M.A. Mikko Mattlar defended his doctoral dissertation in Journalism at University of Jyväskylä on 10 June. His dissertation is titled ”Ei mitä hyvänsä rilutusta”. Populaarimusiikin tie legitiimiksi kulttuuriksi Helsingin Sanomissa 1950–1982. The study … Continued

The journal Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture is looking for submissions for a mixed-topic issues to be published in Spring and Summer 2016. Particular interests include, but are not limited … Continued

  A recently published Nordicom book Mediers känslä för kön focuses on new possibilities of feminist media research in Swedish. The book points out that media’s sense of gender changes in … Continued

  Political information read on news websites is more associated with higher trust, whereas social media sites are generally not trusted, suggests a new article written by Andrea Ceron of Università degli … Continued

A new special issue of the journal American Behavioral Scientist has been published. This issue, edited by Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud of University of Oslo, focuses of framing of immigrants and immigration in Western media. The … Continued

The fourth International Symposium on Media Innovations was held in Brussels last week. The event invited scholars and industry representatives to discuss how innovation matters in the media industry. We … Continued

  Crowdfunding has become a popular way to launch initiatives that would otherwise be hard to finance. During recent years different crowdfunding tools and platforms have shown significant success in … Continued

A new issue of British Journalism Review features an election special, focusing naturally on United Kingdom general election of 2015. The articles around this theme range from election spinning to the aid of … Continued

The twenty-first century has brought major challenges to local journalism. A new academic book from Reuters Institute for Journalism delves into the centre of these challenges, looking at its past, present … Continued

Journalism studies can be expanded by acknowledging Eastern philosophies in addition to Western ones, write Alessandro Martinisi and Jairo Lugo-Ocando of University of Leeds. Journalism’s self-image has been heavily influenced with the Enlightenment project: it … Continued