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Can Social Media News Encourage Activism? The Impact of Discrimination News Frames on College Students’ Activism Intentions

Overview of attention for article published in Social Media + Society, June 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
17 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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8 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
56 Mendeley
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Title
Can Social Media News Encourage Activism? The Impact of Discrimination News Frames on College Students’ Activism Intentions
Published in
Social Media + Society, June 2020
DOI 10.1177/2056305120921366
Authors

Marisa A. Smith, Lillie D. Williamson, Cabral A. Bigman

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 56 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 56 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 18%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Master 4 7%
Lecturer 3 5%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 23 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 25%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 13%
Psychology 5 9%
Unspecified 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 21 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 12 August 2023.
All research outputs
#1,617,402
of 25,813,008 outputs
Outputs from Social Media + Society
#317
of 1,111 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#45,883
of 434,997 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Media + Society
#20
of 55 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,813,008 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,111 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 55 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its contemporaries.