media-studies

This study examines the structural relationships among sportscasters’ speech components, online relationships, and viewing behavior in the context of sports media. Drawing on theories of parasocial interaction, source credibility, and uses and gratifications, this research conceptualizes speech as a multidimensional construct encompassing cognitive (logicality, verbal timing), affective (expressi…

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustach…

Skip Bayless will join Stephen A. Smith on Friday's episode of 'First Take' in what the network describes as 'a one-time reunion' on the show they once co-hosted.

_Online Journal of Arts, Management and Social Sciences_ 7 (1):77 – 85. 2025Broadcast media practice may have faced serious threat of extinction in the contemporary era if not for emerging trends that tend to reshape its approach to communication. Hence, participatory style of programme presentation which makes the public not just core consumers but also partial producers of media content seems t…

Exclusive: Two ‘intimate conversations’ held with writers, directors and producers, with a third due in June Nato is holding closed-door meetings with film and TV screenwriters, directors and producers across Europe and the US, the Guardian can reveal, prompting accusations the alliance is seeking to use the arts to generate “propaganda” for the bloc. The alliance has held three meetings with fil…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07447-x The Western media coverage of China in the 2024 Paris Olympics: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07412-8 Understanding sentiments in newspapers articles: an analysis of cultural symbols portrayals in globalized sports events

Since the release of defining 70s doc Harlan County, USA, film-makers have captured workers’ tenacity and solidarity “We better start pulling together or, by God, they’re going to bury us,” says a meat packer during a union meeting in Barbara Kopple’s 1990 documentary American Dream. It’s a desperate plea for survival; “they” are the Hormel Foods Corporation, who took advantage of union disorder …

Late-night hosts discussed Trump pressuring ABC to fire Kimmel, the US’s war with Iran and the US supreme court decision that guts voting rights Late-night hosts reacted to yet another call by Donald Trump for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired, more US floundering in Iran and the supreme court effectively dismantling the Voting Rights Act. Continue reading...

YouTube’s search and recommendation algorithms are driving children to Russian-language content even when they seek out videos in Kyrgyz, creating a cultural shift that concerns some parents.

IntroductionGaming engages more than 3.6 billion youth and adults worldwide. Gaming in its current form facilitates rich social exchanges through diverse platforms, transforming how participants communicate, collaborate, and build relationships. Yet despite the theoretical accessibility of gaming spaces to individuals from all backgrounds, gaming communities frequently manifest high rates of excl…

A 31-year-old man has been charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, after a thwarted attack at Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner. Immediately after this, conspiracy theories spread online that the assassination attempt was fake. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Rachel Leingang about why conspiracy theories such as this about the US president are so prevalent Archive…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07297-7 Influencing players to download new games: role of in-game pop-up advertisements

In this ecosystem, the user is no longer the audience; they are the resource. Personal data is "mined" and "harvested" to refine the algorithms that better capture human attention. This is the "unrestricted, unregulated mining of the human consciousness". As individuals do the "companies' work for free" by creating content, they are effectively building the prison that holds their attention.

By attacking the basic settlement between scientists and the state, the US president has proved that experts can’t avoid these fights Donald Trump’s war on science has been vicious and hugely damaging, but it is worth noting that he has lost some of its biggest battles. Last year, Mr Trump demanded that US federal scientific and medical research funding be cut by about half. But the budget Congre…

The World Press Freedom Index, which assessed 180 countries, finds established journalism is ‘being asphyxiated’ Press freedom around the world is at its lowest ebb in a generation, according to an influential annual index that highlights growing authoritarian pressure on the media. The average score for the 180 countries assessed by the World Press Freedom Index , compiled by Reporters Without B…

Every World Cup, from Uruguay and Italy in 1930 and 1934, to Russia and Qatar in 2018 and 2022, has been to an extent about presenting an image to the world This was originally published in the newsletter The World Behind the Cup. Sign up for it here . Football fans will be well aware that in 1930 Uruguay both hosted and won the first World Cup, but less well known is the diplomatic backstory of …

_New Media and Society_. 2025This article highlights the role of epistemic norms in mitigating the spread of misinformation. The mixed-methods study includes exploratory reconstructions and survey experiments. Two intervention approaches proved efficient in reducing the sharing of misinformation, but only one significantly differentiated between true and false information. This study contributes …

Ninad Uddhav Gole, New Law College, BVDU, Pune Anushkaa Naik, New Law College, BVDU, Pune ABSTRACT Between 1975 and 1977, the National Emergency was declared in India by Indira Gandhi. During this time frame, the constitutional liberties, as well as the press censorship and state control, were curtailed to a large extent. Following Indira Gandhi's v. Raj Narain case, the government utilised a com…

The Silent Corrosion of Meaning: When Language Turns Against Truth This book confronts a disturbing yet inescapable reality: language, the very foundation of human understanding, is not merely failing—it is actively eroding its own capacity to convey truth. What begins as a tool for clarity gradually transforms into a system of distortion, where meaning is no longer anchored but continuously resh…