Communications-European Journal of Communication Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Communications-European Journal of Communication Research is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Mapping environment-focused social media, audiovisual media and art, in Sweden: How a diversity of voices and issues is combined with ideological homogeneity64
Sociotechnical infrastructuring for digital participation in rural development: A survey of public administrators in Germany43
Ecological and journalistic issues between optimism, mistrust and (lack of) expertise33
The “neo-intermediation” of large on-line platforms: Perspectives of analysis of the “state of health” of the digital information ecosystem23
AI community news: Local journalism in the age of artificial intelligence23
Political content as opinion leaders: The ideological catalysis of discourse on social networks16
Berlusconi and proclivity: Burying a right-wing populist leader in the field of journalism15
Trustworthiness: Public reactions to COVID-19 crisis communication14
Attractive or repellent? How right-wing populist voters respond to figuratively framed anti-immigration rhetoric12
Cuelenaere, E., Willems, G., & Joye, S. (Eds.) (2021). European film remakes. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474460668. 272 pp.11
McQuail, D. & Deuze, M. (2020). McQuail’s Media & Mass Communication Theory (seventh edition). London: SAGE. 672 pp.11
Magalhães, M. (Ed.) (2025). Otherness in communication research: Perspectives in media, interpersonal, and intercultural communication . Palgrave Macmill10
Visual rough news: The semiotic issue of generic video reuses in TV news10
Media populism and the life-cycle of the Norwegian Progress Party10
Is Fairyland for Everyone? Mapping online discourse on gender debates in Hungary10
Public service media as drivers of innovation: A case study analysis of policies and strategies in Spain, Ireland, and Belgium9
Gunkel, D. J. (2024). AI for communication. CRC Press. 130 pp. https://doi.org/10.1201/97810034422409
Blamed for mass murder, hailed as messiah: A content analysis of e-mails to high-profile scientific experts during the COVID-19 pandemic9
‘I love you 3000’: Elevation experiences in superhero media entertainment9
A Human-Centered Approach to Understanding Citizens’ Responses to Public Communication Challenges9
The heterogeneous influence of media on climate knowledge and opinion in a context of science-based climate coverage8
Representations of xenophobia: A quantitative image type analysis of AfD’s visual strategy8
The C.R.E.A.T.E. framework in innovation discourse: Six key roles in tech journalism7
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Deficits and biases in the leading German press coverage of the Greek sovereign debt crisis6
Mitigating product placement effects induced by repeated exposure: Testing the effects of existing textual disclosures in children’s movies on disclosure awareness6
Power dynamics and the VillageTalk app: Rural mediatisation and the sense of belonging to the village community as communicative figuration6
Riffe, D., Lacy, S., Watson, B. R., & Lovejoy, J. (2023). Analyzing media messages: Using quantitative content analysis in research 6
What makes audiences resilient to disinformation? Integrating micro, meso, and macro factors based on a systematic literature review6
Trust in information sources during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Romanian case study6
Promoting responsible AI: A European perspective on the governance of artificial intelligence in media and journalism6
Determinants of journalists’ acceptance of using virtual reality (VR) in news production in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)5
Reframing vulnerability as a context-dependent ethical challenge in dialogic communication5
A qualitative examination of (political) media diets across age cohorts in five countries5
Linking citizens’ anti-immigration attitudes to their digital user engagement and voting behavior4
From “screen time” to screen times: Measuring the temporality of media use in the messy reality of family life4
Thompson, J. B. (1995). The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Polity Press.4
Alphons Silbermann (1909–2000) and the founding of Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research4
Believing and disseminating fake news: The limited effects of warning labels and personal recommendations on political partisans4
Balbi, G. (2023). The digital revolution: A short history of an ideology (B. McClellan-Broussard, Trans.). Oxford University Press, 159 pp.4
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Oldies but goldies? Comparing the trustworthiness and credibility of ‘new’ and ‘old’ information intermediaries4
Understanding the importance of trust in patients’ coping with uncertainty via health information-seeking behaviors4
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Who weaved my behavior cocoon? The impact of digital media use on daily behaviors in an accelerated society3
To construct or to reveal? Network analysis as formalising communication3
Four eyes, two truths: Explaining heterogeneity in perceived severity of digital hate against immigrants3
Does credibility become trivial when the message is right? Populist radical-right attitudes, perceived message credibility, and the spread of disinformation3
Toward a neomodern epistemology of digital journalism3
Kecskes, I. (ed.) (2023). The Cambridge handbook of intercultural pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 875 pp.3
Solving the crisis with “do-it-yourself heroes”? The media coverage on pioneer communities, Covid-19, and technological solutionism3
Lai, S. S., & Flensburg, S. (2023). Gateways: Comparing digital communication systems in Nordic welfare states. Nordicom (open access). 205 pp. https3
Artz, L. (2022). Spectacle and diversity: Transnational media and global culture. Routledge, 250 pp.3
It’s the political economy after all: Implications of the case of Israel’s media system transition on the theory of media systems3
Kopecka-Piech, K., & Bolin, G. (Eds.) (2023). Contemporary challenges in mediatisation research. London: Routledge. 200 pp.3
“That’s just, like, your opinion” – European citizens’ ability to distinguish factual information from opinion3
Furries, freestylers, and the engine of social change: The struggle for recognition in a mediatized world3
Friesem, Y., Raman, U., Kanižaj, I., & Choi, Grace Y. (ed.) (2022). The Routledge handbook of media education futures post-pandemic. London: Routledge. 558 pp.3
Mediated parent networks as communicative figurations: practical sense and communicative practices among parents in four European countries3
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The changing norms and standards of scholarly journal articles. A response to Pietilä’s “Peoples Conceptions of the Mass Media”3
Disinformation on Bulgaria and Romania’s Schengen accession fuels Euroskepticism3
Attention capital in populist network communication: When the free labour of citizens maintains the spiral of attention3
Television from the periphery – Slow television and national identity in Norway3
Benítez Rojas, R. V., & Martínez-Cano, F.-J. (Eds.) (2025). Revolutionizing communication: The role of artificial intelligence 3
The experience of social (in)visibility in narratives about ostracism3
Where to next with Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code?2
Combatting online hate: Crowd moderation and the public goods problem2
Partisans’ online discourses against opposing information: Affective polarization thwarting democratic debate2
Stereotyping the Foreigner: Revisiting Gumpert & Cathcart’s Seminal Contribution2
Peer socialization of male adolescents in digital games: Achievement, competition, and harassment2
Privacy concerns can stress you out: Investigating the reciprocal relationship between mobile social media privacy concerns and perceived stress2
Publishing strategies and professional demarcations: Enacting media logic(s) in European academic climate communication through open letters2
We’re a good match: Selective political friending on social networking sites2
Frau-Meigs, D., & Corbu, N. (2024). Disinformation debunked: Building resilience through media and information literacy. Routledge. 328 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810033874042
The news avoidance paradox? Exploring the relationship between news repertoires and intentional news avoidance2
Pinchevski, A. (2019). Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma. New York: Oxford University Press. 186 pp.2
The role of identification and self-referencing in narrative persuasion2
Agency, social relations, and order: Media sociology’s shift into the digital1
Fuchs, C. (2020). Communication and capitalism: A critical theory. Westminster: University of Westminster Press. 406 pp.1
Media and policy legitimacy: A study of news coverage of the Flemish Human Rights Institute1
No innocents: Platforms, politics, and media struggling with digital governance1
Pink-wearing hairdressers to manly gay men: LGBT+ in Flemish children’s fiction1
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Schleiter, M., & de Maaker, E. (eds.) (2020). Media, indigeneity and nation in South Asia. London: Routledge. 298 pp.1
Anti-immigrant rhetoric of populist radical right leaders on social media platforms1
“An image hurts more than 1000 words?”1
#bundestagswahl: Hashtags and party visibility in the 2025 German federal election on TikTok1
Bringing the campaign closer to the voters: Facebook in partisan-managed campaigning in France1
Rage to reach: Anger as a political resource for newcomer parties – Facebook communication of German and Hungarian parties and politicians during the 2019 and 2024 European parliamentary campaigns1
Cushion, S. (2024). Beyond mainstream media: Alternative media and the future of journalism . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.431
The influence of negativity in news coverage on governmental trust during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Strategic polarization? Filter bubbles, bridges and the role of politicians on Twitter during 2019 European Election in Slovenia1
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Hate speech mainstreaming in the Greek virtual public sphere: A quantitative and qualitative approach1
Migration on digital news platforms: Using large-scale digital text analysis and time-series to estimate the effects of socioeconomic data on migration content1
Kumar Biswal, S., & Kulkarni, A. J. (2024). Exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and journalism: The emergence of a new journalis1
From “minimalists” to “professional all-rounders”: Typologizing Swiss universities’ communication practices and structures1
Cognitio populi – Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior1
Media framing of immigrants in Central Europe in the period surrounding the refugee crisis: Security, negativity, and political sources1
Influencers as political agents? The potential of an unlikely source to motivate political action1
Evans, C., & Lundgren, L. (2023). No heavenly bodies: A history of satellite communications infrastructure. MIT Press, 256 pp.1
Smartphone off, family on? A scoping review of digital disconnection within the family context0
Perceived negativity of news, news distrust, and news overload as predictors of intentional news avoidance in preadolescents and their parents0
Araujo, T., & Neijens, P. (Eds.) (2024). Communication research into the digital society. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 274 pp.0
Extend the context! Measuring explicit and implicit populism on three different textual levels0
Apocalypse now? – The Last Generation in digital capital’s affective ecology0
“Getting the protest post out”: To what extent and how social movements’ Facebook protest posts receive user engagement0
Quality and conflicts of communication consulting: Demystifying the concept and current practices based on a study of consultants and clients across Europe0
Authentic conflicts in post-Yugoslavia: A model of a post-war generation’s communication system0
The emotional valence of candidate ratings in televised debates0
A content analytic study of the presence of brands and materialistic values in popular influencers’ Youtube videos in the Netherlands0
Digital mediations of interdisciplinarity: A study of interdisciplinary centers in Europe0
Moreno-Castro, C., Krzewińska A., & Dzimińska, M. (Eds.) (2024). How citizens view science communication: Pathways to knowledge. Routledge, 172 pp.0
Media malaise or mobilization during repeat elections? Evidence from Israel’s three consecutive rounds of elections (2019–2020)0
The dark side of Instagram: How voyeurism and malicious envy drive negative gossip?0
Social media, social unfreedom0
Dialogic communication ethics in practice: Navigating ethical engagement in contemporary discourse0
“You just have to join in” – A mixed-methods study on children’s media consumption worlds and parental mediation0
Ritchie, L. D. (2022). Feeling, thinking, and talking: How the embodied brain shapes everyday communication. Cambridge University Press, 350 pp.0
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Reclaiming the past, rethinking the future: Marking 50 years in media and communication scholarship0
A normative perspective on information avoidance behaviors : Separating various types of avoidance-related norms0
Clearing the air: A systematic review of mass media campaigns to increase indoor radon testing and remediation0
Viral challenges as a digital entertainment phenomenon among children. Perceptions, motivations and critical skills of minors0
Klingelhöfer, J. (2023). The power of crisis communication: A qualitative study of the establishment of a scientific field. Springer, 235 pp.0
Mediated recognition: Identity, respect, and social justice in a changing media environment0
An online world of bias. The mediating role of cognitive biases on extremist attitudes0
The price of (un)regulation: Tracing the flow of political advertising budgets and voter targeting across online platforms in Romanian elections0
Atton, C. (2002). Alternative media . Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/97814462201530
Reif, M., & Polzenhagen, F. (Eds.) (2023). Cultural linguistics and critical discourse studies. John Benjamins, 212 pp.0
International cooperation on (counter)publics between tradition and reorientation: Social democracy and its media in the Cold War era0
Esquinas, A. S., Suárez, J. R. P., Verdugo, R. R. C., & Galán, J. D. (2025). Researching social media with children: #DigitalEthnography #Storytel0
Framing pension reform in the news: Traditional versus social media0
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Sharp, R. (2024). Refugee voices: Performativity and the struggle for recognition. Routledge, 162 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810034218250
Roberts, T., & Bosch, T. (Eds.) (2023). Digital citizenship in Africa: Technologies of agency and repression. Zed Books. 231 pp. https://doi.org/10.5040/97813503244970
Crisis alert: (Dis)information selection and sharing in the COVID-19 pandemic0
Economic crisis and trauma journalism: Assessing the emotional toll of reporting in crisis-ridden countries0
Adopting AI in transitional contexts: Professionalization and ethical dilemmas in Central European public relations0
Maarek, P. J. (ed.) (2022). Manufacturing government communication on Covid-19: A comparative perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 395 pp.0
Iskanderova, T. (2024). Unveiling semiotic codes of fake news and misinformation: Contemporary theories and practices for media professionals 0
Turkle, S. (1997). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet . Simon & Schuster. 352 pp.0
Kerrigan, P. (2021). LGBTQ visibility, media and sexuality in Ireland. London: Routledge. 192 pp.0
Bonini, T., & Treré, E. (2024). Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power. The MIT Press. 256 pp0
The contextual interplay between advertising and online disinformation: How brands suffer from and amplify deceptive content0
We can’t trust them! The effects of populist blame attributions to political and media elites on perceived factual relativism0
TikTok, child safety, and the Digital Services Act: An empirical analysis of online harm mitigation0
The role of trustworthiness in social media influencer advertising: Investigating users’ appreciation of advertising transparency and its effects0
Uninterested, disenchanted, or overwhelmed? An analysis of motives behind intentional and unintentional news avoidance0
Israeli media coverage of international male and female politicians: Gender and ethnopolitical aspects0
Health-related communication in everyday life: Communication partners, channels, and patterns0
Van Belle, J., Ramos Arenas, F., & Peirano, M. P. (Eds.) (2025). Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus: Film Cultures and International Reception, edited by0
Reclaiming the Radical: Feminist Legacies and the Transformative Power of Media Ethnography0
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Bundles of trust? Examining the relationships between media repertoires, institutional trust, and social contexts0
With time comes trust? The development of misinformation perceptions related to COVID-19 over a six-month period: Evidence from a five-wave panel survey study in the Netherlands0
Skogerbø, E., Ihlen, Ø., Nörgaard Kristensen, N., & Nord, L. (eds.) (2021). Power, communication, and politics in the Nordic countries. Gothenburg: Nordicom. 396 pp.0
Living hated: Everyday experiences of hate speech across online and offline contexts0
Determining brand equity of nonprofit organizations: An inquiry of Czech citizens0
They are all against us! The effects of populist blame attributions to political, corporate, and scientific elites0
Cultivation and the dual process of dangerous and competitive worldviews – A theoretical synthesis0
Let’s talk about risks. Parental and peer mediation and their relation to adolescents’ perceptions of on- and off-screen risk behavior0
The role of different “media diets” on the perception of immigration: Evidence from nine European countries0
Ageing bodies and beauty in selected Polish women’s magazines0
Examining the spread of disinformation on Facebook during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study in Switzerland0
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Editorial 2025: A jubilee year for Communications 0
COVID-19 vaccine reviews on YouTube: What do they say?0
The discursive construction of a news event: Access and legitimation in the media framing of an escalated anti-asylum protest in Belgium0
Examining trust in public service news providers: A comparison of the BBC and NHK0
Framing of the war in Ukraine: How the international press reacted to the outbreak of the conflict0
The Silicon Valley paradox: A qualitative interview study on the social, cultural, and ideological foundations of a global innovation center0
Emerging adults’ food media experiences: Preferences, opportunities, and barriers for food literacy promotion0
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Heijns, A. (2021). The role of Henri Borel in Chinese translation history. London, New York: Routledge. 216 pp.0
Communication and academic burnout: The effects of social support and participation in decision-making0
State vs. anti-vaxxers: Analysis of Covid-19 echo chambers in Serbia0
Rek, M. (2025). Media literacy and e-democracy in the EU . Routledge. 132 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810036421760
Seeking visibility at last? Europarties’ digital advertising for the 2019 and 2024 European Parliamentary elections0
Making progress in a trackless, weightless and intangible space0
The relationship between differential media exposure and attitudes towards Muslims and Islam and the potential consequences on voting intention towards banning veiling in public0
From the Syrian to Ukrainian refugee crisis: Tracing the changes in the Italian Twitter discussions through network analysis0
“How can I keep quiet?” Motivations to participate in vaccination communication on Facebook0
Grappling with surveillance before datafication0
Van Dijk, T. A. (2024). Social movement discourse: An introduction . Routledge. 404 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810034554860
Sweden’s online nation branding in times of refugee movement: A multimodal analysis of “Portraits of migration”0
Vaccine-related conspiracy and counter-conspiracy narratives. Silencing effects0
The values we share: Towards an inclusive ethics of dialogic communication0
Visibility, solidarity, and empowerment via the internet: A case study of young Portuguese activists0
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Examining users’ emotional responses to YouTube content during the Covid-19 crisis: A cross-country experiment0
Van den Bulck, H. (2018). Celebrity philanthropy and activism: Mediated interventions in the global public sphere. London and New York: Routledge. 160 pp.0
Weiss-Blatt, N. (2021). The Techlash and tech crisis communication. Emerald Publishing. xxi + 185 pp.0
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Evens, T., & Smith, P. (2024). Sports media rights in the age of streaming and platformisation . Routledge. 196 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003400
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Croucher, S. M., & Diers-Lawson, A. (Eds.) (2023). Pandemic communication . Routledge. pp. 325. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810032144960
No-go zone for Jews? Examining how news on anti-Semitic attacks increases victim blaming0
Life online during the pandemic : How university students feel about abrupt mediatization0
Women politicians in Austria: Still not breaking the media ceiling0
Lunt, P. (2024). Goffman and the media. Polity, 208 pp.0
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Editorial 20240
Periods of upheaval and their effect on mediatized ways of life: Changes in media use in the wake of separation, new partnership, children leaving the parental home, and relocation0
Zaborowski, R. (2023). Music generations in the Digital Age: Social practices of listening and idols in Japan. Amsterdam University Press. 226 pp. https:0
When citizens get fed up. Causes and consequences of issue fatigue – Results of a two-wave panel study during the coronavirus crisis0
Media use as social action – then and today0
Combatting disinformation with crisis communication: An analysis of Meta’s newsroom stories0
Online hate: A European communication perspective0
Curtailing the spread of fake news: Antecedents of citizens’ intention to correct misinformation on social media0
Jensen, K. B. (Ed.) (2012). Handbook of media and communication research: Qualitative and quantitative methodologies (2 nd0
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You are the agenda: The pursuit of personal significance in social media contexts0
The impacts of deepfakes on journalism: Risks, opportunities, and changes in news organizations0
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Reclaiming dialogue: Ethics, accountability and vulnerability in public communication0
Platform regulation and “overblocking” – The NetzDG discourse in Germany0
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Nelson, J. (2021). Imagined audiences. How journalists perceive and pursue the public. Oxford University Press. 209 pp.0
Can media literacy help to promote civic participation? It’s not quite that simple0
“It’s not us, it’s the government”: Perceptions of a national minority of their representations in the mainstream media during a global pandemic – the case of Israeli Arabs and COVID-190
Successive intertwining of young consumers’ reliance on social media influencers0
Bonding over bashing: Discussing LGBTI topics in far-right alternative news media comments sections0
Cultural capital as a background of media use and civic engagement0
Simons, J. (2023). Algorithms for the people: Democracy in the age of AI . Princeton University Press. pp. 320. https://doi.org/10.1515/97806912449140
Inappropriate? Gay characters affect adults’ perceived age appropriateness of animated cartoons0
Conspiracy theories and misinformation in digital media: An international expert assessment of challenges, trends, and interventions0
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