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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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AI-Powered Social Media for Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries57
Media Hybridization and the Strategic Value of Political Incivility: Insights From Italian Journalists48
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research48
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Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers40
Managing Organisational Tensions in Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Case of Mediapolis38
Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption37
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram36
Behind the Screen: The Use of Facebook Accounts With Inauthentic Behavior During European Elections35
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change34
The EU’s FIMI Turn: How the European Union External Action Service Reframed the Disinformation Fight33
Digital Competencies for New Journalistic Work in Media Outlets: A Systematic Review32
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media31
Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants30
Adolescents’ Understanding of the Model of Sponsored Content of Social Media Influencer Instagram Stories28
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Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation24
The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources24
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking23
Editorial: Networks and Organizing Processes in Online Social Media23
Immigrant Influencers on TikTok: Diverse Microcelebrity Profiles and Algorithmic (In)Visibility23
Representing Trust in Digital Journalism22
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project21
Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere21
Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media21
The Engagement Imperative: Experiences of Communication Practitioners’ Brand Work in the Music Industry19
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models19
Community-Building on Bilibili: The Social Impact of Danmu Comments19
Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India19
Normalizing Government Social Media Communication: A Swedish Case Analysis19
Harmony in Political Discourse? The Impact of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Perceptions Following Political Conversations18
When Latin American Melodrama Meets Nordic Noir: How SVOD Reshapes Chilean TV Fiction18
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations17
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal17
How Different Training Types and Computer Anxiety Influence Performance and Experiences in Virtual Reality17
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Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok16
The Refugee Issue in the Greek, German, and British Press During the Covid-19 Pandemic16
Authoritarian Drift and Social Media’s Impact on Romanian Youth During the 2024 European Elections16
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
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Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media14
Amplifying Player Experience to Facilitate Prosocial Outcomes in a Narrative-Based Serious Game14
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy14
Technopopulism and Politainment in Brazil: Bolsonaro Government’s Weekly YouTube Broadcasts13
A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts13
Free Press Under Pressure? Experiences and Consequences of Hateful Harassment on Journalists in Germany13
Idols of Promotion and Authenticity on TikTok13
Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage13
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies13
When Ads Become Invisible: Minors’ Advertising Literacy While Using Mobile Phones13
How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages12
The Role of Media and Communication in Reducing Uncertainty During the Syria War12
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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 Logic12
Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes12
Media Framing of Government Crisis Communication During Covid-1912
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces12
Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders12
Intimacy and Professionalism: Dilemmas in the Practice of Chinese Podcasters11
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Quantifying Data-Driven Campaigning Across Sponsors and Platforms11
The Covid-19 Information Void: How Pro-Vaccination Voices Lost the Narrative in South Africa11
Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina11
Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony: Evidence From the US and Flanders11
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation11
All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-1911
Sports Journalists as Agents of Change in Nordic Countries11
Young People’s Diversity and Digital Media: A Systematic Review (2010–2022)11
Political Advertising and Data-Driven Campaigning in Australia11
SMART 2.0: Social Media Analytics and Reporting Tool Applied to Misinformation Tracking10
Harmonizing Traditional Journalistic Values With Emerging AI Technologies: A Systematic Review of Journalists’ Perception10
Producing Diversity: On the Discourses at the Heart of Netflix’s Production Culture10
Digitalizing Access to Care: How Self-Check-In Kiosks Shape Access to Care and Efficiency of Hospital Services10
Journalistic “Innovation” Is Hard To Hate, but Actual Change Is Just Hard10
FABLE: A New Horizon in Digital Learning and Serious Game Design10
Datacasting: TikTok’s Algorithmic Flow as Televisual Experience10
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism: Content Analysis of Chinese Podcasts on Himalaya10
Political Discourse, Emotions, and Polarization: A Case Study of the President of the Madrid Region9
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices9
The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Countering Disinformation Moderated by Intellectual Humility9
South African Media and Politics: Is the Three Models Approach Still Valid After Two Decades?9
Mediated by Code: Unpacking Algorithmic Curation of Urban Experiences9
#ThisIsMeChallenge and Music for Empowerment of Marginalized Groups on TikTok9
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Media Work as Field Advancement: The Case of Science Media Center Germany8
Referendum Campaigns in Hybrid Media Systems: Insights From the New Zealand Cannabis Legalisation Referendum8
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Securing the Youth Vote: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Persuasion on TikTok Among Political Actors8
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?8
The Romanian Media System: Dynamics, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy8
Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations8
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Election Fraud and Misinformation on Twitter: Author, Cluster, and Message Antecedents8
Mediatizing Slum Relocation in Egypt: Between Legitimization and Stigmatization8
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-Making and Autonomy in Newsgathering8
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia8
Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts8
Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin8
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture8
Patterns and Factors of Political Disconnection on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Comparison8
Automated Trouble: The Role of Algorithmic Selection in Harms on Social Media Platforms8
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis8
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites7
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs7
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster7
Nano-Influencers Edutubers: Perspective of Centennial Generation Families in Spain7
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society7
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis7
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust7
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter7
The Fact-Checking Initiatives in the EU: A Diverse Ecosystem Against Disinformation7
Digital Media and Younger Audiences7
What’s “Up Next”? Investigating Algorithmic Recommendations on YouTube Across Issues and Over Time7
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
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy7
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework7
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims7
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication7
Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile: Methodological Reflection on Doing Ethnography on (Social) Media Practices6
Harnessing 360-Degree Video to Prompt Users to Think Along With Pro-Environmental Campaign Messages6
Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality6
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”6
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts6
Balancing Intimacy and Trust in Audio Journalism6
Gendered Zootopia on Instagram: Curation of Pet Accounts and Identity Representation6
E-Commerce as a Source of Revenue in Spanish Digital News Media6
Promoting Social Media Engagement Via Branded Content Communication: A Fashion Brands Study on Instagram6
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe6
Reinforcing or Rethinking? What do News Consumers Want from Journalism in the Post-Truth Era?6
What Does “Being Informed” Mean? Assessing Social Media Users’ Self-Concepts of Informedness6
One Recommender Fits All? An Exploration of User Satisfaction With Text-Based News Recommender Systems6
The Evolution of Crisis Frames in the European Commission’s Institutional Communication (2003–2022)6
Games and Game Studies Are Meaningful—Are They?6
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States6
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars6
How Algorithmic Systems Changed Communication in a Digital Society6
Editorial: Redefining Televisuality—Programmes, Practices, and Methods6
Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing6
The Nordic Story6
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic6
Disguising Commercial Intentions: Sponsorship Disclosure Practices of Mexican Instamoms5
Father Influencers’ Short Videos in China: Representations of Hybrid Fatherhood and Commercialisation on Xiaohongshu5
Media Concentration Law: Gaps and Promises in the Digital Age5
Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech5
Adolescents’ Augmented Reality Filter Usage on Social Media, Developmental Process, and Well-Being5
“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism5
Trust Signals: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Women of Color’s News Trust5
An Exploratory Study of Fact-Checking Practices in Conflict and Authoritarian Contexts5
The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks5
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community5
Redefining Hallin and Mancini’s Media System: Cross-Border Investigative Networks in Europe5
Ghosting on Tinder: Examining Disconnectivity in Online Dating5
Trolls, Pressure and Agenda: The discursive fight on Twitter in Turkey5
Are Certain Types of Microtargeting More Acceptable? Comparing US, German, and Dutch Citizens’ Attitudes5
Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood5
“Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here”: Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism5
A Mixed-Method Approach to Evaluating Citizen Engagement on Government Social-Media Pages5
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Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary5
Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal5
Does Digital Media Use Harm Children’s Emotional Intelligence? A Parental Perspective5
A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers5
Digital Inclusion Through Algorithmic Knowledge: Curated Flows of Civic and Political Information on Instagram5
The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter5
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Emphasizing the Threats of Mis- and Disinformation5
Geomedia Perspectives for Multiple Futures in Tourism Development5
Maternal Health Information Disparities Amid Covid-19: Comparing Urban and Rural Expectant Mothers in Ghana5
WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil5
From Social Clubs to Champions for Sports Journalistic Identity and Integrity5
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey5
When Everyone Wins: Dialogue, Play, and Black History for Critical Games Education5
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Examining the Role of Online Uncivil Discussion and Ideological Extremity on Illegal Protest5
Thinking Geomedia Futures: Indigenous Futurisms, Afrofuturisms, and Counter-Mediations of Temporality, Spatiality, and Digitality5
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance5
XR for Transformable and Interactive Design5
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication5
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New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking5
Age-Based Digital Divide: Uses of the Internet in People Over 54 Years Old5
Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War5
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