Impact Factor: 1.6

Veröffentlicht seit 1. Januar 1976

Communications

The European Journal of Communication Research

ISSN: 1613-4087

Herausgegeben von: Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Leen d'Haenens

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Objective
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research is an established forum for scholarship and academic debate in the field of communication science and research from a European perspective. Communication science is concerned with the investigation of the structure and function of communication processes and their impact on society, social groups and individuals. Communications highlights the concerns of this discipline through the publication of articles, research reports, review essays and book reviews on theoretical and methodological developments considered from a European perspective. The journal encompasses the entire field of communication science as its domain of interest. The contributions published in the journal cover a wide range of subfields in communication science.

Topics

Communication reseach
Structure and function of communication
Impact on society, social groups and individuals
Interpersonal communication
Intercultural communication
Mass communication
Communication theory
Philosophy of communication
Media history
Media development and communication technology

Article formats
Original articles, research reports, review essays, and book reviews

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Your benefits

European perspective on communication research
Specialized expertise on communication processes
Societal references of the research
Broad topics
Interdisciplinary approach to journal’s subject matter

Geschichte

Communications was founded in 1975 by Alphons Silbermann in cooperation with the German Society for Communication Research (DGKF). The journal has been published by De Gruyter Mouton since 2002.

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Band 48 Heft 3

August 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 25. August 2023

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Editorial

Open Access 22. Juni 2023

No innocents: Platforms, politics, and media struggling with digital governance

Tales Tomaz, Josef Trappel

Seiten: 345-351

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Articles

Open Access 11. Juli 2023

Combatting disinformation with crisis communication: An analysis of Meta’s newsroom stories

Michaël Opgenhaffen

Seiten: 352-369

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Abstract

This study examines how Meta as a company of various social media platforms communicates the disinformation crisis. Social media platforms are seen as a breeding ground for disinformation, and companies like Meta risk not only suffering reputational damage but also being further regulated by national and international legislation. We consider in this paper the news stories that Meta posted on the topic of disinformation on its own website between 2016 and 2022 as crisis communication, and build on insights from this domain that discuss some key response strategies. In this way, we conclude that Meta’s communication can be seen as crisis communication, and that it uses strategies such as addressing different stakeholders, sticking to key messages when discussing the interventions, and holding itself responsible for finding a solution rather than for the problem of disinformation itself. These insights contribute to understanding how Meta seeks to validate its legitimacy during this ongoing crisis, and how it engages in self-regulation.

Open Access 23. Juni 2023

Promoting responsible AI: A European perspective on the governance of artificial intelligence in media and journalism

Colin Porlezza

Seiten: 370-394

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Abstract

Artificial intelligence and automation have become pervasive in news media, influencing journalism from news gathering to news distribution. As algorithms are increasingly determining editorial decisions, specific concerns have been raised with regard to the responsible and accountable use of AI-driven tools by news media, encompassing new regulatory and ethical questions. This contribution aims to analyze whether and to what extent the use of AI technology in news media and journalism is currently regulated and debated within the European Union and the Council of Europe. Through a document analysis of official policy documents, combined with a data mining approach and an inductive thematic analysis, the study looks at how news media are dealt with, in particular regarding their responsibilities towards their users and society. The findings show that regulatory frameworks about AI rarely include media, but if they do, they associate them with issues such as disinformation, data, and AI literacy, as well as diversity, plurality, and social responsibility.

Open Access 13. Juli 2023

Platform regulation and “overblocking” – The NetzDG discourse in Germany

Jens Pohlmann, Adrien Barbaresi, Peter Leinen

Seiten: 395-419

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This paper analyzes the internet policy discourse regarding the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) in different media settings. We examine the conversation about this highly controversial anti-hate speech law on IT blogs, websites, and in daily German newspapers. We compare the positions brought forward in these different media environments concerning one of the most important topics within the discussion about the NetzDG, specifically the question of whether or not the law will result in censorship, limiting users’ freedom of expression. We employ pretrained transformer-based language models to detect and quantify recurring arguments in the debate.

Open Access 15. Juni 2023

The “neo-intermediation” of large on-line platforms: Perspectives of analysis of the “state of health” of the digital information ecosystem

Isabella de Vivo

Seiten: 420-439

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The key role played by online platforms in the neo-intermediation of the public debate requires a review of current tools for mapping the digital information ecosystem, highlighting the political nature of such an analysis: Starting from a synoptic overview of the main models of platform governance, we try to understand whether the ongoing European shift towards the Limited Government Regulation (LGR) model will be able to counterbalance the “systemic opinion power” of the giant platforms and restore the “health” of the digital information ecosystem. A close analysis of the European Digital Services Act (DSA) has highlighted some limitations in achieving its goals, because of the features of the LGR on the one hand, and the disruptive features of the algorithmic neo-intermediation phenomenon on the other. Thus, we suggest a tripartite regulatory model, that can be defined as “neo-editorial accountability.” However, increasing users’ critical algorithmic awareness is an essential prerequisite for implementing the suggested template, and mitigating an outstanding effect of the LGR model: the normalization of the ideological assumptions underlying informational capitalism.

Open Access 22. Juni 2023

Where to next with Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code?

Tim Dwyer, Terry Flew, Derek Wilding

Seiten: 440-456

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Taken at face value the introduction in 2021 of Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code (“the Code”) may appear “world leading,” innovative, and, in general, a productive and strategic intervention to reverse the decline of public interest journalism. It is claimed that in the Australian news industry context, an annual transfer of around $200 million between two platform companies – Google and Meta – and news businesses has now been put in place (Sims, 2022). All major news media companies in Australia, if not smaller more independent ones, have greatly benefitted from the new Code, and anecdotally it appears that the funding has resulted in the creation of significant numbers of new journalists being hired. Yet the exact investment destination and ultimate beneficiaries of the funding are not known beyond the corporate walls of the recipients. The article points to the transparency and sustainability problems inherent to the new Code, arguing that an alternative approach to funding public interest journalism might be a levy funded by the platforms.

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Journal Impact Factor	1.6	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	1.8	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
Journal Citation Indicator	0.43	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
CiteScore	1.8	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.374	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.841	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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Submission
Communications invites submissions from a broad thematic field of communication research. Manuscripts should represent original work, should not be published elsewhere or in another language, and should not be submitted to other journals simultaneously. Manuscripts for consideration in Communications should be submitted via the online submission system.

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Submit your paper via the online sumbmission system following the Instructions for Authors (The Instructions for Authors file can be found on this website on the 'Overview' tab, under the heading 'Supplementary files'.)
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Submissions should be written in English. Contributors whose native language is not English should have their manuscripts read by a native speaker before submission
Examples not in English must have aligned interlinear glosses and an idiomatic translation
Before submitting your article please have a look at our Ethical Guidelines and our Copyright Transfer Agreement
Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access
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Editorial

Editors

Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
Department of Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Greifswald, Germany

Leen d'Haenens
Centre for Media Culture and Communication Technology, K. U. Leuven, Belgium

Associate Editors
Denisa Hejlová, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czechia
Philippe J. Maarek, Université Paris Est-UPEC, CECCOPOP, France
Tristan Mattelart, Université Paris-2, France
Hillel Nossek, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel
Christian Pentzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Cristina Ponte, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Book Review Editors
Stijn Joye, University of Ghent, Belgium
Heidi Vandebosch, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Olivier Driessens, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 　

Editorial Management
Viviane Harkort, ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany

Editorial Board

Hanna Adoni, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Akiba Cohen, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Nicoleta Corbu, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Gemany
John L. Hochheimer, Southern Illinois University, USA
Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Leif Kramp, Universität Bremen, ZeMKI
†Klaus Krippendorff, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Friedrich Krotz, University of Bremen, Germany
Ivan Lacasa, International University of Catalonia, Spain
Ekkehard Mochmann, German Society for Communication Research (DGKF), Cologne, Germany
Beata Ociepka, University of Wrocław, Poland
Irena Reifová, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republich
Keith Roe, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Jan Servaes, City University of Hong Kong, China
Laura Vandenbosch, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Christian von Sikorski, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Katrin Voltmer, School of Media and Communications, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University, UK

Editorial Assistance
Annalena Oeffner Ferreira, ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany

(English)

Online ISSN: 1613-4087
Print ISSN: 0341-2059
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. Januar 1976
Erscheinungsweise: 4 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: Researchers and practitioners interested in communication studies, especially Scholars and Students in Communication and Media, Communication Sociologists, and Linguists