SCM Studies in Communication and Media

Whenever new (mass-)media technologies were introduced to western industrialized societies, their diffusion went along with both euphoria and substantial concerns expressed by different parts of the population. This may also hold true for the...

People’s perception of reality is essentially based on two different sources: Per­sonal experience and mass media content. This paper contributes to the understanding of how these two sources are related when shaping reality estimations...

Technologies have always been an important element of the production, distribution and consumption of media content. In the past years, the ‘materiality’ of media communication regained the attention of media scholars. This “re-discovery of...