Melissa Tully

Melissa Tully

University of Iowa

H-index: 32

North America-United States

About Melissa Tully

Melissa Tully, With an exceptional h-index of 32 and a recent h-index of 30 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Iowa, specializes in the field of news literacy, global media, misinformation, Africa, Kenya.

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

Barriers to mediation among US parents of adolescents: A mixed-methods study of why parents do not monitor or restrict digital media use

Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa

Designing equitable media literacy interventions for critical youth agency

Perils of political engagement? Examining the relationship between online political participation and perceived electoral integrity during 2020 US election

Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States

Can news literacy help reduce belief in COVID misinformation?

Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among US parents of adolescents

Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement

Melissa Tully Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

3185

Citations(since 2020)

2759

Cited By

1129

hIndex(all)

32

hIndex(since 2020)

30

i10Index(all)

51

i10Index(since 2020)

47

Email

University Profile Page

University of Iowa

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Melissa Tully Skills & Research Interests

news literacy

global media

misinformation

Africa

Kenya

Top articles of Melissa Tully

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Barriers to mediation among US parents of adolescents: A mixed-methods study of why parents do not monitor or restrict digital media use

Computers in human behavior

Rachel Young

Melissa Tully

Leandra Parris

Marizen Ramirez

Mallory Bolenbaugh

...

2024/4/1

Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa

African journalism studies

Melissa Tully

Jane B Singer

2024/2/1

Designing equitable media literacy interventions for critical youth agency

Global studies of childhood

Bobbie Foster

Paul Mihailidis

Patrick R Johnson

Shannon Burth

Melissa Tully

...

2024

Perils of political engagement? Examining the relationship between online political participation and perceived electoral integrity during 2020 US election

Journal of information technology & politics

Saifuddin Ahmed

Yifei Wang

Melissa Tully

2023/11/1

Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States

Online information review

Saifuddin Ahmed

Dani Madrid-Morales

Melissa Tully

2023/8/29

Can news literacy help reduce belief in COVID misinformation?

Mass Communication and Society

Seth Ashley

Stephanie Craft

Adam Maksl

Melissa Tully

Emily K Vraga

2023/7/4

Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among US parents of adolescents

Journal of children and media

Rachel Young

Melissa Tully

2023/7/3

Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement

Journal of information technology & politics

Saifuddin Ahmed

Dani Madrid-Morales

Melissa Tully

2023/7/3

Everyday news use and misinformation in Kenya

Digital Journalism

Melissa Tully

2022/1/2

Defining and conceptualizing news literacy

Journalism

Melissa Tully

Adam Maksl

Seth Ashley

Emily K Vraga

Stephanie Craft

2022/8

Can We Rebuild Broken Relationships? Examining Journalism, Social Media, and Trust in a Fractured Media Environment

Patrick R Johnson

Melissa Tully

2022/12/13

Who is responsible for stopping the spread of misinformation? Examining audience perceptions of responsibilities and responses in six Sub-Saharan African countries

Digital Journalism

Melissa Tully

Dani Madrid-Morales

Herman Wasserman

Gregory Gondwe

Kioko Ireri

2022/5/28

Global disparities in knowledge production within journalism studies: Are special issues the answer?

Journalism Studies

Brian Ekdale

Katy Biddle

Melissa Tully

Manfred Asuman

Abby Rinaldi

2022/11/18

Geographic disparities in knowledge production: a big data analysis of peer-reviewed communication publications from 1990 to 2019

International journal of communication

Brian Ekdale

Abby Rinaldi

Mir Ashfaquzzaman

Mehrnaz Khanjani

Frankline Matanji

...

2022/4/24

The effects of a news literacy video and real-time corrections to video misinformation related to sunscreen and skin cancer

Health communication

Emily K Vraga

Leticia Bode

Melissa Tully

2022/11/10

Responses to misinformation: examining the Kenyan context

Disinformation in the global South

Melissa Tully

2022/4/12

Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter

New Media & Society

Emily Vraga

Melissa Tully

Leticia Bode

2022/10

Creating news literacy messages to enhance expert corrections of misinformation on Twitter

Communication Research

Emily K Vraga

Leticia Bode

Melissa Tully

2022/3

Autonomy vs. control: Associations among parental mediation, perceived parenting styles, and US adolescents’ risky online experiences

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace

Rachel Young

Melissa Tully

2022/8/9

The role of change agents in the adaptation and use of mobile money services in Kenya

Journal of African media studies

David Tuwei

Melissa Tully

2021/3/1

See List of Professors in Melissa Tully University(University of Iowa)

Co-Authors

H-index: 50
Emily Vraga

Emily Vraga

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

H-index: 39
Leticia Bode

Leticia Bode

Georgetown University

H-index: 37
Hernando Rojas

Hernando Rojas

University of Wisconsin-Madison

H-index: 33
John E. Kotcher

John E. Kotcher

George Mason University

H-index: 24
Stephanie Craft

Stephanie Craft

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

H-index: 19
Rachel Young

Rachel Young

University of Iowa

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