European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print. Ephemeral media has become a staple of today’s social media ecology. This study advances the first exploratory analysis of Instagram Stories as a format for political communication. Through an initial …
European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print. Public service media face an existential crisis. Many governments are cutting their budgets, while questioning the role and value of public service broadcasting because many citizens now have access to…
European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print. This article analyses the digital shutdown experienced in Catalonia within the framework of the independence referendum of 1 October 2017, which had been declared illegal by Spain’s Constitutional Cour…
European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print. This study examines presidential framing in the Ukrainian sitcom Servant of the People, which may have helped Ukrainian comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelenskyy win the presidency in 2019. Bui…
European Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 610-625, December 2021. This article aims to study how private European radio is becoming commercially international through the expansion of radio brands beyond their national market. It is t…
European Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 593-609, December 2021. Political communication studies has a long tradition of ‘crisis talk’ regarding the fate of public communication. Now, however, the field itself faces a kind of existen…
European Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 547-562, December 2021. This article examines media ownership transparency through the lens of European human rights policy and evaluates media ownership transparency in over 30 European count…
European Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 563-577, December 2021. Turkey’s membership process to the European Union has been a ‘long, narrow and uphill road’, as former Turkish Prime Minister, and later President, Turgut Özal once sta…