Nic DePaula

470 total citations
16 papers, 299 citations indexed

About

Nic DePaula is a scholar working on Communication, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nic DePaula has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 299 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Communication, 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Nic DePaula's work include Social Media and Politics (11 papers), E-Government and Public Services (7 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers). Nic DePaula is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (11 papers), E-Government and Public Services (7 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers). Nic DePaula collaborates with scholars based in United States, Estonia and Canada. Nic DePaula's co-authors include Ersin Dincelli, Teresa M. Harrison, Loni Hagen, Stephen Neely, Thomas E. Keller, Sten Hansson, Thomas J. Froehlich, Yuan Hong, Kaja J. Fietkiewicz and David F. Andersen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Government Information Quarterly and Social Science Computer Review.

In The Last Decade

Nic DePaula

15 papers receiving 286 citations

Peers

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Melissa Graham United States

Adam R. Brown United States

Jakob Linaa Jensen Denmark

Royce Koop Canada

Kevin Wallsten United States

Bente Kalsnes Norway

Cynthia R. Farina United States

Jay Jennings United States

Kevin Gillan United Kingdom

Raphaël Kies Luxembourg

Melissa Graham United States

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176 ×1.2

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16 of 16 papers shown

Hansson, Sten & Nic DePaula. (2025). Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions. Media and Communication. 13.

DePaula, Nic & Sten Hansson. (2025). Politicization of Government Social Media Communication: A Linguistic Framework and Case Study. Social Media + Society. 11(2). 3 indexed citations

DePaula, Nic, et al.. (2024). Regulating the machine: An exploratory study of US state legislations addressing Artificial Intelligence, 2019-2023. 815–826. 1 indexed citations

DePaula, Nic, et al.. (2022). Platform Effects on Public Health Communication: A Comparative and National Study of Message Design and Audience Engagement Across Twitter and Facebook. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). e40198–e40198. 7 indexed citations

DePaula, Nic & Ersin Dincelli. (2018). Information strategies and affective reactions: How citizens interact with government social media content. First Monday. 21 indexed citations

DePaula, Nic. (2018). #Supporting the cause: An analysis of how government agencies use Twitter hashtags. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 55(1). 788–789. 7 indexed citations

DePaula, Nic, et al.. (2018). Challenges for social media: Misinformation, free speech, civic engagement, and data regulations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 55(1). 665–668. 5 indexed citations

Hagen, Loni, et al.. (2017). Crisis Communications in the Age of Social Media. Social Science Computer Review. 36(5). 523–541. 92 indexed citations

DePaula, Nic, Ersin Dincelli, & Teresa M. Harrison. (2017). Toward a typology of government social media communication: Democratic goals, symbolic acts and self-presentation. Government Information Quarterly. 35(1). 98–108. 137 indexed citations

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Harrison, Teresa M., et al.. (2017). E-Petitioning and Online Media. 11–20. 2 indexed citations

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Luciano, Joanne, Djoko Sigit Sayogo, Weijia Ran, et al.. (2017). Building a Certification and Inspection Data Infrastructure to Promote Transparent Markets. International Journal of Electronic Government Research. 13(4). 53–75. 1 indexed citations

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Sayogo, Djoko Sigit, Weijia Ran, Giri Kumar Tayi, et al.. (2016). Ontological Modeling of Certification and Inspection Process to Support Smart Disclosure of Product Information. 3(2). 86–108. 1 indexed citations

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DePaula, Nic & Ersin Dincelli. (2016). An Empirical Analysis of Local Government Social Media Communication. 348–356. 16 indexed citations

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Dincelli, Ersin, Yuan Hong, & Nic DePaula. (2016). Information diffusion and opinion change during the gezi park protests : Homophily or social influence?. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 53(1). 1–5. 4 indexed citations

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Sayogo, Djoko Sigit, Joanne Luciano, James Michaelis, et al.. (2013). A preliminary ontology for tracking certification systems. 267–268. 1 indexed citations

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Hagen, Loni, Nic DePaula, Ersin Dincelli, Nadia Caidi, & Abebe Rorissa. (2013). Electronic government around the world: Current trends and future prospects. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 50(1). 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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