Media and Communication (ISSN: 2183-2439) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.
Open Access: free to read and share, with an article processing charge for accepted papers to offset production costs (more details here).
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| #TradWives: A Qualitative Meaning-Making Study of Gendered Norms, Moral Appropriation, and Feminism | |||||||||
| Pip Heldoorn, Joël Hendrix, Lisa Vandeberg and Serena Daalmans | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Faces of Europe: Structural Drivers of Visual Personalization in Political Parties’ Facebook Campaigns | |||||||||
| Melanie Magin, Uta Russmann, Rossella Vulcano, Felix-Christopher von Nostitz, Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katjana Gattermann, Laura Alonso-Muñoz, Delia Cristina Balaban, Paweł Baranowski, Krisztina Burai, Jean Claude Cachia, Tomaž Deželan, Michal Garaj, Babette Hermans, Konstantinos Kallinikos, Elisa Kannasto, Simon Kruschinski, Georgios Lappas, Sara Machado, Alena Pospíšil Macková, Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Ilva Skulte, Milica Vučković and Matt Wall | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| From Brotherhood to Homo-Desire: The (Im)Moral Production of Unfulfilled Romance in Chinese Bromance | |||||||||
| Pengnan Hu and Rishuai Chen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Moralized Trigger Loops of Gender Politics in Alternative Media Spheres | |||||||||
| Katharina Schöppl | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Echoes of Emotion: Influencers’ Communication Strategies and Comment Polarization in the US 2024 Presidential Election | |||||||||
| Xianquan Zeng, Jiarun Du, Jinghong Xu and Qiong Xu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Different Shades of Cooperation: Mapping Political Parties’ Involvement With Influencers | |||||||||
| Nils S. Borchers | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Communicating Risk, Trust, and Resilience Among Diverse and Marginalised Populations | |||||||||
| Ian Somerville and Jenny Zhengye Hou | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 29 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| (Re)Contextualizing Organizing Inequities: The Communicative Production of Worker Vulnerability in Global Supply Chains | |||||||||
| Shiv Ganesh, Bhoopali Keshav Nandurkar and Sha Sun | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Effects of Framing and Identity Cues in Science Communication With and About AI | |||||||||
| Daniel Silva Luna, Helena Bilandzic and Martin Bürger | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Experimentation on TikTok, Standardisation on Reels? Party Short-Form Video Use in the 2024 UK General Election | |||||||||
| Rosalynd Southern, Niamh Cashell, Liam McLoughlin and Ploykamol Suwantawit | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Representation of Vulnerable Groups in Dutch Climate Crisis News: An Analysis of Mainstream Narratives | |||||||||
| Sergül Nguyen, Dennis Nguyen and Yijing Wang | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| The “TikTok Messiah”: Ritualized Emotional Performance, Memetic Sound, and Mobilization in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Elections | |||||||||
| Radu M. Meza, Andreea-Alina Mogoș, George Prundaru and Hanna Orsolya Vincze | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| “Liars” and “Frauds”: A Longitudinal Study of Negativity on Austrian Election Posters | |||||||||
| Lore Hayek | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Cognitive Implications of Using GenAI in Design Thinking: Insights From Educational Case Studies | |||||||||
| Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel, Meira Levy, Sofia Sherman and Irit Hadar | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Digital Resilience Within a Hypermediated Polycrisis | |||||||||
| Marc Esteve del Valle, Ansgard Heinrich and Anabel Quan-Haase | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 2 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Understanding Social Media Logic | |||||||||
| José van Dijck and Thomas Poell | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2013 | |||||||||
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| Marketing to Youth in the Digital Age: The Promotion of Unhealthy Products and Health Promoting Behaviours on Social Media | |||||||||
| Sally Dunlop, Becky Freeman and Sandra C. Jones | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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| “School Strike 4 Climate”: Social Media and the International Youth Protest on Climate Change | |||||||||
| Shelley Boulianne, Mireille Lalancette and David Ilkiw | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 May 2020 | |||||||||
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| Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey | |||||||||
| Ellen Wartella, Vicky Rideout, Heather Montague, Leanne Beaudoin-Ryan and Alexis Lauricella | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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| Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence | |||||||||
| Kathryn L. Mills | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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| Social Media Influencers’ Role in Shaping Political Opinions and Actions of Young Audiences | |||||||||
| Christina Peter and Luisa Muth | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 3 August 2023 | |||||||||
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| A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers | |||||||||
| Delia Cristina Balaban and Julia Szambolics | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 February 2022 | |||||||||
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| TikTok and Political Communication: The Latest Frontier of Politainment? A Case Study | |||||||||
| Laura Cervi, Santiago Tejedor and Fernando García Blesa | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023 | |||||||||
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| Welcome to the Era of Fake News | |||||||||
| Jonathan Albright | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017 | |||||||||
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| Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter | |||||||||
| Guobin Yang | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 11 August 2016 | |||||||||
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| The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944 | |||||||||
| Gary Evans | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 July 2014 | |||||||||
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| Understanding Social Media Logic | |||||||||
| José van Dijck and Thomas Poell | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2013 | |||||||||
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| Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence | |||||||||
| Kathryn L. Mills | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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| Marketing to Youth in the Digital Age: The Promotion of Unhealthy Products and Health Promoting Behaviours on Social Media | |||||||||
| Sally Dunlop, Becky Freeman and Sandra C. Jones | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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| The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944 | |||||||||
| Gary Evans | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 February 2014 | |||||||||
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| A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers | |||||||||
| Delia Cristina Balaban and Julia Szambolics | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 February 2022 | |||||||||
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| Documentary and Cognitive Theory: Narrative, Emotion and Memory | |||||||||
| Ib Bondebjerg | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2014 | |||||||||
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| “School Strike 4 Climate”: Social Media and the International Youth Protest on Climate Change | |||||||||
| Shelley Boulianne, Mireille Lalancette and David Ilkiw | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 May 2020 | |||||||||
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| Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics | |||||||||
| Jukka Jouhki, Epp Lauk, Maija Penttinen, Niina Sormanen and Turo Uskali | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 October 2016 | |||||||||
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| Teens, Health and Technology: A National Survey | |||||||||
| Ellen Wartella, Vicky Rideout, Heather Montague, Leanne Beaudoin-Ryan and Alexis Lauricella | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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