Media and Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Media and Communication is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers46
Adolescents’ Understanding of the Model of Sponsored Content of Social Media Influencer Instagram Stories43
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change37
The EU’s FIMI Turn: How the European Union External Action Service Reframed the Disinformation Fight36
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research36
AI-Powered Social Media for Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries34
Managing Organisational Tensions in Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Case of Mediapolis34
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking34
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media33
Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants31
Digital Competencies for New Journalistic Work in Media Outlets: A Systematic Review31
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Media Hybridization and the Strategic Value of Political Incivility: Insights From Italian Journalists29
Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation28
The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources25
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram24
Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption23
Editorial: Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media23
The Engagement Imperative: Experiences of Communication Practitioners’ Brand Work in the Music Industry22
Immigrant Influencers on TikTok: Diverse Microcelebrity Profiles and Algorithmic (In)Visibility22
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal21
Harmony in Political Discourse? The Impact of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Perceptions Following Political Conversations21
When Latin American Melodrama Meets Nordic Noir: How SVOD Reshapes Chilean TV Fiction21
Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok21
How Different Training Types and Computer Anxiety Influence Performance and Experiences in Virtual Reality21
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models19
Representing Trust in Digital Journalism19
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations19
Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media18
Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere18
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project18
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Community-Building on Bilibili: The Social Impact of Danmu Comments17
Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India17
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The Refugee Issue in the Greek, German, and British Press During the Covid-19 Pandemic15
Challenging Norms and Practices in Women’s Beach Handball: The Bikini Debate15
Amplifying Player Experience to Facilitate Prosocial Outcomes in a Narrative-Based Serious Game15
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy15
Digital Dis/Connection as Everyday Boundary Work Among Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants in the UK15
Media Framing of Government Crisis Communication During Covid-1914
Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media14
A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts14
Between Memeability and Televisuality: The (Self-)Memefication of Television Series14
Free Press Under Pressure? Experiences and Consequences of Hateful Harassment on Journalists in Germany14
Idols of Promotion and Authenticity on TikTok13
Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage13
Technopopulism and Politainment in Brazil: Bolsonaro Government’s Weekly YouTube Broadcasts13
The Role of Media and Communication in Reducing Uncertainty During the Syria War13
When Ads Become Invisible: Minors’ Advertising Literacy While Using Mobile Phones13
The Limits of Social Media Mobilization: How Protest Movements Adapt to Social Media Logic12
All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-1912
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Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders12
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies12
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces12
How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages12
Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes12
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Intimacy and Professionalism: Dilemmas in the Practice of Chinese Podcasters11
Political Advertising and Data-Driven Campaigning in Australia11
Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony: Evidence From the US and Flanders11
Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina11
Young People’s Diversity and Digital Media: A Systematic Review (2010–2022)11
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation11
Sports Journalists as Agents of Change in Nordic Countries11
The Loss of the Popular: Reconstructing Fifty Years of Studying Popular Culture11
Quantifying Data-Driven Campaigning Across Sponsors and Platforms11
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism: Content Analysis of Chinese Podcasts on Himalaya10
Datacasting: TikTok’s Algorithmic Flow as Televisual Experience10
Journalistic “Innovation” Is Hard To Hate, but Actual Change Is Just Hard10
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
The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Countering Disinformation Moderated by Intellectual Humility10
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices10
Digitalizing Access to Care: How Self-Check-In Kiosks Shape Access to Care and Efficiency of Hospital Services10
Producing Diversity: On the Discourses at the Heart of Netflix’s Production Culture9
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Mediated by Code: Unpacking Algorithmic Curation of Urban Experiences9
SMART 2.0: Social Media Analytics and Reporting Tool Applied to Misinformation Tracking9
South African Media and Politics: Is the Three Models Approach Still Valid After Two Decades?9
Election Fraud and Misinformation on Twitter: Author, Cluster, and Message Antecedents9
FABLE: A New Horizon in Digital Learning and Serious Game Design9
#ThisIsMeChallenge and Music for Empowerment of Marginalized Groups on TikTok9
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The Romanian Media System: Dynamics, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy8
Mediatizing Slum Relocation in Egypt: Between Legitimization and Stigmatization8
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Referendum Campaigns in Hybrid Media Systems: Insights From the New Zealand Cannabis Legalisation Referendum8
Media Work as Field Advancement: The Case of Science Media Center Germany8
Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin8
Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts8
Patterns and Factors of Political Disconnection on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Comparison8
Securing the Youth Vote: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Persuasion on TikTok Among Political Actors8
Automated Trouble: The Role of Algorithmic Selection in Harms on Social Media Platforms8
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-Making and Autonomy in Newsgathering8
Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations8
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture8
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter7
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy7
Migrants as “Objects of Care”: Immigration Coverage in Russian Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic7
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective7
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis7
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?7
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework7
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster7
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs7
What’s “Up Next”? Investigating Algorithmic Recommendations on YouTube Across Issues and Over Time7
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society7
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia7
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites7
The Fact-Checking Initiatives in the EU: A Diverse Ecosystem Against Disinformation7
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication7
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust7
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis7
Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture6
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States6
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims6
Digital Media and Younger Audiences6
How Algorithmic Systems Changed Communication in a Digital Society6
Gendered Zootopia on Instagram: Curation of Pet Accounts and Identity Representation6
The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter6
Editorial: Redefining Televisuality—Programmes, Practices, and Methods6
The Nordic Story6
Promoting Social Media Engagement Via Branded Content Communication: A Fashion Brands Study on Instagram6
Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality6
Reinforcing or Rethinking? What do News Consumers Want from Journalism in the Post-Truth Era?6
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”6
Nano-Influencers Edutubers: Perspective of Centennial Generation Families in Spain6
Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech6
Games and Game Studies Are Meaningful—Are They?6
What Does “Being Informed” Mean? Assessing Social Media Users’ Self-Concepts of Informedness6
Balancing Intimacy and Trust in Audio Journalism6
Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile: Methodological Reflection on Doing Ethnography on (Social) Media Practices6
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe6
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars6
Harnessing 360-Degree Video to Prompt Users to Think Along With Pro-Environmental Campaign Messages6
E-Commerce as a Source of Revenue in Spanish Digital News Media6
Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary6
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic6
Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing6
The Evolution of Crisis Frames in the European Commission’s Institutional Communication (2003–2022)6
A Mixed-Method Approach to Evaluating Citizen Engagement on Government Social-Media Pages5
Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal5
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Ghosting on Tinder: Examining Disconnectivity in Online Dating5
Age-Based Digital Divide: Uses of the Internet in People Over 54 Years Old5
Media Concentration Law: Gaps and Promises in the Digital Age5
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The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance5
From Social Clubs to Champions for Sports Journalistic Identity and Integrity5
Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism5
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Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey5
Disguising Commercial Intentions: Sponsorship Disclosure Practices of Mexican Instamoms5
The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks5
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication5
Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood5
Trust Signals: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Women of Color’s News Trust5
New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking5
Trolls, Pressure and Agenda: The discursive fight on Twitter in Turkey5
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One Recommender Fits All? An Exploration of User Satisfaction With Text-Based News Recommender Systems5
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts5
Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation?5
Does Social Media Use Matter? A Case Study of the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum5
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community5
Thinking Geomedia Futures: Indigenous Futurisms, Afrofuturisms, and Counter-Mediations of Temporality, Spatiality, and Digitality5
Does Digital Media Use Harm Children’s Emotional Intelligence? A Parental Perspective5
Redefining Hallin and Mancini’s Media System: Cross-Border Investigative Networks in Europe5
Examining the Role of Online Uncivil Discussion and Ideological Extremity on Illegal Protest5
A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers5
Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War5
When Everyone Wins: Dialogue, Play, and Black History for Critical Games Education5
Are Certain Types of Microtargeting More Acceptable? Comparing US, German, and Dutch Citizens’ Attitudes5
Geomedia Perspectives for Multiple Futures in Tourism Development5
Adolescents’ Augmented Reality Filter Usage on Social Media, Developmental Process, and Well-Being5
“Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here”: Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism5
Father Influencers’ Short Videos in China: Representations of Hybrid Fatherhood and Commercialisation on Xiaohongshu5
Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany5
Beyond Digital Literacy in Australian Prisons: Theorizing “Network Literacy,” Intersectionality, and Female Incarcerated Students5
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Emphasizing the Threats of Mis- and Disinformation5
WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil5
“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism5
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