Chris Wells

Boston University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

28h-index4.4kcitations81works1.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Social Media and Politics(59), Media Studies and Communication(18), Electoral Systems and Political Participation(15), Misinformation and Its Impacts(13), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence(8)

Publications81 total

Climate Action and Native Advertising: How Fossil Fuel Companies Present Environmental Commitment in American and British News Media
The International Journal of Press/Politics·2025
Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
The “Future of Energy”? Building resilience to ExxonMobil’s disinformation through disclosures and inoculation
npj Climate Action·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Enabling Contextual Soft Moderation on Social Media through Contrastive Textual Deviation
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Gen Z's civic engagement: civic skills, political expression, and identity
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks·2023· 4 cited
Gen Z's civic engagement: news use, politics, and cultural engagement
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks·2023· 5 cited
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Political Communication·2023· 24 cited
The Disinfectant Diversion: The Use of Narratives in Partisan News Media
Mass Communication & Society·2022· 2 cited
Outside the bubble: Social media and political participation in Western democracies
Communication Theory·2022· 24 cited
Battleground
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2022· 24 cited
Political Events in a Partisan Media Ecology: Asymmetric Influence on Candidate Appraisals
Mass Communication & Society·2022· 2 cited
THE DISINFECTANT DIVERSION: FRAMING STRATEGIES OF PARTISAN MEDIA IN INTERPRETING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research·2021Open Access
Populism and misinformation from the American Revolution to the twenty-first-century United States
2021· 3 cited
Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017
Journal of Communication·2021· 39 cited
News Media Use, Talk Networks, and Anti-Elitism across Geographic Location: Evidence from Wisconsin
The International Journal of Press/Politics·2021· 25 citedOpen Access
Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation
Social Science Computer Review·2020· 181 citedOpen Access
Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response
New Media & Society·2020· 114 cited
Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness: A media systems approach
New Media & Society·2020· 136 citedOpen Access
Disinformation as Political Communication
Political Communication·2020· 503 cited
The Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency Tweets Appeared in U.S. News as Vox Populi
The International Journal of Press/Politics·2019· 101 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Dhavan V. Shah(13), Kjerstin Thorson(8), Josephine Lukito(8), Deen Freelon(7), Stephanie Edgerly(7), W. Lance Bennett(6), Jon Pevehouse(6), Lewis A. Friedland(6), Leticia Bode(6), Justin Reedy(6), Yini Zhang(5), Emily K. Vraga(5), Yiping Xia(4), Michael W. Wagner(4), John Gastil(4), Jiyoun Suk(4), JungHwan Yang(3), Katherine J. Cramer(3), Charles Franklin(3), Erik P. Bucy(3)