Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2183-2439

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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.

Open Access: free to read and share, with an article processing charge for accepted papers to offset production costs (more details here).

Indexing: Web of Science (SSCI), Scopus, and other databases.

The Great Wall of the Press: Layered Boundary Work of AI-Integrated Journalism
Joanne Kuai and Michael Karlsson
Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2026
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
The Emerging Practices of Watchdog Science Journalists in Ibero-America
Michele Catanzaro and Luiz Peres-Neto
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2026
Conflicts of Interest Between Systemic and Corruptive: A Conceptual Compass for Watchdog Science Journalists
Cheyenne Moon Peters, Tobias Kreutzer and Holger Wormer
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2026
Political Scandals in Germany (2001–2023): A Systematic Approach to Building a Public Dataset
Jan Dvorak
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2026
“AI’s Good, but People Have Hearts”: Artificial Intelligence in Data-Driven Journalism in Ghanaian Newsrooms
Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey and Samuel Danso
Article | Open Access | Published: 5 August 2026
Resilience as a Structural Condition: Mental Health and Safety Challenges in Watchdog Science Journalism
Oana Ometa
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 July 2026
A Research Agenda for Studying LLM-Powered Persuasion Technology to Mitigate Misinformation
Claire Wardle, Pete Brown and David Scales
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 July 2026
Hybrid Moderation in Practice: How Users, AI, and Professionals Judge Uncivil Comments
Aviv Barnoy
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 July 2026
Transparency is a Double-Edged Sword: Stakeholders’ Perception of GenAI Usage Disclosure in Kenyan Newsrooms
Bingbing Zhang, Kevin C. Mudavadi and Chenghan Zhou
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 July 2026
Fact-Checking With Machines: Journalism Students’ Perceptions of AI and the Ethics of Counterspeech
Yearry Panji Setianto
Article | Open Access | Published: 29 July 2026
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
Piloting the Integration of AI-Driven Detection Methods to Counter Disinformation in Organizational Processes
Lucas Stampe and Christian Grimme
Article | Open Access | Published: 22 July 2026
Science Journalism on Controversial Fields: Contextualizing Audience Expectations and (Dis)Approval of the Watchdog Role
Markus Schug
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 July 2026
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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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
“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
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
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
A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers
Delia Cristina Balaban and Julia Szambolics
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 February 2022
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
Welcome to the Era of Fake News
Jonathan Albright
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017
Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter
Guobin Yang
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 11 August 2016
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The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944
Gary Evans
Article | Open Access | Published: 23 July 2014
Understanding Social Media Logic
José van Dijck and Thomas Poell
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2013
Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Kathryn L. Mills
Review | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016
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
A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers
Delia Cristina Balaban and Julia Szambolics
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 February 2022
Documentary and Cognitive Theory: Narrative, Emotion and Memory
Ib Bondebjerg
Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2014
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
“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
The Regulation of Disinformation Under the Digital Services Act
Ronan Ó Fathaigh, Doris Buijs and Joris van Hoboken
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 May 2025
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