebook and Twitter

Journals
Vargo, C., Ganga, H., Hopp, T.
International Journal of Advertising, 38(8), 1153-1172
Publication year: 2019

Fifty years of agenda-setting research: new directions and challenges for the theory.

Journals
Vargo, C.
The Agenda-setting Journal. 2:2. (106-123).
Publication year: 2018

Correlating Self-Report and Trace Data Measures of Incivility: A Proof of Concept.

Journals
Hopp, T., Vargo, C., Dixon, L. & Thain, N.
Social Science Computer Review, 0894439318814241.
Publication year: 2019

Reinforcing attitudes in a gatewatching news era: Individual-level antecedents to sharing fact-checks on social media

Journals
Amazeen, M., Vargo, C. & Hopp, T.
Communication Monographs, 86(1), 112-132.
Publication year: 2019

“Fake news” and emerging online media ecosystem: An integrated intermedia agenda-setting analysis of during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Journals
Guo, L., & Vargo, C.
Communication Research, 47(2), 178-200.
Publication year: 2018

Global Intermedia Agenda Setting: A Big Data Analysis of International News Flow.

Journals
Guo, L. & Vargo, C.
Journal of Communication, 67(4), 499-520.
Publication year: 2017

Geographic and demographic correlates of autism-related anti-vaccine beliefs on Twitter, 2009-15

Journals
Tomeny, T., Vargo, C., El-Toukhy
Social science & medicine, 191, 168-175.
Publication year: 2017

The Agenda-Setting Power of Fake News: A Big Data Analysis of the Online Media Landscape from 2014 to 2016.

Journals
Vargo, C., Guo, L. & Amazeen, A.
New Media & Society, 20(5) 2028–2049.
Publication year: 2018

Election-related talk and agenda-setting effects on Twitter: A big data analysis of salience transfer at different levels of user participation

Journals
McGregor, S. & Vargo, C.
The Agenda Setting Journal, (1)1, 44-63.
Publication year: 2017

Networks, Big Data, and Intermedia Agenda Setting: An Analysis of Traditional, Partisan, and Emerging Online U.S. News

Journals
Vargo, C. & Guo, L.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 94(4), 1031-1055.
Publication year: 2016

Does negative campaign advertising stimulate uncivil communication on social media? Measuring audience response using big data

Journals
Hopp, T. & Vargo, C.
Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 68(2017), 368-377
Publication year: 2017

First and Second Levels of Intermedia Agenda Setting: Political Advertising, Newspapers, and Twitter During the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election

Journals
Kim, Y., Gonzenbach, B., Vargo, C. & Kim, Y.
International Journal of Communication, 10(2016), 4550–4569
Publication year: 2016

Toward a Tweet Typology: Contributory Consumer Engagement with Brand Messages by Content Type

Journals
Vargo, C.
Journal of Interactive Advertising, 16(2), 157-168.
Publication year: 2016

Big Social Data Analytics in Journalism and Mass Communication: Comparing Dictionary-based Text Analysis and Unsupervised Topic Modeling.

Journals
Guo, L., Vargo, C., Pan, Z. & Ding, W.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 93(2), 332-359.
Publication year: 2016

Social Capital, Political Polarity, and Socioeconomic Status as Predictors of Political Incivility on Twitter: A Congressional District-Level Analysis.

Journals
Vargo, C. & Hopp, T.
Social Science Computer Review, 35(1), 10-32.
Publication year: 2015

The Power of Message Networks: A Big-Data Analysis of the Network Agenda Setting Model and Issue Ownership.

Journals
Guo, L. & Vargo, C.
Mass Communication and Society, 18(5), 557-576.
Publication year: 2015

Media and Social Stability: How Audiences Create Personal Community.

Journals
Shaw, D. & Vargo, C.
Journalism Bimonthly [in Chinese]. 6(12). 16-24.
Publication year: 2014

Event vs. Issue: Twitter Reflections of Major News, a Case Study

Journals
Vargo, C., Basilaia, E. & Shaw, D.
Communication and Information Technologies Annual–Studies in Media and Communications, 9, 215-239.
Publication year: 2015

Network Issue Agendas on Twitter during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election

Journals
Vargo, C., Guo, L., McCombs, M., Shaw, D.
Journal of Communication, 64(2).
Publication year: 2014