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...

Stimulated by public debates on the media presence of communication studies, the current study is the first to examine the media coverage of the discipline. In a quantitative content analysis, the coverage of three German-language quality newspapers...

Media use is theorized as strategic practice (in Bourdieu’s sense) leading to longterm profits or governed by short-term tactic orientations. By strategies of media use, the recipient adapts to the structure of situations, media content and...