Media and Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Media and Communication is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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AI-Powered Social Media for Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries71
Behind the Screen: The Use of Facebook Accounts With Inauthentic Behavior During European Elections67
Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption56
Instaworthy? Examining the Effects of (Targeted) Civic Education Ads on Instagram52
Normative Commitments and Platform Logics: Understanding Journalism’s Adaptive Resilience Through Coverage of Democratic Innovations36
Information Foraging With Generative AI: Usage Patterns in Germany and Israel35
On the Continued Need for Replication in Media and Communication Research34
Digital Resilience Within a Hypermediated Polycrisis34
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change30
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The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory: Twitter’s Political Influencers, Narratives, and Information Sources29
Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking29
Media Hybridization and the Strategic Value of Political Incivility: Insights From Italian Journalists27
European Elections in Times of (Poly)Crises: Populism, Polarization, Emotions, and the Deliberative Disintegration26
Between Conflict and Solidarity: Pandemic Media Coverage of Romanian Intra-EU Labour Migrants25
Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid-19 Among Influencers24
Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media24
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Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation21
Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media20
Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project20
Experimentation on TikTok, Standardisation on Reels? Party Short-Form Video Use in the 2024 UK General Election20
The EU’s FIMI Turn: How the European Union External Action Service Reframed the Disinformation Fight20
How Different Training Types and Computer Anxiety Influence Performance and Experiences in Virtual Reality20
Exploring Trust and Literacy in Engagement With Generative AI and Science Information Behavior20
Organizations as Innovations: Examining Changes in Journalism Through the Lens of Newly-Emerging Organizations20
Harmony in Political Discourse? The Impact of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Perceptions Following Political Conversations19
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 Elections18
Artificial Amplification and Intermedia Dynamics in the Hybrid Media System: The Case of #LaschetLacht18
Representing Trust in Digital Journalism17
Normalizing Government Social Media Communication: A Swedish Case Analysis17
Digital Barricades and Blackouts: A Case of Internet Shutdowns in India17
The Evolution of Government Intervention in the Mediterranean Media System: Spain, France, and Portugal16
Symbiosis or Precarity? Digital Platforms’ Role on Australian Digital-Native Journalism and Their Funding Models16
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Media Coverage of Social Cohesion and Minorities During Riots in the UK and Spain16
The Right not to Drown: Data Visualisation in Contemporary Art15
Between Memeability and Televisuality: The (Self-)Memefication of Television Series15
Free Press Under Pressure? Experiences and Consequences of Hateful Harassment on Journalists in Germany15
Challenging Norms and Practices in Women’s Beach Handball: The Bikini Debate15
How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages15
Another Violent Protest? New Perspectives to Understand Protest Coverage15
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Digital Dis/Connection as Everyday Boundary Work Among Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants in the UK14
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies14
Cut-Off Low (DANA) in Valencia: Visual Representation of Death and Grief in Photojournalism14
The Refugee Issue in the Greek, German, and British Press During the Covid-19 Pandemic13
Technopopulism and Politainment in Brazil: Bolsonaro Government’s Weekly YouTube Broadcasts13
Contextualization: A Path to Chinese Traditional News Media’s Integration Into Social Media13
Idols of Promotion and Authenticity on TikTok13
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Media Framing of Government Crisis Communication During Covid-1913
The Limits of Social Media Mobilization: How Protest Movements Adapt to Social Media Logic13
A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts12
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy12
The Instagram Interview: Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces12
Amplifying Player Experience to Facilitate Prosocial Outcomes in a Narrative-Based Serious Game12
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Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders12
Sports Journalists as Agents of Change in Nordic Countries12
Intimacy and Professionalism: Dilemmas in the Practice of Chinese Podcasters11
“Vote for Me, I Am Authentic”: Performed Political Authenticity on Social Media11
Political Advertising and Data-Driven Campaigning in Australia11
Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony: Evidence From the US and Flanders11
Quantifying Data-Driven Campaigning Across Sponsors and Platforms11
Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina11
The Covid-19 Information Void: How Pro-Vaccination Voices Lost the Narrative in South Africa11
Seeking With Sentiment: Emotional Attachment and the Use of Generative AI as an Information Intermediary11
All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-1910
Political Discourse, Emotions, and Polarization: A Case Study of the President of the Madrid Region10
Producing Diversity: On the Discourses at the Heart of Netflix’s Production Culture10
The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on Countering Disinformation Moderated by Intellectual Humility10
Googling Referendum Campaigns: Analyzing Online Search Patterns Regarding Swiss Direct-Democratic Votes10
Journalistic “Innovation” Is Hard To Hate, but Actual Change Is Just Hard10
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices10
Datacasting: TikTok’s Algorithmic Flow as Televisual Experience10
Young People’s Diversity and Digital Media: A Systematic Review (2010–2022)10
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation10
SMART 2.0: Social Media Analytics and Reporting Tool Applied to Misinformation Tracking10
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism: Content Analysis of Chinese Podcasts on Himalaya10
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FABLE: A New Horizon in Digital Learning and Serious Game Design9
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The Romanian Media System: Dynamics, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy9
Patterns and Factors of Political Disconnection on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Comparison9
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture9
Digitalizing Access to Care: How Self-Check-In Kiosks Shape Access to Care and Efficiency of Hospital Services9
Referendum Campaigns in Hybrid Media Systems: Insights From the New Zealand Cannabis Legalisation Referendum9
Securing the Youth Vote: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Persuasion on TikTok Among Political Actors9
South African Media and Politics: Is the Three Models Approach Still Valid After Two Decades?9
Counter-Mapping: Visual Strategies for Alternative Imaginaries9
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Harmonizing Traditional Journalistic Values With Emerging AI Technologies: A Systematic Review of Journalists’ Perception9
Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts9
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Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin9
Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations9
Editorial: Redefining Televisuality—Programmes, Practices, and Methods8
Governing Health Risk Communication in the Age of AI: Approaches from Brazil and Germany8
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective8
Vulnerability to Disinformation in Relation to Political Affiliation in North Macedonia8
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication8
Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the ArcGIS and ESRI-Blogs8
(De)Legitimation in Policy Transfer and Branding: A Dialogical View of the Romanian Covid-19 Vaccination Policy8
Digital Media and Younger Audiences8
Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims8
Harnessing 360-Degree Video to Prompt Users to Think Along With Pro-Environmental Campaign Messages8
How China Divides the Left: Competing Transnational Left-Wing Alternative Media on Twitter8
Media Coverage as Mirror or Molder? An Inference-Based Framework8
A Transnational Network Analysis of Refugees in Crisis8
The Awkward Moment When You Agree With News Outlets That You Normally Distrust8
The Fact-Checking Initiatives in the EU: A Diverse Ecosystem Against Disinformation8
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe8
Historical Roots of Information Flows in Hybrid Media Systems8
Do Intensive Public Debates on Direct-Democratic Ballots Narrow the Gender Gap in Social Media Use?8
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites8
Migrants as “Objects of Care”: Immigration Coverage in Russian Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic8
Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society8
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster8
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars8
Digital Resilience to Disinformation: From Libraries to Citizens7
Redefining Hallin and Mancini’s Media System: Cross-Border Investigative Networks in Europe7
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance7
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Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech7
You Have not Disappeared: Digital Mourning Spaces After a Social Media Celebrity’s Self-Obituary7
The Nordic Story7
Watching the Watchdogs: Using Transparency Cues to Help News Audiences Assess Information Quality7
Pre-Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions”7
What Does “Being Informed” Mean? Assessing Social Media Users’ Self-Concepts of Informedness7
The Evolution of Crisis Frames in the European Commission’s Institutional Communication (2003–2022)7
Geomedia Perspectives for Multiple Futures in Tourism Development7
Trust Signals: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Women of Color’s News Trust7
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When Everyone Wins: Dialogue, Play, and Black History for Critical Games Education7
Balancing Intimacy and Trust in Audio Journalism7
E-Commerce as a Source of Revenue in Spanish Digital News Media7
Gendered Zootopia on Instagram: Curation of Pet Accounts and Identity Representation7
Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile: Methodological Reflection on Doing Ethnography on (Social) Media Practices7
The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter7
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts7
Hypermediated Adolescence: Tactical Resilience Through and Against the Digital in Post-Pandemic China7
Adolescents’ Augmented Reality Filter Usage on Social Media, Developmental Process, and Well-Being7
Media Concentration Law: Gaps and Promises in the Digital Age7
Information Patterns and News Bubbles in Hungary7
Delayed Reflections: Media and Journalism Data Deserts in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic7
Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing7
Reinforcing or Rethinking? What do News Consumers Want from Journalism in the Post-Truth Era?7
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States7
Games and Game Studies Are Meaningful—Are They?7
“Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here”: Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism6
XR for Transformable and Interactive Design6
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Does Social Media Use Matter? A Case Study of the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum6
Are Certain Types of Microtargeting More Acceptable? Comparing US, German, and Dutch Citizens’ Attitudes6
Remapping the Legacy of Enslavement: Street Names, Stealth Stickers, and the Living Black Atlas6
Beyond Digital Literacy in Australian Prisons: Theorizing “Network Literacy,” Intersectionality, and Female Incarcerated Students6
Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism6
Cultural Authenticity as Netflix Televisuality: Streaming Industry Discourse and Globally Commissioned Original Series6
A Mixed-Method Approach to Evaluating Citizen Engagement on Government Social-Media Pages6
Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War6
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey6
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Emphasizing the Threats of Mis- and Disinformation6
Thinking Geomedia Futures: Indigenous Futurisms, Afrofuturisms, and Counter-Mediations of Temporality, Spatiality, and Digitality6
Journalistic Framing of Finnish Ice Hockey Club Jokerit in the Russian-Led Kontinental Hockey League6
“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism6
The Regulation of Disinformation Under the Digital Services Act6
Editorial: Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies—Entertainment, Expertise, and Online Selfhood6
VR Heterotopia: User Imaginaries of Virtual Reality Headsets as Technology for Reaching Utopic Spaces6
The Spectre of Populist Leadership: QAnon, Emergent Formations, and Digital Community6
Investigating Publics’ Communicative Action in Problem Solving (CAPS) Through Data Science6
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication6
The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks6
From Social Clubs to Champions for Sports Journalistic Identity and Integrity6
Father Influencers’ Short Videos in China: Representations of Hybrid Fatherhood and Commercialisation on Xiaohongshu6
WhatsApp as a Tool for Researching the Everyday Lives of Venezuelan Refugees Settling in Brazil6
Digital Inclusion Through Algorithmic Knowledge: Curated Flows of Civic and Political Information on Instagram6
Examining the Role of Online Uncivil Discussion and Ideological Extremity on Illegal Protest6
The Affective Lives of Cruising: Recharting Space, Place, and Time6
Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal6
Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation?6
Oblique Agency: Mapping the Globalised Workflows of Television Dubbing and Their Impact on Practitioners6
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New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking6
Age-Based Digital Divide: Uses of the Internet in People Over 54 Years Old6
Ghosting on Tinder: Examining Disconnectivity in Online Dating6
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