Volume 57 (2024), Edition 1

Reporting on Africa has been criticized for decades. This article outlines how reporting on sub-Saharan Africa has changed in recent years and to what extent criticism is still appropriate. The structures, problems, and relevance of reporting on...

Journalism is complex and diverse – especially in international comparison. While journalism research has put a great deal of effort and investment into precisely examining developments in the global West, there is very little research and studies...

In East Africa, cinema storytelling has not only survived the changeover from silent film to sound film, but also the recent media transition to the digital age. The article presents the lines of development of this intermedia narrative genre with a...

This article deals with different images of Africa in the medium of film in recent decades. Based on eight feature films, two perspectives on Africa are presented: the external perspective of Western filmmakers and the internal perspective of...

This article presents the results of an empirical study of Facebook advertising during the 2021 Bundestag election campaign. The results are mainly presented using principal component analyses. It shows which target groups and regions were addressed...

While unfair practices such as disinformation or populism are often discussed and criticized in public discourse, this article uses the term political communication pollution to focus on the unintended side effects of these practices on the culture...

Although the persecution of Christians has become a global phenomenon in the 21st century and in some places there is talk of the greatest persecution of Christians of all time, the media rarely report on it. In order to gain a deeper insight into...