SCM Studies in Communication and Media

Much of human behavior is influenced by social norms. Although communication represents one important mechanism through which norms are formed and disseminated, the role of communication has not yet received sufficient attention in social norms...

Every day, media managers face different challenges in a constantly changing global economic, cultural and technological setting (Hollifield, Leblanc Wicks, Sylvie, & Lowrey, 2016, p. 110, 177; Albarran, 2013; Shaver & Shaver, 2008; Hollifield,...

This paper explores the role of satirical pages and groups on Facebook as a means of a broader discourse strategy of mainstreaming extreme right political positions and populist propaganda. In a qualitative content analysis of six satirical pages...

Counter speech is perceived and has also been advocated by social networks as a measure for delimiting the effects of hate speech. To facilitate estimating the efficiency of counter speech in freely accessible blackboard communication as employed by...

The Internet creates a space in which hate, negativity and the derogation of certain individuals or social groups (e.g., homosexuals, migrants, or women) can be found in various facets-be it in hateful comments of single users under journalistic...

Incivility in online user discussions is discussed as a significant challenge for democratic societies. Interactive journalistic moderation is seen as a promising strategy to deal with and prevent online incivility. Such moderation occurs, for...

Journalists around the world have increasingly become a target of hate speech in recent years. This is also true for Germany. Since journalists fulfil a public duty in democratic societies, there is reason for concern. As previous research shows,...

Since platform operators are severely challenged to cope with hate speech on social networking sites, countering by individual users is all the more important. Still, it remains unclear to what extent users’ intention to actually interfere against...

Within this paper, the relationship between citizens’ emotional reactions to political reporting and their judgment of trust in politicians is investigated. Drawing on appraisal theories of emotion, this paper seeks to answer the question whether...

To understand populism, it is crucial to understand populist political communication. We investigate how politicians across the political spectrum employ populist communication in different non-institutionalized communication arenas. Populism is...

In this research report, I investigated which (media) sources were shared on 122 AfD-related Facebook pages during the year 2016. Results show that mainstream media outlets were not absent from these discussions. The established media sources Welt...

Popularity cues, such as likes and shares, point to mainly positive user reactions. On an aggregated level, they either indicate relevance assignments or endorsements of online items, particularly in the context of political communication. Second,...

Research on recovery from stress demonstrated that entertaining movies increase psychological detachment and relaxation. In addition, entertainment experiences foster feelings of vitality and thereby contribute to well-being. The current study...

Grounded in Giddens’ structuration theory and using Bourdieu’s analytical tools this paper argues that Karl Bücher’s launch of Europe’s first communication department at Leipzig University in 1916 had a structural impact on the...

Good research practice faces both ethical and methodological challenges that cannot always be met at the same time. The paper systematically relates research ethics to methodological issues discussing potential dilemmas. It sheds light on...

Although research has shown that political actors benefit from appealing to values that resonate with their audience’s preferences, it remains an open question to what extent this can be exploited. How do individuals react to value appeals that...

While the analysis of national - and increasingly European - elections is a longstanding tradition in political communication research, the analysis of regional elections is still an understudied research topic. Those elections take the centre stage...