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Harassed for Their Job: Exploring Factors That Render Journalists Prone to Harassment and Intimidation
Journalism Studies, volume 25, issue 13 (2024), pp. 1634-1653
"Amid growing concern over harassment and intimidation targeting journalists, scholarly attention to their occurrence and implications has mushroomed. One aspect of these phenomena that often gets overlooked is that not all journalists seem equally targeted or affected. Applying ordinal regression a
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Combatting online hate: Crowd moderation and the public goods problem
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 49, issue 3 (2024), pp. 444-467
"Hate is widespread online, hits everyone, and carries negative consequences. Crowd moderation—user-assisted moderation through, e. g., reporting or counter-speech—is heralded as a potential remedy. We explore this potential by linking insights on online bystander interventions to the analogy of
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Persisting inequalities in the digitalized society: Migrant women facing coercive dimensions of everyday digitalization
Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 5 (2024), pp. 935-950
"Understanding the ubiquitous digitalization of everyday life and associated inequalities presupposes rich conceptualizations of the associated social dynamics. Accordingly, we investigate digital service domestication as a social dimension of people’s lives, building on concepts that center users
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Uncovering news deserts in Europe: Risks and opportunities for local and community media in the EU
Deep Insights
San Domenico di Fiesole (Italy): European University Institute (2024), 224 pp.
"This research is focused on detecting challenges and opportunities for local and community media and identifying news deserts in the 27 EU Member States. It entails a holistic approach towards the concept of news desert, interpreting it as an area that is lacking sufficient, reliable and diverse in
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Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2024), xii, 249 pp.
"This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of r
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Examining New Models in Journalism Funding
Media and Communication, volume 12 (2024), [151 pp.]
‘Keeping an Eye on the Other Side’: RT, Sputnik, and Their Peculiar Appeal in Democratic Societies
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 4 (2024), pp. 1109-1133
"The reach of illiberal international propaganda outlets rests on citizens in democratic countries as recipients and potential disseminators. However, little research has scrutinised the audiences for such platforms. Why do audiences in democratic states consume content from such outlets, and how fa
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Local Journalism and its Audience
Journalism, volume 25, issue 12 (2024), pp. 2543-2563
"The study [conducted in Denmark] distinguishes three audience categories: non-paying, potential-paying, and paying. While all prioritise informative content, paying audiences emphasise symbolic and emotional values, seeking a sense of belonging and personally meaningful content. Non-paying audience
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Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter it
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 263 pp.
“No One Is Going to Silence Me”: A Comparison of the Conditions for Press Freedom and Independent Journalism as a Prerequisite for Democracy in the United States, Sweden, and Egypt
"This chapter looks at the status of the freedom of the press, and the legal possibilities and obstacles that affect media’s ability to hold power to account and safeguard the principles of democracy. The legal environment in countries as diverse as the United States, Egypt, and Sweden differs gre
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Sesame Street: A Transnational History
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), xii, 274 pp.
"Sesame Street tells the history of how the American show became a global brand. The book argues that because domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity forcefully marketed all over the world. It is based on archival research in seven countrie
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
New York: Routledge (2023), xxx, 522 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edit
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 167 pp.
"In many countries, especially outside Europe and the United States, we find a significant further decline in the use of Facebook for news and a growing reliance on a range of alternatives including private messaging apps and video networks. Facebook news consumption is down 4 percentage points, acr
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 158 pp.
"Across markets, only around a fifth of respondents (22%) now say they prefer to start their news journeys with a website or app – that’s down 10 percentage points since 2018. Publishers in a few smaller Northern European markets have managed to buck this trend, but younger groups everywhere are
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Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 196 pp.
"This open access book brings into dialogue migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Migration has always been part of spiritual development. The current 'refugee crisis' has brought to the fore debates regarding the
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“How can I keep quiet?” Motivations to participate in vaccination communication on Facebook
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 48, issue 4 (2023), pp. 482-501
"Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a complex constellation of multiple actors, platforms, and voices. It involves institutional actors but also laypeople. Participation by social media users can both facilitate and obstruct effective RCC. The present study draws on in-depth interviews with Swed
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The Media Systems in Europe: Continuities and Discontinuities
Cham: Springer (2023), vii, 194 pp.
"This open access book traces the evolution of the European media landscape in the last 30 years, from 1990 to 2020. It is based on the theoretical classical hypotheses of regional media systems provided by Hallin and Mancini and at the same time puts them to test. The book further defines the propo
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The paperboys of Russian messaging: RT/Sputnik audiences as vehicles for malign information influence
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1849-1867
"This article examines the reception and dissemination of ‘malign information influence’ (MII) in a liberal democracy; information sponsored by authoritarian regimes or other hostile actors and projected through international broadcasting outlets across borders. The study contributes to the scar
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Swedish journalists' perceptions of legal protection against unlawful online harassment
Frontiers in Sociology, volume 8, issue 1154495 (2023), 12 pp.
"This study examined journalists' perceptions regarding the legal system's ability to protect them against online harassment. By utilizing open-ended survey responses from respondents with varying levels of trust in the legal system, the findings suggested a need for increased technical proficiency,
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Identities and Intimacies on Social Media: Transnational Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 218 pp.
"This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms. A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discou
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