The 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS2017) is calling for various submissions. The conference will take place in Funchal, on the Madeira Islands (Portugal), between the 14th and … Continued

Health news on television are more “richly sourced” than similar news on radio, in print, or online, Joyce Stroobant, Rebeca De Dobbelaer, and Karin Raeymaeckers (all of Ghent University) write. … Continued

A new research project has been launched to map out the sources from which Finns find information on violent crime, and how that information affects their perceptions on the actual … Continued

On week 11 the following publications have come to our attention: Minorities and Media: Producers, Industries, Audiences Edited by John Budarick and Gil-Soo Han Published by Palgrave Macmillan 204 pages … Continued

The Radio Journal is calling for articles for its upcoming special issue on community radio. Entitled “Current roles and contemporary challenges”, the issue is set to publish in October 2017. … Continued

Journalists don’t think that automated production of journalism is, in its current form, very useful, a study by Neil Thurman (City, University of London), Konstantin Dörr (University of Zurich), and … Continued

A new special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication is now published. The magazine addresses issues related to activism and communication scholarship in Canada. It also includes some interviews, … Continued

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, talked to us about his research. He discussed about his … Continued

The article by Anders Sundnes Løvlie, of IT University of Copenhagen, Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, of University of Oslo and Anders Olof Larsson, of Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, studies users’ … Continued

Isabelle Krebs, of University of Zurich conducted an experimental study on news media brands in Switzerland. The study explores if readers evaluate the quality of the news articles based on the … Continued