Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc)

This article examines media portrayals of wealth and poverty. It primarily adopts a historical perspective and describes depictions of German immigrants in the United States from 1848 to 1914. Articles were analyzed using a qualitative content...

This article examines discourses on poverty in Austria, including their media representations, political battles of interpretation, and the role of counter-public spheres. The central research question is how poverty is portrayed in the mass media...

This article demonstrates that, in both moral theology and AI ethics, moral orientation is increasingly grounded not in isolated or supposedly unambiguous essential characteristics, but in what occurs within relationships and social practices....

Science is expected to provide the basis for political decisions while simultaneously staying out of politics—such is the stark expectation. While political engagement is a matter of course for many social groups, it is considered foreign to the...

fThis paper examines how ORF addresses poverty and social exclusion. It explores how those affected and experts evaluate the coverage, how it should be structured in the interests of those affected, and what editorial and structural...

This article examines communication strategies used in begging, focusing on cardboard signs that beggars use to encourage people to donate, even though the contributorscannot expect any immediate material benefit. Based on 42 signs, which are...

Poverty is part of the reality of life for children and young people because they encounter it or experience it themselves. Confrontation with poverty often touches upon children’s strong sense of justice. It is evident that perceived injustice...

This paper examines the digital divide between people living in poverty and those not living in poverty in Germany. The theoretical framework is the three-level model of digital divides, which distinguishes between inequality in access, use, and the...

The study examines the social background groups from which journalism trainees and journalism students in Germany originate and how social background relates to their understanding of their professional roles. It is based on a survey of 250 aspiring...

This article examines the extent to which James S. Coleman’s theory of trust can be applied to digital communication contexts. Coleman conceives of trust as a rational decision made under uncertainty, based on the cost-benefit calculations of...

In the US, whose media system was once considered the freest in the world, press freedom is in decline. Year after year, the US continues to fall in the rankings for press freedom. The trend is exacerbated by the Trump administration's anti-media...

This article discusses the current debate on banning social media from a media and AI ethics perspective and argues for a more nuanced approach. It is necessary to determine not only what social media is and what image of childhood is being used as...

This article analyzes the phenomenon of digital naivety as a structurally conditioned misjudgment of one's own digital skills, especially among vulnerable groups. It shows that cybersecurity is not only a technical problem but also a media ethics...

During and following the Enlightenment, different views have been expressed concerning the advantages of demystifying the world. The expansion of knowledge was supposed to open the world to people. However, this opening was also seen as...

This article focuses on security policy reporting from Greenland, which has increased significantly since 2025 in response to interventions by the US. The focus is on analyzing news images and their iconographic significance, as well as the complex...