SCM Studies in Communication and Media

“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...

Freedom of speech is one of the most fundamental human rights in modern democracies. On the one hand, it enables individual personal development and the formation of opinions. On the other hand, it is central to the functioning of democratic...

Self-tracking technologies have been regarded both very optimistic and very critical. However, these conclusions are often based on single application studies and lack empirical evidence on actual self-tracking usage. We set out to identify types of...