Perry Parks

772 total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 449 citations indexed

About

Perry Parks is a scholar working on Communication, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Perry Parks has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 449 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Communication, 14 papers in Philosophy and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Perry Parks's work include Media Studies and Communication (26 papers), Rhetoric and Communication Studies (14 papers) and Social Media and Politics (9 papers). Perry Parks is often cited by papers focused on Media Studies and Communication (26 papers), Rhetoric and Communication Studies (14 papers) and Social Media and Politics (9 papers). Perry Parks collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Perry Parks's co-authors include Bruno Takahashi, Jing Zeng, Brian Creech, Adam Mayer, Michael A. McDevitt, Will Mari and Stephanie Craft and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Research & Social Science, Communication Theory and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Perry Parks

30 papers receiving 436 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok

2021 172 citations Perry Parks, Bruno Takahashi et al. Social Media + Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Perry Parks United States	11	268	226	69	65	45	32	449
Brian J. Bowe United States	12	231 0.9×	286 1.3×	37 0.5×	33 0.5×	43 1.0×	38	453
Cornelia Brantner Austria	12	181 0.7×	188 0.8×	24 0.3×	67 1.0×	48 1.1×	31	409
Don Heider United States	11	308 1.1×	220 1.0×	42 0.6×	47 0.7×	96 2.1×	24	466
Johanna Sumiala Finland	12	185 0.7×	224 1.0×	111 1.6×	28 0.4×	37 0.8×	55	449
Marcus Maurer Germany	14	329 1.2×	257 1.1×	29 0.4×	66 1.0×	31 0.7×	46	538
Linda Jean Kenix New Zealand	10	227 0.8×	210 0.9×	17 0.2×	37 0.6×	87 1.9×	41	399
Martina Temmerman Belgium	9	231 0.9×	156 0.7×	16 0.2×	50 0.8×	60 1.3×	27	375
Paul S. Voakes United States	10	350 1.3×	191 0.8×	34 0.5×	26 0.4×	55 1.2×	17	475
Jennifer Hoewe United States	14	208 0.8×	328 1.5×	20 0.3×	119 1.8×	56 1.2×	42	497
Katharina Lobinger Switzerland	8	137 0.5×	164 0.7×	24 0.3×	61 0.9×	54 1.2×	23	326

Countries citing papers authored by Perry Parks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Perry Parks

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Perry Parks

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Mayer, Adam & Perry Parks. (2025). Victimhood, partisan identities, and media consumption in the US. Politics Groups and Identities. 13(4). 948–973.

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Parks, Perry. (2023). “Find the Joy”: A War Correspondent’s Tweets and the Rise of an Affective Age in News. Digital Journalism. 13(10). 1773–1795. 2 indexed citations

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Mayer, Adam & Perry Parks. (2023). Media and partisanship in energy transition: Towards a new synthesis. Energy Research & Social Science. 108. 103368–103368. 6 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry & Will Mari. (2023). Conceiving Computer-Assisted Reporting: Optimism, materialism, and technological determinism in United States-focused textbooks. Journalism. 25(3). 491–510. 1 indexed citations

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McDevitt, Michael A., Perry Parks, & Stephanie Craft. (2022). An Overdue Contribution: Mass Communication Theory in the Security of Democracy. Mass Communication & Society. 25(6). 747–763. 3 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2022). Senses of Truth and Journalism’s Epistemic Crisis. Journal of Media Ethics. 37(3). 179–193. 9 indexed citations

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Creech, Brian & Perry Parks. (2021). Promises Granted: Venture Philanthropy and Tech Ideology in Metajournalistic Discourse. Journalism Studies. 23(1). 70–88. 10 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry, et al.. (2021). Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok. Social Media + Society. 7(2). 172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Parks, Perry, et al.. (2021). Foregrounding Backgrounds: How Scientists Conceive Art to Express the Invisible. Science Communication. 43(4). 435–459. 4 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2021). “Down the Middle”: CNN 10 and the Ideology of Objectivity. Journalism Practice. 17(8). 1627–1644. 2 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2019). Covering Trump’s ‘Carnival’: A Rhetorical Alternative to ‘Objective’ Reporting. Journalism Practice. 13(10). 1164–1184. 19 indexed citations

12.

Parks, Perry. (2019). From sensation to stigma: Changing standards for suicide coverage in US journalism textbooks, 1894–2016. Journalism. 22(6). 1375–1392. 4 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2019). An unnatural split: how ‘human interest’ sucks the life from significant news. Media Culture & Society. 41(8). 1228–1244. 13 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2019). The Ultimate News Value: Journalism Textbooks, the U.S. Presidency, and the Normalization of Donald Trump. Journalism Studies. 21(4). 512–529. 16 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2018). Textbook News Values: Stable Concepts, Changing Choices. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 96(3). 784–810. 30 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2018). Naturalizing negativity: how journalism textbooks justify crime, conflict, and “bad” news. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 36(1). 75–91. 28 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2017). Non-representational news: An intervention into pseudo-events. Journalism. 22(1). 122–138. 8 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2017). Silent Spring, Loud Legacy: How Elite Media Helped Establish an Environmentalist Icon. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 94(4). 1215–1238. 11 indexed citations

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McDevitt, Michael A., et al.. (2017). Anti-intellectualism among US students in journalism and mass communication: A cultural perspective. Journalism. 19(6). 782–799. 6 indexed citations

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Parks, Perry. (2015). Summer for the Scientists? The Scopes Trial and the Pedagogy of Journalism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 92(2). 444–467. 3 indexed citations

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