SCM Studies in Communication and Media

This study investigates the relationship between attitude extremity and perceived exposure to diverse political arguments in the debate about COVID-19 health policy measures. Based on a comparative, cross-sectional survey in Germany and Switzerland,...

In climate (change) communication, frames in the context of local journalism are a relevant and yet rarely studied research topic. Such frames have an impact on how people deal with climate change, on problem awareness, behaviors, and on local...

This article investigates the mediatization of responsibility in the context of health care decision-making and biological citizenship. The analyzes how Danish parents navigate the pervasiveness, polysemy, and media logic of health communication,...

This study examines the frame-building process regarding climate change in Indonesia, an emerging country in the Global South that produces significant carbon emissions and is one of the nations most affected by the climate crisis. Through a...

Frames are a central concept in communication research. Based on our literature review, we propose that frame identification is an act of identifying selected reality and communicative intention. We then highlight the conceptual and methodological...

Pre-trained language models (PLM) based on transformer neural networks developed in the field of natural language processing (NLP) offer great opportunities to improve automatic content analysis in communication science, especially for the coding of...

Given the political consequences of the Coronavirus crisis, the present study examined the reciprocal relationship between satisfaction with the government’s Coronavirus policy and media trust in Germany during the first year of the Coronavirus...

According to the public interest model of normative media theory, media reporting is expected to regularly place child sexual abuse (CSA) on the agenda as a relevant societal problem and cover it in a high-quality manner that contributes to social...

Although the quantitative content analysis is one of the most important methods in empirical social research, the coding process receives little attention. This is particularly concerning in light of current developments, such as the rise of the use...

Content analysis is one of the core methods of communication science. However, it is currently confronted with several challenges, such as the influx of procedures, data, and measurements emerging from computational methods. To understand how...

Automated content analyses have become a popular tool in communication sci- ence. While standard procedures for manual content analysis were established decades ago, it remains an open question whether these standards are sufficient for the use of...

Questions of validity and research ethics are closely linked, with content-analytic research being no exception. Nevertheless, in the past, quantitative content analysis has often been excluded from ethical discussions among communication scholars....

In quantitative content analysis, conventional wisdom holds that reliability, op- erationalized as agreement, is a necessary precondition for validity. Underlying this view is the assumption that there is a definite, unique way to correctly classify...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the German population has become polarised and distrust in social institutions has grown. Despite generally high levels of trust in sci- ence, we have witnessed the emergence of science and COVID-19 sceptics, who are...

The paper investigates whether watching legal series leads to law school enroll- ment. First, the study analyses if series consumption is related to enrolling at law school. This is achieved by analyzing data of 1,353 students from Münster,...

“Suspense is when it’s suspenseful.” For many years this sentence coined the (German) empirical research on suspense. Post-receptive measurement instruments usually understood suspense as one-dimensional or as a subdimension of other...

Political social media influencers (PSMI), who as personal brands regularly dis- seminate self-produced political content on platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, can influence the political public and opinion formation beyond their...

Young adults with cancer are particularly challenged to manage their disease. On the one hand, they have to consider the various (long-term) side effects of the therapy, and on the other hand – because their problem is not typical for their age...

In the first half of the year 2020, images of the COVID-19 pandemic dominated frontpages and primetime news: empty streets, overcrowded hospitals and panic-buying reflected the chaos and great uncertainty of this global health crisis. Since the...