Media and Communication 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 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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How Politicians’ Attacks on Science Communication Influence Public Perceptions of Journalists and Scientists
Jana Laura Egelhofer
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Meet Bob and Offset Your Flight: Optimising Explainer Videos to Promote Voluntary Carbon Offsetting
Anna Schorn and Werner Wirth
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Scientific Information Literacy: Adaption of Concepts and an Investigation Into the Chinese Public
Han Wang, Lina Li, Jing Wu and Hao Gao
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices
Markus Schug, Helena Bilandzic and Susanne Kinnebrock
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
How Do Multiple Actors Conduct Science Communication About Omicron on Weibo: A Mixed-Method Study
Jinghong Xu, Difan Guo, Jing Xu and Chang Luo
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
The Multilingual Twitter Discourse on Vaccination in Germany During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Hannah Schmid-Petri, Moritz Bürger, Stephan Schlögl, Mara Schwind, Jelena Mitrović and Ramona Kühn
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Between Calls for Action and Narratives of Denial: Climate Change Attention Structures on Twitter
Hendrik Meyer, Amelia Katelin Peach, Lars Guenther, Hadas Emma Kedar and Michael Brüggemann
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication
Isabel Sörensen, Silke Fürst, Daniel Vogler and Mike S. Schäfer
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Content Analysis From a Gender Perspective of Comments Received by Spanish Science YouTubers
Belén Cambronero-Saiz, Carmen Cristófol-Rodríguez and Jesús Segarra-Saavedra
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Women Scientists on TikTok: New Opportunities to Become Visible and Challenge Gender Stereotypes
Brigitte Huber and Luis Quesada Baena
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Maximizing Science Outreach on Facebook: An Analysis of Scientists’ Communication Strategies in Taiwan
Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jo-Ju Kao, Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, Chia-Tzu Ho and Lu-Yi Li
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
“You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid-19
Kaija Biermann, Nicola Peters and Monika Taddicken
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Editorial: Science Communication in the Digital Age—New Actors, Environments, and Practices
Julia Metag, Florian Wintterlin and Kira Klinger
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 27 March 2023
Knowledge Gap Hypothesis and Pandemics: Covid-19 Knowledge, Communication Inequality, and Media Literacy in Lebanon
Jad Melki
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 February 2023
Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars
Kathrin Friederike Müller, Corinna Peil and Franzisca Weder
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 February 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
Welcome to the Era of Fake News
Jonathan Albright
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017
“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
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
Welcome to the Era of Fake News
Jonathan Albright
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017
“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
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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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
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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 17 March 2023
A Systematic Literature Review of the Phenomenon of Disinformation and Misinformation
Marta Pérez-Escolar, Darren Lilleker and Alejandro Tapia-Frade
Review | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 16 March 2023
Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany
Michael Sengl and Elfi Heinke
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 14 March 2023
Music as Soft Power: The Electoral Use of Spotify
Raquel Quevedo-Redondo, Marta Rebolledo and Nuria Navarro-Sierra
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 14 March 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 March 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 1 March 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 February 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 27 February 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 16 February 2023
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