Political advertisers have access to increasingly sophisticated microtargeting techniques.
One such technique is tailoring ads to the personality traits of citizens. Questions have been …

Dictionary-based approaches to computational text analysis have been shown to perform
relatively poorly, particularly when the dictionaries rely on simple bags of words, are not …

Media psychology researchers seek to understand both why people choose certain media
over others and how media influence cognitive, emotional, social, and psychological …

Social sciences are facing a crisis of replicability, and concerns about the confidence in
quantitative findings have resulted in an increasing interest in open science practices across …

Computational methods have added new approaches to the way many communication
scientists do their work. We identify four developments that accelerated the adaption of …

Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die Diskussion um Forschungssoftware in der Kommunikations-
und Medienwissenschaft methodisch zu kontextualisieren. Das Kernargument dabei ist …

This special issue was conceived with the aim of building original and creative intellectual
bridges across multiple subfields of communication. In many ways, our field is thriving: we …

Content analysis is one of the core methods of communication science. However, it is
currently confronted with several challenges, such as the influx of procedures, data, and …

In Computational Communication Science (CCS) researchers grapple with intricate ethical
challenges arising from the collection and analysis of complex data sets often including …

Computational methods are in full swing in communication science. Part of their promise is
to make communication research more reproducible. However, how this plays out in practice …