Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2183-2439

Media and Communication (ISSN: 2183-2439) is an international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.

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Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
Salvador Gómez-García and Teresa de la Hera
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Digital Games as Persuasion Spaces for Political Marketing: Joe Biden’s Campaign in Fortnite
Jenniffer Soto de la Cruz, Teresa de la Hera, Sara Cortés Gómez and Pilar Lacasa
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Spanish-Portuguese Serial Fiction as a Politainment Tool: Representations of Politics on Iberian Television
Mar Chicharro-Merayo, Fátima Gil-Gascón and Carla Baptista
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Music as Soft Power: The Electoral Use of Spotify
Raquel Quevedo-Redondo, Marta Rebolledo and Nuria Navarro-Sierra
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech
Juan Manuel González-Aguilar, Francisco Segado-Boj and Mykola Makhortykh
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Securing the Youth Vote: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Persuasion on TikTok Among Political Actors
Rocío Zamora-Medina, Andrius Suminas and Shahira S. Fahmy
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
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
Selfies and Speeches of a President at War: Volodymyr Zelensky’s Strategy of Spectacularization on Instagram
Maite Plazas-Olmedo and Pablo López-Rabadán
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Journalism in Democracy: A Discourse Analysis of Twitter Posts on the Ferrerasgate Scandal
Itziar Reguero-Sanz, Pablo Berdón-Prieto and Jacobo Herrero-Izquierdo
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Politainment on Twitter: Engagement in the Spanish Legislative Elections of April 2019
Salomé Berrocal-Gonzalo, Patricia Zamora-Martínez and Ana González-Neira
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
The Spectacle of “Patriotic Violence” in Romania: Populist Leader George Simion’s Mediated Performance
Teodora-Elena Grapă and Andreea-Alina Mogoș
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Technopopulism and Politainment in Brazil: Bolsonaro Government’s Weekly YouTube Broadcasts
Karina Di Nubila, Carlos A. Ballesteros-Herencia, Dunia Etura and Virginia Martín-Jiménez
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry
Martin Echeverría
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
Partisanship, Ideology, and Selective Exposure: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Consumption in Spain (2008–2019)
María Luisa Humanes and Lidia Valera-Ordaz
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
New Frontiers for Political Communication in Times of Spectacularization
Salvador Gómez-García, Rocío Zamora and Salomé Berrocal
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 16 May 2023
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Understanding Social Media Logic
José van Dijck and Thomas Poell
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2013
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
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
Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Kathryn L. Mills
Review | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016
“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
Welcome to the Era of Fake News
Jonathan Albright
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017
Beyond Privacy: Articulating the Broader Harms of Pervasive Mass Surveillance
Christopher Parsons
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 October 2015
Digital Media Platforms and the Use of TV Content: Binge Watching and Video-on-Demand in Germany
Lothar Mikos
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 July 2016
Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter
Guobin Yang
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 11 August 2016
Cyberbullying, Race/Ethnicity and Mental Health Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
Lynne Edwards, April Edwards Kontostathis and Christina Fisher
Review | 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
Understanding Social Media Logic
José van Dijck and Thomas Poell
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2013
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
The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
Gary Evans
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 February 2014
“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
Welcome to the Era of Fake News
Jonathan Albright
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017
Documentary and Cognitive Theory: Narrative, Emotion and Memory
Ib Bondebjerg
Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2014
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
Digital Media Platforms and the Use of TV Content: Binge Watching and Video-on-Demand in Germany
Lothar Mikos
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 July 2016
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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Platforms and Exposure Diversity: Towards a Framework to Assess Policies to Promote Exposure Diversity
Heritiana Ranaivoson and Nino Domazetovikj
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 23 May 2023
Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture
David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye and Zhongwei Li
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 23 May 2023
Mobilization in the Context of Campaign Functions and Citizen Participation
Anna-Katharina Wurst, Katharina Pohl and Jörg Haßler
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 May 2023
Older Adults Learning Digital Skills Together: Peer Tutors’ Perspectives on Non-Formal Digital Support
Viivi Korpela, Laura Pajula and Riitta Hänninen
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 May 2023
Fridays for Future and Mondays for Memes: How Climate Crisis Memes Mobilize Social Media Users
Michael Johann, Lukas Höhnle and Jana Dombrowski
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 18 May 2023
The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution
Lisa Merete Kristensen and Jannie Møller Hartley
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 May 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 9 May 2023
Post-Publication Gatekeeping Factors and Practices: Data, Platforms, and Regulations in News Work
Margareta Salonen, Veera Ehrlén, Minna Koivula and Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 4 May 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 April 2023
Google News Initiative’s Influence on Technological Media Innovation in Africa and the Middle East
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos, Allen Munoriyarwa, Adeola Abdulateef Elega and Charis Papaevangelou
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 April 2023
Follow the Data! A Strategy for Tracing Infrastructural Power
Sofie Flensburg and Signe Sophus Lai
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 13 April 2023
The Fact of Content Moderation; Or, Let’s Not Solve the Platforms’ Problems for Them
Tarleton Gillespie
Commentary | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 20 March 2023
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