Chris Wells

Chris Wells

Boston University

H-index: 34

North America-United States

About Chris Wells

Chris Wells, With an exceptional h-index of 34 and a recent h-index of 25 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Boston University, specializes in the field of political communication, civic engagement, citizenship, social media, public opinion.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Gen Z's civic engagement: News use, politics, and cultural engagement

Recognition crisis: Coming to terms with identity, attention and political communication in the twenty-first century

Political events in a partisan media ecology: Asymmetric influence on candidate appraisals

Gen Z's civic engagement: civic skills, political expression, and identity

Black trolls matter: Racial and ideological asymmetries in social media disinformation

Battleground: Asymmetric communication ecologies and the erosion of civil society in Wisconsin

Studying the Wisconsin Communication Ecology.

The Disinfectant Diversion: The Use of Narratives in Partisan News Media

Chris Wells Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

5039

Citations(since 2020)

3244

Cited By

3061

hIndex(all)

34

hIndex(since 2020)

25

i10Index(all)

49

i10Index(since 2020)

40

Email

University Profile Page

Boston University

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Chris Wells Skills & Research Interests

political communication

civic engagement

citizenship

social media

public opinion

Top articles of Chris Wells

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Gen Z's civic engagement: News use, politics, and cultural engagement

Ava Francesca Battocchio

Chris Wells

Emily Vraga

Kjerstin Thorson

Stephanie Edgerly

...

2023/11/21

Recognition crisis: Coming to terms with identity, attention and political communication in the twenty-first century

Political Communication

Chris Wells

Lewis A Friedland

2023/11/2

Political events in a partisan media ecology: Asymmetric influence on candidate appraisals

Mass Communication and Society

Jiyoun Suk

Dhavan V Shah

Leticia Bode

Stephanie Edgerly

Kjerstin Thorson

...

2023/3/4

Gen Z's civic engagement: civic skills, political expression, and identity

Ava Francesca Battocchio

Leticia Bode

Chris Wells

Emily Vraga

Kjerstin Thorson

...

2023/11/21

Black trolls matter: Racial and ideological asymmetries in social media disinformation

Social Science Computer Review

Deen Freelon

Michael Bossetta

Chris Wells

Josephine Lukito

Yiping Xia

...

2022/6

Battleground: Asymmetric communication ecologies and the erosion of civil society in Wisconsin

Elements in Politics and Communication

Lewis A Friedland

Dhavan V Shah

Michael W Wagner

Katherine J Cramer

Chris Wells

...

2022/2

Studying the Wisconsin Communication Ecology.

Lewis A Friedland

Dhavan V Shah

Michael W Wagner

Katherine J Cramer

Chris Wells

...

2022/1/1

The Disinfectant Diversion: The Use of Narratives in Partisan News Media

Mass Communication and Society

Briana M Trifiro

Chris Wells

Alex Rochefort

2022/11/2

Candidate, News Media, and Social Media Messaging in the Early Stages of the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary

Chris Wells

Blake Wertz

Li Zhang

Rebecca Auger

2022

Outside the bubble: Social media and political participation in Western democracies

Jennifer Forestal

2023

Social media and autocracy

Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics

C Wells

DV Shah

JC Pevehouse

J Yang

A Pelled

...

2022/10/11

The disinfectant diversion: Framing strategies of partisan media in interpreting the COVID-19 pandemic

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

Briana Trifiro

Chris Wells

Alexander Rochefort

2021/9/15

News media use, talk networks, and anti-elitism across geographic location: Evidence from Wisconsin

The International Journal of Press/Politics

Chris Wells

Lewis A Friedland

Ceri Hughes

Dhavan V Shah

Jiyoun Suk

...

2021/4

Assembling the networks and audiences of disinformation: How successful Russian IRA Twitter accounts built their followings, 2015–2017

Journal of Communication

Yini Zhang

Josephine Lukito

Min-Hsin Su

Jiyoun Suk

Yiping Xia

...

2021/4/1

Populism and misinformation from the American Revolution to the twenty-first-century United States

Chris Wells

Alex Rochefort

2021/3/23

Disinformation, performed: Self-presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter

Yiping Xia

Josephine Lukito

Yini Zhang

Chris Wells

Sang Jung Kim

...

2021/12/26

The wolves in sheep’s clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency tweets appeared in US news as vox populi

The International Journal of Press/Politics

Josephine Lukito

Jiyoun Suk

Yini Zhang

Larissa Doroshenko

Sang Jung Kim

...

2020/4

Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response

New media & society

Erik P Bucy

Jordan M Foley

Josephine Lukito

Larissa Doroshenko

Dhavan V Shah

...

2020/4

Disinformation as political communication

Deen Freelon

Chris Wells

2020/3/3

Modeling the formation of attentive publics in social media: The case of Donald Trump

Mass Communication and Society

Chris Wells

Yini Zhang

Josephine Lukito

Jon CW Pevehouse

2020/3/3

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Co-Authors

H-index: 75
W. Lance Bennett

W. Lance Bennett

University of Washington

H-index: 59
John Gastil

John Gastil

Penn State University

H-index: 50
Emily Vraga

Emily Vraga

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

H-index: 39
Jon Pevehouse

Jon Pevehouse

University of Wisconsin-Madison

H-index: 39
Leticia Bode

Leticia Bode

Georgetown University

H-index: 37
Deen Freelon

Deen Freelon

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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