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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 21/10/2025

New issue o Media and Communication is out (I am on the journal's editorial board). 'Journalism in the Hybrid Media System' has a fantastic array of research, edited by @sfuerst.bsky.social Florian Muhle & @cporlezza.bsky.social Find the full issue here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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Journalism in the Hybrid Media System

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 19/09/2025

Spoke with @rtl.nl yesterday about ABC 'suspending' Jimmy Kimmel's show, the perception that undue political pressure is being placed on media outlets and the corporations that own them, and warily watching to see what might come next www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buite... @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 18/07/2025

In doing so, we add our perspectives and our voices to those who have who have examined the impact of political interference, censorship, and other forms of pressure place on journalism scholars around the world, and the threat this poses bsky.app/profile/digi...

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 18/07/2025

We push for a defense of our colleagues, while also reflecting on the warning signs and mounting pressures our field has missed. We close by reinforcing the strengths of a field that is at its best when documenting and understanding what is unfolding, and building a record of what has come to pass.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 18/07/2025

In this commentary in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Kristy Hess, Edson Tandoc, and I write together as former Associate Editors of the journal, and as peers, to add our voices to those calling for the defense of academic freedom in journalism research – and all research doi.org/10.1080/2167...

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Echoing the Call: Standing in Defense of Academic Freedom for Our Field

This article joins the call to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression in scholarly work. In our commentary, we reflect on how Digital Journalism has long provided a space for scholarshi...

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Marília Gehrke, Ph.D. @gehrke.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Interested in discussing how big techs and their powerful owners shape journalism and its processes? Take a look at this Special Issue call for papers! I particularly encourage my colleagues in Latin America to read the call and think of a proposal. Abstract submissions by September 15.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 03/07/2025

Working on a PhD in Journalism Studies? Looking for a chance to build your network and gain feedback from other journalism scholars? Apply by 22 August to join the PhD colloquium on 8 April, 2026 - ahead of the next ECREA Journalism Studies section conference, hosted here in Groningen. CfP below.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 03/07/2025

Journalism scholars – there is still plenty of time to apply to the next ECREA Journalism Studies section conference, which we look forward to hosting here in Groningen next April. Abstracts deadline is 22 August, and you can find the full call for papers in the post below.

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Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

El próximo 2 de junio participaré en un conversatorio en línea sobre nuestro proyecto Dialogando Sobre Datos: Un Audiolibro sobre el Colonialismo de Datos (que pueden encontrar aquí: www.tierracomun.net/dialogando-s...). Un proyecto con colegas del colectivo Tierra Común, ¡bienvenid@s!

Poster para el evento Dialogando sobre Datos. El evento sera el 2 de Junio de 2025.

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Qinfeng Zhu, PhD @qfzhu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨New pub from our cross-country fact-checking project with @xzzhang2.bsky.social & @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social! Survey experiments in HK, US & NL reveal that political predispositions outweigh the impact of debunking messages—whether based on source, framing, or social cues @jmcquarterly.bsky.social

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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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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 07/05/2025

Thrilled – and honored - to be shortlisted for the IJPP Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award. My thanks to the committee, both for shortlisting Journalism in a Fractured World and for placing my book in such great company. www.peterlang.com/document/128... @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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Peter Lang Verlag - Journalism in a Fractured World

Journalism in a Fractured World addresses the fractured nature of journalism as it has developed online. Engaging with theories from journalism studies ...

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Joëlle Swart @joelleswart.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 22/04/2025

There's still time to apply! - Applications close 30 April for a PhD position on this project w/ @gehrke.bsky.social @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social and myself. Find more details below.

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Ramón Salaverría @salaverria.es · 10/04/2025

📢Call for Papers! This topic couldn’t be more timely! If you research on disinformation, fact-checking, or digital platforms, don’t miss this CfP at «Communication & Society»: "From Fact-Checking to Community Notes". 🗓️Deadline: October 30, 2025 ➡️ Details & submission info: unav.edu/documents/29...

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 09/04/2025

Thanks! And thanks to everyone who joined and to @sggroningen.bsky.social for organizing a great evening. The challenges are not small, but the dialogue helps. For anyone interested, the book is available here: www.peterlang.com/document/128... (OA supported by @unigroningen.bsky.social Library)

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Peter Lang Verlag - Journalism in a Fractured World

Journalism in a Fractured World addresses the fractured nature of journalism as it has developed online. Engaging with theories from journalism studies ...

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Studium Generale Groningen @sggroningen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🗞️ What role does journalism play in building a democracy? On 8 April, @seldridge.com explores this question in 'Journalism in a Fractured World'. We dug into our archives and wondered: how have journalism and democracy changed in recent years? Check our watchlist: sggroningen.nl/nl/blog/watc...

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Watchlist: The Changing Face of News Media

While preparing for the lecture Journalism in a Fractured World, we dug into our archives with the question: how have journalism and democracy changed in recent years?

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 28/03/2025

Come join us! We're hiring for a PhD position on a project on "Visual Gendered Disinformation," supervised by @gehrke.bsky.social, @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social, and myself. Read more below and here: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Olga Pasitselska, PhD @olpasi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

❗PhD job opportunity! 🔎 Media literacy as resilience for Ukrainian refugees: 4-year, fully-funded project at the University of Groningen (NL). 🤓 Potential candidates speak Ukrainian, have experience with qualitative/ethnographic methods, and have excellent social skills. Deadline: April 30th❗

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Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Do podcasts create real trust or just fake intimacy? Our new open access issue explores how podcasts balance personal connection and journalistic standards, looking at opportunities and risks across different countries.

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Balancing Intimacy and Trust: Opportunities and Risks in Audio Journalism

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

If this piques your interest - please come along! You can get tickets from @sggroningen.bsky.social and if you want to read more about this topic, and explore the ideas and debates I will be engaging with, you can find them in my recent book: www.peterlang.com/document/128... (available Open Access)

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Peter Lang Verlag - Journalism in a Fractured World

Journalism in a Fractured World addresses the fractured nature of journalism as it has developed online. Engaging with theories from journalism studies ...

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

There will also be a panel discussion featuring @facultyofartsug.bsky.social colleague Lisa Gaufman, @sikkom.bsky.social editor Willem Groeneveld, and myself, moderated by @joelleswart.bsky.social, which will give us a chance to explore these dynamics and their implications in greater detail (2/3)

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Journalism in a Fractured World

What role does journalism play in building a democratic society?

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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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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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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 07/03/2025

Wrapping up a fantastic week in Brno, at MUNI, full of talks with colleagues about research including my recent book and with students about journalism and politics, as well as a nice time touring around South Moravia. Thanks for having us @lenkawc.bsky.social @ksmejkal.bsky.social & colleagues

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Sandra Banjac @sandrabanjac.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What is the role of journalism in a fractured society? @seldridge.com shared insights from his new book today at Masaryk University. Special thanks to @lenkawc.bsky.social, @ksmejkal.bsky.social and all the lovely colleagues here for hosting us this week in Brno! 💫 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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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 · 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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Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

How can video games teach us something meaningful? Our new open access issue explores how games function as cultural artifacts, social environments, and learning tools, examining their impact on identity, society, and the media landscape.

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Digital Games at the Forefront of Change: On the Meaningfulness of Games and Game Studies

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

Excited to start Bluesky with the special issue I edited with Cigdem Bozdag @cogitatiomac.bsky.social! From political unfriending and teen digital detox to migrant boundary-making and state-enforced disconnection, we explore disconnectivity across fields, contexts & disciplines: bit.ly/4aVvNep 🔓 🧵 👇

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Disconnectivity in a Changing Media and Political Landscape

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Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

How can media literacy shape a more equitable digital future? Our new issue explores how media literacy and digital skills empower diverse groups. It highlights the need for tailored approaches and global collaboration for inclusive, resilient digital societies. Issue: shortt.link/mac466bsky

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Evaluating and Enhancing Media Literacy and Digital Skills

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

This book series is still growing, with proposals in development and more books in the pipeline. If you are interested in exploring whether your own research might be a fit for this series, please reach out. #PeterLangAuthor

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

It situates these findings within a wider reflection on the role that journalism, including peripheral journalism, can play in fostering pluralist societies. This book is also available for free online thanks to the @unigroningen.bsky.social Library’s Open Access Book Fund.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

It focuses on the pronounced animosity that has become a feature of the most divisive and political digital news content that these actors produce, and how we have understood these actors within journalism research.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

To do so, I critically examine the ways peripheral media in the US, UK, and Netherlands have engaged in a public-facing discourse about both journalism and society, one that challenges the boundaries of journalism while also reflecting divisions in our societies.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

The second book is my own. In Journalism in a Fractured World, I draw on theories from journalism studies and from politics to reflect on the emergence of peripheral journalistic actors and the nature of their challenges to the journalistic field. www.peterlang.com/document/128...

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

One of the pleasures of working with Lenka on this book is the way she managed the impressive balance of presenting detailed analysis, while never letting us lose site of the people whose experiences she draws on. As you read, you gain a clear sense of who they are and why they do what they do.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

Focusing on local journalists as the “unmapped agents of the journalistic field,” it draws on extensive ethnographic interviews and participant observation. What results is a rich and thorough understanding of local journalism, one that gives voice to these “journalists on the margins.”

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

The first volume in this series is Lenka Waschková Císařová's The Margins of Journalism. www.peterlang.com/document/134... This fascinating book looks at the small, local newspapers that popped up around the Czech Republic as it transitioned towards democracy, and how they have developed since.

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Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com · 20/01/2025

I am happy to announce that the first two books in the Frontiers in Journalism Studies Series are now out. I have been developing this series with Peter Lang since 2022 as a space for scholars to develop provocative, forward-looking research. www.peterlang.com/series/fijs #PeterLangAuthor

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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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