Volume 74 (2026), Edition 1

This article examines the impact of datafication and the growing availability of data on research practices in communication studies in German-speaking countries. Against the backdrop of change processes such as mediatization and digitalization, it...

Mobile devices are increasingly central as sources of up-to-date information, making the precise recording of information behavior on these devices more relevant for research. Established methods of automated data collection are reaching their...

Research on the digital networked public sphere is not only hindered by challenges in data access but also by a lack of common standards for describing and implementing data collection independently of the form of access or technologies employed....

Machine translation is widely used in communication science to consolidate texts, not least for exploratory clustering approaches such as multilingual topic modeling. However, the impact of target language choice on topic modeling results remains...

This paper explores how Critical Data Studies (CDS) and communication studies can enrich each other, particularly in the context of the current uptake of methodological approaches supported by large-scale data analytics and “AI.” First, the...