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Cogitatio Press is a publisher founded in 2014 with the aim of promoting open-access divulgation of scientific knowledge. We believe that open-source knowledge generates something more valuable, benefiting researchers, policy-makers and society in general.

Latest Publications

Local News Deserts in China: The Role of Social Media and Personal Communication Networks
Zixue Tai, Bai He and Jianping Liu
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies
Steen Steensen
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Examining the Social, Civic, and Political Impact of Local Newspaper Closure in Outback Australia
Marco Magasic, Kristy Hess and Julie Freeman
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Local Journalism With State Support
Gunnar Nygren
Commentary | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective
Ragnhild Kr. Olsen and Birgit Røe Mathisen
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts
Lenka Waschková Císařová
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists
Patrick Ferrucci, Teri Finneman, Meg Heckman and Pamela E. Walck
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Rise of the Zombie Papers: Infecting Germany’s Local and Regional Public Media Ecosystem
Karin Assmann
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts
Michelle Barrett Ferrier
Commentary | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swiss News Media
Daniel Vogler, Morley Weston and Linards Udris
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites
Dani Madrid-Morales, Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat and Peggy Lindner
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
The News Crawler: A Big Data Approach to Local Information Ecosystems
Asma Khanom, Damon Kiesow, Matt Zdun and Chi-Ren Shyu
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States
Ryan Yang Wang
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
No People, No News: News Deserts and Areas at Risk in Spain
María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, Jorge Vázquez-Herrero and Xosé López-García
Article | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023
News Deserts: A Research Agenda for Addressing Disparities in the United States
Penelope Muse Abernathy
Commentary | Open Access | Media and Communication | Published: 28 September 2023