September 2024: Presentation at the European Communication Conference in Ljubljana

The 10th European Communication Conference (ECC) of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) took place in September 2024. Under the theme “Communication & social (dis)order”, researchers from European universities exchanged views on the (dys)functionality of current communication and its social implications. Our project team was also represented at the conference in Ljubljana with a presentation on “Expectations of Reciprocal Interaction: A Q-sort Study with Journalists and Audience Members”. The team presented the results of the two Q-sort surveys on the reciprocal expectations of journalists and audience members.

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.