Media and Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Media and Communication is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
AI-Powered Social Media for Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries64
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research54
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Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers46
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking45
Behind the Screen: The Use of Facebook Accounts With Inauthentic Behavior During European Elections38
Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation38
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change38
Managing Organisational Tensions in Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Case of Mediapolis37
European Elections in Times of (Poly)Crises: Populism, Polarization, Emotions, and the Deliberative Disintegration37
Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption35
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram32
Media Hybridization and the Strategic Value of Political Incivility: Insights From Italian Journalists31
The EU’s FIMI Turn: How the European Union External Action Service Reframed the Disinformation Fight30
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media28
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Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants26
The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources25
Adolescents’ Understanding of the Model of Sponsored Content of Social Media Influencer Instagram Stories24
Digital Competencies for New Journalistic Work in Media Outlets: A Systematic Review24
Editorial: Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media24
Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere22
Representing Trust in Digital Journalism22
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project21
Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media21
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models20
Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India20
Harmony in Political Discourse? The Impact of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Perceptions Following Political Conversations19
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations19
When Latin American Melodrama Meets Nordic Noir: How SVOD Reshapes Chilean TV Fiction19
Authoritarian Drift and Social Media’s Impact on Romanian Youth During the 2024 European Elections19
Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok18
The Engagement Imperative: Experiences of Communication Practitioners’ Brand Work in the Music Industry18
How Different Training Types and Computer Anxiety Influence Performance and Experiences in Virtual Reality18
Artificial Amplification and Intermedia Dynamics in the Hybrid Media System: The Case of #LaschetLacht18
Immigrant Influencers on TikTok: Diverse Microcelebrity Profiles and Algorithmic (In)Visibility17
Normalizing Government Social Media Communication: A Swedish Case Analysis17
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal17
The Refugee Issue in the Greek, German, and British Press During the Covid-19 Pandemic16
Community-Building on Bilibili: The Social Impact of Danmu Comments16
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Between Memeability and Televisuality: The (Self-)Memefication of Television Series15
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Challenging Norms and Practices in Women’s Beach Handball: The Bikini Debate15
A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts14
Amplifying Player Experience to Facilitate Prosocial Outcomes in a Narrative-Based Serious Game14
When Ads Become Invisible: Minors’ Advertising Literacy While Using Mobile Phones14
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies14
Free Press Under Pressure? Experiences and Consequences of Hateful Harassment on Journalists in Germany14
How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages13
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy13
The Limits of Social Media Mobilization: How Protest Movements Adapt to Social Media Logic13
Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media13
The Role of Media and Communication in Reducing Uncertainty During the Syria War13
Digital Dis/Connection as Everyday Boundary Work Among Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants in the UK13
Technopopulism and Politainment in Brazil: Bolsonaro Government’s Weekly YouTube Broadcasts12
Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage12
Media Framing of Government Crisis Communication During Covid-1912
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces11
Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes11
Intimacy and Professionalism: Dilemmas in the Practice of Chinese Podcasters11
Idols of Promotion and Authenticity on TikTok11
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All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-1911
Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina11
Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders11
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Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony: Evidence From the US and Flanders11
Political Advertising and Data-Driven Campaigning in Australia10
Quantifying Data-Driven Campaigning Across Sponsors and Platforms10
Journalistic “Innovation” Is Hard To Hate, but Actual Change Is Just Hard10
Sports Journalists as Agents of Change in Nordic Countries10
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation10
Political Discourse, Emotions, and Polarization: A Case Study of the President of the Madrid Region10
Harmonizing Traditional Journalistic Values With Emerging AI Technologies: A Systematic Review of Journalists’ Perception10
Young People’s Diversity and Digital Media: A Systematic Review (2010–2022)10
The Covid-19 Information Void: How Pro-Vaccination Voices Lost the Narrative in South Africa10
Datacasting: TikTok’s Algorithmic Flow as Televisual Experience10
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism: Content Analysis of Chinese Podcasts on Himalaya10
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices9
#ThisIsMeChallenge and Music for Empowerment of Marginalized Groups on TikTok9
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South African Media and Politics: Is the Three Models Approach Still Valid After Two Decades?9
Producing Diversity: On the Discourses at the Heart of Netflix’s Production Culture9
FABLE: A New Horizon in Digital Learning and Serious Game Design9
Digitalizing Access to Care: How Self-Check-In Kiosks Shape Access to Care and Efficiency of Hospital Services9
The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Countering Disinformation Moderated by Intellectual Humility9
SMART 2.0: Social Media Analytics and Reporting Tool Applied to Misinformation Tracking9
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Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations8
Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin8
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Patterns and Factors of Political Disconnection on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Comparison8
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis8
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Election Fraud and Misinformation on Twitter: Author, Cluster, and Message Antecedents8
Securing the Youth Vote: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Persuasion on TikTok Among Political Actors8
Counter-Mapping: Visual Strategies for Alternative Imaginaries8
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture8
Media Work as Field Advancement: The Case of Science Media Center Germany8
Mediatizing Slum Relocation in Egypt: Between Legitimization and Stigmatization8
The Romanian Media System: Dynamics, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy8
Referendum Campaigns in Hybrid Media Systems: Insights From the New Zealand Cannabis Legalisation Referendum8
Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts8
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?8
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter7
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”7
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars7
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster7
The Fact-Checking Initiatives in the EU: A Diverse Ecosystem Against Disinformation7
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites7
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy7
Nano-Influencers Edutubers: Perspective of Centennial Generation Families in Spain7
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims7
Historical Roots of Information Flows in Hybrid Media Systems7
Harnessing 360-Degree Video to Prompt Users to Think Along With Pro-Environmental Campaign Messages7
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia7
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs7
Migrants as “Objects of Care”: Immigration Coverage in Russian Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic7
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis7
Promoting Social Media Engagement Via Branded Content Communication: A Fashion Brands Study on Instagram7
Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile: Methodological Reflection on Doing Ethnography on (Social) Media Practices7
Editorial: Redefining Televisuality—Programmes, Practices, and Methods7
Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality7
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society7
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework7
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust7
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective7
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication7
The Nordic Story6
E-Commerce as a Source of Revenue in Spanish Digital News Media6
Age-Based Digital Divide: Uses of the Internet in People Over 54 Years Old6
Trust Signals: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Women of Color’s News Trust6
Geomedia Perspectives for Multiple Futures in Tourism Development6
What Does “Being Informed” Mean? Assessing Social Media Users’ Self-Concepts of Informedness6
Balancing Intimacy and Trust in Audio Journalism6
Games and Game Studies Are Meaningful—Are They?6
Reinforcing or Rethinking? What do News Consumers Want from Journalism in the Post-Truth Era?6
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe6
Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech6
The Evolution of Crisis Frames in the European Commission’s Institutional Communication (2003–2022)6
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance6
When Everyone Wins: Dialogue, Play, and Black History for Critical Games Education6
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Redefining Hallin and Mancini’s Media System: Cross-Border Investigative Networks in Europe6
Digital Media and Younger Audiences6
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic6
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts6
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States6
Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing6
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication6
Media Concentration Law: Gaps and Promises in the Digital Age6
The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter6
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Gendered Zootopia on Instagram: Curation of Pet Accounts and Identity Representation6
You Have not Disappeared: Digital Mourning Spaces After a Social Media Celebrity’s Self-Obituary6
Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary6
Ghosting on Tinder: Examining Disconnectivity in Online Dating5
Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism5
Are Certain Types of Microtargeting More Acceptable? Comparing US, German, and Dutch Citizens’ Attitudes5
Remapping the Legacy of Enslavement: Street Names, Stealth Stickers, and the Living Black Atlas5
Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood5
Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation?5
Father Influencers’ Short Videos in China: Representations of Hybrid Fatherhood and Commercialisation on Xiaohongshu5
Oblique Agency: Mapping the Globalised Workflows of Television Dubbing and Their Impact on Practitioners5
Does Digital Media Use Harm Children’s Emotional Intelligence? A Parental Perspective5
Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War5
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The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks5
WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil5
An Exploratory Study of Fact-Checking Practices in Conflict and Authoritarian Contexts5
Does Social Media Use Matter? A Case Study of the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum5
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Maternal Health Information Disparities Amid Covid-19: Comparing Urban and Rural Expectant Mothers in Ghana5
From Social Clubs to Champions for Sports Journalistic Identity and Integrity5
Investigating Publics’ Communicative Action in Problem Solving (CAPS) Through Data Science5
“Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here”: Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism5
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“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism5
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Emphasizing the Threats of Mis- and Disinformation5
A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers5
A Mixed-Method Approach to Evaluating Citizen Engagement on Government Social-Media Pages5
XR for Transformable and Interactive Design5
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey5
Beyond Digital Literacy in Australian Prisons: Theorizing “Network Literacy,” Intersectionality, and Female Incarcerated Students5
New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking5
Cultural Authenticity as Netflix Televisuality: Streaming Industry Discourse and Globally Commissioned Original Series5
Thinking Geomedia Futures: Indigenous Futurisms, Afrofuturisms, and Counter-Mediations of Temporality, Spatiality, and Digitality5
The Regulation of Disinformation Under the Digital Services Act5
Examining the Role of Online Uncivil Discussion and Ideological Extremity on Illegal Protest5
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community5
Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal5
Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League5
Adolescents’ Augmented Reality Filter Usage on Social Media, Developmental Process, and Well-Being5
Disguising Commercial Intentions: Sponsorship Disclosure Practices of Mexican Instamoms5
Podcasting the Truth: Challenging Journalistic Knowledge and Building Epistemic Authority in Independent YouTube Podcasts4
Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Digital (Dis)Connectivity Among Turkish Women in Rome4
Network Analysis for Media Ownership: A Methodological Proposal4
Media and Journalism Research in Small European Countries4
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Beyond Brexit? Public Participation in Decision-Making on Campaign Data During and After Referendum Campaigns4
Digital Inclusion Through Algorithmic Knowledge: Curated Flows of Civic and Political Information on Instagram4
The EU as an ATM? Media Perception Analysis of Next Generation Funds in Spain4
An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches4
Editorial: Policy Framing and Branding in Times of Constant Crisis4
Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry4
Exploring the Challenges of Generative AI on Public Sector Communication in Europe4
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Missing Bodies, Silent Pages: How Turkish Media Portrays Journalist Murders and Silence4
Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life: Practices and Literacies Across the Lifespan4
Entanglements of Identity and Resilience in the Camp Fire’s Network of Disaster-Specific Facebook Groups4
Content Analysis From a Gender Perspective of Comments Received by Spanish Science YouTubers4
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Meet Bob and Offset Your Flight: Optimising Explainer Videos to Promote Voluntary Carbon Offsetting4
“Periphery-Centric” Approach as a Tactic for Everyday Digital In- and Exclusion of Indonesian Villages4
Women Scientists on TikTok: New Opportunities to Become Visible and Challenge Gender Stereotypes4
The Value of News: Aligning Economic and Social Value From an Institutional Perspective4
More Than Meets the Eye: Understanding Political Microtargeting Processing With Gaze-Cued Retrospective Think-Aloud Methodology4
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Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany4
Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts4
Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System4
Public Institutions Meet TikTok: Communication Strategies and the Rise of Govtainment4
Outsourced Propaganda: The Role of Journalists in China’s Government Social Media4
Politainment on Twitter: Engagement in the Spanish Legislative Elections of April 20194
Strengthening Responsible Journalism Through Self-Efficacious Learning-Oriented Media Literacy Interventions4
Fact-Checkers as New Journalistic Mediators: News Agencies’ Verification Units and Platform Dynamics4
Framing Migration During the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa: A 12-Month Media Monitoring Project4
Crime News Under Digitization Process in French and German Newsrooms: Standardization and Diversification of News under Web-First Pressure4
Government Communication on Social Media: Balancing Platforms, Propaganda, and Public Service4
Exploring European Citizens’ Resilience to Misinformation: Media Legitimacy and Media Trust as Predictive Variables4
Bringing the Future to Geomedia Studies: Geomedia as Sociotechnical Regime and Imaginary4
“I Think Quality is More Important Than a Lot of Data” in Cities Datafication4
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists4
Obesogenic Features of Food-Related Content Aimed at Children on YouTube4
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Can Media Enhance Deliberative Democracy? Exploring Media Monitoring Capabilities in 14 EU-Countries4
Mapping the Inclusion of Children and Youth With Disabilities in Media Literacy Research4
The Role of Harm, Misinformer Age, and Information Scrutiny on Adolescents’ Trust in Misinformation4
Transforming Disinformation on Minorities Into a Pedagogical Resource: Towards a Critical Intercultural News Literacy4
The Subtle Dynamics of Power Struggles in Tunisia: Local media since the Arab Uprisings4
Beyond the Dutch Quota: Media Policy and Cultural Diversity in Local Video-on-Demand Production (2013–2023)4
AI Transparency: A Conceptual, Normative, and Practical Frame Analysis4
Newsworthiness as a Governing Principle in Public Sector Communication4
Beyond Numeracy, a Data Literacy Topical Scoping Review (2011–2023)4
A Relational Approach to How Media Engage With Their Audiences in Social Media4
Insidiously Trivial: How the Political Meme Format Drives Down Corrective Intent4
Music as Soft Power: The Electoral Use of Spotify4
Defining Journalistic Autonomy in the Wake of Disinformation in Spain3
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