On 25-26 October 2018 the annual Moscow Readings conference will be held at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The topic of the conference this year is “Digital … Continued

If a country gets major media attention from other countries, does it also come up in people’s searches? Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung and Bernard J. Jansen, … Continued

What skills do data journalists need and possess? Where is data journalism being taught, and by who? a new study asks. Bahareh R. Heravi of University College Dublin, examined data … Continued

On the week 16/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Digital Dominance – The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple Edited by Martin Moore and Damian Tambini … Continued

The discourse surrounding the protection of the Great Barrier Reef has become increasingly business-oriented in Australian newspapers, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, of Griffith University, and Claire Konkes, of University of Tasmania, write. … Continued

Glimpse, a double-blind peer reviewed journal published annually by the Society for Phenomenology and Media, invites papers for its Spring 2019 issue that will focus on the theme of global … Continued

The workshop “Media manipulation: ideologies of influence and political economies of intervention in a digital world” is calling for papers. The event will be held on 29 June 2018 at … Continued

People’s trust and mistrust in news media Turkey indicate a very polarised society and news media, a new report by Servet Yanatma of the University of Oxford, shows. The report … Continued

Previous research has argued that journalists involved in participatory projects have exercised too much control over the publication of user-generated content. Bill Reader of Ohio University, examined the Australian participatory … Continued

The special issue of African Journalism Studies titled “African Digital Media Review” is calling for papers. The issue broadly exploresthe impact of digital technologies on a range of social and … Continued

A well-established organizational culture and a working routine  are crucial for legacy media when adapting to rapid changes in the digital age, a new study states. Ke Li, of the … Continued

Political Studies Association is calling papers for Media & Politics Group Annual Conference 2018 titled “Political Reversals and Renewals. The conference is organized at the University of Nottingham on 8-9 … Continued

How do entrepreneurial journalists see their social identity and how does this influence the journalism they practice? Summer Harlow of the University of Houston, and Monica Chadha of Arizona State … Continued

The journal Central European Journal of Communication is calling for papers for its special issue on “Populism and the Media Across Europe”. For this special issue the journal invites submissions … Continued

In regular news production, a journalist’s role orientation cannot solely account for what ends up on the news output. In Twitter, the roles are manifested quite often, a study finds. … Continued

The VIEW Journal is calling for papers on the topic “Public Service Broadcasting In The Digital Age”. This special issue proposes a reexamination of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the … Continued

Significant differences exist between issues in the actors that get to speak in television news, new study from Belgium finds. Kathleen Beckers and Peter Van Aelst, both of the University … Continued

The aim of the proposed book “Mediated Shame: Disparaging Poverty in Media and Popular Culture” is to explore how media impose shame on and facilitate shaming of economically underperforming people … Continued

Fergal Quinn, of the University of Limerick, studied the teaching of journalism ethics in a developing country. The author interviewed 25 organizers of journalism training programs in Cambodia and 29 … Continued

On the week 15/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Media and Transnational Climate Justice – Indigenous Activism and Climate Politics By Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg Published … Continued

The Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is calling for papers for the conference “The Press and the Vote”. The  tenth anniversary conference is held at the National University … Continued

How does the use of Facebook connect to the level of people’s political knowledge? In a new study, researchers explored this relationship by analysing two representative datasets from the United … Continued

David Coppini of the University of Denver, and German Alvarez and Hernando Rojas, both of the University of Wisconsin, studied the relationship between media exposure, perceptions of inequality, and political … Continued

Convergence, The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, is calling for papers for its special issue “Gamifying News: Playful approaches to public engagement”. As a natural continuation of … Continued

Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard’s (1996–2007) use of talk back radio and YouTube were pivotal in the trend towards ‘disintermediation’ in Australian politics, a new study states. Caroline Fisher, David … Continued

Generation C has always been a challenging group for news organizations. New research identified Generation C’s local news repertoires, and build an integrated model of multiplatform news consumption. According to … Continued

Air pollution is one of the main environmental concerns in Chinese cities. Sibo Chen, of Simon Fraser University, studied how Beijing’s smog hazard in 2013 was covered by the Xinhua … Continued

Existing studies on ideological selective exposure have several limitations, state Tetsuro Kobayashi of City University Hong Kong, Yuki Ogawa of Ritsumeikan University, Takahisa Suzuki of Tsuda University, and Hitoshi Yamamoto … Continued

Female journalists face rampant online harassment, across different cultures, new study states. Researchers interviewed 75 female journalists who have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United … Continued

The relationship between the news media and individuals of the political elite in India can be conceptualized as ‘contingent heteronomy’, a new study argues. Swati Maheshwari and Colin Sparks, of … Continued