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

What happened to photojournalism when a newspaper laid off its entire photography staff? Tara M. Mortensen of the University of South Carolina, and Peter J. Gade of the University of … Continued

Identifying an online comment coming from an expert can increase the credibility of a news article, a new study found. Ivanka Pjesivac of the University of Georgia, Nicholas Geidner of … Continued

The journal Hipertext.net is calling for article manuscripts for its upcoming thematic issue on “The Digital Future of Facts”. The journal is open access, and it accepts submissions in three … Continued

Journalism studies is lacking historical perspective, an essay by Matt Carlson, of Saint Louis University, and Seth C. Lewis, of University of Oregon, argues. They call for more “temporal reflexivity” … Continued

The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is calling for paper proposals for an upcoming, one-day conference on Muslim women in the media. The conference is organised by the … Continued

Most of Swedish cultural journalism observes its topics on a “transnational scale”, Anna Roosvall and Andreas Widholm, both of Stockholm University, write. The authors analysed a sample of over 2 … Continued

On the week 11/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Reporting the First World War in the Liminal Zone Written by Sara Prieto Published by Palgrave Macmillan 199 … Continued

Dividing a news story about a political scandal into several pieces will have a stronger effect than presenting all information at once, Christian von Sikorski and Johannes Knoll, both of … Continued

The Nova Science Publishers is calling for chapter proposals for an edited book on Twitter. The book covers a variety of Twitter related topics, including the practices and uses of … Continued

A workshop entitled “Hybrid journalism, celebrities and popular culture: rethinking newsworthiness” is calling for paper proposals. It will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on the 28th and 29th of May … Continued

Changes in mainstream media and online journalism have also affected religious communities. For example, many Jewish ultra-Orthodox news websites have been launched over the past ten years. Oren Golan and … Continued

The conference “Contemporary Developments on Media, Culture and Society: Argentina and Latin America” is calling for papers. The conference, organized by The Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina … Continued

The magazine Index on Censorship has since 1972 provided a platform for identifying, highlighting and challenging censorship and abuses against freedom of expression. It has been one of the most … Continued

The 5th Europe-China Dialogue: Media and Communication Studies Summer School (held in Brussels, Belgium. 9.-18.7.2018), is calling for participants. The program is open to the full variety of academic work … Continued

Could algorithms produce libelous news content? Seth C. Lewis of the University of Oregon, Amy Kristin Sanders of Northwestern University in Qatar, and Casey Carmody of the University of Minnesota, … Continued

The way different actors are framed in news stories is an important part of news literacy, a team of Northwestern University researchers posits. Analysing each story carefully enough to detect … Continued