M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

This article analyses how Telegram channels, whose content emotionalizes, polarizes, and disinforms, are structured. We assume that state-skeptical counter-publics are communicatively formed on Telegram, and that these can be reconstructed as a...

According to the World Health Organization, one of the most important measures to prevent suicidal behavior is a responsible media coverage of suicidality. This recommendation is based on findings regarding possible media effects, which can...

Data donations represent a user-centered approach to data collection where researchers ask EU participants to exercise their right of access (GDPR) vis-à-vis intermediaries and to donate the digital trace data they receive to academic research....

For some time now, the class society has been a talking point in the social sciences. Historically, social structure analyses were dominated by theories of individualization, differentiation and deproletarianization as a result of modernization....

So-called Social Media Influencers (SMI) are increasingly common participants in political discourse. Due to their close relationship with their followers and their horizontal style of communication, these personalities are often characterised as a...