Journal Description
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) is the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). It is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal ranked in the Journal Citation Reports that focuses on research in journalism and mass communication. Established in 1924, JMCQ or the Quarterly is the oldest refereed scholarly journal in mass communication and provides leadership in scholarship for the field. It serves all the divisions and interest groups of AEJMC and publishes original articles and book reviews on topics including but not limited to theoretical and methodological developments in journalism and mass communication, international communication, media technologies and society, advertising, public relations, journalism history, media law and policy, media management and economics, political communication and health communication.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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- by Jayeon Lee, Dongyoung SohnJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study introduces a novel approach to understanding audience attitudes toward news media by applying network analysis, conceptualizing them as interconnected networks of cognitive and affective evaluations. Using survey data (N= 500) from South Korea,…
- by Stephanie Madden, Yasemin BeykontJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study sought to understand the emotional, and potentially traumatic, experiences of 23 school public relations (PR) practitioners throughout the United States as they navigate a changing, and increasingly politicized, educational landscape. By …
- by Daud Isa, Lei Guo, Itai Himelboim, Guy J. GolanJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examined the network agenda setting (NAS) influence of mainstream and partisan media on the public during the 2018 #NeverAgain social movement on X. Using a unique theoretical and methodological approach, it also investigated the NAS impact of …
- by Xinzhi Zhang, Tai-Quan Peng, Qinfeng ZhuJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study investigates the effectiveness of public health institutions’ misinformation debunking on social media by examining the impact of message features—social media intermediaries, message framing, and social cues—alongside the moderating roles of …
- by Darian Harff, Heleen Dekoninck, Desiree SchmuckJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Media do not only enable social comparison with perfect idols but also with role models who seem “attainable” and thus within reach for youth, which can invoke inspiration. Yet, research lacks a comprehensive validated scale to reliably assess such …
- by Hongliang Chen, Yijin Guo, Kexin WangJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Migrant workers face increasing risks from internet scams. This study, grounded in protection motivation theory, explored how scam prevention communication and victimization influence their information-seeking behaviors. Analyzing survey data from 521 …
- by Tomás Dodds, Lonneke van der Velden, Guillén Torres, Azza El-Masri, Stephen D. Reese, Giancarlo Fiorella, Ray Adams Row Farr, Gabriela Ivens, Johana KotišováJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Open-source intelligence investigations (OSI) have slowly transformed from an ad hoc, grassroots practice relegated to internet sleuths into an increasingly formalized and well-structured technique for journalistic research. By leveraging publicly …
- Book Review: Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right, by Adrienne L. Massanariby Ruud S. JacobsUniversity of Twente, Enschede, The NetherlandsJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Muhammad Reza MurtiUniversitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan, IndonesiaJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Yaroslava KutsaiCharles University, Prague, Czech RepublicJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Niels G. Mede, Isabel I. Villanueva, Kaiping ChenJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Hybrid media systems have reconfigured online journalism and mass communication such that people can engage more easily in multi-directional discourse about the norms of science. We investigate this reconfiguration with a mixed-methods study of the X page …
- by Patrick Walters, Austin WinslowJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study explores the ways journalists have covered the deaths of famous men who have acknowledged or been accused of sexual abuse or domestic violence. The qualitative textual analysis examines coverage of the deaths of musicians John Lennon (1980) and …
- by Toby Hopp, Patrick Ferrucci, Chris J. Vargo, Brock MaysJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Using a two-wave panel dataset, this study sought to better understand the relationship between mainstream news media trust, countermedia attendance, and political knowledge. The results of a lagged autoregressive path model indicated that mainstream news …
- by Matthew A. Lapierre, Cecilia Sada GaribayJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Gun violence in the United States is a public health crisis with debates raging about the role of guns in American society. The current study examined how exposure to guns in movies may shape attitudes/beliefs about guns and the mediating role of gun use …
- by Anjali DasSarma, Valentina ProustJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article analyzesThe New Orleans Tribune’s role as the first Black daily newspaper and its role as a counterpublic entity for Black Americans. Founded in 1864, it advocated radical equity for the newly manumitted Black community, challenging dominant …
- by Dae-Yun ParkJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Programmatic advertising (PA) has revolutionized the digital marketing landscape, providing automated and data-driven solutions for advertisers. However, concerns regarding the credibility of PA platforms have emerged, necessitating a comprehensive …
- by Miya Williams FayneJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Historically, the Black press has primarily targeted the African American audience, yet the increased accessibility of these outlets via digital media raises the question of who comprises the Black press audience online. Via an analysis of web metrics, I …
- by Jonathan HendrickxJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. TikTok is rapidly establishing itself as an important platform for contemporary digital journalism but explorations on its transnational journalistic usage thus far remain limited in size and scope. Hence, this explorative study adopts a digital methods …
- How the Engagement Journalism Movement Is Changing Political News Content: An Applied-Research Studyby Sue Robinson, Margarita Orozco, Joshua P. DarrJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Our multi-methodological, multi-university team was hired to evaluate whether news outlets participating in substantive training in journalism engagement and solutions-oriented practices were also changing their content. Analyzing a large dataset of …
- by Yanru Jiang, Sha Lai, Lei Guo, Prakash Ishwar, Derry Wijaya, Margrit BetkeJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study introduces the “framing element” method, an alternative approach to computational news framing detection. Rooted in a constructionist framing analysis framework, it identifies frames as packages of framing elements, including actors (…