SCM Studies in Communication and Media

Using data of N = 70 articles from newspapers in the United Kingdom, this study explores whether UK print media of both broadsheet and tabloid press make use of issue-specific frames (Entman, 1993) in the reporting on male rape. Current UK...

User comments have emerged as a prominent feature accompanying news articles, which has changed how audiences interact with journalistic content. While offering options for reader engagement and community building, previous research has shown that...

Recently, autonomous driving has received significant attention in risk and science communication research due to its increasing public visibility. However, media research has not differentiated between individual autonomous mobility (IAM) and...

Many phenomena relevant to communication studies occur at the group level, yet methodological options for collecting data from groups as analytical units are limited. This contribution proposes the idea of a comprehensive, standardized, online group...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a public debate briefly emerged in 2021 regarding the release of coronavirus vaccine patents. The call for such a measure came from the Global South, which was undersupplied with vaccines: A temporary suspension of...

With the intensifying discourse on climate change and the unfolding climate crisis, more and more social media influencers are addressing sustainability. These “greenfluencers” combine entertainment and lifestyle content with environmental...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists were heavily reliant on contributions from scientific experts. Despite the often productive collaboration between scientists and journalists, journalistic practices are largely at odds with scientific...

Nowadays, social media is highly relevant for community building, social exchange and social self-description. In them, knowledge relations and knowledge policies are formed that influence the construction of reality. Here, Telegram plays a crucial...

In the era of COVID-19 and the Ukraine war, the proliferation of misinformation on social media raises concerns for both individuals and society. This study delves into its reception and effects on attitudes, with a focus on individual verification...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of binge-watching and its antecedents. By examining content-related factors such as preferences for TV formats, serial genres, and narrative structures this study extends current knowledge...

Mainstream pornography presumably influences explicit and implicit attitudes. This study presents a media literacy intervention specifically for pornography in form of a short video (3 min.) highlighting that pornography is effortfully constructed....

Discursive self-empowerment, the visibility of political attitudes and acting towards societal transformation are vernacular practices in social media. This also applies to parts of journalistic actors who advocate for equality and social justice...

Computer-generated sexually explicit media is on the rise. While previous studies suggest that human sexualized stimuli are preferred compared to artificial ones, these studies did not consider the depicted sexual behavior as an influential factor....

As a result of digitalization, sexually explicit media content is now produced and distributed in much greater quantity and variety in private, public, and commercial contexts. Increased normalization of pornography, greater sexualization of media...

Despite the internet’s historical significance for LGBTQ+ identities and communities, contemporary public health research overlooks how gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ+) men utilise online spaces for sexual expression and connections. This study...

Although content differences in pornography play an acknowledged role in many theories concerning the use and consequences of such material, relatively few studies have attempted to describe and understand the use of different types of pornography....

In recent years, the erotic platform OnlyFans has been discussed in German media coverage as a controversial new online phenomenon. A qualitative content analysis based on Kuckartz therefore examines how German media characterize the OnlyFans...

The diffusion of innovation (DOI) literature and the uses-and-gratifications approach (UGA) meet in the people’s beliefs and expectations. We explore the users’ and non-users’ beliefs about streaming television (SVoD). A survey about Netflix,...

In the context of methodological discussions surrounding the “interdisciplinary turn” and “computational turn” of communication studies and media and journalism studies in particular, this paper raises awareness for corpus linguistics as a...

Experts who explain technological and complex content in the media could provoke negative responses regarding their competence due to stereotypical anticipations based on their gender. In an online experiment the impact of an expert’s gender on...

As a result of digitalisation, journalistic media organisations are confronted with product innovation at an increasing pace. The pressure to innovate is driven not only by competition between media organisations, but also characterised by internet...