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

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The current issue Vol. 15, No. 2 (2025) contains following articles:

Special Section: Norms, Power Relations and Injustices in Digitality: Global Perspectives

• Christoph Böhm, Oliver Zöllner

Norms, Power Relations and Injustices in Digitality: Global Perspectives. An Introduction to the Special Section on Content Moderation (Article in English) PDF

• Lukas Beckmann, Sebastian Suttner, Björn Wiegärtner

Content Moderation zwischen Anstandsdame, Schiedsrichter und Zensor? Zu Formen der Kommunikationskontrolle und ihren Folgeproblemen PDF

• Sarah Rebecca Strömel, Lea Watzinger

Transparenz und De-Platforming als Strategien der Debatte im digitalen öffentlichen Raum PDF

• Mariana Magalhães Avelar, Luana Mathias Souto

Genderwashing in Digital Platforms’ Self-Regulation: A Case Study of Decisions by the Meta Oversight Board (Article in English) PDF

• Jonathan D. Geiger

Structuring the Infosphere Online: Web Search Engines as Protagonists of Content Moderation (Article in English) PDF

Debate

• Anke Fiedler, Cherian George, Winston Mano, Melanie Radue, Carola Richter, Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo

A Critical Dialogue on the Cosmopolitan Turn in Communication Studies (Article in English) PDF

Media Practice

• Zsuzsa Detrekői

Media Regulation and LGBTQ Representation: Analyzing the Impact of Hungary’s "Pedophile Law" in the EU Context (Article in English) PDF

Book Reviews

• Mira Keßler

Silvio Waisbord (2025). An Introduction to Journalism: Thinking Globally (Review in English) PDF

• Christine Horz-Ishak

Nadja-Christina Schneider (2025). Transkulturelle Medien und Kommunikation PDF

• Hazrat Bahar

Saad Mohseni with Jenna Krajeski (2024). Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul (Review in English) PDF