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.
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| Journalism in the Hybrid Media System: Editorial | |||||||||
| Silke Fürst, Florian Muhle and Colin Porlezza | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 16 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Historical Roots of Information Flows in Hybrid Media Systems | |||||||||
| Silke Fürst | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Artificial Amplification and Intermedia Dynamics in the Hybrid Media System: The Case of #LaschetLacht | |||||||||
| Florian Muhle and Indra Bock | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Public Institutions Meet TikTok: Communication Strategies and the Rise of Govtainment | |||||||||
| Camelia Cușnir | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System | |||||||||
| Daniel Trielli | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Whom to Trust in Crises? The Influence of Communicator Characteristics in Governmental Crisis Communication | |||||||||
| Christian Schwaderer | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| European Elections in Times of (Poly)Crises: Populism, Polarization, Emotions, and the Deliberative Disintegration | |||||||||
| Adriana Ștefănel and Maria Romana Allegri | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 2 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Long-Distance Relationship Between Youth and Italian Politics on TikTok: Insights From the 2024 EU Election | |||||||||
| Mauro Bomba | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 2 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Mapping Government Use of Social Media Influencers for Policy Promotion | |||||||||
| Maud Reveilhac | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 2 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Authoritarian Drift and Social Media’s Impact on Romanian Youth During the 2024 European Elections | |||||||||
| Adriana Ștefănel | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Defining Journalistic Autonomy in the Wake of Disinformation in Spain | |||||||||
| Luis Bouza‐García, Rocío Sánchez‐del‐Vas and Jorge Tuñón‐Navarro | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions | |||||||||
| Sten Hansson and Nic DePaula | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 23 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Digital Divides in Local Democracy: Size, Resources, and Facebook Adoption in Czech Municipalities | |||||||||
| Michael Haman, Milan Školník and Michal Lošták | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Visual Political Communication of Competing Leadership: Italy’s 2024 European Election Campaign on Social Media | |||||||||
| Edoardo Novelli, Christian Ruggiero and Marco Solaroli | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Normalizing Government Social Media Communication: A Swedish Case Analysis | |||||||||
| Elena Johansson and Karl Magnus Johansson | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 18 September 2025 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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| “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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| 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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| Welcome to the Era of Fake News | |||||||||
| Jonathan Albright | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017 | |||||||||
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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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| Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter | |||||||||
| Guobin Yang | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 11 August 2016 | |||||||||
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| An Approach to Digital Literacy through the Integration of Media and Information Literacy | |||||||||
| Marcus Leaning | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 11 June 2019 | |||||||||
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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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| The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944 | |||||||||
| Gary Evans | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 July 2014 | |||||||||
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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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| “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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| Documentary and Cognitive Theory: Narrative, Emotion and Memory | |||||||||
| Ib Bondebjerg | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 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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| 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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| 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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| Making a Scene via Counter-Data Mapping: The Digital Cartography of Hong Kong’s Resistant Economy | |||||||||
| Tin-Yuet Ting | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Local Media, Rural Depopulation, and Territorial Attachment: Geographies of Hope in Castilla-La Mancha | |||||||||
| Vanesa Saiz-Echezarreta, Belén Galletero-Campos and Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 23 October 2025 | |||||||||
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