January 2023: Project Team Represented With Two Presentations at ICA24

Our project is once again going to be present at the annual conference of the ICA (International Communication Association) this year. Two submissions were accepted for presentation at the 74th Annual International Conference of the ICA 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia, gathering with the theme “Communication and Global Human Rights”.
Under the presentation title “Journalists’ Expectations of Journalist-Audience Interaction and Relationship: A Q-Sort Study”, a Q-Sort study researching journalistic expectations towards interactions with the audience  will be presented. In addition, a second presentation titled “What Does the Audience Expect when Interacting with Journalists? A Q-Sort Study” will present the Q-Sort study on the audience’s expectations of interactions with journalism.

We are looking forward to an interesting exchange in Gold Coast!

December 2023: Publication in the Renowned Journal Journalism

In December 2023, a journal article by the project team entitled ‘The journalism-audience relationship in the digital age: A theoretical literature review’ was published in the renowned journal Journalism. Based on a theoretical literature review, Dr Bernadette Uth, together with Prof. Dr Helena Stehle, Ass.-Prof. Dr Claudia Wilhelm, Prof. Dr Hanne Detel and PD Dr Nicole Podschuweit, develops six different theoretical conceptualizations of the journalism-audience relationship in the digital age: (1) discursive, (2) expectation-based, (3) network-oriented, (4) technological, (5) parasocial, and (6) strategic-organizational.