Torbjörn von Krogh and Göran Svensson, talked to us at NordMedia 2017 conference. They have been studying media trust, especially how media responds to accusations related to migration issues. The … Continued

50 Years in Agenda Setting Research: Past and Future Perspectives Conference is now accepting paper proposals. The event is organised by the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University … Continued

The third Transnational Journalism History conference is now accepting submissions.This year’s conference will be June 1-2, 2018, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at Concordia University. The conference is sponsored jointly by the … Continued

  Because Olympianism represents universal ideals, since its inception it has been a source of appropriation by strategic actors, writes Limin Liang, of City University of Hong Kong. The article studies … Continued

In recent years, major news outlets have started to use the techniques and rhetoric of “immersive journalism”, writes Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws, of Volda University College, Norway. Immersive journalism builds on … Continued

Y Roselyn Du, of Hong Kong Baptist University, has analysed the coverage of the so-called Arab Spring in Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese newspapers. The author gathered a sample of … Continued

The journal Anthropologica is calling for article submissions for its upcoming special issue. The issue is themed “Media, culture and social change: From an anthropological interdisciplinary perspective” and it is … Continued

Readers find news stories written by “robot journalists” less credible than stories by human authors, T. Franklin Waddell, of University of Florida, writes. Waddell conducted two online experiments with a … Continued

Yi Mou, of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Fuyuan Shen, of Pennsylvania State University, studied whether the effects of health information change according to its supposed source. They had 190 … Continued

On the week 42 the following publications have come to our attention: Young People and the Future of News Written by Lynn Schofield Clark and Regina Marchi Published by Cambridge … Continued