Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc)

What responsibility does the German government have for the fact that thousands of local staff were left behind in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in 2021? Secret govern- ment files reveal the answer. This article describes what happened when...

The article deals with the shifting processes of remembering the Holocaust on social media. The research question is: How is the use of photography in the digital world changing, especially after the events of October 7, 2023, the attack on Israel...

Editorial offices are increasingly addressing their media users openly, explaining why they show (or don’t show) certain photos, often with reference to social media. In digital photojournalism, competencies in the ethics of imaging are being...

Our brain processes them faster, they touch us more emotionally and we memorize them better than words: the power of images is great – and so is the potential damage they can cause. At the same time, we have never been surrounded by as many images...

The separation of different journalistic representations is considered an essential prerequisite for the credibility of media. In the Code of Honor for the Austrian press, the principle of separation is regulated in point 3 (“distinctness”)....