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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 23:12

News Consumption about the Ukraine War in Israel and Germany

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | IAMCR 2023 |

The post-lunch session on this second day at IAMCR 2023 starts with Vered Elisha Malka, whose focus is on the consumption of news about the current Russian-Ukrainian war in Israel and Germany. Media coverage of the event has been extensive, of course, and news media consumption patterns may be influenced by a number of underlying parameters. Such media consumption patterns also affect public opinion about the war, of course.

Most existing studies of such patterns tend to focus on how people facing war use media to suit their information needs; the present study, by contrast, is interested in how people …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 17:50

The Continuum between News Avoidance and Alternative Media Use

Politics | Polarisation | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | IAMCR 2023 |

The next presenter in this morning session at IAMCR 2023 is Katharina Schöppl, whose interest is in news avoidance amongst users of alternative media. Media are critical to the construction of a shared reality and public sphere, yet media realities are not comprehensive, which gives rise to alternative news media options as well as news avoidance. Such (intentional or unintentional) avoidance as well as use of alternative media is seen as problematic as it reduces people’s ability to participate fully in public debate, and should also be seen as a political act.

There are many definitions of alternative media; some …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 17:46

Diverging References to Populism in French and Spanish Public Discourse

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | IAMCR 2023 |

The first session at IAMCR 2023 this hot Tuesday morning starts with Raül Nuevo Gascó, and his focus is on populism. But this term is being used in very different ways by different scholars as well as in mainstream media, and instead Raül is moving from an essentialist to a constructivist perspective, and from an inductive to a deductive approach. This accepts that populism can have different meanings; that these differ between different national contexts; and that these meanings are collectively constructed in each case. So, how and where is this done in each case?

Meaning construction operates through the …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 05:23

Factors Complicating the Use of AI in Detecting Disinformation

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Internet Technologies | IAMCR 2023 |

And the final speaker for this session and this day at IAMCR 2023 is Aline Duelen, whose focus is on the use of AI in combatting disinformation. Disinformation is a major problem in online communication spaces today, of course, and there is some existing research that identifies factors that play a role in detecting disinformation – but these cannot easily be automated, as their application usually requires the application of critical thinking skills. The development of more automated systems therefore requires citizen co-creation approaches.

The present project undertook such a workshop with 26 Belgian citizens. It first explored their news …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 05:22

Attitudes towards Disinformation in the UK, France, and Spain

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | IAMCR 2023 |

The next paper in this IAMCR 2023 session is by Livia Gardía-Faroldi, who presents a comparative analysis of disinformation on social media across the UK, France, and Spain. Such a comparative study is necessary given the very different political and media environments across these countries. Do the audiences in these countries differ in their interest and trust in the news; their concern about fake news; and their use of social media for informational purposes? How are these attitudes associated with one another, and does this differ across these countries? The project explored these questions through a questionnaire.

Key findings are …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 05:19

News Consumption Patterns of Jewish Youth in Israel

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | IAMCR 2023 |

The final session on this first full day of IAMCR 2023 is on how audiences consume (or perhaps engage with) disinformation, and the first presenter is Hillel Nossek, with a focus on news consumption by Jewish youth in Israel. He describes this group as ‘newsers’: new news consumers. What characterises this group, then?

The study built on a representative nationwide survey of 673 young people of age 15-18 (i.e. not quite of voting age just yet) at state and state-religious schools; questionnaires were distributed during school hours to ensure participation. The top news medium for this group was social media …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 05:18

Russian Self-Legitimisation ahead of the Annexation of Crimea

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | IAMCR 2023 |

The final speaker in this session at IAMCR 2023 is Beate Josephi, whose focus is on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Her interest is in the initial annexation of Crimea in March 2014, and the focus here is on how Russia argued its case at that point – in this case, through the coverage in the Russian weekly newspaper Argumenti i Fakti.

A background to this event was the postponement of Ukraine’s association agreement with the EU by then-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich in favour of a greater alignment with Russia, and the Euromaidan protests that ensued in …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 05:18

The Divergence of Propaganda and Persuasion during the Cold War

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | IAMCR 2023 |

The third speaker in this packed IAMCR 2023 session is Barbie Zelizer, whose interest is in the ways Cold War logic hides propaganda in democracies. Practices of obfuscation are now ever-present, but our discussion changes depending on the type of regime (autocratic, democratic, …) we are talking about. In autocracies, information disorder is equated with propaganda, and linked to a long-term history of government control of information; in democracies, information disorders are seen as a new phenomenon linked to disinformation, and related to current conditions of polarisation, populism, and digital technology.

But during the Cold War, conditions in media and …

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2023 05:16

Tactics in Discrediting Critical Journalism

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | IAMCR 2023 |

For the afternoon session on this first day of IAMCR 2023 I am in a session on propaganda, which starts with Courtney Radsch. Her focus is on the use of artificial intelligence in state-aligned information operations. She notes the rise of populist authoritarianism, the emergence of coordinated inauthentic behaviour, the emergence of reputation management firms, and a number of other problematics we have seen in recent years; some of this directly targets journalists and journalism with state-aligned propaganda and harassment.

But how do such tactics leverage the machine learning and AI systems of online platforms, and use AI in their …

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Snurb — Monday 24 April 2023 15:36

Gatewatching and News Curation: The Lecture Series

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Twitter | General Teaching Work |

One of the major components of my guest professorship at the University of Zürich in late 2022 was to develop and deliver a one-off undergraduate course on gatewatching and the continuing transformation of journalism as a result of the impact of social media, from the early days of blogs and citizen journalism to the present. This builds on my 2018 book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere. I also took the opportunity to augment the book's contents with a handful of additional lectures on topics such as 'fake news', fact-checking, 'filter bubbles', and the …

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