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The paper examines student protests in Serbia in 2024/25 through the lenses of student banners and the messages used to communicate with civic allies who do not participate in university blockades. The research question is how a relatively small and...

Immersive journalism—a practice that situates audiences within news events through VR, AR, and 360-degree video—has developed steadily since the mid-2000s. Yet how metaverse discourse has reshaped the field’s research agenda remains...

This systematic review draws on the concepts of continuous learning and unlearning to examine the emerging competencies journalists need in the AI-driven news environment, focusing on the need to both learn new AI-related skills and unlearn outdated...

This exploratory mixed-methods research study examined 27 Western YouTubers who are pro-China with over 644 million views and 4.7 million subscribers in 2024. We analyzed their top 10 videos N = 270) with human coding using both qualitative and quant...

During a recent review of the article (Bisiani & Heravi, 2023), the authors noticed that some of the values in Table 2 are misaligned in the published version [...]

As content creators increasingly assume roles once associated with journalism, marketing, and entrepreneurship, generative AI is reshaping the conditions under which professional value is produced and recognized. Drawing on ten semi-structured interv...

To understand the current state of affairs in European Union (EU) politics, it is important to consider the role of the media. Local newspapers play a distinctive role in this regard, as they demonstrate both the tangible local relevance and the impa...

This article examines the “Boomers vs. Millennials” generational conflict as it is constructed within digital meme cultures on Instagram. Drawing on generational theory, media-generation research, and platform studies, it treats generatio...

Climate diplomacy in Bangladesh may reflect a structural gap between two tiers of media coverage. This qualitative study draws on four focus group discussions with 24 district journalists in Cox’s Bazar, Ukhia, Shatkhira, and Shunamganj from fo...

This study examines the determinants of digital engagement during geopolitical crises, using the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces on 3 January 2026 as a case study. The aim is to identify which message attributes d...

Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), is influencing journalism and education by transforming professional practices, information production, and media literacy requirements. While generative AI improv...

In South Africa, traditional healing and indigenous knowledge systems are formally recognised. However, persistent epistemological domination by the West is reflected in ambivalent attitudes towards culturally specific beliefs and practices. In South...

Journalism and media studies increasingly describe a communication environment in which news, explanation and public orientation are accessed through search engines, social feeds, notifications, short-form video, platform summaries, podcasts and conv...

Democratic accountability in journalism has depended on a recoverable attribution chain: a named journalist who gathered information from identified sources and whose editorial choices can be traced, challenged, and corrected. This article reframes t...

This paper analyzes the systemic threat of election-related Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) across recent Latin American electoral cycles in Guatemala (2023), Ecuador (2025), and H...

If, ten years ago, someone had told me it would be possible to access news through digital influencers, I might have had some difficulty believing it and could even have thought I was facing some sort of dystopia in the media landscape [...]

Post-industrial Pennsylvania faces a wave of AI data center development, arriving in communities whose capacity for local news has sharply diminished. This article examines how a reconfigured news ecology renders data center development, and its atta...

Mainstream journalism has encountered multiple crises in recent decades, such as declining trust, the collapse of revenue models, and competition for audiences across a fractured digital media ecosystem. Concurrently, social media has emerged as a pl...

This article presents and analyses an interview with Cristóbal Balenciaga published in ¡Hola! in 1954, previously absent from the academic corpus on the Spanish couturier. The interview constitutes a significant discovery that substantia...

The news media in Gulf countries are among the most important institutions shaping the public’s understanding of climate action. This study aims to explore the longitudinal developments, thematic framing, and sentiment tones of Omani English-la...

After major disasters, news media selectively construct the public record of what has been lost. This study examines that pattern by comparing an independently derived satellite-based inventory of damaged cultural heritage in Hatay, Türkiye, wit...

To better understand how journalists represent sources, it is necessary to systematically study the use of reported speech in news coverage. This paper presents a method for LLM-assisted content analysis to identify and classify reported speech in Du...

Recent journalism and media research increasingly uses embeddings, transformer-based models, and large language models, yet the methodological functions remain unevenly conceptualized. This article examines how vector-based and semantically oriented...

This article examines how Nigerian newspapers frame Shell’s sustainability claims and asks whether that framing enables or challenges greenwashing by proxy: a pattern in which a corporation’s environmental claims gain the credibility of i...

Non-human animals are systematically excluded from public narratives, rarely recognized as sentient subjects, and instead framed within anthropocentric narratives of production and consumption; efforts to challenge this pattern and make the more-than...

This essay applies close textual analysis to news reports covering the 20 November 2025 fire at the United Nations COP30 meeting in Belém, Brazil, to demonstrate how allegory can manifest in journalistic reporting of real-world events. It argu...

Recent concerns about disinformation have increasingly centered on AI-generated synthetic media like deepfakes. This study uses online experiments to examine how individuals process and evaluate political deepfake news, which characteristics predict...

Across Latin America, digital technologies helped cushion some of the pandemic’s worst effects, creating new opportunities that were not equally distributed between men and women. This study analyzed three waves of Latinobarometer data across 1...

Taking a closer look at the development of podcasts and their current role in global media use invites an analogy with a well-known concept from economics: the hidden champion [...]

Over the last few years, TikTok has become one of the most notable social networking apps, allowing users to upload videos with the possibility of gaining popularity. This has given rise to the emergence of influencers native to the platform. While G...

This systematic review investigates the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in journalism and media practice from 2020 to 2026. Following PRISMA guidelines, we analysed 121 peer-reviewed articles from Scopus and Web...

The rapid proliferation of social media has transformed political communication, public diplomacy, and citizens’ digital attitudes across the MENA region—a context marked by hybrid political systems, intensive disinformation, and accelera...

This study aims to analyze digital transformation in institutions as a structural shift that reshapes the logic of communication, patterns of power, and mechanisms of trust building within organizations. This study is grounded in the assumption that...

As violence and professional precarity intensify for journalists, resilience has become a central framework for understanding how journalists continue working under sustained risk. However, journalism studies research has largely conceptualized resil...

The ontological status of journalism in Greece has long been marked by a profound tension between the perception of the field as an innate craft and its institutionalization as an academic discipline. This paper investigates the perceived utility of...

Digital capitalism is often described either as a clean break with the past or as a continuation of older markets. This article takes a third position: digital capitalism is a reorganisation of capitalist accumulation around platforms, data, attentio...

This article uses Clavicular, a controversial livestreamer who became a prominent public face of looksmaxxing in early 2026, as a trace-supported case study of fringe diffusion under platform conditions. Using public media traces, platform snapshots,...

This study of media consumption in relation to voting decisions during the Australian 2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament referendum contributes to a complex field of research interested in how media shapes and influences v...

TikTok is a short-form video-sharing platform launched in 2016 by the China-based ByteDance under the name Douyin. Following its merger with Musical.ly in 2018, it rapidly gained global popularity. The platform has influenced individuals’ digital com...

This article examines how journalism is practised beyond institutional frameworks in the United Kingdom, using esports journalism as a case through which to explore professional identity, labour conditions, and journalistic authority. Drawing on a mi...

Eye-tracking technology, which offers the potential to objectively measure user behavior in digital news environments, has drawn growing interest in journalism studies. This study aims to systematically review studies examining news consumption throu...

The Spanish audiovisual industry has experienced unprecedented growth, offering new employment opportunities. In this context, the aim of the present work is to analyse the perceptions of experts on the motivations and barriers that affect the employ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping the audience’s relationship with journalism, particularly through AI-generated summaries. Building on the observed patterns of limited visibility of sources, condensed summary pres...

Over the last century, two highly influential organizations have impacted politics and resistance in the Arab world: the Ba’ath Party and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood advanced the political dimension of Islam in the sense of a...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining journalism, transforming news production, distribution, and consumption. Despite the growing adoption of AI in newsrooms, academic research remains fragmented and lacks a comprehensive overview of global tre...

The relationship between media and technology has never been static [...]

This article explores perceptions of educators on challenges of integrating AI in journalism education. It draws on Bourdieu’s field theory, especially the idea of external shocks, social shaping of technology theory and technological domestica...

This study investigates the dynamics between media use, online activity, media literacy, and institutional trust among Indian citizens through a survey of adults distributed in six languages. Drawing on social capital theory, this study investigates...

Türkiye’s ratification of the Paris Agreement and the subsequent enactment of Climate Law No. 7552 mark a critical phase in the institutionalization of national climate policy. The law’s reliance on market-based mechanisms, particula...

The rise in political deepfakes threatens news credibility and media literacy in polarized higher education contexts; yet, Latin American students remain understudied. This study examined the digital media literacy of Peruvian university students (n...