Political Communication Publications

de Haan, Y., Goutier, N., Kruikemeier, S., & Lecheler, S. (2026). Google as journalists’ invisible research assistant? The impact of algorithmically-driven search results in journalistic information gathering routines. Journalism Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2026.2695135

de Haan, Y., Kruikemeier, S., de Bruin, K., Lecheler, S., & Goutier, N. (2026). Immersive stories: The effect of inclusion, narrative, and interaction in journalism. Journalism Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2026.2695281

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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849261443681

Roney, C., Egelhofer, J. L., & Lecheler, S. (2026). The “bread and butter” of science: Understanding how scientists communicate uncertainties. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13, Article 666. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07026-0

Kermani, H., Makki, M., Fatemeh, O., Yarahmadi, P., Mahdi Soltani, H., & Hosseini Khoo, Z. (2026). Incivility, domination, and resistance: rhetorical practices on Persian Twitter during the #MahsaAmini movement. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13(1), Article 392. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-06663-9

Makki, M., Kermani, H., Yarahmadi, P., Oudlajani, F., HosseiniKho, Z., & Mahdi Soltani, H. (2026). Digital battleground: Exploring the role of social media platforms in digital activism in Case of Mahsa Amini movement in Persian Twitter. Communication Review, 1-28. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2026.2631908

Lecheler, S., & Schäfer, S. (2026). Framing processes in media use. In H. Schramm, V. Gehrau, H. Bilandzic, & C. Wünsch (Eds.), Handbook of media use (pp. 233–250). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748962519

Kermani, H., Neyazi, T. A., & Lecheler, S. (2026). The limits of computational propaganda: Investigating underexplored platforms and contexts. Political Communication, 43(1), 89–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2595596

Kermani, H. (2025). Computational propaganda. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (pp. 245-249). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Kermani, H. (2025). Connective action. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (pp. 266–270). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Lecheler, S. (2025). Journalistic Sources. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (pp. 339–342). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301447.vol2.00083

Schäfer, S., & Planitzer, A. M. (2025). User Comments. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301447.vol3.00155

Kermani, H., Bayat Makou, A., & Behzadian Nejad, R. (2025). Decoupled agendas under repression: Social media and state media during COVID-19 in I. Frontiers in Communication, 10, Article 1598405. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1598405

Weikmann, T., Egelhofer, J., & Lecheler, S. (2025). Beyond Credibility: The Effects of Different Forms of Visual Disinformation. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 102(4), 1020 - 1043. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251357299

Kermani, H. (2025). The art of delirium: Social media suppression in authoritarian regimes. Communication Theory, 35(4), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtaf006

Roney, C., Wiesner, D., Riedl, A. A., & Eberl, J.-M. (2025). Rally and Recalibrate: Political Dynamics of Audience Expectations of Journalism During Times of Crisis. The International Journal of Press/Politics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612251375203

Minihold, S., Lecheler, S., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2025). Exploring digital campaign competence: the role of knowledge in data-driven election campaigns. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 22(4), 463–478. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2024.2416012

Betakova, D., Boomgaarden, H., & Lecheler, S. (2025). The role of choice architecture in mitigating news avoidance. Digital Journalism, 1-19. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2562143

Schäfer, S., Gorski, L., Greber, H., & Lecheler, S. (2025). Solutions that move us?The role of responsibility framing in audience reactions to sustainability stories. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2538127

Westlund, O., Carlson, M., Hamada, B., Helberger, N., Lecheler, S., & Lewis, S. C. (2025). Public knowledge and expertise under authoritarian siege: A defense of academic freedom from digital journalism studies. Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2527997

Aaldering, L., & Lecheler, S. (2025). Trick of the traits: A conceptual replication of the trait ownership hypothesis. Acta Politica: international journal of political science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-025-00390-w

Betakova, D., Boomgaarden, H., Lecheler, S., & Schäfer, S. (2025). I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption. Mass Communication and Society , 28(3), 413. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2304759

Hartmann, D., Wang, S. M., Pohlmann, L., & Berendt, B. (2025). A systematic review of echo chamber research: comparative analysis of conceptualizations, operationalizations, and varying outcomes. Journal of Computational Social Science, 8(2), Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-025-00381-z

Hartmann, D., Oueslati, A., Staufer, D., Pohlmann, L., Munzert, S., & Heuer, H. (2025). Lost in Moderation: How Commercial Content Moderation APIs Over- and Under-Moderate Group-Targeted Hate Speech and Linguistic Variations. In CHI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 175 ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713998

Roney, C., Anziano, E., Fage-Butler, A. (Ed.), Ledderer, L. (Ed.), & Nielsen, K. H. (Ed.) (2025). Portraying Pesticides: An Application of Construal-Level Theory in Online News Coverage of Glyphosate. In A. Fage-Butler, L. Ledderer, & K. H.Nielsen (Eds.), Science Communication and Trust (pp. 281-300). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1289-5_14

Stockinger, A., Schäfer, S., & Lecheler, S. (2025). Navigating the gray areas of content moderation: Professional moderators’ perspectives on uncivil user comments and the role of (AI-based) technological tools. New Media & Society, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231190901

Mothes, C., Mellado, C., Boudana, S., Himma-Kadakas, M., Nolan, D., Mcintyre, K., Kozman, C., Hallin, D. C., Amiel, P., Brin, C., Chen, Y.-N. K., Davydov, S., De Maio, M., Dingerkus, F., El-Ibiary, R., Frías Vázquez, M., Glück, A., Garcés-Prettel, M., Humanes, M. L., ... Van Leuven, S. (2025). Spurring or blurring professional standards? The role of digital technology in implementing journalistic role ideals in contemporary newsrooms. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 102(1), 88-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241246692

Kermani, H. (2025). Twitter activism in Iran: Social media and democracy in authoritarian regimes. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81538-6

Weikmann, T., Greber, H., & Nikolaou, A. (2025). After Deception: How Falling for a Deepfake Affects the Way We See, Hear, and Experience Media. International Journal of Press/Politics, 30(1), 187-210. Article 1940-1612. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241233539

Pachinger, P., Goldzycher, J., Planitzer, A. M., Neidhardt, J., & Hanbury, A. (2025). A disaggregated dataset on English offensiveness containing spans. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.nlperspectives-1.1

Kermani, H. (2025). Framing the pandemic on Persian Twitter: Gauging networked frames by topic modeling. American Behavioral Scientist, 69(10), 1289-1304. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642231207078

Asadi Pour, F. (2025). Perceptions of gender portrayals in movies and series: Their perceived effects on gender identities and sexual orientation . MedienJournal. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung, 49(3), 9-37. https://doi.org/10.60764/1025-9473.2025.03.2

Mayen, S., Reinhardt, A., & Wilhelm, C. (2025). Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents. Journal of Children and Media, 19(3), 598-618. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2443662

Uth, B., Stehle, H., Wilhelm, C., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2025). The journalism-audience relationship in the digital age: A theoretical literature review. Journalism, 26(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231221611, https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231221611

Greber, H., Aaldering, L., & Lecheler, S. (2025). The Worthwhileness of Immersive Journalism - Taking on an Audience Perspective. Journalism Practice, 19(1), 20-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2177711

Minihold, S., Lecheler, S., Gibson , R., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2025). Understanding digital campaign competence: Conceptualizing data-driven political advertising literacy. Mass Communication and Society , 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2312202

Boyer, M. M., Lecheler, S., & Aaldering, L. (2024). Don’t Throw the Frame Out With the Bathwater: How Episodic News Frames Can Prevent Identity-Motivated Reasoning. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101(4), 933-954. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990221097057

Reinhardt, A., Mayen, S. M., & Wilhelm, C. (2024). Uncovering the missing pieces: Predictors of nonresponse in a mobile experience sampling study on media effects among youth. Social Science Computer Review, 42(6), 1464-1478. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241235182

Greber, H., Lecheler, S., Aaldering, L., de Haan, Y., Kruikemeier, S., Goutier, N., & de Bruin, K. (2024). Uncovering the audience perspective: A qualitative analysis of experiences and evaluations of two immersive journalism productions in the Netherlands. Journalism, 25(11), 2383-2401. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231214675

Vliegenthart, R., Vrielink, J., Dommett, K., Gibson , R., Bon, E., Chu, X., de Vreese, C., Lecheler, S., Matthes, J., Minihold, S., Otto, L., Stubenvoll, M., & Kruikemeier, S. (2024). Citizens’ acceptance of data-driven political campaigning: A 25-country cross-national vignette study. Social Science Computer Review, 42(5), 1101-1119. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241249708