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 platforms and gather related textual data. It contains the names of print and online news sources, social media accounts, news blogs, and alternative news media sources, as well as rich meta-information for each

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As Samuel McCormick reminds us in the beginning of his book, digital talk increasingly occupies a much bigger space in our everyday lives than spoken discourse. He uses Sherry Turkle’s term ‘the flight from conversation’ (p. 1) to describe this process. The picture he paints is all too familiar: ‘With mobile devices in hand, lovers now send texts from room to room, friends and families now sit and

Post 9/11 US, a series of developments such as the war on terror, the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the London and Madrid bombings, the attacks in Paris and Nice, the Brussels airport and metro bombings, the rise of ISIS, the mediatization of jihadi extremism, radicalism, and violent atrocities of Islamist groups (Pennington and Krona, 2019) significantly strengthened the hand and popularity

This article focuses on the ambiguous ideological work of citizen-produced humor in protest. Using the case of the 2017 Romanian anti-corruption protests as empirical data, the article shows how humor can simultaneously signal grassroots creativity and resistance to power structures, and reproduce conservative gender and class hierarchies. Unlike other types of texts, humor presents itself as an innocent

As Samuel McCormick reminds us in the beginning of his book, digital talk increasingly occupies a much bigger space in our everyday lives than spoken discourse. He uses Sherry Turkle’s term ‘the flight from conversation’ (p. 1) to describe this process. The picture he paints is all too familiar: ‘With mobile devices in hand, lovers now send texts from room to room, friends and families now sit and

In February 2012, the Spanish Government approved an aggressive labor reform. Many political agents committed to emphasis framing, highlighting certain aspects of the topic to persuade their publics with their definitions of the situation. Some generic frames suggested an individualistic approach to the labor market, while some others called for collective action. Following the cascading activation

What leads citizens to change their candidate preferences during televised debates? The present paper addresses this question with real-time response and panel survey data from respondents recruited in the run-up to the 2017 German national election. Probing the importance of party identity and performance perceptions formed during the debate, the analysis more closely examines several core determinants

This research studies the offer and consumption on YouTube in Spain of videos from the three main media groups on free-to-air TV. Firstly, a study of the offer of these channels’ onset platforms was conducted. Later, the audience data gathered by YouTube Data API and Comscore between February and May 2020 was analyzed to ascertain the traditional broadcasters’ strategy regarding new viewing windows

Elias N (2000) The Civilizing Process. Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations, Revised edition Oxford: Blackwell. Pew Research Center (2019) Public Highly Critical of State of Political Discourse in the U.S. Retrieved from: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/06/19/public-highly-critical-ofstate-of-political-discourse-in-the-u-s/. Schulze H, Mauk M and Linde J (2020) How populism and polarization

This article investigates the entanglement between socio-economic and technological factors in conditioning people's patterns of Internet use. We analysed the influence of sociodemographic and techno-social aspects in conditioning the distinctive digital practices developed by Internet users. By using a representative sample of UK users and different methods of analysis, such as factor analysis, K-means

Since the 2016 United States presidential election and the Brexit vote, media scholarship has lamented the state of democratic public communication. Scholars have used the concepts ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’ to describe the cocktail of disinformation and devaluation of facts. This article illustrates how ruptures in democratic public communication stem from the contradictions characterising liberalism

During the last decades the Nordic media model has been challenged by neoliberal policy and welfare retrenchment. This study asks about the extent to which the values, functions and institutions of the “media welfare state” are supported by the adult Swedish citizenry, despite political mobilization against it. Drawing on a national survey (n = 2003) this study shows that the media welfare state is

greater responsibility for their continued engagement with the scholarly book’s becoming’ (p. 3). The book is positioned within a wider framework critiquing ‘the idea of the human around which so much of the humanities has been built’ and connecting ‘to a larger movement toward formulating a posthumanities’ (p. 11). The book is split into Introduction and five substantial chapters on the most characteristic

Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft is part of a book series on a project called ‘The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing’. The project focuses on the experiences of ageing and the role of the smartphone among people ‘who generally do not regard themselves as either young or elderly’ (p. xi). The project is a collaboration among 11 researchers from nine countries who

Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft is part of a book series on a project called ‘The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing’. The project focuses on the experiences of ageing and the role of the smartphone among people ‘who generally do not regard themselves as either young or elderly’ (p. xi). The project is a collaboration among 11 researchers from nine countries who

media. Just like Shell and BP etc., these are corporations themselves. What both – resource corporations and media corporations – have in common is the profit motive often camouflaged as shareholder value. As a consequence, the dominance of corporate media and their power to shape public discourse, it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism. Yet, worse than this is that Bennett’s

Max Hänska’s book Communication Against Domination: Ideas of Justice from the Printing Press to Algorithmic Media is devoted to bridging the gap between normative questions of justice and ‘how we ought to communicate with each other’ and empirical research into communication and information technology (blurb). It includes, on the one hand, philosophical analysis into the place of normativity in social

Not limiting itself to the BBCmodel but taking a comparative, international approach, the pioneering work of Jay Blumler remains a moral compass for public service media, whether in comparing differing funding arrangements and their impact on the range of prime-time programmes (Blumler et al., 1986) or suggesting what should be done against the creeping erosion of a vulnerable genre such as homemade

Since his death in January 2021, much has been written about Jay Blumler as a pioneer of political communication studies; a brilliant scholar who was responsible for producing path-setting research; an exceptionally generous teacher and mentor; and a thoroughly decent human being. Running through these numerous tributes to Jay was not only a sense of mourning for a lost voice but a desire to honour

Communicating Brexit: what have we learnt? Reflecting the magnitude of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, academic investigation on Brexit has been abundant in virtually all fields including that of Communication Studies where a wealth of work has analysed Brexit from different linguistic, political, social and media perspectives (see e.g. Zappettini and Krzyżanowski, 2021). The volumes by Charteris-Black

Given the success of the polluting industries in feeding the public with disinformation on global warming (Greenpeace, 2021), Lance Bennett’s book on Communicating the Future – Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy seeks to address the question of how environmental groups can better communicate the issue of global warming. His five chapters examine how to (1) communicate complex problems;

How can we determine for ourselves whether we act as audiences, consumers, users or citizens in our everyday preoccupation with news media? This question came up after re-reading Blumler and Coleman‘s essay about ‘Democracy and the Media’ (2015). Jay Blumler has always assumed an active role of citizens in the ‘demand side of democracy’, approaching citizens as ‘possessing a capacity to exercise control