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Conformity of public policy and citizens’ attitudes towards the public service media European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Deimantas Jastramskis
The article examines how the structural conditions (ownership, management, financing, and accountability) of public service media (PSM) functioning established by public policy decisions align with citizens’ attitudes. The empirical research employs the case of Lithuanian PSM because of relatively favorable conditions created for developing the PSM as a project of democracy and civil society. A document
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Book review: The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media by Kevin Driscoll European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Rosalynd Southern
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Book review: Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents by Rogers Brubaker European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 David Worth
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Book Review: Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness by Molly Margaret Kessler European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Shuai Liu, Shuai Zhang
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Artificial intelligence and freedom of speech European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Paulo Nuno Vicente
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The mediatization of the economist profession: How economists use the media to promote political and economic interests European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Timo Harjuniemi
Professional economists wield considerable power as experts and policymakers. Consequently, economists frequently appear in the media, where they comment on current economic issues and assess economic policy options. Despite the status of economists, little is known about the relationship between economists and the media and how economists use the media to promote economic and political interests.
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Media resentment European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Peter Jakobsson, Fredrik Stiernstedt
Building on an interview study from Sweden (n = 80), this article develops the concept of media resentment as a tool for understanding contemporary developments such as the diminished trust in news media and journalism. We view media resentment as a complex of feelings and ideas that are both individual and social, embodied, and ideal. Media resentment is defined as the feeling that the media – intentionally
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Russian imperialism, racist differentiation and refugees at the Polish borders: Media as ‘borderscapers’ European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius
This article investigates media as ‘borderscapers’ that discursively shape state borders by representing human interactions with and at the borders and generating ‘borderscapes’ that imbue borders with social and political meaning. Empirically, the article focuses on a two-pronged border emergency in Poland, involving non-European irregularised migrants stranded at the frontier with Belarus and the
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‘If you don’t “pass” as cis, you don’t exist’. The trans audience's reproofs of ‘Cis Gaze’ and transnormativity in TV series European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Isabel Villegas Simón, Juan José Sánchez Soriano, Rafael Ventura
There are currently more trans characters than ever in television series, while at the same time scrutiny of trans people is intensifying in social and public debate, and the correspondence between...
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Technological affordances of video streaming platforms: Why people prefer video streaming platforms over television European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Tom Evens, Amandine Henderickx, Peter Conradie
This article investigates to what extent technological affordances are associated with people's preference for video streaming platforms over traditional television services. Such affordances refer...
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Public service media and public funding: A three-country study of willingness to pay versus perceived dispensability European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Annika Sehl
Recent public debates in several European countries have shown that public service medias’ (PSM) public funding has become a topic of controversial discussion. Based on an online survey in France, ...
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The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Sabina Mihelj, Katherine Kondor, Václav Štětka, Fanni Tóth
Over the past decade, the rights of people whose sexual orientation does not conform to prevailing norms have become a divisive issue in many countries. Despite a long tradition of research on medi...
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Being good while being bad: How does CSR-communication on the social media serve the gambling industry? European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Matilda Hellman, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Robin Nilsson, Johan Svensson
Global businesses are known to use their social media accounts for legitimisation aspirations and national market assimilation. Still, we lack empirical tools for identifying the kind of public cor...
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Biographies in TVE series, 1982–1996. Felipism and Spain's new image European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Javier Jurado
Cultural policies of Felipe González's government were intended to reshape a certain national identity. We will focus on these legitimation strategies through TV series, and particularly those with...
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Press coverage of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church in France (2016–2020) European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Sophie Dubec, Céline Morin, Laëtitia Atlani-Duault
While sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church is a topic of growing importance, and the subject of much work to understand its construction as a public problem, little research has attempted...
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Did COVID-19 change the political communication of polarizing leaders? The case of Salvini's campaigning before and after the pandemic European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Alberto Bitonti, Rita Marchetti, Claudia Mariotti
In recent years, political polarization saw a significant rise in many political systems. This revamped a scientific debate sparked decades ago, with different schools of thought debating on dynami...
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The contextual role of privacy concerns in online political participation European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Christoph Lutz
Research on online political participation highlights how online platforms may facilitate or encumber political participation. In this contribution, we add to existing research on digital inequalit...
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The German media as amplifier of the political agenda: The economic policy framing of European conflicts in times of COVID-19 European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Victoria Sophie Teschendorf
Especially in times of (corona) crisis, the German press plays a crucial role in communicating Germany’s economic policy orientation, influencing how the crisis is communicated to the public. The i...
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Banalisation of communications surveillance in the debate on Finnish intelligence legislation European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Matti Kortesoja
A case study of both public and non-public debate on civil and military intelligence laws in Finland examined policy documents, news coverage, and interviews with key elite stakeholders to reveal v...
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The ‘Kim Jong-un Effect’ and the mainstreaming of North Korea coverage in UK Media European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Soomin Seo, Jungsik Choi, Hayoung Choi
This article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse the entire corpus of news articles published about North Korea by six major UK national newspapers from 2000 to 2020. It offers ins...
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What factors explain the broadcasting of televised election debates? Empirical evidence from Germany European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Jürgen Maier
Televised election debates are considered as the most important single campaign event. While a large body of research has analyzed their content, processing, impact, and media coverage, it has not ...
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Conspiracy thinking and the role of media use: Exploring the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Jesper Strömbäck, Elena Broda, Salma Bouchafra, Sofia Johansson, Gregor Rettenegger, Elina Lindgren
In contrast to beliefs in specific conspiracy theories, conspiratorial predispositions refer to people's propensity to view the world in conspiratorial terms. As such, they are one of the most impo...
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Polarisation or just differences in opinion: How and why Facebook users disagree about Greta Thunberg European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Dag Elgesem, Michael Brüggemann
To what extent was Greta Thunberg a ‘polarizing figure’ on Facebook, in the period when she received the most extensive media attention? The paper analyses seven months of discussion concerning Thu...
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Tools and measures for diversity and inclusion in media industries: International best practice and informing policy change in the Irish film and television sector European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Páraic Kerrigan, Susan Liddy, Anne O’Brien
This article focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion in the Irish media industry and how it can be improved. The need to develop these policies, tools and measures has become pertinent, consid...
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Mapping the European media landscape – Meteor, a curated and community-coded inventory of news sources European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Paul Balluff, Fabienne Lind, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Annie Waldherr
We present Meteor, a new inventory for European news sources (i.e. EU + UK, CH, NO, IL): https://wp3.opted.eu/. This inventory will facilitate researchers’ efforts to select sources across platfo...
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Sweden's feminist foreign policy in national newspapers in EU member states (2014–2020): Media logic or political logic? European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Malena Rosén Sundström
As the first country in the world, Sweden introduced its Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) in 2014. The article investigates how Sweden's FFP is communicated in quality newspapers in 11 EU Member States (2014–2020). It focuses on whether the coverage of FFP signals the adoption of media logic or political logic, and whether the newspapers’ images of FFP serve to strengthen or counteract the existing tendencies
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Media policymaking and multistakeholder involvement: Matching audience, stakeholder and government expectations for public service media in Flanders European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Hilde Van den Bulck, Tim Raats
This contribution analyzes government, opposition, public service media, media stakeholders and audience views regarding the role and remit of public service media in the run-up to and their impact on the renewal of the 2021–2025 management contract between public broadcaster VRT and the Flemish Government. Results show that, despite a shifting media ecosystem and academics and government pushing for
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Audiences of popular European television crime drama: A nine-country study on consumption patterns, attitudes and drivers of transcultural connection European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Cathrin Bengesser, Paola De Rosa, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Marica Spalletta
This article presents findings of a mixed-methods audience study on consumption patterns and attitudes towards European television crime narratives among European viewers. Based on semi-structured interviews in Denmark, Germany and Italy, and a nine-country online survey (n1321), we asked how, when, where and why European audiences watch crime series, and whether watching non-domestic European crime
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Political power’s media capture strategies in Spain (2016–2021) European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Isabel Fernández Alonso
This article analyses political power's media capture strategies in Spain by addressing the central government's and several regional governments' actions between 2016 and 2021. The policies implemented by parties from across the political spectrum are studied, with similar behaviours that continue to pursue or even reinforce strategies from previous eras being observed. This confirms the trait of
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Social mobility or social change? How different groups react to identity-related news European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Ming M Boyer, Sophie Lecheler
In times of identity politics, journalists use group primes to organize events and reduce their complexity. Because research has mostly investigated the effects of single group primes on opinion formation and news selection, two aspects of group primes in the news have remained understudied: (1) whether they directly affect group identification itself, and (2) how these effects differ between groups
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Silence of the wealthy: How the wealthiest 0.1% avoid the media and resort to hidden strategies of advocacy European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Anu Kantola, Juho Vesa
As the wealthiest groups have emerged as increasingly significant in societies, this article explores society's wealth elites from the vantage point of media and communication studies. Bridging the literature on policy advocacy and mediatisation, the article examines the hidden and public advocacy strategies of the wealthy. Drawing from 90 interviews with the wealthiest 0.1% in Finland, this study
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Transnational issue agendas of the radical right? Parties’ Facebook campaign communication in six countries during the 2019 European Parliament election European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Annett Heft, Barbara Pfetsch, Vadim Voskresenskii, Vivien Benert
In this study, we investigate to what degree radical right parties use social media for pushing a common issue agenda to mobilise voters on a pan-European scale. Using the 2019 European Parliament (EP) election as a case, we analysed radical right parties’ campaign agendas in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and identified the transnationally shared issue repertoire in their Facebook
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Can social media help end the harm? Public information campaigns, online platforms, and paramilitary-style attacks in a deeply divided society European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Paul Reilly, Faith Gordon
Online platforms can help public information campaigns reach target audiences who are unlikely to engage with content distributed via traditional media. This paper adds to this emergent literature, as the first study of the Ending the Harm campaign, which is designed to change public discourse about paramilitary-style attacks in Northern Ireland. Campaign effects were explored through interviews (N
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Political communication, press coverage and public interpretation of public health statistics during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 B.T. Lawson, Jairo Lugo-Ocando
This article examines the way numbers, often concerning risk, were communicated by politicians, covered by the news media and interpreted by the public during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis in the United Kingdom. To explore this topic, we adopted a mixed-methods approach that included content analysis, comparative thematic analysis and a series of focus groups. Whilst coherency and consistency
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Queer media generations: Shifting identifications and media uses among non-heterosexual men European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Alexander Dhoest, Joris Van Ouytsel
This paper explores the role of media among different generations of non-straight men. Based on generational theory, combining the notions of “queer generations” and “media generations,” it empirically explores the role of both legacy and digital media in the processes of sexual identity formation in four post-war generations (Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z). A mixed-method
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Social representations, media, and iconography: A semiodiscursive analysis of Facebook posts related to the COVID-19 pandemic European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Golda Cohen, Mathieu Bessin, Sandrine Gaymard
The aim of this study was to explore the COVID-19 pandemic social representation in the early stages of its development. Following a free association task and a categorical analysis, a corpus of COVID-19-related editorial illustrations from articles posted by leading French newspapers was collected. Iconographic analysis of editorial illustrations revealed 12 iconic patterns that seemed typical of
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The interplay between digital and social inclusion in multiethnic Russian society: An empirical investigation European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Anna Gladkova, Nikita Argylov, Maxim Shkurnikov
The paper discusses the digital inclusion of major and minor ethnic groups in Russia by comparing three broad categories of digital resources, identified in this study as components of the index of inclusion: information and communications technology (ICT) access, skills, and extent of engagement with technologies. Based on these components/subindices, we constructed an index of digital inclusion for
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Distilling the value of public service media: Towards a tenable conceptualisation in the European framework European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Azahara Cañedo, Marta Rodríguez-Castro, Ana María López-Cepeda
This paper problematises the difficulty of defining the public value of public service media. Through a double qualitative methodology, a series of components are identified and assessed in order to propose a tenable conceptualisation in the European framework. First, a qualitative analysis of the main legislations in force (n = 44) and the grey literature public service media organisations display
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Post-truth and the ‘great transformation’ of political reality in the digital age European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Matteo Stocchetti
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Book review: La Politica Pop Online. I Meme e Le Nuove Sfide Della Comunicazione Politica by Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Roberta Bracciale European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Giorgia Aiello
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Book review: Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant by Lisa Flores European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Amardo Rodriguez
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Book review: Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication by Patrick Burkart European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Kenneth Murphy
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Strikingly similar: Comparing visual political communication of populist and non-populist parties across 28 countries European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Xénia Farkas, Daniel Jackson, Paweł Baranowski, Márton Bene, Uta Russmann, Anastasia Veneti
Along with the recent boom in support of populist movements in Europe, social media seems to be the ideal place for their interaction with the public. While Facebook has been thoroughly explored for populist campaigning, there is still scarce research on visual aspects of their communication. Analysing the 2019 European Parliament campaign, this study seeks to determine the distinct characteristics
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Temporality of contemporary media usage practices: Types of pauses European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Halliki Harro-Loit, Ragne Kõuts-Klemm
Time-shifting technologies have considerable implications for the media's role as a rhythm-maker. Mobile devices enable people to fulfil, as well as take, pauses – the numerous moments or periods each day they use to look for news, chat, validate the data and post their own messages or images. The aim of the present study is to conceptualize pauses for media usage via empirical qualitative analysis
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Crumbled autonomy: Czech journalists leaving the Prime Minister's newspapers European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Lenka Waschková Císařová, Johana Kotišová
In 2013, the Czech-Slovak businessman Andrej Babiš decided to widen the scope of his activities by buying the Czech media house, Mafra. He was also pursuing a political career and in 2017 became Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Both the purchase and the political ascent of the new owner have contributed to the departure of many journalists from the two national newspapers in the Mafra Group. The
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The indirect effect is omitted variable bias. A cautionary note on the theoretical interpretation of products-of-coefficients in mediation analyses European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Lennert Coenen
This paper intends to remind communication scientists that the indirect effect as estimated in mediation analyses is a statistical synonym for omitted variable bias (i.e. confounding or suppression). This simple fact questions the interpretability of statistically significant ‘indirect effects’ when using observational data: in social reality, all variables correlate with each other to some extent
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Appropriating media coverage of protests: A framing analysis of the ‘Save Akamas’ campaign in national news European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Tao Papaioannou
News coverage of protests typically employs a protest paradigm: framing strategies for marginalizing protest actors and reducing the significance of protest issues and aims. However, recent studies are detecting less prototypical media responses, indicating the need to identify the extent of application of the protest paradigm and the underlying determinants for variations within media politics of
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Whom to trust? Media exposure patterns of citizens with perceptions of misinformation and disinformation related to the news media European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Michael Hameleers, Anna Brosius, Claes H de Vreese
This study tests how perceptions of misinformation and disinformation in one’s general news media environment relate to media trust and media consumption patterns, relying on survey data from 10 European countries. The results show that perceptions of misinformation and disinformation are both related to reduced trust in the news media. Furthermore, they go hand in hand with reduced consumption of
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News Story Credibility and the Impact of Dominant News Frames on Attitudes toward Refugees: Are Young People More Receptive to News than Adults? European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Marlies Debrael, Willem Joris, Leen d’Haenens
The predominant frames in news media representations of migration issues shape attitudes towards refugees. Being mostly confronted with negative news frames, people may be less inclined to believe stories that stress positive aspects of immigration. However, the frames’ positive implementation hinges on their presumed credibility. The aim of this study is to better understand both how young and adult
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Fixing ‘the wicked web’: ‘dark participation’ practices and solutions European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Nina Springer
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Parents’ digital competence in guiding and supervising young children's use of the Internet European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Gemma Pons-Salvador, Xud Zubieta-Méndez, Dolores Frias-Navarro
Children use the Internet at an increasingly younger age and many parents do not have the necessary knowledge to protect or guide them. A previous study showed that 78% of children between the ages of 6 and 9 used the Internet and that their parents were usually with them, but 40% of these children would surf at some point without supervision. This research aims to examine the relationship between
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Trust and authority in the age of mediatised politics European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Anu Koivunen, Johanna Vuorelma
This article examines the role of trust in the age of mediatised politics. Authority, we suggest, can be successfully enacted despite the disrupted nature of the public sphere if both rational and moral trust are utilised to formulate validity claims. Drawing from Maarten A. Hajer's theorisation of authority in contemporary politics, we develop a model of how political actors and institutions as well
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Political Journalism Content in a New Era: The Case of Finnish Newspapers, 1995–2015 European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Jari Väliverronen
This article observes how developments in politics, society, the media, and journalistic ethos impact political journalism content in Finland between 1995 and 2015. The focus is on three newspapers: the dailies Helsingin Sanomat and Aamulehti, and the tabloid Iltalehti. Using a coding scheme developed by Benson and Hallin (2007) and utilizing earlier findings by Kunelius and Väliverronen (2012), the
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Book review: The Media Manifesto by Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Yiming Chen
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Book review: Challenging Online Propaganda and Disinformation in the 21st Century by Miloš Gregor and Petra Mlejnková European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Rachel Anna Billington
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The public sphere in the twilight zone of publicness European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Slavko Splichal
The article discusses the reasons and conditions for the rise and fall of the popularity of the public sphere concept in scholarly discourse in four parts. The first part examines the peculiar circumstances of the emergence of the concept of the public sphere, and its rapid and widespread adoption in the social sciences. The second part discusses the complexity of the concept “Öffentlichkeit” and its
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Book review: Aesthetic Ecology of Communication Ethics: Existential Rootedness by Özüm Üçok-Sayrak European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Igor Klyukanov
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Book notes: Understanding Nonverbal Communication: A Semiotic Guide European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Marcel Danesi
puzzled many of us waiting in the rain and the wind for ages for the traffic lights to change to the coveted green colour. They are also at the heart of Powell’s book because as she explains, ‘City life has been reconfigured by our use – and our expectations – of communication, data, and sensing technologies’ (blurb). Her book links these decisions and processes to wider issues, namely about citizenship
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Book notes: Introducing Vigilant Audiences European Journal of Communication (IF 2.463) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Daniel Trottier,Rashid Gabdulhakov,Qian Huang
economics and political economy, and journalism and communication studies by focusing on the topic of economic inequality and the media. As the editors Andrea Grisold and Paschal Preston explain, ‘Economic inequalities have become increasingly prominent in public debate in the last decade as sluggish economic growth, declining or stagnant incomes, high unemployment, and state policy regimes orientated