Research InterestsMega-crises/Poly-crises/Permanent Crises, Global Challenges, Securitization, Human Security, One Health, Emerging Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Media Research PublicationsBooks:
Sellnow-Richmond, D.D., & Lukacovic, M.N. (2026). Communication amid mega-crises. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Communication-amid-Mega-Crises/Sellnow-Richmond-Lukacovic/p/book/9781041007463?srsltid=AfmBOoqFLgTWsN-JrRK_hw827SkmKt9BGL9yI4TUGLdZBtTBaQq7yEjw
Minielli, M., Lukacovic, M. N., Samoilenko, S., Finch, M., & Uecker, D. (Eds.) (2022). Communication theory and application in post-socialist contexts. Lexington Books; Rowman & Littlefield Inc. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/communication-theory-and-application-in-postsocialist-contexts-9781793641236/
Minielli, M., Lukacovic, M. N., Samoilenko, S., Finch, M., & Uecker, D. (Eds.) (2021). Media and public relations research in post-socialist societies. Lexington Books; Rowman & Littlefield Inc. https://books.google.com/books/about/Media_and_Public_Relations_Research_in_P.html?id=O3oeEAAAQBAJ
Journal Articles:
Lukacovic, M.N., & Oztas, B. (2026). Insurgent-influencer as (un)likely purveyor of public diplomacy within contemporary social media environments: A longitudinal study of an American fighter in Donbas, Eastern Ukraine. American Behavioral Scientist, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642251408909
Lukacovic, M.N., & Sellnow-Richmond, D.D. (2025). Toward ‘Strategic Communication Literacy’: Situating the concept within crisis communication scholarship amid AI-exacerbated mega-crises. Mediascapes Journal, 26(2), 21-37. https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/19350
Sellnow-Richmond, D.D., Lukacovic, M.N., & Sellnow-Richmond, S. (2024). Exemplification in news narratives: Stigmatizing and securitizing effects. Frontiers in Communication, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1316677
Sellnow-Richmond, D. D., George, A. M., Lukacovic, M. N., Salazar, S. E., & Sellnow, D. D. (2023). A comparative analysis of US state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines. Journal of Applied Communication Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2165885
Lukacovic, M. N. (2022). The normative dimension of securitization as a strategic communication theory; Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Central & Eastern Europe. Social Communications: Theory and Practice, 14(1), 194-206. https://doi.org/10.51423/2524-0471-2022-14-1-8
Oztas, B., & Lukacovic, M. N. (2022). Insurgent-generated content and framing “The New Internationalist Commune” of Rojava. International Journal of Communication, 16, 1083-1108. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/download/16276/3692
Sellnow-Richmond, D.D., Lukacovic, M. N., Sellnow-Richmond S. A., & Kraushaar, L. (2021). Messages in conflict: Examining leadership communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 4(3), 485-516. https://doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.4.3.2
Lukacovic, M. N. (2020). “Wars” on COVID-19 in Slovakia, Russia, and the United States; Securitized framing and reframing of political and media communication around the pandemic. Frontiers in Communication, 5(special issue: Strategic narratives in political and crisis communication – responses to COVID-19), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.583406
Lukacovic, M. N. (2020). Framing events of political violence within peace journalism and internet user-generated comments: Effects on readers’ emotions and contemplation of broader implications. PACO; Partecipazione e Conflitto, 13(2), 1022-1041. doi: https://10.1285/i20356609v13i2p1022 (or PACO web; http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/22500 )
Lukacovic, M. N. (2019). Micro-securitization to micro-mobilization: Internet user-generated framing of Slovaks’ refusal to fight in a NATO operation. Social Communications: Theory and Practice, 8(1), 42-55. https://comteka.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Lukacovic-M.-Copernicus-hh.-20-25.pdf
Lukacovic, M. N. (2016). Peace journalism and radical media ethics. Conflict & Communication Online, 15(2). http://www.cco.regener-online.de/2016_2/pdf/lukacovic2016.pdf
Vultee, F., Lukacovic, M., & Stouffer, R. (2015). Eyes 1, brain 0: Securitization in text, image and news topic. International Communication Research Journal, 50(2), 111-138.
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