Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc)

A modern culture of remembrance must also deal with new forms of media. This includes digital games in particular. Whether new forms of remembrance can succeed depends, among other things, on the responsible handling of historical settings. The...

Public service broadcasting in Europe is under pressure. Right-wing populist parties have a considerable share in this development. The article aims to show why public service broadcasting in particular is the target of populist criticism. The...

In the digital age public broadcasters must align their structures and content cross-medially. Whether they succeed in this cross-media transformation depends, among other things, on the success of their change management. How Südwestrundfunk (SWR)...

The article outlines the increasing role of short video platforms such as TikTok for science communication. Based on a content and multimodal video analysis, the study provides information on how TikTok is used by different actors for science...

Budget levy, license fee, tax financing - public service media in Europe are financed in very different ways. This overview article presents the most important forms of PSM financing in Europe and discusses their advantages and disadvantages in...

The Catholic press in Poland is known for its biased reporting and thus disregards the journalistic principle of objectivity. A quantitative content analysis was used to investigate whether and to what extent the Catholic weekly publications...

In view of a perceived crisis of legitimacy of public service broadcasting (PSB) and societal debates concerning its functional mandate, this article examines the integration mandate of PSB. It examines how the use of PSB is related to perceived...

Based on the conflicts that arise for journalism due to platformization, the article presents an approach with which it should be possible to justify, in terms of media ethics, whether and how public service media (PSM) may create content for...

The “Eastern Christian Studies Online Campus” (www.ku.de/ecsonca) is a multimedia online platform on the cultural heritage of Eastern Christianity with innovative teaching formats, international research projects and creative transfer services....

In January 2024, the Council for the Future presented its recommendations for the future development of public service broadcasting in Germany. What are the priorities and how should they proceed from here? In two articles, ZDF Director General...

The debates, differentiations and dimensions of public media institutions have been part of an intense debate for years, not only in Germany - in the private sector, among the (political) public and in the media industry itself. These debates are...

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...

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...