{rfName}
De

Indexed in

License and Use

Icono OpenAccess

Citations

3

Altmetrics

Analysis of institutional authors

Urueña, AlbertoAuthor

Share

August 7, 2025
Publications
>
Article
Sí

Democracy Dysfunctions and Citizens' Digital Agency in Highly Contaminated Digital Information Ecosystems

Publicated to: Societies. 15 (7): 175- - 2025-06-23 15(7), DOI: 10.3390/soc15070175

Authors:

Herrero, J; Erdem, HD; Torrres, A; Urueña, A
[+]

Affiliations

Univ Oviedo, Dept Psychol, Oviedo 33003, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Org Business Adm & Stat, ETSI Ind, Madrid 28006, Spain - Author

Abstract

Social media platforms have been recognized as significant contributors to the dissemination of polarizing content, the spread of disinformation, and the proliferation of far-right populist discourse. While certain political actors deliberately seek to disseminate disinformation, a more nuanced understanding is necessary to elucidate why users consume and accept this biased content. Using data from over 120,000 participants across five European and Spanish surveys, we empirically examined the relationships between social media use, disinformation, false news, users' digital agency, far-right ideology, and far-right voting. We postulated that a lack of users' digital agency is a significant contributor to this phenomenon and found a significant association between users' low digital agency and the adoption of far-right ideologies (odds ratio [OR] = 1.16, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.08-1.23). This association remained after controlling for trust in social media news, psychological and social factors, sociodemographic variables, and response bias.
[+]

Keywords

5 personality-traitsAddictionDigital agencyFar-right ideologyFar-right voting behaviorNationally representative samplNationally representative sampleNewPsychologySocial mediaSpreadSupportTrust in news from social media

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Societies due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 91/220, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Sociology. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Social Sciences (Miscellaneous).

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-24:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 2
[+]

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-24:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 9 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

    It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

    • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
    • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/92010/

    As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

    • Views: 56
    • Downloads: 44
    [+]

    Leadership analysis of institutional authors

    There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (URUEÑA LOPEZ, ALBERTO).

    [+]