Latest Research in Media Studies and Communication

Top Research Topics in Media Studies and Communication

• Media Studies and Communication — 6 papers
• Social Media and Politics — 5 papers
• Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection — 5 papers
• Social and Intergroup Psychology — 3 papers
• Social and Information Networks — 3 papers
• Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence — 2 papers
• Populism, Right-Wing Movements — 2 papers
• Computers and Society — 2 papers
• Mental Health via Writing — 2 papers
• Misinformation and Its Impacts — 2 papers

Highest-Cited Papers

1. Community Notes undermoderate polarizing content by design creating risks in electoral processes (1 citations)
2. The Politics of Digital “Othering”: Online Hate Networks and the Marginalization of Muslim Communities in Europe (1 citations)
3. Ambient Extremism in Reactionary Digital Politics
4. Social media, social identity, and the construction of perceived gender conflict: evidence from a national survey in South Korea
5. Whoever is not with me is against me: The “moderate as out-group” effect.
6. Honneth on Labour and Democracy: A (Sympathetic) Rejoinder
7. Who won the feed? TikTok campaigning of the alternative for Germany (AfD) and the left in Germany’s 2025 federal election
8. Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Holes Emerge via Interacting Contagions
9. Progressive in Principle, Centrist in Practice: LLM Political Bias Is Instrument-Dependent
10. Affective Publics in the YouTube Live Chat: Multimodal Emotional Contagion During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate
11. Policing participation: the policy boundaries of youth activism in Italy
12. Impacts on Diversity in Mediterranean Media Systems: An Explorative Study of Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal
13. Media Literacy and Social Capital: Indian Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Media and Established Institutions
14. “Watching the Watchdogs Attacked”: Audience Perception of Online Harassment of Journalists in Kenya
15. Beyond Ideology: Political Behavior and Popularity in TikTok’s Platformized Political Communication Environment
16. Ingroup bias is prevalent in user reports of hate and abuse online
17. Auditing Differential Visibility of Political Content on TikTok
18. ASSESSMENT OF AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT INDICES ON OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PAGES (USING THE EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC PUBLICATIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS OF RUSSIA)
19. Appendices- CRINGE AS A FORM OF EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION IN ALBANIAN DIGITAL CAMPAIGNS (2025)
20. Social Mobility Among Rural Families in Contemporary India: Determinants, Challenges and Sociological Perspectives