Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Forschung

Die Forschung des Instituts für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft behandelt Prozesse der öffentlichen, (medien-)vermittelten Kommunikation und deren infrastrukturelle Bedingungen sowie deren gesellschaftliche und individuelle Wirkungen. Dazu gehören in komparativer Perspektive die System- und Organisationsforschung, die Journalismusforschung, die historische Medienforschung, die Medieninhaltsforschung, sowie die Medienwirkungsforschung. Thematisch beschäftigen sich unsere Professorinnen und Professoren sowie das wissenschaftliche Personal mit zentralen Themen wie politische Kommunikation, Medienregulierung, Medienunterhaltung, Mediengeschichte, Medienwandel, Werbung oder Public Relations. Ein besonderer Stellenwert kommt dem Einsatz und der Weiterentwicklung der Methoden der empirischen Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung zu, insbesondere im Feld der Computational Communication Science.

Flagship Areas

Democracy & Society
Crisis & Uncertainty
Digital Technology & AI
Health & Well-Being

Publikationen

2026

Reiter, F., & Matthes, J. (2026). On the immoral campaign trail: Conceptualization, underlying affective processes, and democratic outcomes of perceived dirty campaigning. American Behavioral Scientist, 70(7), 956-980. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241240335

Dimitrova, D. V., Bock, M. A., Bucy, E. P., Coleman, R., & Dan, V. (2026). The power of visual framing in the age of AI. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 103(2), 409-429. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251392597

Spielvogel, I. K., Koban, K., Juricek, S., & Matthes, J. (2026). Same same but (very) different? A mixed-method approach on security-related news consumption on traditional and social media and its relation to negative emotional responses and feelings of (in)security. Digital Journalism. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2669528

Kirchmair, T., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2026). Annotation in action: Experimental perspectives on perceiving and labeling digital hate across four European countries. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Artikel 3332187. https://doi.org/10.1155/hbe2/3332187

Khaleghipour, M., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (Angenommen/Im Druck). The strategic provocation of digital hate: Empowered targets’ perceptions of perpetrators and bystanders. Information, Communication & Society.

Weitzl, W., Sengupta, S., & Filieri, R. (2026). When service recovery promises meet bystander comments: a cross-cultural study of complaint responses. Electronic Commerce Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-026-10132-5

Khaleghipour, M., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2026). Caught in the storm: A qualitative study on digital hate targeting scholars. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 22, Artikel 101059. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2026.101059

Matthes, J., Zoizner, A., Nanz, A., Hopmann, D. N., Theocharis, Y., & Noetzel, S. (2026). The relationship between incidental news exposure and political participation: A cross-country, multilevel analysis. Digital Journalism, 14(4), 573-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2024.2436548

Kanková, J., Stevic, A., Binder, A., & Matthes, J. (2026). Time to BeReal! Exploring users' well-being in relation to BeReal use duration. New Media & Society, 28(5), 2101-2120. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251317689

Khaleghipour, M., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2026). Over-time relationships of direct and indirect digital hate victimization on fundamental needs and prosocial bystander intervention: A two-wave panel study. Media Psychology. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2026.2636055

Kanková, J., Vranken, S., Matthes, J., Lazic, A., Hodzic, S., Seki, M., Kawano, Y., Ito, A., Sakagami, Y., & Iwakuma, M. (2026). Is generative AI your new therapist? A cross-cultural model of generative AI affordances, trust, use intentions, and willingness to attend in-person therapy. SSM - Mental Health, 9, Artikel 100630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2026.100630

Koban, K., Bührer, S., & Matthes, J. (2026). All roads lead to hate? Examining five prediction paths for online incivility and intolerance perpetration. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990261429081

Haberl, M., Hokamp, D., Urbániková, M., Waschková Císařová, L., Hanusch, F., & Lecheler, S. (2026). (In)visible bonds: Towards a dynamic conceptualisation of emotion in journalist- politician relationships. Journalism. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849261443681

Nguyen, P. Q. G., Bührer, S., Koban, K., & Matthes, J. (2026). Where hate finds its home: Exploring digital hate perpetrators’ priorities across social media affordances and experiences with content moderation and user intervention against them. Information, Communication & Society.

Ahrens-Schwabe, A., Kosch, L., Stocker, G., & Boomgaarden, H. (2026). Who cares about artificial intelligence? Human and artificial voices in audiobooks. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2026.101068

Matthes, J., Nanz, A., Stubenvoll, M., & Kaskeleviciute, R. (2026). Disentangling the longitudinal relationship between social media use, political expression and political participation: What do we really know? Communication Research (CR). Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261430387

Matthes, J., Hodzic, S., Stevic, A., Nanz, A., Binder, A., Chan, M., & Bojić, L. (2026). There are risks, but I will use it anyway: Predicting the urge to regulate and the intended use of generative AI among youth in four countries. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1155/hbe2/3060652

Tóth, T., Bozdağ, U., Szabó, L. P., Háló, G., Demeter, M., da Silva, A. V., Matthes, J., & Major, Z. B. (2026). What have we learned, and what is yet to be learned about social media populism? A scoping review and meta-research. Annals of the International Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.1093/anncom/wlag014

Van Houtven, E., Dekoninck, H., Harff, D., & Schmuck, D. (2026). Adolescents as citizen scientists: Insights into their exposure to social media influencers’ sociopolitical content. Youth & Society. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X261431803

Maares, P. (2026). Real freelancers, contingent workers, and journopreneurs. Mapping atypical journalistic work in Western Europe. Journalism, 27(4), 824-847. Artikel 14648849251343519. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251343519