The term “personalization” in politics evokes media pictures of French presidents who,
freshly divorced, whisper sweet nothings to former top-models, or of German Ministers of …

In little over a decade, essential concepts in research on communication have become
zombie concepts (Beck & Willms, 2004) and are no longer effective for understanding the …

Emotions have long been neglected in media research, although their role is a vital
ingredient in sha** our shared stories and the ways we engage with them. But emotions …

Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media
outlets present it as dangerous to the US, Europe, and Latin America, others hail it as the fix …

How memetic media—aggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and
transformed—become a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates …

Fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fraction of the audience. In the last few
decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central …

In the hybrid media system, many processes are reforming political communication:
popularisation, disintermediation, personalisation, intimisation and of course populism. This …

Social media like Facebook and Twitter place the focus on the individual politician rather
than the political party, thereby expanding the political arena for increased for personalized …

From the inception of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), participatory media played a key role in the
movement. Members of the public engaged OWS on sites like Tumblr and reddit. Central to …

Despite its increasing attention for audiences, journalism studies remains an inherently
production-focused discipline. Consequently, studying the perspective of audiences tends to …