Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc)

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...

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...

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 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...

Since the Russian attack on Ukraine, this war has dominated news coverage and poses challenges to journalists in their daily work. A qualitative content analysis of the print and Instagram coverage of selected German leading media in the period...

Bringing digital ethics to the people: That is the goal of the podcast “Ethik Digital” [“Digi- tal Ethics”], which journalists Rieke C. Harmsen and Christine Ulrich launched two and a half years ago. In the individual episodes, they speak to...

The Psalm adaptation of the track “Rivers of Babylon” (1978) became the most successful song of the disco group “Boney M.”. The recourse to the Bible became the basis for a global hit that is still played in many countries around the world....