A recently published study details the internet use of Swedes. Internet use is widespread and still growing, and its importance greatest to the young, the study confirms. More surprising is … Continued

A look at Danish media industry shows severe structural issues ahead, write Stig Hjarvard and Aske Kammer in a new online first article of the journal Media, Culture & Society. … Continued

Locality, in terms of both creation and consumption of local news, can fundamentally be seen as habitus as described by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. This argument is furthered by the authors … Continued

A national survey of Danish digital media use has been published. Its results suggest that despite of their widespread use of the internet, Danes are fairly conservative in their habits. … Continued

The all-time second issue of the Journal of Media Innovations is out and available online. As the name of this open access journal suggests, its contents focus heavily on change … Continued

Issue 41(8) of the journal Communication Research is now out and publicly available online. The articles featured in the issue have appeared online first from August 2012 to June 2014. … Continued

The final day of ECC did not show signs of slowing down – at least not in Twitter. Especially plenary session speakers seemed to inspire a lot of conference goers. … Continued

We live in a time in which professional journalists can no longer claim to be the sole purveyors of truthful, unbiased information to the public. Empowered by technology, the public … Continued

The third and final day of European communication conference in Lisbon is about to start. Today’s sessions are mercifully scheduled to finish a time block earlier than yesterday, so the … Continued

The second day of European communication conference, number of original tweets hashtagged #ecrea2014 was 711 from 165 distinct users. Right now the most profilic tweeter during these two days has … Continued

ECREA’s Journalism Studies (JS) held a meeting today in ECC. The most important take-aways of the meeting are summarized below.   1. New website – and a whole new look. … Continued

The second set of todays parallel sessions of journalism studies featured subjects  A) “Practises of journalism: understanding the newsroom” and B) Business strategies in journalism: paywalls, start-ups and crowdfunding. Our … Continued

Readers consider a story composed by a computer algorithm just as credible as one written by a live journalist, demonstrates a paper by Hille van der Kaa and Emiel Krahmer, … Continued

Christian Christensen, of University of Stockholm, denounced the techno-predeterministic view that WikiLeaks came to be, and continues to exists solely because it can. Instead the organization fills an “information void” … Continued

On the first day of European communication conference, over half-thousand tweets hashtagged #ecrea2014 poured out from Lisbon. Yesterday’s most prolific tweeter: Dr. Vilma Luoma-aho (@vilmaluo) with a total of 30 … Continued

The second day of the European communication conference in Lisbon is just some hours shy from starting. Here’s JNR’s quick overview of journalism-related sessions for today. Sessions in Journalism Studies … Continued

ECC ECREA 2014 features many journalism studies sessions this year. One of these session, held today 14.30 – 16.00 at local time, focused on Journalism and Social Media.   Henrik … Continued

The European Communication Conference, arranged by ECREA, begins officially tomorrow on Thursday. As per usual, there are numerous research posters covering all the major themes of the conferences, including journalism … Continued

ECREA has a new research group which focuses on journalism and communication education. They are planning to host their first conference next year in Trier, Germany on March 5-6. Call … Continued

Collected tweets about the first journalism studies session held in ECC ECREA 2014 today 11.15 – 12.45 local time now in Storify.  

      ECC ECREA 2014 session about Digital Culture and Communication was separated into two categories: Journalism and Public Education (A) and Big Data Under the Lens (B). The … Continued

With some ten months to go, call for papers has been published for the Future of Journalism -conference in Cardiff. The theme of next autumn’s event is “Risks, threats and … Continued

European communication conference in Lisbon is officially open. The three-day event was kicked off by Dr. Natalie Fenton of Goldsmith University of London. She spoke of the ill effects neoliberal … Continued

In a society thoroughly saturated by media, research should take a closer look at the everyday experiences of living with – and through – media, argues Dr. Mark Deuze of … Continued

The European communication conference in Lisbon will fire off in just a few hours. Today’s schedule includes a myriad of parallel sessions, of which six are labeled under the section … Continued

ECC ECREA 2014 has just uploaded the whole 100-page long program leaflet (PDF). The file includes information about the Lisbon conference and the whole program, including plenary and poster sessions, … Continued

A new paper published online first in International Communication Gazette (Sage) delves into the composition of social actors in Finnish, Estonian, and Russian daily newspapers in the 20th century. The … Continued

The event was dedicated to European Journalism Observatory’s (EJO) 10th anniversary. Prof. Stephen Russ-Mohl gave a short view on EJO’s history and current state. EJO acts as a transmitter between … Continued

Journalism based on vast amounts of data and numerical information can be divided into three distinct sub-groups, writes PhD. candidate Mark Coddington of University of Texas. According to Coddington, these … Continued

A combination of qualitative and quantitative measures should be used in unison to uncover the true influence of local radio stations, argues Dr. Eleanor Shember-Chritchley of Manchester Metropolitan University. She … Continued