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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Hoe deed de Nederlandse journalistiek verslag van het Nederlands militair optreden tijdens de oorlog in Afghanistan? We hebben een vacature voor een promovendus die onderzoek gaat doen naar "Journalistiek, Oorlog en Collectief Geheugen: Afghanistan, 2001-2021" werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/pro...

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Promovendus in Journalistiek, Oorlog en Collectief Geheugen: Afghanistan, 2001-2021 - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Recently reminded of an excellent paper by @lynxlynxly.bsky.social @mjbroersma.bsky.social: IBM & Google use online courses to “reinforce their position by not only recruiting new AI talent, but also by securing their infrastructures & models to become dominant” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Machine learning (ML) algorithms are still a novel research object in the field of media studies. While existing research focuses on concrete software on the one hand and the socio-economic context of the development and use of these systems on the other, this paper studies online ML courses as a research object that has received little attention so far. By pursuing a walkthrough and critical discourse analysis of Google's Machine Learning Crash Course and IBM's introductory course to Machine Learning with Python, we not only shed light on the technical knowledge, assumptions, and dominant infrastructures of ML as a field of practice, but also on the economic interests of the companies providing the courses. We demonstrate how the online courses further support Google and IBM to consolidate and even expand their position of power by recruiting new AI talent and by securing their infrastructures and models to become the dominant ones. Further, we show how the companies not only influence greatly how ML is represented, but also how these representations in turn influence and direct current ML research and development, as well as the societal effects of their products. Here, they boast an image of fair and democratic artificial intelligence, which stands in stark contrast to the ubiquity of their corporate products and the advertised directives of efficiency and performativity the companies strive for. This underlines the need for alternative infrastructures and perspectives.

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

How do rural journalists negotiate between the dominant rules of the field and their position within local communities? Paper w/ Tyler Nagel in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social on rural-specific reporting practices, a-typical business ideas & unconventional innovations journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

How do rural journalists negotiate between the dominant metropolitan-based rules of their field and their position within communities? Paper out w/ Tyler Nagel. For rural-specific reporting practices, a-typical business ideas, & unconventional innovations, see journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Just two days before her excellent PhD defense, the next paper of Kim Smeenk's PhD project on personal journalism was published. We show how displaying (happy) emotions has become a strategy to build report with audiences and to be considered more reliable www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Devising DigiD: the performativity of sociotechnical imaginaries in national digital identity systems First paper published from Maud Rebergen's PhD project on digital identification systems. With proud supervisors @riksmit.bsky.social and I. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Now out (open access) from Alex Smit's PhD research: Understanding digital citizenship in everyday life: tensions between digital inclusion policies and disadvantaged citizens’ experiences w/ Alex Smit & @joelleswart.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Just published with @joelleswart.bsky.social lead-author Alex Smit in @cogitatiosi.bsky.social: The Regime of Self‐Optimization: Lived Experiences of Enforced Digital Inclusion by Low‐Literate Citizens www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...

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Yichen Zhao @yichen1001.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Excited to share our new pub in New Media & Society, co-authored with my supervisors @qfzhu.bsky.social @mjbroersma.bsky.social 🎉🎉 We explore how social norms are formed and guide prosocial behaviors within location-based meso-spaces. Link👉: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Qinfeng Zhu, PhD @qfzhu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🌟New pub led by @yichen1001.bsky.social on how social norms guide interaction in neighborhood groups on instant messaging platforms! If you're interested in meso spaces, online group dynamics or how IM groups function as civic infrastructure, check out our paper in NMS with @mjbroersma.bsky.social🔓👇

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Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen @facultyofartsug.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🥳 More good news! The Digital Literacy Coalition (DLC), committed to increasing digital skills in Groningen & North Drenthe, receives substantial financial support from Nij Begun! @rug.nl @mjbroersma.bsky.social Learn more about the project 👇 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...

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Flinke financiële steun Nij Begun voor project digicoaches Groningen en Noord-Drenthe

In alle gemeenten in Groningen en Noord-Drenthe komt er ruimte om mensen met een afstand tot de arbeidsmarkt op te leiden tot digicoach. Het initiatief...

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Joëlle Swart @joelleswart.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Are you doing a PhD in Journalism Studies? Would you like to get feedback on your work from experienced scholars in the field? Then join us for the 6th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium in Groningen on April 8th, 2026! Deadline for abstracts is 6 June 2025. For the full CfP, check: edu.nl/nfd7h

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

How can we effectively, and fairly, approach collaborative & comparative journalism research projects? In our next @rug.nl CMJS lunch lecture, @marenet.bsky.social discusses "The value (and challenges) of collaborative and comparative journalism research: a South African perspective"

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Who is sharing the news? 1st paper published from Iris Baas' PhD study, w/ proud supervisors Tommaso Caselli, @marcestevedelvalle.bsky.social, & I. We show that ideological critique does not necessarily translate into alternative media consumption on Dutch Twitter firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 19/03/2025

On 8 April I'll give a talk w/ @sggroningen.bsky.social on journalism's role in a fractured world. I will start the evening exploring the challenges posed by digital media actors that amplify existing divisions in democratic societies in the content they produce sggroningen.nl/index.php/nl... (1/3)

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Journalism in a Fractured World

What role does journalism play in building a democratic society?

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Joëlle Swart @joelleswart.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Wat betekent GenAI voor het nieuwsgebruik en de nieuwswijsheid van kinderen en jongeren? @mjbroersma.bsky.social, Bart Verheij en ik hebben plek voor een PhD die zich wil verdiepen in dit onderwerp. De vacature vind je hier: lnkd.in/e73GCi4E, deadline sollicitaties 3 april. Meer weten? DM me gerust!

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

How does the rise of AI affect how young people are using news? We have an open fully-funded and full-time PhD position in "Journalism, generative AI and critical digital literacy". More info ⬇️ Application deadline: April 3 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Vacatures bij de RUG

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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Vacatures bij de RUG

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What would happen if we considered Silicon Valley as a locus of imperial machinations and as constituted by both imperialist and colonel encounters? j. Siguru Wahutu will discuss this in tomorrow's @unigroningen.bsky.social CMJS lunch lecture

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Our paper on the discursive logics of online populism is now published in @Journal of Information Technology & Politics. With Kun He and @seldridge.com You can read it here (open access) ⬇️: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Denise Mensonides did an excellent job defening her thesis "Navigating the digital playground: a child-centred study on the development of digital literacies". It's part of our NWO supported Informed Citizenship for All project. You can read Denise's work here: research.rug.nl/nl/publicati...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

What if “things fall apart” and “the centre cannot hold”? In "Will the Center Hold? Relocating Journalism in the Digital", @seldridge.com and I discuss (with a nod to Yeats & Didion) how to understand if journalism will continue to hold a central space in society www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) Will the Center Hold? Relocating Journalism in the Digital

PDF | In this epilog, we present two approaches to navigating digital journalism studies and its uncertainfuture. We bring two perspectives into... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Which representations and (gameplay) activities in historical gaming spaces lend themselves well for extremist mobilization, and why? This Wednesday, Pieter van den Heede (@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social) will discuss this during our next CMJS lunch lecture @unigroningen.bsky.social

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Qinfeng Zhu, PhD @qfzhu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Studying internet censorship in China designed to disconnect individuals from connective actions, Kun He, @seldridge.com & @mjbroersma.bsky.social show how citizens navigate threats through innovative conenction tactics, while elites use enforced disconnection to evade public scrutiny

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Tactics of Disconnection: How Netizens Navigate China’s Censorship System | Article | Media and Communication

Kun He, Scott A. Eldridge II, Marcel Broersma

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Help, mijn kind wil op TikTok!" Mooi gesprek over mediaopvoeding gisteravond in Forum Groningen, georganiseerd door @unigroningen.bsky.social's Jantina Tammes School. Met interessante bijdrages van Peter Nikken, Mandy Oude Veldhuis-Talhout & Denise Mensonides olv Jetse Goris

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wimelving.bsky.social @wimelving.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Oratie Yael de Haan RUG met laudatio van @mjbroersma.bsky.social

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Joëlle Swart @joelleswart.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Excellent summary today in RQ1 of our latest paper led by Denise Mensonides about the news-related practices of 8-12 year old children (w/ Anna Van Cauwenberge & Marcel Broersma): rq1.substack.com/p/what-audie...

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What audiences really want: For journalists to connect with them as people

Plus: How newsrooms are using generative AI, what makes news seem authentic on social media, and how to bridge the divide between academics and journalists

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

We offer a similar workshop grant for Research Master students who are members of RMeS, the Dutch Research School for Media Studies. It's a great opportunity to organize a workshop around your own research interests and build a network. See: rmes.nl

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Exciting opportunity for PhD students who are members of RMeS, the Dutch Research School for Media Studies! Apply for our workshop grant to organize a workshop around their own research and share their expertise with a new generation of scholars. More info: rmes.nl

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 18/12/2024

Great to see this latest issue of @cogitatiomac.bsky.social out - both because it was edited by my @unigroningen.bsky.social colleagues Cigdem Bozdag and Qinfeng Zhu, but also because I was able to work again with Kun He and @mjbroersma.bsky.social to write about 'Tactics of Disconnection' in China.

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New paper out with Kun He & @seldridge.com in which we show how socially and culturally ingrained visual semiotic resources are used to demonstrate netizens’ affinities with ‘the people’ and dislikes of ‘the elite’ in online and bottom-up populism in China. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Personal journalism is on the rise, Kim Smeenk, Frank Harbers and I show in a new article. Mostly in quality newspapers, journalists are centering their own experiences, writing in the first person. It urges scholarship to rethink subjectivity and objectivity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Persoonlijke journalistiek wordt steeds dominanter, laten Kim Smeenk, Frank Harbers en ik zien in een nieuw artikel. Tussen 1999 en 2019 steeg het aantal artikelen waarin journalisten in de Ik-vorm over hun ervaringen spraken van 5 tot 9,8 procent journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New paper with Kun He and @seldridge.com in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: Tactics of Disconnection: How Netizens Navigate China’s Censorship System www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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Karin Wahl-Jorgensen @karinwahlj.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

During our first rmes.nl course in Rome students did research projects on, f.e., digital storytelling & placemaking, QR codes bridging the physical & digital city, & the representation of landmarks on Instagram @kfvanes.bsky.social and I had our own project: www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/11/plac...

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Place-Maintenance at the Trevi Fountain

Karin van Es and Marcel Broersma explore the dynamics of place-maintenance through a multifaceted case study of Rome’s Trevi Fountain, employing innovative methods of urban data walking and participat...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Calling all PhD candidates and motivated RMA students affiliated with RMeS to join @kfvanes.bsky.social and I in Rome first week of April 2025 to do research on media in the city with an intro to datawalking! RMeS KNIR course Media in the (Eternal) City is back! www.rmes.nl/rmes-knir-co...

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RMeS KNIR Course | Media in the (Eternal) City - Research school for Media Studies (RMeS)

31 March – 6 April 2025 | KNIR - Rome In collaboration with the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, RMeS will organize a course on Media in the (Eternal) City. Media are ambiguous in cities, whether we thi...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Children of 8-12y employ many playful news-related practices. These allow for light-hearted explorations of news and create opportunities for acts of lived citizenship. However, conceptualizing news as serious hinders teachers' recognition of such practices.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 26/11/2024

Happy to share this latest paper by Kun He, Marcel Broersma, and myself in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social We look at tactics of disconnection that social media users employ to navigate censorship in China, showing how these differ b/w 'ordinary' and 'elite' users www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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Tactics of Disconnection: How Netizens Navigate China’s Censorship System | Article | Media and Communication

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