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The European Journal of Communication Research

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Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research is an established forum for scholarship and academic debate in the field of communication science and research from a European perspective. Communication science is concerned with the investigation of the structure and function of communication processes and their impact on society, social groups and individuals. Communications highlights the concerns of this discipline through the publication of articles, research reports, review essays and book reviews on theoretical and methodological developments considered from a European perspective. The journal encompasses the entire field of communication science as its domain of interest. The contributions published in the journal cover a wide range of subfields in communication science.

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Communication reseach
Structure and function of communication
Impact on society, social groups and individuals
Interpersonal communication
Intercultural communication
Mass communication
Communication theory
Philosophy of communication
Media history
Media development and digital communication

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Communications was founded in 1975 by Alphons Silbermann in cooperation with the German Society for Communication Research (DGKF). The journal has been published by De Gruyter Mouton since 2002.

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#bundestagswahl: Hashtags and party visibility in the 2025 German federal election on TikTok

May 19, 2026

Jochen Kinast, Franziska Marquart

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This exploratory study examines the visibility of political parties on TikTok during Germany’s 2025 federal election campaign. Using a dataset of nearly 48,000 posts collected through TikTok’s Research API, we analyze the frequency and prominence of party-related hashtags and identify the most active content creators. Our findings reveal an imbalance in party representation: The right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) consistently dominates hashtag rankings throughout the campaign, while other major parties – particularly the Greens – are notably underrepresented on the platform. This dominance is not so much rooted in official party communications but user-generated content, both supportive and critical. We argue that TikTok’s algorithmic architecture may amplify polarizing content, inadvertently favoring populist actors. Our findings highlight the need for greater scrutiny of platform-mediated campaigning and its potential to shape political discourse and visibility in non-transparent ways.
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Digital mediations of interdisciplinarity: A study of interdisciplinary centers in Europe

May 8, 2026

Angeliki Monnier

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Interdisciplinarity is widely promoted as a catalyst for innovation and societal problem solving, yet the organizational arrangements that give it form remain insufficiently examined. Adopting a Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO) perspective, this article investigates how interdisciplinarity is enacted through the publicly available web communication of 34 interdisciplinary research centers in Europe. These centers – mostly created after 2000 and affiliated with universities or public research bodies – mobilize their websites as key sites where missions, identities, and stakeholder relations are articulated. Our analysis reveals both diversity and recurring patterns in naming practices, thematic orientations, and the types of actors involved. While most centers foreground research and teaching activities, only a minority explicitly problematize or define interdisciplinarity. The websites display different modes of organizing, positioning centers along a continuum that ranges from autonomous entities (projecting self-sufficiency and outward engagement) to facilitating hubs (emphasizing resource provision and internal coordination). By examining degrees of openness and mission orientations (“operating” vs. “supporting”), we identify four communicative configurations through which centers constitute themselves and their roles. Beyond mapping website content, this study contributes to broader debates on the governance of science, the communicative construction of research organizations, and the evolving relations between scientific institutions and society.
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Roberts, T., & Bosch, T. (Eds.) (2023). Digital citizenship in Africa: Technologies of agency and repression. Zed Books. 231 pp. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350324497

April 29, 2026

Marie Fierens

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AI community news: Local journalism in the age of artificial intelligence

April 29, 2026

Giacomo Buoncompagni

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This exploratory study analyzes the perceptions, uses, and representations of artificial intelligence (AI) among Italian local journalists, with the aim of understanding how this technology is perceived, adopted, or rejected within a sector that is already structurally fragile. A qualitative methodology using seven focus groups, involving 25 journalists from five Italian regions between February and May 2025, was employed to conduct a thematic analysis of the responses, enriched by an interpretative approach inspired by the sociology of journalism. The results reveal a high level of theoretical knowledge of AI among journalists, that is accompanied by minimal operational use and widespread cultural reluctance to integrate it into core professional practices. AI is only accepted at the margins of information production (e.g., graphics, titling, and social content), and there is still resistance to considering it a legitimate tool for journalistic processing. This resistance takes the form of not only technical reticence but also an identity strategy to preserve the epistemic autonomy of the profession. The paper proposes an interpretation of these dynamics through a generative sociological perspective aimed at overcoming the binary opposition between the acceptance and rejection of technology, and at promoting co-constructed, critical, and contextualized forms of innovation.
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TikTok, child safety, and the Digital Services Act: An empirical analysis of online harm mitigation

April 21, 2026

Adriana Mutu, Luminița Pătraș

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This paper examines recent developments in digital platform regulation, focusing on the European approach to mitigating systemic online risks affecting children. It presents an original empirical analysis of TikTok’s compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA) regarding content moderation aimed at protecting minors from harmful material. Drawing on data from the DSA Transparency Database, this study analyzes TikTok’s Statements of Reasons (SoRs) at four distinct time points from 2024 and 2025, encompassing a total of 11.6 million entries. SoRs detail actions taken to remove or restrict unsuitable content, offering insight into moderation decisions. Frequency, descriptive, and cross-tabulation analyses reveal that content flagged under “Protection of Minors” represents a significant portion of moderation activity, underscoring the prevalence of harmful content on TikTok. The findings assess TikTok’s risk policies and inform compliance with EU child protection rules while advancing communication and digital media scholarship on evolving moderation standards.
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Disinformation on Bulgaria and Romania’s Schengen accession fuels Euroskepticism

April 15, 2026

Nicoleta Corbu, Raluca Buturoiu, Mădălina Boțan, Andy Stoycheff

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Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area has been the subject of international controversy and public debate in recent years. In this context, disinformation narratives about the consequences of their integration into the Schengen Area have become increasingly prominent. This paper investigates the impact of such narratives on public attitudes toward the European Union (EU). Using an experimental design (N = 895 in Romania, N = 912 in Bulgaria), we examine how exposure to Schengen-related disinformation shapes Euroskeptic sentiment in both countries. Findings show that disinformation is associated with increased Euroskeptic attitudes. In Romania, the effect is consistent across all types of media environments (mainstream, alternative, and social), suggesting broad susceptibility regardless of source. In Bulgaria, the effect is significant only when the disinformation content originates from mainstream media, with no significant changes resulting from exposure via alternative or social media. These effects persist across ideological orientations and are not moderated by how important individuals perceive the Schengen issue to be, indicating that effects of disinformation operate rather independently. Overall, the findings underscore the need to consider both the content and the media environment in which disinformation circulates when assessing its influence on public opinion in Eastern European contexts.
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Lunt, P. (2024). Goffman and the media. Polity, 208 pp.

March 3, 2026

Julia Sonnevend

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Adopting AI in transitional contexts: Professionalization and ethical dilemmas in Central European public relations

February 26, 2026

Markéta Kaclová

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This study explores how public relations professionals in three post-authoritarian countries—the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland—navigate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their daily work. It studies perceived opportunities and barriers as well as normative understandings of AI use among PR professionals. Drawing on the Transitional Public Relations Model and Professionalization Theory, the study examines how institutional legacies and democratic fragilities shape both ethical norms and professional practices. Based on 16 semi-structured interviews and a hybrid thematic analysis, the findings reveal a paradox: AI is embraced for its utility in routine tasks, yet its use unfolds in underregulated environments with limited training and persistent distrust in institutions. Formal ethical frameworks for AI use are largely absent, leaving practitioners to rely on individual judgement. This research advances the understanding of technology adoption, especially in transitional democracies, and highlights the impact of systemic factors on responsible AI integration in communication practice. It contributes a region-specific perspective to global debates on AI ethics, digital transformation, and the evolving role of communication professionals.
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Partisans’ online discourses against opposing information: Affective polarization thwarting democratic debate

February 24, 2026

Mehmet Fatih Çömlekçi

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Affective polarization, characterized by entrenched partisan hostility, is increasingly threatening democratic norms by fostering exclusionary and uncivil discourse, particularly in digital spaces. This study investigates how individuals respond to fact checks that contradict their political beliefs in the polarized and authoritarian context of Turkey. Focusing on 1,543 user comments responding to 23 fact checks published by Teyit.org during the 2023 Turkish presidential elections, this analysis dissects the emotional tone, targets, and rhetorical strategies employed in online political discourse. A key contribution of the study is distinguishing between uncivil comments, profane or insulting remarks primarily targeting political elites, and intolerant discourse, which directs hostility toward marginalized groups, posing a greater risk to democratic pluralism. Findings show that partisans, ignoring factual content, reframe fact checkers as biased actors and use tactics such as whataboutism, sarcasm, and source discrediting to reject inconvenient truths. The results also highlight how online polarization during elections sustains elite-focused antagonisms and facilitates social exclusion and the scapegoating of minorities. These dynamics illustrate that, though designed to promote truth, fact-checking efforts can become entangled in broader struggles over identity, trust, and legitimacy in deeply divided societies.
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Seeking visibility at last? Europarties’ digital advertising for the 2019 and 2024 European Parliamentary elections

February 17, 2026

Daniela R. Piccio, Antonella Seddone

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With the increasing digitalization of contemporary society, political parties have been growingly relying on the internet for campaigning, with social media platforms becoming a major tool for political advertising. In principle, this would also hold for political parties at the European level, whose online activity may contribute to increasing their visibility, garnering legitimacy in the public eye, improving the truly European dimension of European Parliament elections, and indeed “contribute to forming a European awareness and to expressing the political will of the citizens of the Union,” as expressed in the Treaties. In this paper we focus on the Europarties’ campaigning strategies on social media. We built an original dataset collecting the online sponsored contents published by Europarties on Facebook and Instagram during the 2019 and the 2024 European Parliament election campaigns and analyzed the extent to which they relied on these tools, highlighting cross-party differences as well as transnational targeting strategies. By empirically addressing these questions, the paper opens new avenues for research on transnationalization of the European public sphere through social media advertising strategies.
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Magalhães, M. (Ed.) (2025). Otherness in communication research: Perspectives in media, interpersonal, and intercultural communication. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 288 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73788-6

January 31, 2026

Danlei Chen

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Croucher, S. M., & Diers-Lawson, A. (Eds.) (2023). Pandemic communication. Routledge. pp. 325. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003214496

January 20, 2026

Fikri Fikri, Ainiyatul Latifah

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Simons, J. (2023). Algorithms for the people: Democracy in the age of AI. Princeton University Press. pp. 320. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691244914

December 20, 2025

Christina Neumayer

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Benítez Rojas, R. V., & Martínez-Cano, F.-J. (Eds.) (2025). Revolutionizing communication: The role of artificial intelligence. CRC Press. 232 pp. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003473633

November 27, 2025

Muhammed Parviz

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Van Belle, J., Ramos Arenas, F., & Peirano, M. P. (Eds.) (2025). Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus: Film Cultures and International Reception, edited by Jono Van Belle, Fernando Ramos Arenas and María Paz Peirano, New York: Berghahn, 2025, 234 pages. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805398790

November 25, 2025

Maaret Koskinen

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Who weaved my behavior cocoon? The impact of digital media use on daily behaviors in an accelerated society

November 5, 2025

Xue-Fei Yan, Zhicong Chen, Linyan Lu, Cheng-Jun Wang

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Whether information communication technologies extend or constrain our daily activities remains an important yet unsettled question. To reconcile the theoretical tensions between displacement and enhancement, this study examines how digital media have shaped the behavior cocoon, defined as a constrained behavioral space where individuals’ daily behaviors become increasingly homogenized (less diverse) and centralized around work. Using data from the United Kingdom Time Use Survey 2016–2020, we find that digital media use for work is likely to displace other activities and increase the formation of behavior cocoons, while digital media use for leisure tends to enhance other activities and inhibit the behavior cocoon. Interestingly, as work-life balance increases, the effect of digital media use for work on the behavior cocoon shifts from intensifying to mitigating. Our work sheds light on the tensions associated with the impact of digital media on modern life, providing new insights into the paradox of social acceleration, and reveals that work-life balance serves as a crucial mechanism for moderating technological tension.
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Representations of xenophobia: A quantitative image type analysis of AfD’s visual strategy

October 24, 2025

Yingyi Feng

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The electoral success of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) continues to require more scientific explanation. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the visual strategy of the AfD by exploring how the party visually expresses xenophobia in the expression of its right-wing populist ideology. Using quantitative image type analysis, the author analyzes the content and intent of 4160 images posted by the party on its Facebook account. The study identifies the visual means used to portray refugees, immigrants, and Muslims in opposition to native German people. This analysis highlights the inherent potential of images to convey xenophobia within the context of right-wing populist ideology in AfD campaigns.
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Sharp, R. (2024). Refugee voices: Performativity and the struggle for recognition. Routledge, 162 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003421825

October 3, 2025

Leif Pedersen

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The impacts of deepfakes on journalism: Risks, opportunities, and changes in news organizations

September 27, 2025

Patric Raemy, Manuel Puppis

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Deep learning technology allows for the creation of synthetic audio and video content that appears authentic, offering both risks and opportunities for journalism. Such synthetic content may enhance personalization, visualization, and immersion, but challenge the detection of disinformation. To date, there is limited empirical knowledge about the impacts of deepfakes on journalism. Thus, this study’s goal is to explore how journalists assess potential risks and opportunities and how news organizations respond to deepfakes or synthetic content. Interviews with representatives of major Swiss news organizations show that journalists predominantly consider deepfakes as a form of disinformation, and that they have trouble imagining the technology’s potential opportunities for journalism. Moreover, although specialized technological knowledge in news organizations is crucial, mitigating the risks posed by deepfakes and taking advantage of the opportunities synthetic content also require a reorientation toward professional journalistic norms and raising awareness among journalists and audiences alike. These results highlight that deepfakes make it necessary for journalists to renegotiate the role of journalism, professional norms, and the boundaries of AI manipulation.
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The dark side of Instagram: How voyeurism and malicious envy drive negative gossip?

September 20, 2025

Cemil Akkaş

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Studies on the dark side of Instagram use have typically examined voyeurism, malicious envy, and negative gossip independently. However, the complex interrelationships between these phenomena remain underexplored, and our understanding of their underlying drivers and potential harm is limited. This study seeks to address this gap by proposing a model that hypothesizes the interaction mechanisms between these negative outcomes within the framework of Social Comparison Theory (SCT). The model specifically examines the mediating role of malicious envy and the moderating effect of time spent on Instagram on the relationship between voyeurism and negative gossip. Additionally, gender differences across these variables are assessed. Data were collected from 415 undergraduate Instagram users in Turkey through an online survey and analyzed using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) method. The results revealed that voyeurism positively predicted both negative gossip and malicious envy, and malicious envy positively predicted negative gossip on Instagram. Furthermore, malicious envy mediated the relationship between voyeurism and negative gossip, strengthening this association. Time spent on Instagram was found to positively moderate the relationship between voyeurism and negative gossip, indicating that the more time individuals spend on the platform, the stronger the link between voyeurism and negative gossip.
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Examining trust in public service news providers: A comparison of the BBC and NHK

September 16, 2025

Steven David Pickering, Yosuke Sunahara, Martin Hansen

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This study examines trust in public service broadcasters (PSBs), traditional news media, and social media news by comparing the BBC in England and NHK in Japan. Using 19 months of survey data, we analyze how demographics, political alignment, and general trust influence perceptions of PSBs. While the BBC enjoys high trust levels comparable to traditional news media, NHK does not hold the same distinction and consistently ranks lower than both traditional and social media news in Japan. Our findings reveal that trust in the BBC is highly polarized along political lines, with Conservative voters expressing significantly lower levels of trust. In contrast, NHK’s trust levels remain more stable across the political spectrum and are actually higher among Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) LDP, the Liberal Democratic Party, is a conservative and nationalist Japanese political party that has been in power for most periods since 1955. supporters. These patterns reflect the different governance structures of the two broadcasters, with the BBC operating under a license fee model with editorial independence and NHK being directly overseen by the Japanese Diet. These results highlight the challenges which public service broadcasters face in maintaining trust in a rapidly evolving media landscape. While PSBs continue to play a vital role in providing reliable news, their credibility is shaped by national political contexts and institutional structures, with significant variation in how different audiences perceive them.
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Determining brand equity of nonprofit organizations: An inquiry of Czech citizens

August 26, 2025

Dita Hommerová, Salvatore Alaimo, Olga Martinčíková Sojková

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The global growth of nonprofit organizations has outpaced available funding and created a crowded space for media attention from the public. As a result, the value brand equity of nonprofit organizations has increased, yet few studies have examined this trend, particularly in developing countries or countries where civil societies are evolving but the professionalization of nonprofit sectors lags, as in former Soviet Bloc nations. This national study helps fill the latter research gap using a two-step approach with Czech citizens to examine brand awareness, trust, and commitment using the nonprofit brand equity index of Czech nonprofits. It mostly replicates a German study conducted by Boenigk and Becker (2016) using the same index. Results reveal that Czech citizens have an interest in being informed about how their donations are used, reflecting the often-referenced lack of transparency of Czech nonprofit organizations and donor mistrust. One third of the study’s participants could not name at least one nonprofit organization, confirming the timeliness of this study and the need for further investigation of the political, social, and economic factors behind brand equity. Such knowledge will be helpful in studying it further to inform recommended practices in strategic marketing.
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Blamed for mass murder, hailed as messiah: A content analysis of e-mails to high-profile scientific experts during the COVID-19 pandemic

August 26, 2025

David De Coninck, Peter Van Elewyck, Karolien Poels, Leen d’Haenens

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This article investigates beliefs contributing to public mistrust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium. Through a qualitative analysis of a sample of (highly) critical e-mails from 25 citizens to two prominent Belgian scientific experts (N = 924), it uncovers recurring themes tied to mistrust dynamics. Three theoretical perspectives–biopolitics, scientism, and New Age spirituality–are explored. Within the biopolitical framework, concerns emerge about increased government control, perceived undemocratic governance, and expert interference in decision making. In the realm of scientism, themes of scientific uncertainty, expert dissensus, and suspicions of hidden agendas surface. The analysis also uncovers traces of New Age spirituality, encompassing spirituality and connection, conflicts between natural immunity and vaccines, and the influence of conspiracy beliefs. In summary, this study offers vital insights into the intricate dynamics of trust during the pandemic, shedding light on the multifaceted reasons behind public mistrust in science in Belgium.
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‘I love you 3000’: Elevation experiences in superhero media entertainment

August 23, 2025

Rowan Daneels, Chen Chung Yeung

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Eudaimonic experiences such as elevation, where people feel touched and uplifted in response to witnessing good deeds and human connectedness, can be elicited by media entertainment. This study focuses on superhero entertainment, a popular narrative genre that often includes prosocial topics such as helping others and performing good deeds. While connecting elevation and superhero entertainment provides more insight into, for instance, superhero narratives’ potential for persuasive communication regarding donation behavior to charities and non-profits, research on both topics together is scarce. Through 20 in-depth interviews, this paper explores respondents’ elevating experiences from watching superhero movies and series. Respondents indicated experiencing elevation through superhero narratives, especially among lighter-themed narratives without moral ambiguity. Superhero entertainment soundtracks, special effects, and storylines were mentioned as important elicitors of elevation. Finally, respondents connected specific narrative themes (sacrifice, saving people) and character traits (altruism, helpfulness) to their elevating experiences, also emphasizing the importance of character development, identification, and affinity. Limitations and implications are further discussed.
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Van Dijk, T. A. (2024). Social movement discourse: An introduction. Routledge. 404 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003455486

August 7, 2025

Yanli Xu, Jixian Pang

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Gunkel, D. J. (2024). AI for communication. CRC Press. 130 pp. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003442240

July 8, 2025

Brent Yan

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Kumar Biswal, S., & Kulkarni, A. J. (2024). Exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and journalism: The emergence of a new journalistic paradigm. Routledge. 310 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032716879

June 27, 2025

Xi Chen, Huifang Zhang

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Esquinas, A. S., Suárez, J. R. P., Verdugo, R. R. C., & Galán, J. D. (2025). Researching social media with children: #DigitalEthnography #Storytelling. Routledge. 106 pp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003399315

May 16, 2025

Zhiwen Zeng, Tingting Hu

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The power of Facebook friends: An investigation of young adolescents’ processing of social advertising on social networking sites

March 25, 2022

Sanne Holvoet, Liselot Hudders, Laura Herrewijn

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This study investigates the underlying mechanisms of how young adolescents process social advertising (i. e., advertising on social networking sites which shows how many and which of the user’s friends have ‘liked’ the brand’s page). Particularly, two experiments examined the role of brand trust in adolescents’ attitude formation and how brand trust is predicted by theories of social proof and persuasion knowledge. In addition, the moderating role of brand familiarity and brand value is investigated. The first experiment (N = 142) showed that higher brand trust was induced for social advertising for unfamiliar but not for familiar brands through the principle of social proof. This means that friends’ likes may reduce uncertainty and increase trust in unfamiliar brands through social advertising, something which enhances brand attitudes. Persuasion knowledge could not explain the effects of social advertising. The second experiment (N = 72) showed that social advertisements are more effective for brands that are symbolic (versus non-symbolic). Managerial and policy implications regarding social advertising targeting adolescents are discussed.

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Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
Department of Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Greifswald, Germany

Leen d'Haenens
Media Culture & Policy Lab, K. U. Leuven, Belgium

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Denisa Hejlová, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czechia
Philippe J. Maarek, Université Paris Est-UPEC, CECCOPOP & SIC.Lab Méditeranée, France
Hillel Nossek, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel
Christian Pentzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Cristina Ponte, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Christian Ruggiero, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Brigitte Sebbah, University of Toulouse, France

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Olivier Driessens, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rebecca Venema, University of Amste rdam, Netherlands

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Hanna Adoni, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Akiba Cohen, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Nicoleta Corbu, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Gemany
John L. Hochheimer, Southern Illinois University, USA
Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenh agen, Denmark
Leif Kramp, Universität Bremen, ZeMKI
†Klaus Krippendorff, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Friedrich Krotz, University of Bremen, Germany
Ivan Lacasa, International University of Catalonia, Spain
Tristan Mattelart, Université Pari s-2, France
†Ekkehard Mochmann, German Society for Communication Research (DGKF), Cologne, Germany
Beata Ociepka, University of Wrocław, Poland
Irena Reifová, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republich
Keith Roe, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Jan Servaes, City University of Hong Kong, China
Laura Vandenbosch, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Christian von Sikorski, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Katrin Voltmer, School of Media and Communications, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University, UK

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eISSN:

1613-4087

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0341-2059

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English

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De Gruyter Mouton

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First published:

January 1, 1976

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4 issues per year

eISSN: 1613-4087

ISSN: 0341-2059

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Researchers and practitioners interested in communication studies, especially Scholars and Students in Communication and Media, Communication Sociologists, and Linguists

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