2026 December - 40 articles
The economic viability of news organizations underpins public access to information, yet media sustainability research has mostly asked how the media report on sustainability, not whether news media can themselves be sustained. We map how the economi...
This study examines how hegemonic masculinities and anti-feminist discourse circulate on X through the Podcast and Chill Network (@podcastwithmacg), a prominent South African podcast brand. Guided by Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity an...
This study examines hashtagging practices among six selected Arab influencers on Instagram and Twitter/X, focusing on hashtag function, placement, length, and language choice. Drawing on an exploratory content-analytic design, it analyses 3208 hashta...
Population ageing has reshaped contemporary Western societies and transformed the media landscape. While older individuals have historically faced underrepresentation or stereotyping in media, streaming platforms and prestige television have increasi...
Digital platforms have been associated with lower barriers to political participation, yet their role in making activism compatible with work and care responsibilities during established adulthood remains underexplored. Focusing on No más AFP...
This study examines how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is being adopted by Catalan news organizations and how its integration reshapes newsroom practices, professional roles, and accountability standards. The analysis is informed by two p...
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Audience engagement in the form of comments and likes has long been known to influence the visibility of content creators, but little has been discussed in the ways that these interaction ecologies diverge between platforms. Using poetry posts surfac...
Twitter (X) served as an important venue for public discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic, including conversations occurring alongside major contemporaneous news events. This study descriptively compares prospectively collected COVID-19-centric Twit...
This study analyzes, using an exploratory, multi-sited qualitative approach, how digital content creators and managers in Colombia, Mexico, Spain, and China perceive the commercial use of hyper-realistic female virtual influencers. The corpus compris...
Political communities do not merely suffer electoral defeat; they also process it collectively through communication. This study examines whether, and in what form, the ritual work of mourning emerges in the online sphere after a governing-party comm...
Video games have received increasing scholarly attention within family research, yet most studies continue to focus on individual outcomes, psychological effects, or problematic use. This study examines video games as family practices and explores th...
This qualitative study examines the extent to which the multimillion-dollar gifts that were given to Zimbabwe’s culture industry by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ZANU-PF oligarchs were symptomatic of capture. Guided by Althusser’s Ideo...
This study investigates the linguistic and framing approaches used in reporting GBV incidents in selected Nigerian newspapers, with particular consideration of how GBV cases are represented in news reports on Osinachi Nwachukwu and Mutiat Sholola. Th...
Social media platforms have become important arenas for public discussion of climate change, facilitating both the dissemination of scientific information and the contestation of climate-related claims. This study examines the discursive patterns thr...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly incorporated into journalistic work, raising questions concerning transparency, authorship, editorial responsibility, human verification, and organizational governance. This study examines reported transpa...
Governments increasingly communicate with their publics through artificial intelligence (AI), yet media and communication scholarship has concentrated on newsrooms and platforms, leaving the algorithmically mediated communication of the state under-t...
Social media platforms are increasingly used to access health-related information, yet the terminology used in searches may be associated with differences in both the content retrieved and the discursive frames through which health conditions are rep...
This paper delves into the popularization of scientific topics related to health and well-being from an interdisciplinary perspective, between science, journalism, language, and communication studies. To this aim, we will address a subset of the Scie...
Citizens encounter climate and science information through journalistic, digital, and interpersonal channels, yet evidence on how these combinations relate to engagement in Latin America remains limited. Study 1 analyzes 19,214 Latinobarómetro...
This study explores how European digital media targeting Generations Z and Alpha integrate sports journalism to engage an audience disconnected from traditional news outlets. Through a qualitative content analysis of 10 digital outlets and a panel of...
Fandom studies conceptualize fans as active agents who reinterpret and circulate cultural texts while collectively producing meaning. However, contemporary fan practices increasingly occur within platform infrastructures governed by algorithmic ranki...
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in newsroom operations, organizations invest in AI readiness on the assumption that preparedness travels with successful outcomes. Readiness frameworks typically aggregate diverse outcomes into composi...
Press trips represent a practice in which organizations, aiming to secure positive publicity, invite journalists on trips funded by companies, institutions, or various clients. Although they are one of the most widely used public relations techniques...
Humanitarian journalism, or journalism that focuses on humanitarian news, remains an ambiguous concept. It is defined either by its content or by its focus on crisis reporting and is often conflated with other forms of advocacy journalism. This study...
In human history, outbreaks of infectious diseases have had a profound impact on society, and the global spread of COVID-19 has posed unprecedented challenges to public health and social governance. In a mediatized society, the development of modern...
Community radio in India is structurally a hyperlocal medium. Whilst the rules governing community radio stations (CRSs) contain provisions that are hyperlocal in nature, the lack of an explicit ‘hyperlocal’ assertion has implications not...
This study examines the impact of narrative technologies on the perception of environmental advocacy. The aim is to evaluate how the social documentary “Brazil: Seeding Sociobioeconomies” acts as a strategic device for communication and s...
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Press freedom can be used as one of the indicators of a country’s democratic quality, as journalists often bear the brunt of authoritarian backlash. Several studies have already examined the impact of political regime transitions on the media....
The climate crisis and environmental degradation have intensified ecological, social, and economic challenges in Iran, increasing the need for environmental communication that supports public engagement, policy development, and long-term environmenta...
Agenda-setting theory has anchored communication research for five decades, yet algorithmic curation, audience fragmentation, and a wave of autocratization have unsettled its founding assumptions. This critical integrative review connects three resea...
This study examines journalists’ use of Twitter/X during three periods of political and social crisis in Greece between 2012 and 2023. Using a comparative longitudinal design, it analyses three crisis-related discussions associated with the has...
This article develops a middle-range theory of audience appropriation of journalistic messages in multi-screen, platform-mediated environments through a theory-building systematic review of the literature. This study draws upon a corpus of peer-revie...
The paper examines the impact of fake news on how individuals perceive information and make decisions. The research is based on an online questionnaire administered to a sample of respondents (N = 275) from the Republic of Moldova (Transnistria), com...
Media control under contemporary autocratization extends beyond overt censorship, operating through legal regulation, economic dependence, and digital infrastructures. Yet, critical political economy, media-systems research, media-capture scholarship...
This essay draws on a delimited corpus of publicly circulating materials associated with Abelardo de la Espriella’s digital campaign in the 2026 Colombian presidential election to examine a form of algorithmic–affective campaigning. Throu...
The essay develops a theoretical framework that conceptualizes affective online media rituals as repetitive, platform-mediated communication practices through which collective emotional synchronization, community formation, and social meaning-making...
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Contemporary media are engineered for speed, and the industries that shape them treat audience attention as a resource to be captured, held, and resold. This article asks what a different tempo communicates. It argues that the rhythm of an audiovisua...
