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).
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| Outsourced Propaganda: The Role of Journalists in China’s Government Social Media | |||||||||
| Chunyan Huang and Haiyan Wang | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 11 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Populist Political Communication on Instagram in the 2024 European Elections | |||||||||
| Sophia Messini | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Balancing Acts: The Communicative Roles of Cabinet Ministers on Social Media | |||||||||
| Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer Kolltveit and Øyvind Bugge Solheim | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Network Analysis for Media Ownership: A Methodological Proposal | |||||||||
| Mariia Aleksevych and Tales Tomaz | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 4 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Behind the Screen: The Use of Facebook Accounts With Inauthentic Behavior During European Elections | |||||||||
| Bogdan Oprea, Paula Pașnicu, Alexandru-Ninel Niculae, Constantin-Cozmin Bonciu and Dragoș Tudorașcu-Dobre | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 4 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Voices of Discontent: Unpacking Populist Rhetoric in Spain and the Rise of Anti-European Sentiment | |||||||||
| Belén Casas-Mas, Arturo Rodríguez-Sáez, Inmaculada Gutiérrez, Gerardo Javier Benavides and José Manuel Robles | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 2 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Outsourced Political Campaign: Role of Pro-Government Political Influencers in Spreading Hostile Narratives in Hungary | |||||||||
| Kata Horváth, Gábor Polyák and Ágnes Urbán | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 28 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Coverage of the European Parliament Elections by Media Portals in Serbia | |||||||||
| Marta Mitrović, Marija Vujović and Ivana Stamenković | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 28 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Editorial: When All Speak but Few Listen—Asymmetries in Political Conversation | |||||||||
| Hernando Rojas and William P. Eveland, Jr. | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption | |||||||||
| Andrés Scherman, Pedro Fierro and Yuanliang Shan | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Listening Across Divides: Contextual Moderation in Political Talk and Participation | |||||||||
| Diego Armando Mazorra-Correa and Elohim Monard | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Issue Attention and Semantic Overlap in Vaccination Coverage Within Switzerland’s Hybrid Media System | |||||||||
| Dario Siegen and Daniel Vogler | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Weaponizing Wedge Issues: Strategies of Populism and Illiberalism in European Election Campaigning on Facebook | |||||||||
| Jörg Haßler, Melanie Magin, Uta Russmann, Anna-Katharina Wurst, Delia Cristina Balaban, Paweł Baranowski, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Simon Kruschinski, Georgios Lappas, Sara Machado, Martina Novotná, Silvia Marcos-García, Ioannis Petridis, Anda Rožukalne, Annamária Sebestyén and Felix‐Christopher von Nostitz | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Political Discourse, Emotions, and Polarization: A Case Study of the President of the Madrid Region | |||||||||
| Manuel Alcántara-Plá | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Online Emotional Landscape of Government and Parliament Communication in Times of Crisis | |||||||||
| Aya Yadlin, Gal Yavetz and Jenny Bronstein | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Understanding Social Media Logic | |||||||||
| José van Dijck and Thomas Poell | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2013 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| “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 | |||||||||
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| Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence | |||||||||
| Kathryn L. Mills | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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| Welcome to the Era of Fake News | |||||||||
| Jonathan Albright | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter | |||||||||
| Guobin Yang | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 11 August 2016 | |||||||||
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| An Approach to Digital Literacy through the Integration of Media and Information Literacy | |||||||||
| Marcus Leaning | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 11 June 2019 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Understanding Social Media Logic | |||||||||
| José van Dijck and Thomas Poell | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2013 | |||||||||
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| Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence | |||||||||
| Kathryn L. Mills | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 16 June 2016 | |||||||||
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| The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944 | |||||||||
| Gary Evans | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 July 2014 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944 | |||||||||
| Gary Evans | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 February 2014 | |||||||||
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| “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 | |||||||||
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| Documentary and Cognitive Theory: Narrative, Emotion and Memory | |||||||||
| Ib Bondebjerg | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 9 April 2014 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Welcome to the Era of Fake News | |||||||||
| Jonathan Albright | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 27 June 2017 | |||||||||
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| A Proposed Model of Self-Perceived Authenticity of Social Media Influencers | |||||||||
| Delia Cristina Balaban and Julia Szambolics | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 February 2022 | |||||||||
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