There were geographic and time-related trends in consumption of fake news prior to the US presidential election. Adam Fourney, Miklos Z. Racz,  Gireeja Ranade, Markus Mobius and Eric Horvitz, all … Continued

Teresa Nozal Cantarero and Ana González-Neira, of The University of A Coruña, and Elena Valentini of Sapienza University of Rome, looked at 148 news applications from 20 newspapers in 10 … Continued

Media and Communication seeks abstracts for a thematic issue “Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?”. The issue focuses on questions of if and how the rise of social media … Continued

In contemporary high-choice media environments, people increasingly mix and combine their use of various news media into personal news repertoires, write Jesper Strömbäck, of University of Gothenburg, Kajsa Falasca, of Mid Sweden University, … Continued

Proposals are invited for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Media Literacy Education on the theme of Media Literacy and Fake News. The rise of so-called “fake … Continued

The journal Media & Communication is calling for article proposals for its upcoming thematic issue on “Media and minorities”. The issue will be edited by Leen d’Haenens and Willem Joris, … Continued

Jacob L. Nelson and Ryan F. Lei, both of Northwestern University, have analysed news readership data from over a million Americans. They wanted to measure whether desktop users differ from … Continued

An interdisciplinary conference entitled “What is universe?” is calling for contribution proposals. The event will be hosted by the University of Oregon in Portland, United States. The conference will take … Continued

Does media coverage change the way the audience views economy, or does coverage follow the public opinion? Daniel J. Hopkins, Eunji Kim and Soojong Kim, all of University of Pennsylvania, … Continued

Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in November 2017 about journalism research. The list is updated a couple of times per week. … Continued

On the week 44 the following publications have come to our attention: Media Convergence and Deconvergence Edited by Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peil & Gabriele Balbi Published by Palgrave Macmillan 341 … Continued

Do journalists and their audience agree on what journalism should be like? The question was investigated by Lars Willnat, of Syracuse University, with David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, … Continued

The International Journal of Communication is calling for article proposals for an upcoming special section on the Arab Gulf crisis. The section will be guest-edited by Ilhem Allagui and Banu … Continued

Making sure attacks against journalists do not go unpunished is “key to long term safety”, a recent report states. The report was published by the NGO International Media Support (IMS), … Continued

A special issue of the International Journal of Digital Television is now accepting article proposals. Themed “Media and Communication Policies in a Digital World”, the issue is scheduled for publication … Continued

Contextual news stories focus on the “big picture” rather than “just the facts”, write Jesse Abdenour, of University of Oregon, Karen McIntyre, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Nicole Smith Dahmen, of … Continued

The organisers of international symposium “Media Freedom” are calling for papers. The event takes place at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden on March 15th 2018. Contributions on … Continued

The Nordic Data Journalism Conference (NODA18), academic pre-conference titled “The second wave of data journalism research”, is calling for papers. The conference is held in 15 March 2018 in Stockholm, … Continued

The annual conference of the European Media Management Association (emma) is calling for papers. Conference’s topic is “Media Management in the Age of Big Data and High-tech”. The conference will … Continued

How do cultural-level sense-making processes work in a highly conflictual case? Christian Baden and Yossi David, both of The Hebrew University Jerusalem, studied media coverage on Israeli president Reuven Rivlin’s … Continued

Mobile journalism practices have provided new skills to and have also been time-consuming for journalists, Indian reporters state in a new study. Anoop Kumar and M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef, both … Continued

Politicians’ discomfort with journalism may be based on the hostile media phenomenon (HMP), write Jörg Matthes, of University of Vienna, Peter Maurer, of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Florian … Continued

Here is a collection of all interviews we have done with researchers of journalism. Click the links to watch the video on YouTube. You can also subscribe to our YouTube … Continued

Chilean television news provide more civic and watchdog journalism than newspapers do, write Daniel C. Hallin, of University of California San Diego, and Claudia Mellado, of Pontifical Catholic University of … Continued

A conference entitled “Cut the bullshit! Conference on Communication, Populism and Electoral choice in the new media environment” is now accepting paper proposals. The event will take place in Cadenabbia, … Continued

Curd Benjamin Knüpfer, of George Washington University, proposes a new model for analysing so-called “echo chambers”. To be more specific, Knüpfer moves away from the term “echo chamber”, suggesting it … Continued

On the week 43 the following publications have come to our attention: Social Media in Emergent Brazil Written by Juliano Spyer Published by University College London Press 240 pages Open … Continued

Andrea Grisold and Hendrik Theine, both of Vienna University of Economics and Business, have reviewed the extant research on reporting economic inequality. Their meta-analysis suggests the number of stories is … Continued

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) is calling for paper and panel proposals for its upcoming, annual conference. The event will be hosted by the University of … Continued

News discourse depicts photojournalists as mere “support staff” for reporters, write Mary Angela Bock, Kyser Lough and Deepa Fadnis, all of University of Texas at Austin. The authors used discourse … Continued