Will Mari

858 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 461 citations indexed

About

Will Mari is a scholar working on Communication, Literature and Literary Theory and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Will Mari has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 461 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Communication, 6 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Will Mari's work include Media Studies and Communication (11 papers), Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis (6 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 papers). Will Mari is often cited by papers focused on Media Studies and Communication (11 papers), Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis (6 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 papers). Will Mari collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Will Mari's co-authors include Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, Marwa Maziad, Philip N. Howard, Teri Finneman, Ryan J. Thomas, Perry Parks, Philip H. Howard and Muzammil Hussain and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, First Monday and Digital Journalism.

In The Last Decade

Will Mari

19 papers receiving 419 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?

2011 366 citations Philip N. Howard, Aiden Duffy et al. SSRN Electronic Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Will Mari United States	6	257	239	76	67	56	22	461
Erik Borra Netherlands	10	318 1.2×	251 1.1×	66 0.9×	54 0.8×	73 1.3×	16	518
Merja Mahrt Germany	6	179 0.7×	168 0.7×	45 0.6×	33 0.5×	56 1.0×	14	385
Tamara A. Small Canada	9	381 1.5×	218 0.9×	50 0.7×	133 2.0×	92 1.6×	22	567
Brenda Moon Australia	7	315 1.2×	192 0.8×	59 0.8×	81 1.2×	63 1.1×	14	416
Marwa Maziad United States	3	193 0.8×	216 0.9×	75 1.0×	64 1.0×	55 1.0×	4	387
Jason Turcotte United States	6	304 1.2×	399 1.7×	71 0.9×	30 0.4×	64 1.1×	14	534
ZACHARY STEINERT-THRELKELD United States	12	238 0.9×	362 1.5×	121 1.6×	134 2.0×	115 2.1×	29	633
Bruce Etling United States	12	418 1.6×	382 1.6×	82 1.1×	143 2.1×	118 2.1×	16	650
Aiden Duffy United Kingdom	2	189 0.7×	205 0.9×	75 1.0×	62 0.9×	55 1.0×	2	367
Randolph Kluver Singapore	15	309 1.2×	275 1.2×	61 0.8×	188 2.8×	38 0.7×	38	550

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Will Mari

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Mari, Will. (2025). Media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy: civic space, free speech and the battle for freedom of the press. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 42(1). 111–113. 1 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2024). The Pre-History of News-Industry Discourse Around Artificial Intelligence. 2(3). 499–522. 4 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2024). The synchronized society: Time and control from broadcasting to the internet. Journal of Radio & Audio Media. 1–3.

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Mari, Will, et al.. (2023). Networks in motion: The alliances of information communication technologies and mobility technologies during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Mobile Media & Communication. 11(2). 156–173. 1 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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Mari, Will, et al.. (2023). Let Us Fly Our Drones: An Examination of Student Newspapers’ Coverage of Drone Journalism. Journalism Practice. 19(4). 923–938. 1 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2022). (Electronic) Mailing the Editor: Emails, Message Boards and Early Interactive Web Design in the 1990s. Digital Journalism. 11(3). 569–586. 3 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2022). Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet. Civil War Book Review. 4 indexed citations

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Finneman, Teri, Will Mari, & Ryan J. Thomas. (2021). “I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive”: U.S. Community Newspapers’ Resilience During COVID-19. Journalism Practice. 17(5). 893–910. 15 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2021). Early Development of News Sites in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1990s: Exploring Trans-Atlantic Connections. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 24(1-2). 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2021). Teaching Tragedy: Media History Courses and 9/11. Journalism History. 47(3). 226–229. 2 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2020). A short history of pandemic coverage on the Internet. First Monday. 1 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2019). A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies. 22 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2018). Archive of American Television. American Journalism. 35(2). 269–270. 1 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2017). Unionization in the American Newsroom, 1930 to 1960. Journal of Historical Sociology. 31(3). 265–281. 4 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2017). Technology in the Newsroom. Journalism Studies. 19(9). 1366–1389. 7 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2014). An Enduring Ethos. Journalism Practice. 9(5). 687–703. 11 indexed citations

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Mari, Will. (2014). “Bright and Inviolate”: Editorial–Business Divides in Early Twentieth-Century Journalism Textbooks. American Journalism. 31(3). 378–399. 13 indexed citations

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Howard, Philip H., Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, et al.. (2011). Opening Closed Regimes: What was the Role of Social Media during the Arab Spring?. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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Howard, Philip N., et al.. (2011). Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 366 indexed citations breakdown →

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