Global Media Journal
The Global Media Journal is an open-access academic refereed publication in various national or regional editions around the globe. GMJ-German Edition is affiliated with the Freie University Berlin/Germany and the University of Erfurt/Germany and hosted by Carola Richter and Christine Horz.
GMJ-DE is published semi-annually (spring and fall) and bilingually (English and German). It is dedicated to research in the fields of communication and media studies, with the ambition to present communication and media theories, report empirical and analytical research, present critical discourses, apply theories to case studies, and set out innovative research methodologies. It aims to advance research and understanding of international and cross-cultural communication and media in the German-spoken countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and around the globe such as research on Media Systems, Journalism, Migration & Diaspora, Development Communication and other fields of communication and media studies.
The GMJ-DE is funded in 2020-2022 by the DFG program "Infrastructure for Electronic Publications and Digital Science Communication".
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The GMJ-DE contains four sections:
– academic articles (peer-reviewed)
– reports of media praxis and scientific field work
– graduate papers
– book reviews
The current issue Vol. 12, No. 2 "Autumn/Winter 2022: Special Issue: Modes of Perception and Issues of Trust in the Media" contains following articles:
EditorialAnja Wollenberg, Katharina Nötzold
Modes of Perception and Issues of Trust in the Media
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Benjamin Toff
Selective Trust in News in the Comparative Context
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Anke Fiedler, Anja Wollenberg
Filling the Void: Information Seeking and Processing in the Context of Violent Conflicts
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Ines Drefs
Onsite actors’ agency within international media development
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Nicole Stremlau
Online speech and offline violence: Reflections on the current violence in Ethiopia
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Anna Litvinenko
Propaganda on demand: Russia’s media environment during the war in Ukraine
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Marína Urbániková
Journalists as liars, servants, and sell-outs? On the declining trust in the media in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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Gábor Polyák, Kata Horváth
“We have switched.” – Uncertainty and loss of trust in the Hungarian media
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Annika Sehl
Responsible Journalism in Conflicted Societies. Trust and Public Service Across New and Old Divides
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Vera Katzenberger
Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth
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