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Lecturer in Journalism and Media @leedsunimedia.bsky.social. Interested in what media do to democracy. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-69503-3. UK Co-Investigator for the Worlds of Journalism Study (https://worldsofjournalism.org/)
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I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

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Yes, exactly that ⬇️

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This is wild: Microsoft says its new quantum chip uses the “Majorana particle,” named after the Italian theoretical physicist who proposed it in 1937. It has no electrical charge because it is its own anti-particle www.theverge.com/news/6142…

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✉️ ICA Members, please check your email inbox for a message from ICA leadership regarding #ICA25 in Denver.

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📖 @laylapa.bsky.social and Julie Firmstone on 'Developing Confidence in Community Broadcasting' with Bradford Community Broadcasting (106.6 FM) in the Spring 2025 issue, Vol.7 'Representology' journal from the Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity www.bcu.ac.uk/research/med... 📖

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This has a lot to do with a shift in perspective needed, from retrospective accountability which is how most journalists think about accountability, to *prospective* accountability. I wrote about a few ways for journalists to do this here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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The "he" is James Murdoch. [Gift article] "He tried, futilely, to move the network in a different direction, one in which it would still cater to conservative viewers but remain more accountable to facts." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m... "More accountable to facts." Never happened. Could it ever?

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If you as a newsroom sign a deal with an AI company…Elon Musk might come along and buy it. Just saying…

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If course they want to limit the freedom of the press and silence the news media. That is part of the authoritarian playbook. Now is no time for news media to settle any suits or otherwise fold down! Now is the time to double down and defend their integrity!

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In this week’s Torment Nexus, I looked at a question that has taken on a new level of urgency (for me at least): Does fact-checking even work? Recent evidence would suggest that it does not torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/does-fact-ch...

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"They don’t have the ability to just go out and go: Look, is the fascist the traitor for democracy and now he’s become president. That’s not a BBC headline. But there must be some effort to communicate the fact that this is not normal. Or within the reasonable grounds of liberal democracy." ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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"The coverage that I see is astonishing in its normality. I mean, just kind of, just so *dangerous* in its normality." Excellent, much needed @originstorypodcast.bsky.social by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social about media coverage of Trump. ⬇️ megaphone.link/NSR2275997499

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You should all read brilliant PhD student Taewoo Kang’s @greennail.bsky.social (first sole authored) paper in Comm Research (!) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... — fascinating relationships among geographic polarization, social media curation, efficacy, and trust.

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Applications are open for the inaugural Disinformation Summer Institute. This 3-day, intensive summer institute is intended for graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors or early career researchers seeking to better understand and address disinformation. More info: disinfoinstitute.org

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One of the best pieces of work on Facebook and its unaccountable co-option of news workers. In particular it looks at the ‘third party fact-checkers’ and how compromised that relationship was from the start

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I won't defend Meta here but I have a contrarian view: Fact-checking was not working and facts aren't the issue; belief and belonging are and that's a much deeper problem. Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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Today at 5:30 pm ET, @benjaminwittes.bsky.social will talk to @qjurecic.bsky.social, @noupside.bsky.social, @daphnek.bsky.social, @dwillner.bsky.social, and @klonick.bsky.social about Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program.

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Important research by @karinwahlj.bsky.social about local journalism and the passion economy that spans the period during and after Covid 👇👇👇

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The year 2024 proved to be another landmark for books about Ukraine and Ukrainian literature in translation. The Kyiv Independent has curated a selection of the 10 most compelling books on Ukraine from 2024.

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End of my first semester at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social - and my lovely, lovely students suggested we take a photo 😍. You are a great bunch of people, so much enjoyed our discussions, and learned a lot from you!

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I pay for: @kyivindependent.com @correctiv.org @opendemocracy.net (... and about half a dozen mainstream commercial media, including @theguardian.com) Podcast: @quietriotpod.bsky.social (all others via platform subscription)

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We are looking for someone to lead the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk Journalism has never been in more need of rigorous research, advocacy and analysis. You could be a journalist or an academic. Please consider applying and/or pass on. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

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This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

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5 years ago yesterday I wrote an essay arguing that institutions were thinking about online media, insurgencies, & manipulation campaigns all wrong. Fighting the last war. The Digital Maginot line, I called it. It went viral then. Here it is on its anniversary. www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/t...

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📢Publication alert📢 Look this elegant beauty! Massive thanks to editors Tamas Tofalvy and Igor Vobič for this timely and fascinating volume. Great many thanks to @markdeuze.bsky.social, Gabriele Balbi, and @karinwahlj.bsky.social for their generous endorsements. Happy to have contributed a chapter!

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The 1st Edition of "Histories of Digital Journalism The Interplay of Technology, Society and Culture" is already available for preorder. I am delighted to have co-authored with Carl-Gustav LIndén “From bytes to bylines: A history of AI in journalism practices” www.routledge.com/Histories-of...

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Feliz em integrar este livro-coletânea Histories of Digital Journalism. The Interplay of Technology, Society and Culture (Routledge), editada p/Tamas Tofalvy e Igor Vobič. O capítulo “Digital journalism in Brazil. A history of diversity in products and research” é uma parceria c: Otávio Daros,PUC-RS

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New contribution! Another chapter on our so beloved DiarideBarcelona.cat. So grateful to Tamas Tofalvy & Igor Vobič for inviting mesome other colleagues @suzanabarbosa.bsky.social to this incredible book on Histories of Digital Journalism, published by Routledge.

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New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

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It's happening again! The CfP for Future of Journalism 2025 is out now! Link below - can't wait to see you all in sunny Cardiff in September!

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With rightwing populism rising and German elections coming earlier, feels like the perfect time to share our working paper: 'Beyond Anti-Elitism & Out-Group Attacks: How Concerns Shape the AfD’s Populist Representation on TikTok During 2024 EU Elections' w/@julialenz.bsky.social @drfell.bsky.social

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Winners 🏆 Julie Firmstone @profjohnsteel.bsky.social Maria Georgoula for the @universityofleeds.bsky.social Mature Societal Impact Award for Trust and Confidence in Journalism presented by VC Shearer West and alumna Emmanuelle Lhoni

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The ‘blue zone’ where the COP29 negotiations take place is in this football stadium in Baku. The future of our civilisation is being negotiated in these few tents. There is no back-up, no plan B, nor is this a trial run, or simulation. This is it. And it is fragile.

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🚨 New publication! Readers find traditionally-crafted news articles more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. However, they were equally satisfied by the automated & manually-written articles' character of writing & narrative structure & flow journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Great to see Ezra Klein going big on Patrick Ruffini and his excellent book on how and why the Republicans have become a multiracial party (already happening long before last week). Here’s my article from March on the ominous implications for Dems, based on Patrick’s work www.ft.com/content/a760...

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I predict there'll be no Trump bump for the business of journalism this time. Liberals, exhausted and downhearted, are too enraged at the #BrokenTimes, #BrokenPost, et ilk, which have shown they will obey rather than resist. What is the worth of news then?

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Study finds that individuals who believe in conspiracy theories find emotional protection through their social networks. When they assume friends share their beliefs, it creates a "sacred canopy" that reduces anxiety, depression, and distress. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Can I again urge you to donate to Alsama (alsamaproject.com) - a charitable project that educates illiterate (informally educated) refugee teenagers with 12 years of typical school education in just 6 year.

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If you want to help children and teenagers suffering from the horrific situation in the Middle East - here is an organisation so much worth supporting: alsamaproject.com They provide education in refugee camps in Lebanon, please check out their website and donate. They are transforming lives.

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