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‘It’s So Hard Not to be Funny in This Situation’: Memes and Humor in U.S. Youth Online Political Expression

Overview of attention for article published in Television & New Media, November 2019
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9 X users

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Title
‘It’s So Hard Not to be Funny in This Situation’: Memes and Humor in U.S. Youth Online Political Expression
Published in
Television & New Media, November 2019
DOI 10.1177/1527476419886068
Authors

Joel Penney

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 15%
Researcher 9 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 10%
Student > Master 6 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 27 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 25 31%
Arts and Humanities 8 10%
Psychology 8 10%
Linguistics 6 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 25 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 October 2022.
All research outputs
#6,284,939
of 25,011,008 outputs
Outputs from Television & New Media
#220
of 616 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#107,765
of 373,216 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Television & New Media
#10
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,011,008 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 616 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 373,216 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.