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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram52
The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources40
Digital Competencies for New Journalistic Work in Media Outlets: A Systematic Review39
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media32
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Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change29
Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers29
Managing Organisational Tensions in Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Case of Mediapolis28
Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres: Exploring Dimensions of the Spatial Turn27
Adolescents’ Understanding of the Model of Sponsored Content of Social Media Influencer Instagram Stories27
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking26
Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants26
Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation25
Keep the Fire Burning: Exploring the Hierarchies of Music Fandom and the Motivations of Superfans25
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research24
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations21
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Representing Trust in Digital Journalism20
Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India20
Editorial: Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media19
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project19
Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media19
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Community-Building on Bilibili: The Social Impact of Danmu Comments18
When Latin American Melodrama Meets Nordic Noir: How SVOD Reshapes Chilean TV Fiction18
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal17
Immigrant Influencers on TikTok: Diverse Microcelebrity Profiles and Algorithmic (In)Visibility17
Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok17
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models17
Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere16
How Different Training Types and Computer Anxiety Influence Performance and Experiences in Virtual Reality16
The Engagement Imperative: Experiences of Communication Practitioners’ Brand Work in the Music Industry15
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The Refugee Issue in the Greek, German, and British Press During the Covid-19 Pandemic14
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Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies14
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Free Press Under Pressure? Experiences and Consequences of Hateful Harassment on Journalists in Germany13
Between Memeability and Televisuality: The (Self-)Memefication of Television Series13
Idols of Promotion and Authenticity on TikTok13
Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media13
When Ads Become Invisible: Minors’ Advertising Literacy While Using Mobile Phones13
Media Framing of Government Crisis Communication During Covid-1912
The Role of Media and Communication in Reducing Uncertainty During the Syria War12
A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts12
Challenging Norms and Practices in Women’s Beach Handball: The Bikini Debate12
How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages12
Amplifying Player Experience to Facilitate Prosocial Outcomes in a Narrative-Based Serious Game12
Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage12
Technopopulism and Politainment in Brazil: Bolsonaro Government’s Weekly YouTube Broadcasts12
Digital Dis/Connection as Everyday Boundary Work Among Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants in the UK12
The Limits of Social Media Mobilization: How Protest Movements Adapt to Social Media Logic11
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy11
Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes10
Intimacy and Professionalism: Dilemmas in the Practice of Chinese Podcasters10
Young People’s Diversity and Digital Media: A Systematic Review (2010–2022)10
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces10
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The Promises and Pitfalls of Inspirational Media: What do We Know, and Where do We Go from Here?10
Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina10
Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders10
Sports Journalists as Agents of Change in Nordic Countries10
Quantifying Data-Driven Campaigning Across Sponsors and Platforms10
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation9
Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony: Evidence From the US and Flanders9
All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-199
Political Advertising and Data-Driven Campaigning in Australia9
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The Loss of the Popular: Reconstructing Fifty Years of Studying Popular Culture8
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism: Content Analysis of Chinese Podcasts on Himalaya8
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices8
Journalistic “Innovation” Is Hard To Hate, but Actual Change Is Just Hard8
Digitalizing Access to Care: How Self-Check-In Kiosks Shape Access to Care and Efficiency of Hospital Services8
SMART 2.0: Social Media Analytics and Reporting Tool Applied to Misinformation Tracking8
Datacasting: TikTok’s Algorithmic Flow as Televisual Experience8
Producing Diversity: On the Discourses at the Heart of Netflix’s Production Culture8
South African Media and Politics: Is the Three Models Approach Still Valid After Two Decades?8
FABLE: A New Horizon in Digital Learning and Serious Game Design8
The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Countering Disinformation Moderated by Intellectual Humility8
Harmonizing Traditional Journalistic Values With Emerging AI Technologies: A Systematic Review of Journalists’ Perception8
Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations7
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Mediatizing Slum Relocation in Egypt: Between Legitimization and Stigmatization7
Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin7
Media Work as Field Advancement: The Case of Science Media Center Germany7
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture7
Election Fraud and Misinformation on Twitter: Author, Cluster, and Message Antecedents7
#ThisIsMeChallenge and Music for Empowerment of Marginalized Groups on TikTok7
Mediated by Code: Unpacking Algorithmic Curation of Urban Experiences7
Securing the Youth Vote: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Persuasion on TikTok Among Political Actors7
Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts7
Patterns and Factors of Political Disconnection on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Comparison7
Referendum Campaigns in Hybrid Media Systems: Insights From the New Zealand Cannabis Legalisation Referendum7
The Romanian Media System: Dynamics, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy7
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-Making and Autonomy in Newsgathering7
Automated Trouble: The Role of Algorithmic Selection in Harms on Social Media Platforms7
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society7
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster6
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?6
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework6
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust6
The Fact-Checking Initiatives in the EU: A Diverse Ecosystem Against Disinformation6
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter6
Digital Media and Younger Audiences6
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication6
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia6
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy6
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites6
What’s “Up Next”? Investigating Algorithmic Recommendations on YouTube Across Issues and Over Time6
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States6
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis6
Migrants as “Objects of Care”: Immigration Coverage in Russian Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic6
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective6
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis6
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs6
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”5
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars5
Reinforcing or Rethinking? What do News Consumers Want from Journalism in the Post-Truth Era?5
Games and Game Studies Are Meaningful—Are They?5
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic5
Promoting Social Media Engagement Via Branded Content Communication: A Fashion Brands Study on Instagram5
Nano-Influencers Edutubers: Perspective of Centennial Generation Families in Spain5
Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality5
Harnessing 360-Degree Video to Prompt Users to Think Along With Pro-Environmental Campaign Messages5
Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing5
E-Commerce as a Source of Revenue in Spanish Digital News Media5
Editorial: Redefining Televisuality—Programmes, Practices, and Methods5
Gendered Zootopia on Instagram: Curation of Pet Accounts and Identity Representation5
Can Pop Culture Allay Resentment? Japan’s Influence in China Today5
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims5
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe5
Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture5
Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary5
How Algorithmic Systems Changed Communication in a Digital Society5
Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile: Methodological Reflection on Doing Ethnography on (Social) Media Practices5
One Recommender Fits All? An Exploration of User Satisfaction With Text-Based News Recommender Systems4
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication4
A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers4
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community4
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey4
Thinking Geomedia Futures: Indigenous Futurisms, Afrofuturisms, and Counter-Mediations of Temporality, Spatiality, and Digitality4
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance4
Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War4
Trolls, Pressure and Agenda: The discursive fight on Twitter in Turkey4
New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking4
Geomedia Perspectives for Multiple Futures in Tourism Development4
Ghosting on Tinder: Examining Disconnectivity in Online Dating4
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Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts4
The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter4
The Nordic Story4
What Does “Being Informed” Mean? Assessing Social Media Users’ Self-Concepts of Informedness4
Examining the Role of Online Uncivil Discussion and Ideological Extremity on Illegal Protest4
Relational Communication Spaces: Infrastructures and Discursive Practices4
The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks4
WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil4
Trust Signals: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Women of Color’s News Trust4
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Emphasizing the Threats of Mis- and Disinformation4
Redefining Hallin and Mancini’s Media System: Cross-Border Investigative Networks in Europe4
Are Certain Types of Microtargeting More Acceptable? Comparing US, German, and Dutch Citizens’ Attitudes4
Age-Based Digital Divide: Uses of the Internet in People Over 54 Years Old4
“Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here”: Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism4
Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood4
Adolescents’ Augmented Reality Filter Usage on Social Media, Developmental Process, and Well-Being4
Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech4
Balancing Intimacy and Trust in Audio Journalism4
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Does Digital Media Use Harm Children’s Emotional Intelligence? A Parental Perspective4
From Social Clubs to Champions for Sports Journalistic Identity and Integrity4
Media Concentration Law: Gaps and Promises in the Digital Age4
Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal4
Towards (Hyper)Local Public Sphere: Comparison of Civic Engagement across the Global North4
Father Influencers’ Short Videos in China: Representations of Hybrid Fatherhood and Commercialisation on Xiaohongshu4
When Everyone Wins: Dialogue, Play, and Black History for Critical Games Education4
Disguising Commercial Intentions: Sponsorship Disclosure Practices of Mexican Instamoms4
“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism4
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The Evolution of Crisis Frames in the European Commission’s Institutional Communication (2003–2022)4
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Meet Bob and Offset Your Flight: Optimising Explainer Videos to Promote Voluntary Carbon Offsetting3
“I Think Quality is More Important Than a Lot of Data” in Cities Datafication3
Women Scientists on TikTok: New Opportunities to Become Visible and Challenge Gender Stereotypes3
Can Media Enhance Deliberative Democracy? Exploring Media Monitoring Capabilities in 14 EU-Countries3
Oblique Agency: Mapping the Globalised Workflows of Television Dubbing and Their Impact on Practitioners3
The Banality of Digital Reputation: A Visual Ethnography of Young People, Reputation, and Social Media3
Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany3
Content Analysis From a Gender Perspective of Comments Received by Spanish Science YouTubers3
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Maternal Health Information Disparities Amid Covid-19: Comparing Urban and Rural Expectant Mothers in Ghana3
An Exploratory Study of Fact-Checking Practices in Conflict and Authoritarian Contexts3
Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism3
Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts3
The Subtle Dynamics of Power Struggles in Tunisia: Local media since the Arab Uprisings3
Editorial: Policy Framing and Branding in Times of Constant Crisis3
Podcasting the Truth: Challenging Journalistic Knowledge and Building Epistemic Authority in Independent YouTube Podcasts3
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More Than Meets the Eye: Understanding Political Microtargeting Processing With Gaze-Cued Retrospective Think-Aloud Methodology3
Music as Soft Power: The Electoral Use of Spotify3
The EU as an ATM? Media Perception Analysis of Next Generation Funds in Spain3
AI Transparency: A Conceptual, Normative, and Practical Frame Analysis3
Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show3
Mapping the Inclusion of Children and Youth With Disabilities in Media Literacy Research3
Beyond Digital Literacy in Australian Prisons: Theorizing “Network Literacy,” Intersectionality, and Female Incarcerated Students3
Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life: Practices and Literacies Across the Lifespan3
Beyond Numeracy, a Data Literacy Topical Scoping Review (2011–2023)3
XR for Transformable and Interactive Design3
Does Social Media Use Matter? A Case Study of the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum3
Insidiously Trivial: How the Political Meme Format Drives Down Corrective Intent3
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists3
The Value of News: Aligning Economic and Social Value From an Institutional Perspective3
Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns3
Bringing the Future to Geomedia Studies: Geomedia as Sociotechnical Regime and Imaginary3
A Relational Approach to How Media Engage With Their Audiences in Social Media3
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Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry3
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An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches3
Cultural Authenticity as Netflix Televisuality: Streaming Industry Discourse and Globally Commissioned Original Series3
Framing Migration During the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa: A 12-Month Media Monitoring Project3
Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League3
Strengthening Responsible Journalism Through Self-Efficacious Learning-Oriented Media Literacy Interventions3
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Digital Inclusion Through Algorithmic Knowledge: Curated Flows of Civic and Political Information on Instagram3
Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation?3
Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Digital (Dis)Connectivity Among Turkish Women in Rome3
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Taking a Dialogical Approach to Guiding Gaming Practices in a Non-Family Context2
Media Control and Citizen-Critical Publics in Russia: Are Some “Pigs” More Equal Than Others?2
Media Accountability: Global Trends and European Monitoring Capabilities2
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Overcoming the Age Barrier: Improving Older Adults’ Detection of Political Disinformation With Media Literacy2
Polarization of Deliberative and Participatory Activists on Social Media2
“Chuck Norris, Please Help!” Transnational Cultural Flows in the 2017 Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania2
Divergent Fan Forums and Political Consciousness Raising2
No People, No News: News Deserts and Areas at Risk in Spain2
Close to Beijing: Geographic Biases in People’s Daily2
Fostering Media Literacy: A Systematic Evidence Review of Intervention Effectiveness for Diverse Target Groups2
Populist Disinformation: Are Citizens With Populist Attitudes Affected Most by Radical Right-Wing Disinformation?2
Fact-Checking Role Performances and Problematic Covid-19 Vaccine Content in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa2
Rhetorics of Hope and Outrage: Emotion and Cynicism in the Coverage the Schengen Accession2
Beyond Mainstream Media and Communication Perspectives on the Arab Uprisings2
The News Crawler: A Big Data Approach to Local Information Ecosystems2
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Understanding Expressions of Self-Determination Theory in the Evaluation of IDEA-Themed VR Storytelling2
Social Media and Contentious Action: The Use and Users of QQ Groups in China2
Contemporary Political Discourse in Digital Games: A Systematic Approach2
Digital Games as Persuasion Spaces for Political Marketing: Joe Biden’s Campaign in Fortnite2
Understanding Media Control in the Digital Age2
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