2025 December - 51 articles
This study conducts a comparative content analysis of media coverage of the Russia–Ukraine war by China Global Television Network (CGTN) and Voice of America (VOA), focusing on emotional content and framing strategies. Analyzing 4997 articles f...
Stickers, as an important nonverbal communication affordance on social media, have been understudied in Western contexts. This study employed an online survey (N = 300) to test two competing hypotheses—the social compensation and withdrawal hyp...
Citizen journalism is gaining increasing popularity as a means of distributing information using digital technology. As technology continues to improve, particularly in the realms of social media and mobile technology, direct involvement and creation...
The rise of social media has democratized information sharing, allowing ordinary individuals to become influential voices in public discourse. However, traditional methods for identifying influential users rely primarily on network centrality measure...
New media technologies have enabled freedom of expression through platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. These freedoms are amplified through engagement with jokes and memes circulating on these platforms. The study analyzes the political...
This article examines how K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025) portrays women’s agency and sorority while curating Korean cultural specificity within the context of global streaming. Adopting a Gender Media Studies approach, the study conducts a scene-in...
The objective of this study is to determine if the thematic priorities of news organizations are consistent or platform-specific by investigating the cross-platform strategies of three leading Bulgarian news agencies. Methodologically, the study comb...
The spread of disinformation and the subsequent social pushback have elevated fact-checking to a core activity in modern newsrooms. Amid efforts to rebuild public trust, news media and dedicated organizations have expanded verification routines, inst...
The study examines the complexities of the Aláròyé newspaper’s digital transformation. It seeks to understand how the organisation’s matrix, which includes circulation, readers, and advertising revenue, has been impac...
By triangulating sentiment trends, topic models, and ideological variance, this study shows how digital publics respond to significant shifts in US foreign policy. We analyze Reddit discussions of the 20 January 2025 90-day freeze on US foreign assis...
Misinformation circulating on social media presents a critical challenge for journalism and media education in the digital age. Beyond individual news consumption, it reflects broader concerns about cognitive processing and the cultivation of transve...
This study aims to examine transformations in television based on how its intersections with digital media destabilise one of the main distinguishing features of television genres: direct broadcasting. Does temporal simultaneity, which historically a...
This study innovatively moves beyond traditional mono-method research by employing an integrated approach that synergizes corpus linguistics and text mining. Through sentiment, thematic, and collocational analyses, it critically examines the represen...
This study analyzed 911 articles from three major newspapers—Vanguard, Daily Trust, and Leadership—using framing theory to assess coverage. Content analysis revealed most headlines were positively framed. The most prevalent frame was attr...
This paper relies on the conceptual framework of affordances to study collective action, focusing on the under-researched area of wartime collective efforts. Using the case study of collective action during the war in Ukraine, the paper analyses a sa...
This study examines how environmental journalists in Eastern Indonesia develop innovative digital strategies to counter corporate disinformation while maintaining credible climate reporting amid systematic censorship and algorithmic suppression. Thro...
Disinformation poses a substantive challenge to democratic governance, particularly in contexts marked by foreign influence. While the broadcasting of Russia Today (RT) in Europe has received significant attention, comparatively little is known about...
University Dual Training is constructed at the intersection of academic and professional spheres, shaping a complex and multifaceted educational model. The aim of this study is to analyze the media representation of University Dual Training within th...
This study explores the relationship between journalistic background, content creation experience, and self-reported information literacy among global content creators. Based on an online survey of 500 content creators in eight languages around the w...
The green economy has become an economic necessity and a cultural discourse due to the rapid global movement towards sustainability. This paper discusses the representation of green economy in Qatar and Malaysia, two countries with different politica...
This article explores the crucial role of media education and media literacy as effective tools in combating disinformation. In the context of the growing influence of digital media and the increasing spread of fake news, propaganda, and manipulative...
In recent years, the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered increasing scholarly and professional interest, particularly regarding its implementation across various domains, including journalism. As with any emerging technological parad...
This article examines how digital media discourse mediated Germany’s secularization between 2020 and 2024. Drawing on a corpus from Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, and other outlets, this study combines text mining, sentiment profiling, and frame analys...
Floods are among Pakistan’s most common and devastating natural disasters, and they are becoming increasingly frequent and intense as a result of climate change, glacial melt, accelerated urbanisation, and weak governance. While coverage of cli...
Journalism and Media is pleased to announce the completed edition of this Special Issue, ‘Journalism in Africa: New Trends’ [...]
Public service media (PSM) are undergoing essential digital transformations to compete in an audiovisual ecosystem dominated by new technological players that have reshaped traditional media consumption habits. This article examines how the digital d...
As social media became essential for communication, organizations collected vast data from platforms like Facebook, Twitter (X), Instagram, and LinkedIn. However, turning this data into actionable insights for strategic decision-making was often inco...
The global creator economy has generated standardised monetisation strategies, yet their effectiveness varies significantly across regional contexts. This study examines how South African student influencers adapt global monetisation approaches to lo...
Terror organizations increasingly utilize the media and especially digital platforms to disseminate strategic messages, particularly during conflicts. This study examines how Hamas employed hostage videos and other related publications as a form of s...
Part of the relics of colonialism on the African continent is the loss of social identity caused by the adoption of colonial languages, leading to the endangered status of indigenous African languages. This qualitative study examines the potential an...
China’s state-backed media is valuable for news bias research due to the tight control of journalism in China. In the digital era, bias remains, and quantitative and computational methods are playing an important role in studying it. Bias on Ch...
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Understanding media discussions on artificial intelligence (AI) is crucial for shaping policy and addressing public concerns. The purpose of this study was to understand sentiment regarding AI in the media and to discover how the discussion of topics...
Podcasting in Romania has experienced notable growth in recent years, evolving from a niche medium into a widely consumed form of digital communication. This expansion is driven by the flexibility of podcasts, which allow audiences to access content...
Since the end of Apartheid in 1994, South Africa has striven to address past discrimination against members of marginalized groups such as Africans, women and LGBTQ+ individuals. Sophisticated media legislation and a vibrant civil society forged in t...
Based on Agenda-Setting Theory, Media Agenda Synergy (MAS) can enhance the communication effectiveness of public issues (e.g., climate change, social justice, and public health) through the information resonance and agenda complementarity among cross...
Purpose: This study investigated the attributes of confession pages on Facebook, their role within social networks, and their impact on society. It also explored their defining traits, the need for confession pages and the effects of anonymity. Metho...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping skill expectations across media, marketing, and journalism, however, university curricula are not evolving at a comparable speed. To quantify the resulting curriculum–skill gap in communication-relat...
As digital media companies pursue sustainable revenue, AI-based strategies like personalized advertising and dynamic paywalls have become prevalent. These monetization models involve different forms of consumer data collection, raising distinct priva...
This paper presents a qualitative exploratory study based on the analysis of a representative sample of 35 projects carried out during the period 2020–2022 by six Spanish newspapers: elDiario.es, ABC, IDEAL, El Correo, ElConfidencial.com and El...
The rise of social media platforms has fundamentally reshaped the global information ecosystem, fostering the spread of disinformation. Beyond the circulation of false content, this article frames disinformation as an aesthetic crisis of public commu...
This article analyses journalistic decisions in the face of disinformation, focusing on the case of Vaza Jato in Brazil. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach—combining critical discourse analysis of online articles with semi-structured interview...
Television commercials (TVCs) play a critical role in shaping and reflecting societal understandings of gender roles. Guided by cultivation theory and framing theory, this study examines gender representation in Indian TVCs, focusing on the gender di...
Through framing analysis, this research spans a decade (2013–2022) of news on animal agriculture, focusing on the industry’s constituent bodies, farmed animals, to uncover how journalism operates with speciesism as a societal driving forc...
This article examines the xenophobic orientation of social media reactions, as captured in mainstream South African media, around the Miss South Africa 2024 case of Chidimma Adetshina. It will perform a decolonial interrogation of the South African d...
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Millions of LGBTQ+ individuals worldwide continue to face discrimination that affects their rights, opportunities, and everyday lives. In Greece, one of the most debated public issues in recent years has been the legalization of civil marriage for sa...
This study examines the portrayal of Ukrainian refugee women in Polish media, specifically in Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita, over three years of the full-scale Russian–Ukrainian war (24 February 2022–24 February 2025). Using an inter...
This study examines the media coverage of illegal immigration in Spain during the first year of the war in Ukraine, focusing on the four most-read online newspapers: El Español, Okdiario, La Razón, and eldiario.es. The research aims to...
Understanding who makes up online affinity spaces as well as how information flows within those spaces is important as more people access news, research topics, collaborate with others, and entertain themselves. During a month-long period in summer 2...
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