Media and Communication

Article	Citations
AI-Powered Social Media for Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	71
Behind the Screen: The Use of Facebook Accounts With Inauthentic Behavior During European Elections	67
Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption	56
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram	52
Normative Commitments and Platform Logics: Understanding Journalism’s Adaptive Resilience Through Coverage of Democratic Innovations	36
Information Foraging With Generative AI: Usage Patterns in Germany and Israel	35
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research	34
Digital Resilience Within a Hypermediated Polycrisis	34
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change	30
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The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources	29
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking	29
Media Hybridization and the Strategic Value of Political Incivility: Insights From Italian Journalists	27
European Elections in Times of (Poly)Crises: Populism, Polarization, Emotions, and the Deliberative Disintegration	26
Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants	25
Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers	24
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media	24
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Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation	21
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project	20
Experimentation on TikTok, Standardisation on Reels? Party Short-Form Video Use in the 2024 UK General Election	20
The EU’s FIMI Turn: How the European Union External Action Service Reframed the Disinformation Fight	20
How Different Training Types and Computer Anxiety Influence Performance and Experiences in Virtual Reality	20
Exploring Trust and Literacy in Engagement With Generative AI and Science Information Behavior	20
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations	20

Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media	20
Harmony in Political Discourse? The Impact of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Perceptions Following Political Conversations	19
When Latin American Melodrama Meets Nordic Noir: How SVOD Reshapes Chilean TV Fiction	19
Artificial Amplification and Intermedia Dynamics in the Hybrid Media System: The Case of #LaschetLacht	18
Authoritarian Drift and Social Media’s Impact on Romanian Youth During the 2024 European Elections	18
Normalizing Government Social Media Communication: A Swedish Case Analysis	17
Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India	17
Representing Trust in Digital Journalism	17
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models	16
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Media Coverage of Social Cohesion and Minorities During Riots in the UK and Spain	16
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal	16
The Right not to Drown: Data Visualisation in Contemporary Art	15
Between Memeability and Televisuality: The (Self-)Memefication of Television Series	15
Free Press Under Pressure? Experiences and Consequences of Hateful Harassment on Journalists in Germany	15
Challenging Norms and Practices in Women’s Beach Handball: The Bikini Debate	15
How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages	15
Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage	15
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Digital Dis/Connection as Everyday Boundary Work Among Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants in the UK	14
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies	14
Cut-Off Low (DANA) in Valencia: Visual Representation of Death and Grief in Photojournalism	14
The Refugee Issue in the Greek, German, and British Press During the Covid-19 Pandemic	13
Technopopulism and Politainment in Brazil: Bolsonaro Government’s Weekly YouTube Broadcasts	13
Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media	13
Idols of Promotion and Authenticity on TikTok	13
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Media Framing of Government Crisis Communication During Covid-19	13
The Limits of Social Media Mobilization: How Protest Movements Adapt to Social Media Logic	13
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces	12
Amplifying Player Experience to Facilitate Prosocial Outcomes in a Narrative-Based Serious Game	12
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Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders	12
Sports Journalists as Agents of Change in Nordic Countries	12
A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts	12
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy	12
Political Advertising and Data-Driven Campaigning in Australia	11
Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony: Evidence From the US and Flanders	11
Quantifying Data-Driven Campaigning Across Sponsors and Platforms	11
Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina	11
The Covid-19 Information Void: How Pro-Vaccination Voices Lost the Narrative in South Africa	11
Seeking With Sentiment: Emotional Attachment and the Use of Generative AI as an Information Intermediary	11
Intimacy and Professionalism: Dilemmas in the Practice of Chinese Podcasters	11
“Vote for Me, I Am Authentic”: Performed Political Authenticity on Social Media	11
All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-19	10
Political Discourse, Emotions, and Polarization: A Case Study of the President of the Madrid Region	10
Producing Diversity: On the Discourses at the Heart of Netflix’s Production Culture	10
The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Countering Disinformation Moderated by Intellectual Humility	10
Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes	10
Journalistic “Innovation” Is Hard To Hate, but Actual Change Is Just Hard	10

Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices	10
Datacasting: TikTok’s Algorithmic Flow as Televisual Experience	10
Young People’s Diversity and Digital Media: A Systematic Review (2010–2022)	10
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation	10
SMART 2.0: Social Media Analytics and Reporting Tool Applied to Misinformation Tracking	10
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism: Content Analysis of Chinese Podcasts on Himalaya	10
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The Romanian Media System: Dynamics, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy	9
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture	9
Digitalizing Access to Care: How Self-Check-In Kiosks Shape Access to Care and Efficiency of Hospital Services	9
Referendum Campaigns in Hybrid Media Systems: Insights From the New Zealand Cannabis Legalisation Referendum	9
South African Media and Politics: Is the Three Models Approach Still Valid After Two Decades?	9
Securing the Youth Vote: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Persuasion on TikTok Among Political Actors	9
Counter-Mapping: Visual Strategies for Alternative Imaginaries	9
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Harmonizing Traditional Journalistic Values With Emerging AI Technologies: A Systematic Review of Journalists’ Perception	9
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Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations	9
Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts	9
Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin	9
FABLE: A New Horizon in Digital Learning and Serious Game Design	9
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Patterns and Factors of Political Disconnection on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Comparison	9
Digital Media and Younger Audiences	8
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims	8
Harnessing 360-Degree Video to Prompt Users to Think Along With Pro-Environmental Campaign Messages	8
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter	8
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework	8
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis	8
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust	8
The Fact-Checking Initiatives in the EU: A Diverse Ecosystem Against Disinformation	8
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe	8
Historical Roots of Information Flows in Hybrid Media Systems	8
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?	8
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites	8
Migrants as “Objects of Care”: Immigration Coverage in Russian Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic	8
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society	8
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster	8
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars	8
Editorial: Redefining Televisuality—Programmes, Practices, and Methods	8
Governing Health Risk Communication in the Age of AI: Approaches from Brazil and Germany	8
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective	8
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia	8
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication	8
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs	8
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy	8
What Does “Being Informed” Mean? Assessing Social Media Users’ Self-Concepts of Informedness	7
The Evolution of Crisis Frames in the European Commission’s Institutional Communication (2003–2022)	7
Geomedia Perspectives for Multiple Futures in Tourism Development	7
Trust Signals: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Women of Color’s News Trust	7
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When Everyone Wins: Dialogue, Play, and Black History for Critical Games Education	7
Balancing Intimacy and Trust in Audio Journalism	7
E-Commerce as a Source of Revenue in Spanish Digital News Media	7
Gendered Zootopia on Instagram: Curation of Pet Accounts and Identity Representation	7
Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile: Methodological Reflection on Doing Ethnography on (Social) Media Practices	7
The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter	7
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts	7
Hypermediated Adolescence: Tactical Resilience Through and Against the Digital in Post-Pandemic China	7
Adolescents’ Augmented Reality Filter Usage on Social Media, Developmental Process, and Well-Being	7
Media Concentration Law: Gaps and Promises in the Digital Age	7
Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary	7
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic	7
Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing	7
Reinforcing or Rethinking? What do News Consumers Want from Journalism in the Post-Truth Era?	7
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States	7
Games and Game Studies Are Meaningful—Are They?	7
Digital Resilience to Disinformation: From Libraries to Citizens	7
Redefining Hallin and Mancini’s Media System: Cross-Border Investigative Networks in Europe	7
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance	7
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Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech	7
You Have not Disappeared: Digital Mourning Spaces After a Social Media Celebrity’s Self-Obituary	7
The Nordic Story	7
Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality	7
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”	7
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Emphasizing the Threats of Mis- and Disinformation	6
Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League	6
The Regulation of Disinformation Under the Digital Services Act	6
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey	6

VR Heterotopia: User Imaginaries of Virtual Reality Headsets as Technology for Reaching Utopic Spaces	6
Thinking Geomedia Futures: Indigenous Futurisms, Afrofuturisms, and Counter-Mediations of Temporality, Spatiality, and Digitality	6
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community	6
“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism	6
Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood	6
Investigating Publics’ Communicative Action in Problem Solving (CAPS) Through Data Science	6
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication	6
The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks	6
Father Influencers’ Short Videos in China: Representations of Hybrid Fatherhood and Commercialisation on Xiaohongshu	6
Digital Inclusion Through Algorithmic Knowledge: Curated Flows of Civic and Political Information on Instagram	6
The Affective Lives of Cruising: Recharting Space, Place, and Time	6
From Social Clubs to Champions for Sports Journalistic Identity and Integrity	6
Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation?	6
WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil	6
Oblique Agency: Mapping the Globalised Workflows of Television Dubbing and Their Impact on Practitioners	6
Examining the Role of Online Uncivil Discussion and Ideological Extremity on Illegal Protest	6
Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal	6
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New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking	6
Ghosting on Tinder: Examining Disconnectivity in Online Dating	6
XR for Transformable and Interactive Design	6
Does Social Media Use Matter? A Case Study of the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum	6
Age-Based Digital Divide: Uses of the Internet in People Over 54 Years Old	6
Remapping the Legacy of Enslavement: Street Names, Stealth Stickers, and the Living Black Atlas	6
“Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here”: Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism	6
Beyond Digital Literacy in Australian Prisons: Theorizing “Network Literacy,” Intersectionality, and Female Incarcerated Students	6
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Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism	6
Are Certain Types of Microtargeting More Acceptable? Comparing US, German, and Dutch Citizens’ Attitudes	6
Cultural Authenticity as Netflix Televisuality: Streaming Industry Discourse and Globally Commissioned Original Series	6
A Mixed-Method Approach to Evaluating Citizen Engagement on Government Social-Media Pages	6
Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War	6
Outsourced Propaganda: The Role of Journalists in China’s Government Social Media	5
Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Digital (Dis)Connectivity Among Turkish Women in Rome	5
Women Scientists on TikTok: New Opportunities to Become Visible and Challenge Gender Stereotypes	5
“I Think Quality is More Important Than a Lot of Data” in Cities Datafication	5
The EU as an ATM? Media Perception Analysis of Next Generation Funds in Spain	5
Maternal Health Information Disparities Amid Covid-19: Comparing Urban and Rural Expectant Mothers in Ghana	5
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists	5
Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry	5
Cartographies of Negotiation: Data and Pandemic Mapping in the Frena la Curva Initiative	5
Music as Soft Power: The Electoral Use of Spotify	5
Bringing the Future to Geomedia Studies: Geomedia as Sociotechnical Regime and Imaginary	5
Public Institutions Meet TikTok: Communication Strategies and the Rise of Govtainment	5
Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany	5
Media and Journalism Research in Small European Countries	5
More Than Meets the Eye: Understanding Political Microtargeting Processing With Gaze-Cued Retrospective Think-Aloud Methodology	5
Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life: Practices and Literacies Across the Lifespan	5
Podcasting the Truth: Challenging Journalistic Knowledge and Building Epistemic Authority in Independent YouTube Podcasts	5
AI Transparency: A Conceptual, Normative, and Practical Frame Analysis	5
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Meet Bob and Offset Your Flight: Optimising Explainer Videos to Promote Voluntary Carbon Offsetting	5
Generational Differences in Digital Resilience in Four Countries	5
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Transforming Disinformation on Minorities Into a Pedagogical Resource: Towards a Critical Intercultural News Literacy	5
“Periphery-Centric” Approach as a Tactic for Everyday Digital In- and Exclusion of Indonesian Villages	5
Missing Bodies, Silent Pages: How Turkish Media Portrays Journalist Murders and Silence	5
Framing Migration During the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa: A 12-Month Media Monitoring Project	5
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Content Analysis From a Gender Perspective of Comments Received by Spanish Science YouTubers	5
Can Media Enhance Deliberative Democracy? Exploring Media Monitoring Capabilities in 14 EU-Countries	5
Strengthening Responsible Journalism Through Self-Efficacious Learning-Oriented Media Literacy Interventions	5
Navigating Digital Surveillance in Later Life: Determinants of Identity Masking and Data Protection Practices	5
Government Communication on Social Media: Balancing Platforms, Propaganda, and Public Service	5
The Role of Harm, Misinformer Age, and Information Scrutiny on Adolescents’ Trust in Misinformation	5
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An Exploratory Study of Fact-Checking Practices in Conflict and Authoritarian Contexts	5
Mapping Platform-Mediated Proximities With the TikTok Global Observatory	5
Beyond Numeracy, a Data Literacy Topical Scoping Review (2011–2023)	5
Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System	5
The Value of News: Aligning Economic and Social Value From an Institutional Perspective	5
Network Analysis for Media Ownership: A Methodological Proposal	5
Exploring the Challenges of Generative AI on Public Sector Communication in Europe	5
Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts	5
Crime News Under Digitization Process in French and German Newsrooms: Standardization and Diversification of News under Web-First Pressure	5
Mapping the Inclusion of Children and Youth With Disabilities in Media Literacy Research	5
An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches	5
Replicating and Extending Soroka, Fournier, and Nir: Negative News Increases Arousal and Negative Affect	4
Parasocial Interactions in Otome Games: Emotional Engagement and Parasocial Intimacy Among Chinese Female Players	4
AI Agency in Fact-Checking: Role-Based Machine Heuristics and Publics’ Conspiratorial Orientation	4
Fact-Checking Role Performances and Problematic Covid-19 Vaccine Content in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Institutional Arbitrageurs: The Role of Product Managers as a Locus of Change in Journalism	4
The 1927 Mapleton Train Disaster, Memorialisation, and the Media’s Role in Narrating the Dead	4
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“Anti-Regime Influentials” Across Platforms: A Case Study of the Free Navalny Protests in Russia	4
How Public Service Media Disinformation Shapes Hungarian Public Discourse	4
Overcoming the Age Barrier: Improving Older Adults’ Detection of Political Disinformation With Media Literacy	4
Understanding Expressions of Self-Determination Theory in the Evaluation of IDEA-Themed VR Storytelling	4
Downplaying Euroscepticism in Mainstream Media: The Schengen Accession of Romania and Bulgaria	4
Beyond Solutionism: Differently Motivating Media Literacy	4
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Contemporary Political Discourse in Digital Games: A Systematic Approach	4