The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

In communication research, topic modeling is primarily used for discovering systematic
patterns in monolingual text corpora. To advance the usage, we provide an overview of …

Comparing Political Communication: A 2020 Update Page 1 1 Comparing Political
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Over the past two decades, migration has become one of the decisive socio-political topics
worldwide. Debates over effective border controls, the social integration of migrants or the …

Throughout the current global health crisis, false and misleading content has proliferated on
social media. Previous research indicates that users of social media primarily share …

Media fragmentation and polarization have contributed to blurring the lines between
professional and non-professional journalism. Internationally, more fragmented-polarized …

Public resentment toward scientific institutions, scholars, and their expertise challenges the
status of science in society in many countries worldwide. It is thus essential to examine the …

The recent demand to strongly contextualize findings of political communication research
(Rojas & Valenzuela, 2019) should be welcomed. Such a call is pushing at an already open …

This introductory article reviews the history of cross-national comparative research,
discusses its typical research designs and research questions, and ultimately summarizes …

The policy of free movement—one of the core principles of the European Union—has
become increasingly politicized. This makes it more important to understand how attitudes …