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European Journal of Communication
Journal Prestige (SJR): 1.519  Citation Impact (citeScore): 2 Number of Followers: 16  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 0267-3231 - ISSN (Online) 1460-3705 Published by Sage Publications  [1176 journals]
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- Article of the Year 2022 Award
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Pages: 537 - 537
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 537-537, December 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-12-06T07:28:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231217380
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 6 (2023)
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- Book notes: The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the
Monstrous by Emma Reay-
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Pages: 641 - 642
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 641-642, December 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-12-06T07:28:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231214839b
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 6 (2023)
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- Book notes: Media and Public Relations Research in Post-Socialist
Societies by Maureen C Minielli, Marta N Lukacovic, Sergei A Samoilenko,
and Michael R Finch (Editors), with Deborrah Uecker-
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Pages: 641 - 641
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 641-641, December 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-12-06T07:28:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231214839a
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 6 (2023)
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- Book notes: Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory,
Activism by Byrdie Kosmina-
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Pages: 642 - 642
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 642-642, December 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-12-06T07:28:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231214839c
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 6 (2023)
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- Book notes: Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS by Marika
Cifor-
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Pages: 643 - 643
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 643-643, December 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-12-06T07:28:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231214839d
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 6 (2023)
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- Book notes: Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction by Jacob
Johanssen and Steffen Krüger-
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Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-11-17T08:18:51Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231214839
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- SLAPPs against journalists in Europe: Exploring the role of
self-regulatory bodies-
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Authors: Marie Fierens, Florence Le Cam, David Domingo, Simone Benazzo
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Reports show that media freedom is under pressure worldwide. Violence against journalists has a legal facet that takes the form of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) that aim at silencing critical speech. While in some countries there are legal protections against SLAPPs, in Europe a debate is only recently being carried out, mainly fostered by professional journalist associations and civil society. This article explores the role that European journalistic self-regulatory bodies perceive they (could) have in fighting SLAPPs, analysing 16 qualitative answers gathered via a questionnaire. Self-regulation has historically been a way to protect the independence of journalism and uphold its ethical standards. The open-ended responses help to understand how SLAPPs put into question the representations that media councils and professional associations use to construct their ‘professional jurisdiction’, and therefore, their ‘territory’ and the way in which they see their role in society. Our results provide food for thought on the handling of legal attacks against journalists.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-11-15T08:42:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231213539
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- Through the looking glass: Making sense of a disrupted world
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Authors: Başak Uçanok Tan
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-11-03T09:00:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231211656
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- Book review: Digital Fever: Taming the Big Business of Disinformation by
Bernhard Poerksen-
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Authors: Christina Holtz-Bacha
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-11-03T09:00:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231211650
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- Where is the public of ‘networked publics’' A critical analysis of the
theoretical limitations of online publics research-
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Authors: Markus Ojala, Leena Ripatti-Torniainen
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
The study of online media use has been elemental in shaping the research on publics within communication and media studies in the last few decades. This article takes a critical view of this research by asking to what extent it has been informed by the long history of theoretical work on the concept of the public. Reviewing the literature on ‘networked publics’ as an illustrative example, we demonstrate how the lack of public-theoretical engagement creates both conceptual and empirical limitations to the study of online publics. We also indicate how the sociological, political theory and cultural studies traditions on the concept of the public can contribute to widening the perspectives of online publics research within communication and media studies.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-11-03T07:33:43Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231210207
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- Book review: A Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in
Conflict, Crisis and Threat by Fred Vultee-
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Authors: Mei Zhaoyang
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-11-02T06:24:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231211652
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- Book review: Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary
Zone by Martin Scott, Kate Wright and Mel Bunce-
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Authors: Zhe Xu
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-11-02T04:56:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231211654
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- Digital media as ambiguous goods: Examining the digital well-being
experiences and disconnection practices of Belgian adults-
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Authors: Mariek MP Vanden Abeele, Minh Hao Nguyen
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Drawing from a cross-sectional survey (N = 1000), this study examines (1) the extent to which Belgian adults experience digital well-being (i.e. perceive agency over and functional support from the use of digital media), (2) which digital disconnection strategies they use to limit connectivity, (3) how their use of these strategies relates to their digital well-being, and (4) whether different user groups can be identified in terms of digital well-being experiences. We find evidence for ambivalence in the relationship towards digital media. Popular disconnection strategies involve access restrictions. Those reporting less agency generally disconnect more. Lastly, a typology based on respondents’ digital well-being scores reveals four clusters of indifferent, enthusiastic, ambivalent, and sceptical digital media users that differ in demographic, personality and media use/ownership characteristics. Collectively, this study gives insight into how digital well-being and digital disconnection are distributed, lifting the veil over who might be more susceptible to struggling with constant connectivity.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-10-12T06:41:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231201487
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- Corrigendum to “The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and
public attitudes to same-sex relationships in the context of
illiberalism”-
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Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-10-03T10:01:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231205957
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- Effects of populism: The agenda of fact-checking agencies to counter
European right-wing populist parties-
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Authors: Rubén Rivas-de-Roca, Concha Pérez-Curiel, Andreu Casero-Ripollés
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
European right-wing populism is a widely studied phenomenon in recent years. At the same time, many fact-checking projects have been launched with the purpose of assessing statements from the most relevant social actors. The role of fact-checkers is growing, but there is scant literature on their agenda. In this study, we investigate the communication strategies on Twitter of European right-wing populist parties and their relationship with the agenda of fact-checking initiatives in Germany, France, Spain and Portugal. Based on a content analysis of tweets covering political content (n = 4212), we analyze not only the agenda but also the use of propaganda mechanisms and the scope of the tweets. The results show how the agenda of right-wing populism was composed of ideological thematic issues. Fact-checkers focus on competitor leaders and generate lower interaction. These findings contribute to increasing research on both actors, arguing that the focus on political leaders impacts on fact-checking.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-08-25T04:19:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231197032
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- Populist disruption and the fourth age of political communication
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Authors: Lone Sorensen
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This paper argues that understanding populism as a communicative process and contextualising its modern forms in relation to our current political communication environment improves our understanding of how it grips citizens. The paper identifies the disruptive communicative practices of modern populist politicians as characteristic of a digital media-dominated fourth age of political communication in extension of Blumler's account. It explores the reaction of the current wave of populism against institutional norms of political communication and its recognition and construction of a perceived disconnect between public representatives and citizens. The paper identifies three aspects of modern populist communication that, through this oppositional positioning, erode institutional communication in the fourth age: a populist pragmatics of disruptive symbolic action, an ontology that sees directness as the only means of breaching the divide between appearance and reality in politics, and an epistemological stance that replaces expertise with authenticity. These constitute an injection of grassroots communicative forms into institutional politics. The result is the exposition but also deepening of the lopsided efficacy of the fourth age whereby citizens feel inefficacious in relation to institutional politics but increasingly able to participate at a grassroots level.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-07-05T05:27:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231184702
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- They Would Never Say Anything Like This! Reasons To Doubt Political
Deepfakes-
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Authors: Michael Hameleers, Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Tom Dobber
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Although deepfakes are conventionally regarded as dangerous, we know little about how deepfakes are perceived, and which potential motivations drive doubt in the believability of deepfakes versus authentic videos. To better understand the audience's perceptions of deepfakes, we ran an online experiment (N = 829) in which participants were randomly exposed to a politician's textual or audio-visual authentic speech or a textual or audio-visual manipulation (a deepfake) where this politician's speech was forged to include a radical right-wing populist narrative. In response to both textual disinformation and deepfakes, we inductively assessed (1) the perceived motivations for expressed doubt and uncertainty in response to disinformation and (2) the accuracy of such judgments. Key findings show that participants have a hard time distinguishing a deepfake from a related authentic video, and that the deepfake's content distance from reality is a more likely cause for doubt than perceived technological glitches. Together, we offer new insights into news users’ abilities to distinguish deepfakes from authentic news, which may inform (targeted) media literacy interventions promoting accurate verification skills among the audience.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-06-26T08:15:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231184703
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- Freedom of the media, pluralism, and transparency. European media policy
on new paths'-
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Authors: Christina Holtz-Bacha
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Although the European Union has been pursuing media policy for decades, its legal competence for the media sector remains limited. Since its inception in the 1980s, the EU had to base its media policy on its responsibility to enforce the internal market and the direct application of competition law, which has led to a one-sided economic perspective on the media. With references to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the enshrinement of European values in the EU Treaty, the rule of law mechanism, and driven by the European Parliament, the EU Commission has recently shown a new direction in its media-related activities, which acknowledge the important role of the media in democracy and increasingly place media freedom and media pluralism at the center of its media policy. The draft European Media Freedom Act presented by the Commission in autumn 2022 brings together the numerous activities aimed at protecting the freedom of the media and their independence, and at the same time seems to test the limits of the scope for its media policy.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-05-22T03:56:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231176966
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- ‘If you don’t “pass” as cis, you don’t exist’. The trans
audience's reproofs of ‘Cis Gaze’ and transnormativity in TV series-
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Authors: Isabel Villegas Simón, Juan José Sánchez Soriano, Rafael Ventura
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
There are currently more trans characters than ever in television series, while at the same time scrutiny of trans people is intensifying in social and public debate, and the correspondence between this increased presence in the media and improvements in the trans community's rights is in dispute. This research aims to find out how trans audiences relate to their portrayal in TV series, to learn about their perceptions and opinions, and to understand how these depictions affect their everyday lives. A qualitative analysis was conducted of 19 trans people in two focus groups and nine semi-structured interviews. The findings show that the participants perceive a clear distance between their realities and the most popular narratives about trans lives. They identify cispassing as a transversal element that drives the production, creation, and distribution of media narratives, leading to a transnormative representation. Consequently, the trans audience demands the inclusion of trans people in the (audiovisual) cultural circuit in order to combat the ‘cis gaze’ and to create more diverse narratives.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-03-20T07:18:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163704
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- Technological affordances of video streaming platforms: Why people prefer
video streaming platforms over television-
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Authors: Tom Evens, Amandine Henderickx, Peter Conradie
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates to what extent technological affordances are associated with people's preference for video streaming platforms over traditional television services. Such affordances refer to properties of these platforms (including personalized recommendations and easy-to-navigate interfaces) that provoke certain uses of the technology and satisfy social and psychological needs. Based on a quantitative study of 25–50-year-olds in Belgium (N = 596) and a hierarchical regression analysis, the study builds further on the conceptualization of technological affordances as presented in the MAIN model, which suggests that four affordances (Modality, Agency, Interactivity and Navigability) are central to digital media technology. As such, the study presents an affordance-based measure of video streaming platforms, and helps to understand how video streaming technology shapes new patterns of audiovisual consumption and enhances the viewing experience beyond that of traditional television. Whereas most research attention has focused on user-oriented gratifications of video streaming platforms, this study addresses a gap in the literature by dealing with platform-oriented gratifications of video streaming platforms.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-02-09T05:11:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231155731
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- Public service media and public funding: A three-country study of
willingness to pay versus perceived dispensability-
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Authors: Annika Sehl
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Recent public debates in several European countries have shown that public service medias’ (PSM) public funding has become a topic of controversial discussion. Based on an online survey in France, Germany, and the UK, this study analyses how the willingness to pay (WTP) versus perceived dispensability of PSM relates to various factors identified in the current literature. Across the three countries, most respondents doubt that PSM are dispensable. However, if they determine the sum of the licence fee themselves, it would clearly be a smaller amount than it is currently. Assessment of the overall information quality of PSM and the assumed state or government influence thereon, have a significant influence on the WTP for PSM versus the perceived dispensability thereof. Understanding the factors driving and hindering WTP versus perceived dispensability is crucial, providing insights relevant to understanding PSM and public funding.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-31T06:57:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231151246
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- Networked frame contestation from authoritarian to Western democracy – A
case of China's (failed) Twiplomacy in contesting coronavirus narrative in
the UK-
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Authors: Yuan Zeng
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Transnational political communication today is being reconfigured by digital technologies and global power transition. Authoritarian state actors such as China are increasingly active on global social media platforms such as Twitter to directly advance their preferred frames with foreign publics in Western democracies, most notably in what could be called Chinese Twiplomacy contesting narrative globally over contentious issues. This paper problematises such Twiplomacy from authoritarians to Western democracies as ‘networked transnational frame contestation’, arguing that the political and cultural distance between the sending and target countries, the networked affordance of social media, and the national prism of the target countries, all contribute importantly to the complexity of such frame contestation. Through a case study on China's Twiplomacy in contesting coronavirus narrative in the UK, this paper further provides empirical evidence on how ‘networked transnational frame contestation’ works between politically and culturally distant countries. Using a mixed-method approach combining social network analysis and discourse analysis, this study finds that China's emotion-evoking discursive strategy draws traction but the authoritarian nature of the highly centralised networkedness and that of its discursive strategy, together with the strong cultural discordance with British publics, lead to networked recontextualisation of its intended frames in Britain. British publics, heavily relying on British political elites and press for foreign affairs, invoke shared cultural reference to recontextualise Chinese frames into culturally resonant counterframes. This study proposes a paradigm of ‘networkedness within cascades’ to understand frame contestation between politically and culturally distant countries.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-23T06:36:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150873
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- The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to
same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism-
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Authors: Sabina Mihelj, Katherine Kondor, Václav Štětka, Fanni Tóth
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Over the past decade, the rights of people whose sexual orientation does not conform to prevailing norms have become a divisive issue in many countries. Despite a long tradition of research on media and sexual minorities, the role of the media in these recent backlashes remains poorly understood. We argue that this is partly because work in this area is often underpinned by a simple, linear narrative that unambiguously links visibility to empowerment. We highlight the ambivalent impact of mediated visibility and argue that in the context of elite-driven polarization, illiberalism and low levels of media freedom, visibility can become a vehicle of control. To explore this proposition, we examine the link between media and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in four east European countries, combining a population survey with semi-structured interviews. The results confirm the need to consider the conditions of mediated visibility in particular socio-political contexts, showing that where control over the conditions of visibility remains in the hands of homophobic elites, both Public Service Media and digital media can contribute to negative attitudes.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-20T05:56:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150347
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