SCM Studies in Communication and Media

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...

Does the diffusion of the internet lead to a fragmentation of modern societies? The fragmentation hypothesis suggests that the internet offers an enormous amount of different information, eventually considering fragmentation to be growing. In...

This article explores how much attention journalism dedicates to past disasters in the present media coverage and asks to which extent journalism refers to present and future developments and concerns while reporting the past. Following concepts of...