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Studies in Communication Sciences
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ISSN 1424-4896 · Seismo Verlag · 212 artikel di indeks
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Images, clusters and types – Making sense of (large) image corpora and related practices in and with digital media
In November 2021, the Visual Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) celebrated its 20th anniversary at the University of Trier with a one-year pandemic delay. Marion G. Müller, Katharina Christ and Christof Barth organized an excellent conference to mark the occasion…
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Text on Instagram as emerging genre: A framework for analyzing discursive communication on a visual platform
Against the backdrop of Instagram’s transforming platform culture, this contribution proposes a framework for analyzing text posts as form of discursive communication. Text posts on the formerly mainly visual platform are understood as both a new social media genre and an emerging social practice…
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Image types revisited. A texto-material approach for creating image types
In visual communication research there are already several methodological approaches for creating image types. These approaches work with creating typologies based on the representational features of visuals / image motifs, reducing the complexity of extensive visual material. However, we argue…
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Image networks and practice analysis of larger data corpora. An approach to cluster and recontextualize visual practice in social media
This paper reports a methodological exploration combining image network analysis and standardized practice analysis on social media data. Through applying the open source software Memespector to access the Clarifai API, the potential of an easy-at-hand image tagging tool as an instrument to manage…
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From party to pandemic – Frames and metaphors in the news coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Austria
Media framing facilitates people’s understanding of a threat and affects one’s emotional reaction. It therefore plays a vital role in both individual and societal responses to a public health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a combination of conceptual metaphor analysis and qualitative…
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Digitally-assisted iconology: A method for the analysis of digital media
Exploring medium-to-large datasets of social media imagery can be challenging. This paper describes a digitally-assisted iconology, a hybrid methodology that includes machine learning and data analytics for sorting through medium-sized datasets of images that lack metadata to describe their…
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Medals and likes: A methodology for big data image dataset analysis of Olympic athletic beauty on Instagram
This article seeks to understand how the Cultural Analytics’ methodological approach and computational tools help interpret large image datasets. A set of 87 730 images of 389 Olympic athletes was collected from Instagram and analyzed, featuring a timespan from September 2011 to November 2020. The…
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Iconic image clusters: Significance, structure, and analysis
This paper explores the phenomenon of iconic image clusters and presents a method for analyzing them. It specifically focuses on compiling individual images into extensive image clusters, such as weblogs, photo series, or image galleries. The analytical interest in this topic is based on the…
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Botlitica: A generative AI-based tool to assist journalists in navigating political propaganda campaigns
The hype on generative AI has raised concerns about the spread of disinformation but also opened up new opportunities for hybrid journalism. The proliferation of political propaganda campaigns spread across digital media during election periods constitutes a challenge for journalists who struggle…
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Editorial
We are pleased to introduce the first issue of 2024’s Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS). Following a two-year trial period, the thrice-yearly publication rhythm is now firmly established. Thanks to our reviewers and additional efforts of the whole editorial team, it permits us to…
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Vera Katzenberger, Jana Keil & Michael Wild (Hrsg.). Podcasts. Perspektiven und Potenziale eines digitalen Mediums
Der Podcast ist ein Format, das zu den Wünschen der Zeit passt: Er bietet eine gezielte, individuelle Suche nach Information oder Unterhaltung, ist abrufbar und hörbar zu jeder Zeit und an jedem Ort. Der von Vera Katzenberger, Jana Keil und Michael Wild von der Universität Bamberg herausgegebene…
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Strategies and challenges for constructing and collecting visual corpora from image-based social media platforms
Visual elements play an important role within the multimodal nature of social media (Pearce et al., 2020). A growing body of research has focused on the analysis of still and moving images from different social media platforms from various perspectives of communication and media studies (Hautea…
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The prevalence of communication. A case study in the communication history of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Organisations are – as communication studies know – constituted through communication. Against this theoretical background, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which was founded in 1919 after the end of the First World War as a sub-organisation of the League of Nations, is examined here…
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A “careful study” on public opinion. An exemplary investigation of media monitoring through press clippings collections in the League of Nations’ Information and Mandates Sections
This article seeks to shed some light on institutional monitoring practices employed by the League of Nations during the 1930s. It explores internal reception of external communication on the organisation and its work and asks (and partially answers) what processes and practices were established by…
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Typology of children media users
Research about children’s media use is often concerned with the effects of one particular medium. There is rather little research about more general media diets in terms of their diversity and the resulting outcomes. Against the theoretical background of media repertoire approaches, we developed…
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Lockdown scepticism: Australian and American doom discourse on Reddit
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent infodemic, user consumption of online news content soared, leading to the issues of doom-scrolling and doom-writing. This type of behaviour may have an adverse impact on individual well-being and increase exposure to misinformation on social networking…
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Reconsidering a multivalent concept: An integrated affordance framework to approach technology and social media use
The affordance concept has been widely used in communication studies to theorize and examine social media use beyond specific features and practices. However, its implementation is characterized by an inconsistent use of terms and a neglect of the concept’s relationality. The present article…
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Young journalists in Switzerland: Results of a survey on aims, working conditions, and future prospects of journalists born in 1990 or later
The study examines the job situation of young journalists in Switzerland. For this purpose, an online survey of 195 journalists in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland born in 1990 or later has been conducted, providing data on socio-demographics, educational situation, career choice…
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Internationalism on the big screen: Films on the League of Nations
Building on the growing literature on the communication strategies of the League of Nations, this article discusses the films that a variety of actors made on the activities of the international organization. While the efforts of the League’s Secretariat in Geneva are at the center of this article…
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How can we strengthen the integration of findings in communication sciences?
Individual studies in the empirical social sciences have limited explanatory power, as they focus on particular aspects of the overarching objects of research. To explain complex communicative phenomena or describe multistep processes, individual findings need to be combined. Often, however, such…