Fabrizio Gilardi 💬Special Issue: Referendum Campaigns in the Digital Age
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/343
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Interested in what referendum campaigns are like in digital and hybrid media environments?
You can find out in our new special issue (open access). Studies on the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, and Switzerland - some with datasets spanning several years across referendums.
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/343
On which sources do journalists rely when covering the war in Ukraine?
In a new paper, we content-analyzed 13 online media in Switzerland. Official sources still shape the news, more so than social media. Quoting other news media is also frequent. Above all, more outlets rely on news agencies than on own correspondents. Outlets differ, as resources & goals of media organizations matter.
You can read the paper here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2023.1089994/full
Sourcing practices of online news media in Switzerland during the war in Ukraine
IntroductionIn times of war, sourcing becomes a major challenge for journalists. Information is often unavailable because access is restricted or because reporting on the ground is prohibited, too dangerous, or even simply too costly for media having to work with limited resources. Which sources actually shape the news is a highly relevant question because news media still constitute the main channel of information for many citizens, especially when it comes to wars abroad. For a long time, scholars have diagnosed a dominance of official sources in war coverage but have not analyzed whether this is still the case with the advent of social media platforms, which potentially offer journalists other sources. Moreover, the integration of social media sources, such as Twitter or Telegram, is just one of many interdependencies in hybrid media environments. We aim to provide a more holistic understanding of sourcing practices in times of war by analyzing to what extent information from government and military sources, social media, other news media, and news agencies is featured as a main source in reporting on the war in Ukraine.MethodsIn our paper, we examine how 13 online media in Switzerland cover the war in Ukraine during the first 3 months after Russia's invasion—an example of a period in which journalists must typically identify reliable sources for reporting on the events surrounding such a war. Using a manual content analysis of 1,198 news articles, we analyze the sourci...
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Hello everybody
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I’m Linards Udris, a #communication researcher from the University of Zurich. In my work, I focus on #polcomm (I love studying referendums in particular) and #journalism studies, for instance the quality of news and the digital transformation of news media.
Here I will toot in English und tröte auf Deutsch.