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...