How do analytics rationalize journalistic work? Rutgers University researcher Caitlin Petre spent six months at the newsroom analytics company Chartbeat doing ethnographic observation and interviews. The author looked at discursive … Continued

On the week 13/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Russia’s Liberal Media: Handcuffed but Free Written by Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova Published by Routledge 222 pages The Routledge Companion … Continued

Leaks are important sources for journalism. Authors Víctor Sampedro, F Javier López-Ferrández and Álvaro Carretero, all from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, divided leaks first into two types: official ones (the … Continued

The 10th The Bridges of Media Education conference is now accepting paper proposals. The event will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia, on the 14th and 15th of September 2018. … Continued

How does social media affect contemporary journalism? Patrick Ferrucci, of University of Colorado-Boulder, put the question to 53 American digital journalists and interviewed them over their use of social media. … Continued

The journal Feminist Media Studies is calling for essays for its thematic issue, entitled “Women in Sports Media: New Scholarly Engagements”. The contributions would be published in the journal’s “Commentary … Continued

South Korean newspapers write more often and more positively about their owners and subsidiary companies than of their competitors, a team of South Korean researchers discovered. They analysed 1 362 … Continued

The two-day International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC) titled “New Media Studies: Re-examining Articulations of Theory, Practice and Context” will be held on 21-22 September 2018, at SIMC, Symbiosis … Continued

In their work Indigenous media producers navigate tensions between professional obligations and responsibility towards their communities. Over the course of 12 years, Elizabeth Burrows of Griffith University, interviewed 42 Indigenous … Continued

How do news tweets affect Twitter users and what kind of tweets do they prefer? The authors of a new study examined how perceptions of news tweets differ based upon … Continued

The conference “Ownership Structures and Managerial Challenges in the African Media and Telecommunications Sectors”, held 8-9 November 2018 at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is calling for papers. The conference … Continued

Compared to men, articles written by women attracted a higher percentage of inappropriate comments, new study finds. Becky Gardiner of Goldsmiths, University of London, studied blocked comments on The Guardian … Continued

It takes two to tango when it comes to agenda building, the results of a new study show. Anne C. Kroon and Toni G. L. A. van der Meer of … Continued

The International Conference on Media & Communication 2018 is calling for paper proposals. The event will take place in Pune, India, on the 21st and 22nd of September 2018. The … Continued

The concept of “hybridity” and “hybrid journalism” has been useful in describing things that do not fall into dichotomous categories. However, the concept is insufficient in describing the complexity inherent … Continued

The editor of an encyclopedia on mass media is calling for contribution proposals. The 5-volume book is entitled “The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society” and it is … Continued

Since the failed coup in 2016, the Turkish state has increased surveillance of activists and journalists. How do activist citizen journalists manage their work in such an increasingly hostile environment? … Continued

The way journalists cite think tanks can help construct them as authoritative sources, Andrew Chadwick, of Loughborough University, writes with Declan McDowell-Naylor, Amy P. Smith and Ellen Watts, all three … Continued

On the week 12/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Entertainment Journalism – Making it your Career By Ben Falk Published by Routledge 156 pages Gender, Race, and … Continued

The Media Education 2018 conference is calling for contribution proposals. The event will be hosted by the National Library and Archives of Québec, in Canada, on the 9th and 10th … Continued

The deadline for submitting paper abstracts for the Taboo and the Media conference has been extended from March 15th to April 15th. The event will be held at Bertinoro, Italy, … Continued

How does feminist discourse penetrate the mainstream media in a “post-feminist” era? Dunja Antunovic, of Bradley University, investigated the question through a case study of the #MoreThanMean campaign. #MoreThanMean was … Continued

How do news about immigration relate to real-life developments? University of Amsterdam researchers Laura Jacobs, Alyt Damstra, Mark Boukes and Knut De Swert did a longitudinal study from 1999 to … Continued

“Dirty Little Secrets” was a project from 2015 bringing together New Jersey news organizations, comedians, two universities, and a national investigative journalism organization CIR. The project turned investigative news material … Continued

The 1st Brazil-France-Francophone Belgium Journalism Research Conference titled “The Sociocultural Frontiers of Journalism in Brazil and in Francophone space”, is calling for proposals. The conference will be held 12-13 November … Continued

The international symposium on “Communication in The Digital Age” (CIDA) will be held in Mersin, Turkey, on 18-19 October 2018. The symposium is calling for papers on different topics concerning … Continued

As news are read more often via social media, the selection of what news people see is based increasingly on algorithms, instead of editorial selection. Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis … Continued

Tien-Tsung Lee of the University of Kansas, and Yuki Fujioka of Georgia State University analyzed data from the Taiwan Communication Survey (TCS) from 2013, looking at which news and information … Continued

The Journal of Media Business Studies special issue on “Strategic Management in the Media (Creative) Industries” is calling for papers. The aim of the special issue on Strategic Management in … Continued

The 3rd International Media Studies Symposium themed “Communication Trends in the Digitalised World”. The symposium is held on 1-3 November 2018 at Akdeniz University in Turkey. They welcome submissions from … Continued