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  1. “It’s All Fake News!”: How Perceptions of Misinformation and Disinformation Influence News Consumption Across Traditional Media, Social Media, and AI

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, November 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  2. Who Takes the Lead? Reciprocal Relationships Between the European Parliament’s Political Agenda and National Media Agenda on EU–China Trade Relations in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (2001–2020)

    Article • The International Journal of Press/Politics, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  3. Can we use automated approaches to measure the quality of online political discussion? How to (not) measure interactivity, diversity, rationality, and incivility in online comments to the news

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  4. ‘If MPs have immunity, then why are they so afraid of the Coronavirus?’ Political humor during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave in Europe

    Article • European Journal of Cultural Studies, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  5. To Disclose or Not to Disclose: A Comprehensive Analysis Into the Article Transparency of News Websites

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  6. Open Access: News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload

    Article • December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  7. Deliberation in online political talk: exploring interactivity, diversity, rationality, and incivility in the public spheres surrounding news vs. satire

    Article • Journal of Communication, November 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  8. What is Popular Gets More Popular? Exploring Over-Time Dynamics in Article Readership Using Real-World Log Data

    Article • Journalism Studies, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  9. Patterns of News Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: A 2.5 Year Longitudinal Study in the Netherlands

    Article • Journalism Studies, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  10. Analyzing Sensationalism in News on Twitter ( X ): Clickbait Journalism by Legacy vs. Online-Native Outlets and the Consequences for User Engagement

    Article • Digital Journalism, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  11. “It Became No Man’s Land”: The Burden of Moderating Online Harassment in Newswork

    Article • Journalism Practice, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  12. The Oliver Twist: Why young adults watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Article • The Communication Review, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  13. Mutual Influences in Economic Agendas: Assessing Dynamics and Conditionality in Longitudinal Relationships Between Media, Politics, and Public

    Article • Communication Research, June 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  14. The Faces and Forms of Pandemic Humor: Exploring Covid-19 Memes with Visual Machine Learning

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media, May 2024, Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

    Dr Mark Boukes

  15. Unpacking the Nuances of Agenda-Setting in the Online Media Environment: An Hourly-Event Approach in the Context of Chinese Economic News

    Article • Journalism Studies, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  16. Framing EU–China Trade Relations: A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage (2001–2021)

    Article • Journalism Studies, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  17. The glocalization of The Daily Show

    Article • Popular Communication, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  18. Strategy framing of international conflicts

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  19. Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Mark Boukes

  20. The “Humoralist” as Journalistic Jammer: Zondag met Lubach and the Discursive Construction of Investigative Comedy

    Article • Journalism Studies, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes, Dr Pieter Maeseele

  21. A Health Crisis in the Age of Misinformation: How Social Media and Mass Media Influenced Misperceptions about COVID-19 and Compliance Behavior

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  22. Fighting lies with facts or humor: Comparing the effectiveness of satirical and regular fact-checks in response to misinformation and disinformation

    Article • Communication Monographs, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  23. Importance of plaque volume and composition for the prediction of myocardial ischaemia using sequential coronary computed tomography angiography/positron emission tomography imaging

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, September 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  24. Does social media keep me alarmed? The effects of expectations surrounding social media attributes and exposure to messages of social (in)stability on substitutive social media news use

    Article • Chinese Journal of Communication, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  25. Satirizing the Clothing Industry on YouTube: How Political Satire and User Comments Jointly Shape Behavioral Intentions

    Article • Media Psychology, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  26. Strategy framing in the international arena: A cross-national comparative content analysis on the China-US trade conflict coverage

    Article • Journalism, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  27. Narrative persuasion by corporate CSR messages: The impact of narrative richness on attitudes and behavioral intentions via character identification, transportation, and message credibility

    Article • Public Relations Review, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mark Boukes

  28. The Effect of Gain-versus-Loss Framing of Economic and Health Prospects of Different COVID-19 Interventions: An Experiment Integrating Equivalence and Emphasis Framing

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, November 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  29. News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload

    Article • Digital Journalism, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  30. Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  31. Online social environments and their impact on video viewers: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain during political satire consumption

    Article • New Media & Society, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  32. Economic News

    Article • April 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mark Boukes

  33. The Validity of Sentiment Analysis:Comparing Manual Annotation, Crowd-Coding, Dictionary Approaches, and Machine Learning Algorithms

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  34. Episodic and Thematic Framing Effects on the Attribution of Responsibility: The Effects of Personalized and Contextualized News on Perceptions of Individual and Political Responsibility for Causing the Economic Crisis

    Article • The International Journal of Press/Politics, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  35. A woman’s got to write what a woman’s got to write: the effect of journalist’s gender on the perceived credibility of news articles

    Article • Feminist Media Studies, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  36. Using Cognitive Mapping to Study the Relationship between News Exposure and Cognitive Complexity

    Article • Public Opinion Quarterly, October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  37. Political fact or political fiction? The agenda-setting impact of the political fiction series Borgen on the public and news media

    Article • Communications, September 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Mark Boukes

  38. Bridging the gap? The impact of a media literacy educational intervention on news media literacy, political knowledge, political efficacy among lower-educated youth

    Article • Journal of Media Literacy Education, July 2020, University of Rhode Island

    Dr Mark Boukes

  39. Curbing Journalistic Gender Bias: How Activating Awareness of Gender Bias in Indian Journalists Affects Their Reporting

    Article • Journalism Practice, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  40. Shattering Populists’ Rhetoric with Satire at Elections Times: The Effect of Humorously Holding Populists Accountable for Their Lack of Solutions

    Article • Journal of Communication, April 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  41. To Credit or to Blame? The Asymmetric Impact of Government Responsibility in Economic News

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, February 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  42. Newsworthiness and story prominence: How the presence of news factors relates to upfront position and length of news stories

    Article • Journalism, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  43. Netherlands

    Article • January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  44. Taking it personal or national? Understanding the indirect effects of economic news on government support

    Article • West European Politics, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  45. Buffering Negative News: Individual-level Effects of Company Visibility, Tone, and Pre-existing Attitudes on Corporate Reputation

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  46. What’s the Tone? Easy Doesn’t Do It: Analyzing Performance and Agreement Between Off-the-Shelf Sentiment Analysis Tools

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  47. Media Effects Across Time and Subject: How News Coverage Affects Two Out of Four Attributes of Consumer Confidence

    Article • Communication Research, August 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  48. When Do Media Matter Most? A Study on the Relationship between Negative Economic News and Consumer Confidence across the Twenty-Eight EU States

    Article • The International Journal of Press/Politics, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  49. Infotainment

    Article • April 2019, Wiley

    Dr Mark Boukes

  50. The impact of immigration news on anti-immigrant party support: unpacking agenda-setting and issue ownership effects over time

    Article • Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Alyt Damstra, Dr Mark Boukes

  51. The impact of Twitter (positive) and Facebook (negative) usage on learning about the news

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  52. How China’s flagship news program frames “the West”: Foreign news coverage of CCTV’s Xinwen Lianbo before and during Xi Jinping’s presidency

    Article • Chinese Journal of Communication, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  53. How Political Satire Increased TTIP’s Saliency on the Public, Media, and Political Agenda

    Article • Political Communication, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  54. On the Street and/or on Twitter?

    Article • Digital Journalism, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  55. What effects may be caused by survey context?

    Article • Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, May 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  56. How News Consumption Affects Anti-Muslim Attitudes through Economic Perceptions and Emotions

    Article • Political Studies, April 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  57. The economy. How do the media cover it and what are the effects? A literature review

    Article • Sociology Compass, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Mark Boukes

  58. Literature overview on the topic of Infotainment

    Article • March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  59. The Complex Relationship between Patterns in Immigration News Coverage and Real-World Developments

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes, Alyt Damstra

  60. Economic journalism and the effects of economic news

    Article • Communication Research, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes, Alyt Damstra

  61. Linking Survey and Media Content Data: Opportunities, Considerations, and Pitfalls

    Article • Communication Methods and Measures, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  62. How do different types of newspapers differ on what they consider news value / newsworthy?

    Article • Journalism, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  63. Does the news decrease our happines?

    Article • Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications, July 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr Mark Boukes

  64. Political relevance in the eye of the beholder: Determining the substantiveness of TV shows and political debates with Twitter data

    Article • First Monday, April 2017, University of Illinois Libraries

    Dr Mark Boukes

  65. Framing the economy of the East African Community: A decade of disparities and similarities found in Chinese and Western news media’s reporting on the East African Community

    Article • International Communication Gazette, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  66. The Softening of Journalistic Political Communication: A Comprehensive Framework Model of Sensationalism, Soft News, Infotainment, and Tabloidization

    Article • Communication Theory, November 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  67. Entertainment Media and Politics

    Article • March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  68. At Odds: Laughing and Thinking? The Appreciation, Processing, and Persuasiveness of Political Satire

    Article • Journal of Communication, July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mark Boukes

  69. Political News with a Personal Touch

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, November 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  70. Soft News With Hard Consequences? Introducing a Nuanced Measure of Soft Versus Hard News Exposure and Its Relationship With Political Cynicism

    Article • Communication Research, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mark Boukes

  71. News With an Attitude: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes

  72. Boundaries to the Articulation of Possible Selves Through Social Networking Sites: The Case of Facebook Profilers' Social Connectedness

    Article • Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, October 2011, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Mark Boukes