Journalism and Media MDPI

24/12/2024

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season! ✨🎄

The Editorial Team of Journalism and Media 📰

17/12/2024

📢 New Article Published! 📰✍️

Mark Deuze and Laura Glitsos explore various theoretical frameworks to bring the body back into the study and practice of journalism. In their argument, they apply insights from this exercise to address the well-documented gap between what journalists feel their work should be—and the reality of what their work is actually like.

The article is completely open access and free to read at the following link: https://bit.ly/49Enpj3

15/12/2024

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article co-authored by our director, Marius Dragomir, alongside experts Marta Rodríguez Castro and Minna Aslama Horowitz, in the Journalism and Media, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published quarterly by MDPI.

The article delves into the impact of platformization on Europe’s public service media (PSM) and examines how the European Union’s (EU) policy approaches influence the challenges faced by PSM in the digital age.

Find out more below!

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/5/3/87

13/12/2024

Hot off the press‼️

Media Influence and Public Opinion on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Projects in Myanmar: A First-Level Agenda-Setting Analysis

This paper contributes to the literature by empirically examining the relationship between media coverage and public opinion on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Myanmar, extending agenda-setting theory to global infrastructure development initiatives in developing countries. The study demonstrates a strong correlation (+0.87) between media coverage and public opinion on BRI issues, highlighting the media's role in shaping public views on international projects. It differentiates the impacts of various media outlets and identifies the dominance of local concerns in media coverage and public attention. The study also reveals minimal coverage and public focus on debt concerns. The study offers practical implications for stakeholders, provides insights into media effects and public opinion formation in developing countries, and contributes to understanding how public perceptions of foreign investments are formed. Given the growing significance of the BRI and similar initiatives, this timely research lays a foundation for future studies on media influence in shaping public opinion on complex geopolitical and economic issues in developing nations. In addition to that the study underscores the importance of investigating how media influences policy decisions regarding the BRI projects in Myanmar, a developing country, as a subject for future investigation.

The full article can be accessed at: https://bit.ly/4iACHct

11/12/2024

📢Call for Reading!

If you are interested in sports journalism, check out our latest reprint of the Special Issue: "The Changing Boundaries of Sports Journalism in the Digital Era: Technological Disruption, New Actors, and Professional Challenges" edited by José Luis Rojas-Torrijos and Daniel Nölleke! ⚽️💻

This open-access, free-to-read reprint features eight peer-reviewed articles written by eighteen authors from nine countries (Greece, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Australia, Ireland, and Sweden). The articles examine current trends in the sports media landscape and address the most pressing challenges that sports journalists will face in the coming years.

Link to the reprint: https://bit.ly/49yDk2r

The boundaries of sports journalism continue to expand as non-traditional actors emerge and proliferate in the digital environment. This outstanding and vital specialist area within the news industry faces increasing pressure from adjacent fields. Amateur sports enthusiasts (bloggers, streamers or i...

11/12/2024

Special Issue open for your submissions! ⏳

✅Title: Gender, Television, and Digital Media: Representations and Practices in a Platformized Public Landscape

✅We invite studies that explore how television and digital media reshape gender constructions, influence power dynamics in content production and consumption, and impact the socio-cultural dimensions of transmedia representations and practices.

✅Guest Editors: Dr. Rita Basílio Simões (University of Coimbra), Dr. Ioanna Vovou (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences), and Dr. Fabiana Piccinin (Federal University of Santa Catarina)

✅Deadline: 31 March 2025

✅More info at: https://bit.ly/3ZL25Fb

✅APC: For discounts and waivers, please contact the Editorial Office at [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your manuscripts! 📚

29/11/2024

How is the EU's geopolitical discourse projected in the media and digital platforms? If you are working on answering this and similar questions, there is still time to submit your research to our Special Issue at the link below:

https://bit.ly/3B6qFH4

✔️Deadline: December 31, 2024
✔️Guest Editors: Dr. Co**ha Pérez Curiel, Dr. Ricardo Domínguez-García, and Dr. João Pedro Baptista

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

27/11/2024

🔍The most cited & viewed papers published in our journal can be found here:

https://bit.ly/3ZmfL9n

Every paper is completely open access and free to read!

Among the frequently read, downloaded, and cited papers, studies that explore the connections between , , and dominate. 🧐

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22/11/2024

Happy to share that Journalism and Media has received its first Impact Factor of 2.0 in 2024! 🎉

JCR category rank: Q2 (Communication)

After only three full years of publications, our journal already has a significant impact! A big thanks to everyone involved in the journal! Without your contributions, this success wouldn’t have been possible so quickly.

If you’re interested in collaborating with us, whether through paper submissions or editing a Special Issue, and want to explore potential discounts and other benefits of open access publishing in communication studies, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you!

More information about the journal's indexing databases can be found at: https://bit.ly/3Cx2cv1

22/11/2024

Excited to share this important article published in our journal. Congratulations to the authors!

Congratulations to PhD student Sarah Witmer and professor David Dowling for publishing their article "True Crime Podcasting as Participatory Journalism: A Digital Ethnography of Collaborative Case Solving" in Journalism and Media. The article explores how true crime podcasting creates an engaged digital community that can help in investigating and solving crime.

If you would like to read the full article, tap below.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/5/4/104

19/11/2024

Thrilled to announce that Journalism and Media has received its first CiteScore of 2.6! Following the indexation in Scopus in 2023, we are excited to share our Scopus rank for 2024.🎉

We are proud to rank:

📍(Q1) in Linguistics and Language: #169 out of 1,167 titles
📍(Q2) in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous): #141 out of 552 titles
📍 (Q2) in Social Sciences (miscellaneous): #167 out of 604 titles

A big thanks to everyone involved in the journal! Without your contributions, this success wouldn’t have happened so quickly.

If you’re interested in collaborating with a Q1-ranked Scopus journal, whether through paper submissions or editing a Special Issue, and want to explore potential discounts and other benefits of open access publishing in communication studies, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you!

More info about the journal's indexing databases can be found at: https://bit.ly/3Cx2cv1