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The Digital Architectures of Social Media: Comparing Political Campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 U.S. Election

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 1,529)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
199 X users
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
998 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Digital Architectures of Social Media: Comparing Political Campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 U.S. Election
Published in
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 2018
DOI 10.1177/1077699018763307
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 998 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 97 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 79 8%
Student > Bachelor 75 8%
Lecturer 74 7%
Researcher 34 3%
Other 114 11%
Unknown 525 53%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 238 24%
Business, Management and Accounting 60 6%
Arts and Humanities 49 5%
Computer Science 29 3%
Linguistics 16 2%
Other 70 7%
Unknown 536 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 203. 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 06 July 2026.
All research outputs
#244,294
of 34,410,315 outputs
Outputs from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#10
of 1,529 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,529
of 372,589 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#1
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,410,315 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,529 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 44 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.