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Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies
Open Access
Academic Editor(s): Silke Fürst (University of Zurich), Johannes Breuer (Center for Advanced Internet Studies / University of Duisburg-Essen), Erik Koenen (University of Bremen), Dimitri Prandner (Johannes Kepler University of Linz), Christian Schwarzenegger (University of Bremen), and Christian Strippel (Weizenbaum Institute)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.i504
Table of Contents
| The Adoption of Open Science Practices in Communication Research: Taking Stock of the Field in 2025 | |||||||||
| Jasmijn Kruijt, Chaoyi Gao, Xiaojing Ke, Sofie Přibylová, Wenyuan Yang and Bert N. Bakker | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| TubeStats and TokStats: Research Tools for Random Samples of YouTube and TikTok | |||||||||
| Kevin Zheng, Reagan Keeney, Ryan McGrady, Vikramaditya Jaisingh and Ethan Zuckerman | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 2 July 2026 | |||||||||
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| A Community Data Trustee for Sensitive Data Sharing in Far-Right Online Research | |||||||||
| Jan Rau, Nils Jungmann, Moritz Fürneisen, Gregor Wiedemann, Heidi Schulze and Pascal Siegers | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 July 2026 | |||||||||
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| Building National Research Infrastructure for Digital Platform Observability at Scale | |||||||||
| Bogdan Mamaev, Daniel Angus, Amanda Lawrence and Richard Sinnott | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 July 2026 | |||||||||
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| Political Scandals in Germany (2001–2023): A Systematic Approach to Building a Public Dataset | |||||||||
| Jan Dvorak | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Twi-XL: An Infrastructure for Cross-Media Research in the Netherlands | |||||||||
| Danielle A. Maxwell-Fraser, Iris M. Baas, Sarah Burkhardt, Olga Eisele, Anne C. Kroon, Robert Jan Bood, Iris Geldermans, Sophie Ham, Machiel Jansen, Rana Klein, Matthijs Moed, Roeland Ordelman, Erik Tjong Kim Sang, Mari Wigham, Marcel Broersma and Julia Noordegraaf | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Toward Open Governance in Research Software for Communication and Media Research: Principles, Dimensions, and Practices | |||||||||
| Florian Hohmann, Andreas Hepp and Karsten D. Wolf | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Promise and Practice of Sharing Qualitative Data in Communication Research: Insights From the Qualitative Data Repository | |||||||||
| Dessislava Kirilova and Lee Humphreys | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 1 October 2026 | |||||||||
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| Methods Hub: A Community-Driven, Interactive Platform for Open-Source Computational Tools and Tutorials | |||||||||
| Christina Viehmann, Johannes Kiesel, Arnim Bleier, Chung-hong Chan, Po-Chun Chang, Raniere Gaia Costa da Silva, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, Taimoor Khan, Stephan Linzbach, Fakhri Momeni, Felix Münch, Ran Yu, Stefan Dietze and Claudia Wagner | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 October 2026 | |||||||||
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