Media and Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Media and Communication is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Managing Organisational Tensions in Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Case of Mediapolis52
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework48
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A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis42
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy39
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research32
What “Real” Women Want: Alt-Right Femininity Vlogs as an Anti-Feminist Populist Aesthetic28
“I bet she’s ‘not like other girls’”: Discursive Construction of the Ideal Gaming Woman on r/GirlGamers27
“They Always Get Our Story Wrong”: Addressing Social Justice Activists’ News Distrust Through Solidarity Reporting26
From Global Village to Identity Tribes: Context Collapse and the Darkest Timeline25
WhatsApp, Polarization, and Non-Conventional Political Participation: Chile and Colombia Before the Social Outbursts of 201925
The EU as an ATM? Media Perception Analysis of Next Generation Funds in Spain25
Follow the Data! A Strategy for Tracing Infrastructural Power24
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia24
Negotiating Care Work: Gendered Network Structures of Pandemic Care Discourses on Twitter in Germany23
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Using Comics as a Media Literacy Tool for Marginalised Groups: The Case of Athens Comics Library20
Contentious Politics in a Digital World: Studies on Social Activism, Protest, and Polarization20
Exploring Teenagers’ Folk Theories and Coping Strategies Regarding Commercial Data Collection and Personalized Advertising19
Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation19
Bringing the Future to Geomedia Studies: Geomedia as Sociotechnical Regime and Imaginary18
Post-Truth as a Mutation of Epistemology in Journalism18
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster17
Migrants as “Objects of Care”: Immigration Coverage in Russian Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic17
Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation17
Planners Becoming Visualizers in the Mediatized World: Actor-Network Analysis of Cairo’s Street Billboards17
Stuck With the Algorithm: Algorithmic Consciousness and Repertoire in Fridays for Future’s Data Contention17
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs17
Barriers to Participation in Polarized Online Discussions About Covid-19 and the Russo-Ukrainian War16
Cartographies of Resistance: Counter-Data Mapping as the New Frontier of Digital Media Activism16
From Chiapas to Palestine: Historicizing Social Movement Media Before and Beyond the Arab Uprisings16
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust16
Humor That Harms? Examining Racist Audio-Visual Memetic Media on TikTok During Covid-1916
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram15
How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings: A Content Analysis15
Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography15
Media Control and Citizen-Critical Publics in Russia: Are Some “Pigs” More Equal Than Others?15
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter15
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?15
The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources15
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication15
More Than Meets the Eye: Understanding Political Microtargeting Processing With Gaze-Cued Retrospective Think-Aloud Methodology14
Mobile News Consumption and Its Relation to Young Adults’ Knowledge About and Participation in Referendums14
Feminist Stereotypes and Women’s Roles in Spanish Radio Ads14
Keep the Fire Burning: Exploring the Hierarchies of Music Fandom and the Motivations of Superfans14
Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants14
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites13
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Tethered Disparities: Adolescent Smartphone Use in Rural and Urban China13
Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show13
Local Journalism With State Support12
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective12
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society12
Women Scientists on TikTok: New Opportunities to Become Visible and Challenge Gender Stereotypes11
The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Fighting Deepfakes: Media and Internet Giants’ Converging and Diverging Strategies Against Hi-Tech Misinformation11
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media10
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists10
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis10
The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution10
Complicating the Resilience Model: A Four-Country Study About Misinformation10
Deepfakes on Twitter: Which Actors Control Their Spread?9
Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres: Exploring Dimensions of the Spatial Turn9
Standardized Sampling for Systematic Literature Reviews (STAMP Method): Ensuring Reproducibility and Replicability9
A Case Study: Mada Masr—A Progressive Voice in Egypt and Beyond9
Meet Bob and Offset Your Flight: Optimising Explainer Videos to Promote Voluntary Carbon Offsetting9
Political Microtargeting and Online Privacy: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Users’ Privacy Behaviors8
Introduction of the Digital Gaming Relationship8
Bread and Plots: Conspiracy Theories and the Rhetorical Style of Political Influencer Communities on YouTube8
Cross-Media Alliances to Stop Disinformation: A Real Solution?8
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change8
What’s “Up Next”? Investigating Algorithmic Recommendations on YouTube Across Issues and Over Time8
Digital Literacies as Socially Situated Pedagogical Processes: Genealogically Understanding Media, Information, and Digital Literacies8
Digital Competencies for New Journalistic Work in Media Outlets: A Systematic Review8
Exploring Parents’ Everyday Experiences With Digital Media: Barriers and Opportunities for Digital Inclusion8
The Frontlines and Margins: Gendered Care and Covid-19 in the Indian Media8
Adolescents’ Understanding of the Model of Sponsored Content of Social Media Influencer Instagram Stories8
Social Media Influencers’ Role in Shaping Political Opinions and Actions of Young Audiences8
Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swiss News Media8
Augmented Landscapes of Empathy: Community Voices in Augmented Reality Campaigns7
Exploring Media Literacy Formation at the Intersection of Family, School, and Peers7
Truth in the Crossfire: The Case of Ethiopia and Fact-Checking in Authoritarian Contexts7
Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers7
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking7
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Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources7
Developing Performance Tests to Measure Digital Skills: Lessons Learned From a Cross-National Perspective7
Representing Trust in Digital Journalism7
ProPublica’s Data Journalism: How Multidisciplinary Teams and Hybrid Profiles Create Impactful Data Stories7
Intergenerational Perspectives on Media and Fake News During Covid-19: Results From Online Intergenerational Focus Groups6
The Voice of Silence: Patterns of Digital Participation Among Palestinian Women in East Jerusalem6
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Content Analysis From a Gender Perspective of Comments Received by Spanish Science YouTubers6
The Banality of Digital Reputation: A Visual Ethnography of Young People, Reputation, and Social Media6
Combating Disinformation or Reinforcing Cognitive Bias: Effect of Weibo Poster’s Location Disclosure6
Mapping the Inclusion of Children and Youth With Disabilities in Media Literacy Research6
Dive Into the Past: Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Represented in Chinese Mobile Games6
Between Calls for Action and Narratives of Denial: Climate Change Attention Structures on Twitter6
Editorial: New Forms of Media Work and Its Organizational and Institutional Conditions6
Sympathy for the Devil: Serial Mediation Models for Toxicity, Community, and Retention6
Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok6
The Engagement Imperative: Experiences of Communication Practitioners’ Brand Work in the Music Industry6
Children’s News Media as a Space for Learning About Difference6
‘A Shared Reality between a Journalist and the Audience’: How Live Journalism Reimagines News Stories6
Digital Media and Younger Audiences6
EU Representations in Portuguese Media and Populism: Embodying Political Antipodes?6
Wellbeing Amid Digital Risks: Implications of Digital Risks, Threats, and Scams on Users’ Wellbeing6
Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life: Practices and Literacies Across the Lifespan6
Contemporary Research on Gender and Media: It’s All Political6
Re-Defining Borders Online: Russia’s Strategic Narrative on Internet Sovereignty5
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Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality5
Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere5
Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts5
Contentious Politics in a Digital World: Studies on Social Activism, Protest, and Polarization5
Editorial: Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic—Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis5
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars5
Policy Framing Through Policy Branding: International Maritime Organization, Climate Change, and Twitter/X5
Framing Migration During the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa: A 12-Month Media Monitoring Project5
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Can Pop Culture Allay Resentment? Japan’s Influence in China Today5
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project5
The EU Approach to Safeguard Children’s Rights on Video-Sharing Platforms: Jigsaw or Maze?5
Framing Nuclearity: Online Media Discourses in Lithuania5
Critical Theory and Being Critical: Connections and Contradictions5
United in Grief? Emotional Communities Around the Far-Right Terrorist Attack in Hanau5
Nano-Influencers Edutubers: Perspective of Centennial Generation Families in Spain5
Political Influencers on YouTube: Business Strategies and Content Characteristics5
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Editorial: Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media5
Advertising on Video-Sharing Platforms in the Toy and Food Categories in Spain5
Researching the Complex, Hybrid, and Liminal Nature of Contemporary Promotional Cultures5
Screens as Battlefields: Fact-Checkers’ Multidimensional Challenges in Debunking Russian-Ukrainian War Propaganda5
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe5
Editorial: Populism in and Through Online Communities5
Insidiously Trivial: How the Political Meme Format Drives Down Corrective Intent5
Advancing Research into Dark Participation4
(Dis)Information Literacy: A Democratic Right and Duty of All Citizens4
Immigrant Influencers on TikTok: Diverse Microcelebrity Profiles and Algorithmic (In)Visibility4
Community-Building on Bilibili: The Social Impact of Danmu Comments4
Comparing Media Systems: A New Critical Academic Reading4
Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research4
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims4
Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry4
The Bright and Dark Side of Eudaimonic Emotions: A Conceptual Framework4
Advocacy and Activism in Sports Podcasts: Expanding Journalistic Roles4
Frontline Knowledge: Digital Media Literacy of Older Adults in Ukraine4
Inspired to Adopt: The Role of Social Norms in Media Inspiration4
An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches4
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”4
Can’t Fix This? Innovation, Social Change, and Solutionism in Design Thinking4
Can an Awareness Campaign Boost the Effectiveness of Influencer Marketing Disclosures in YouTube Videos?4
Strengthening Responsible Journalism Through Self-Efficacious Learning-Oriented Media Literacy Interventions4
Beyond Numeracy, a Data Literacy Topical Scoping Review (2011–2023)4
Breaking the Rules: Zodwa Wabantu and Postfeminism in South Africa4
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations4
Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media4
Older Adults Learning Digital Skills Together: Peer Tutors’ Perspectives on Non-Formal Digital Support4
Resisting Perceived Interference in Journalistic Autonomy: The Study of Public Service Media in Slovakia4
Digital Futures: A Signal-Based Approach to Inclusive Digital Youth Work for Socially Vulnerable Youth4
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States4
Uninvited Dinner Guests: A Theoretical Perspective on the Antagonists of Journalism Based on Serres’ Parasite4
The War in Ukraine and the EU’s Geopolitical Role in Spanish Media Discourses4
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models4
News Deserts: A Research Agenda for Addressing Disparities in the United States4
Is Personality Key? Persuasive Effects of Prior Attitudes and Personality in Political Microtargeting4
Direct Replication in Experimental Communication Science: A Conceptual and Practical Exploration4
The Challenges of Replicating Volatile Platform-Data Studies: Replicating Schatto-Eckrodt et al. (2020)4
Securing the Future of UK Public-Interest News: Navigating Change With Foresight and Innovation4
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal4
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The Privacy Paradox by Proxy: Considering Predictors of Sharenting4
Community Internet of Things as Mobile Infrastructure: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities4
Manufacturing Populism: Digitally Amplified Vernacular Authority4
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy3
Harnessing 360-Degree Video to Prompt Users to Think Along With Pro-Environmental Campaign Messages3
Spanish-Portuguese Serial Fiction as a Politainment Tool: Representations of Politics on Iberian Television3
Google’s Influence on Global Business Models in Journalism: An Analysis of Its Innovation Challenge3
Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing3
Editorial: Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic—Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis3
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Unestablished Boundaries: The Capabilities of Immersive Technologies to Induce Empathy, Tell Stories, and Immerse3
The Agency of Journalists in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Ukraine During Yanukovich’s Presidency3
The Subtle Dynamics of Power Struggles in Tunisia: Local media since the Arab Uprisings3
Obesogenic Features of Food-Related Content Aimed at Children on YouTube3
A Classification of Features for Interpersonal Disconnectivity in Digital Media: Block, Unfriend, Unfollow, Mute, Withhold, and Eject3
Exploring Adolescents’ Social Media Connection and Disconnection: A Latent Class Approach3
Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Digital (Dis)Connectivity Among Turkish Women in Rome3
Hallin and Mancini: Two Decades of Influence in Politics and Communications3
Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture3
You’re Definitely Wrong, Maybe: Correction Style Has Minimal Effect on Corrections of Misinformation Online3
Communities of Darkness? Users and Uses of Anti-System Alternative Media between Audience and Community3
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies3
Promoting Social Media Engagement Via Branded Content Communication: A Fashion Brands Study on Instagram3
Representing Life and Death in Care Institutions: Between Invisible Victims and Suffering Old Women3
Neutral Observers or Advocates for Societal Transformation? Role Orientations of Constructive Journalists in Germany3
Reaching the Voters: Parties’ Use of Google Ads in the 2021 German Federal Election3
Mobile Journalists as Traceable Data Objects: Surveillance Capitalism and Responsible Innovation in Mobile Journalism3
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Enlightening Confusion: How Contradictory Findings Help Mitigate Problematic Trends in Digital Democracies3
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Digitalised Welfare: Access, Usage, and Outcomes Among Older Adults3
Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media3
Tactics of Disconnection: How Netizens Navigate China’s Censorship System3
From Individual Disconnection to Collective Practices for Journalists’ Wellbeing3
Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India3
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TikTok and Political Communication: The Latest Frontier of Politainment? A Case Study3
8M Demonstrations, the Spanish Far Right and the Pandemic in a Hybrid Media System3
The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter3
The Evolution of Crisis Frames in the European Commission’s Institutional Communication (2003–2022)3
Level Playing Field or Politics as Usual? Equalization–Normalization in Direct Democratic Online Campaigns3
Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile: Methodological Reflection on Doing Ethnography on (Social) Media Practices3
Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech3
The Role of Media and Communication in Reducing Uncertainty During the Syria War3
Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns3
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts3
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How Different Training Types and Computer Anxiety Influence Performance and Experiences in Virtual Reality3
The Winner Doesn’t Take It All: Analyzing Audience Responses to an Inspirational Sports Narrative3
Navigating Political Disagreement on Social Media: How Affective Responses and Belonging Influence Unfollowing and Unfriending3
Digital Dis/Connection as Everyday Boundary Work Among Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants in the UK3
Unburdening the (Dis)Connected Individual? A Digital Disconnection Policy Paradox in Flanders (Belgium)3
The Politics of Disconnective Media: Unraveling the Materiality of Discourses on Disconnectivity3
Empowered by the Experience: Playing as Female Characters in Video Games3
Referendum Campaigns in the Digital Age: Towards (More) Comparative Analyses in Hybrid Media Systems3
Editorial: Policy Framing and Branding in Times of Constant Crisis3
The Limits of Social Media Mobilization: How Protest Movements Adapt to Social Media Logic3
Smartphone- and Tablet-Reliant Internet Users: Affordances and Digital Exclusion2
Immersive Storytelling as a Technology, a Practice, and an Experience2
Beyond the Darkness: Research on Participation in Online Media and Discourse2
Surveillance Working Groups as Geomedia Governance2
Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary2
Constructive Aggression? Multiple Roles of Aggressive Content in Political Discourse on Russian YouTube2
Roots of Incivility: How Personality, Media Use, and Online Experiences Shape Uncivil Participation2
A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts2
Beyond Verification: The Evolving Role of Fact-Checking Organisations in Media Literacy Education for Youth2
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic2
Discourse and Social Cohesion in and After the Covid-19 Pandemic2
“Periphery-Centric” Approach as a Tactic for Everyday Digital In- and Exclusion of Indonesian Villages2
Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation2
Parasocial Intimacy, Change, and Nostalgia in Podcast Listener Reviews2
Editorial: Fact-Checkers Around the World—Regional, Comparative, and Institutional Perspectives2
“AI Will Be the Beating Heart of the City”: Connectivity and/as Care in The Line2
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Commercial Television as a Blind Spot in Emerging Media Systems: Romania and Bulgaria’s Cases2
In/Visibility in Social Media Work: The Hidden Labor Behind the Brands2
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