Gregory P. Perreault
@acadianjprof.bsky.social
Digital journalism professor 🏝️AE at Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly/ Author, “Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate” (2023) 🇺🇸🇨🇦 actively 🏃♂️🧑💻#firstgen.
🌊 ROLL TIDE🌊 Delighted to share that starting August, I’ll be taking on a new post as Professor and Chair at the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at University of Alabama. It’s an absolute privilege to now have the opportunity to lead the department in its next chapter
New issue out: 𝗝𝗠𝗖𝗤 𝟭𝟬𝟯(𝟮), 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, with an invited forum on 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 and articles on v𝐢s𝐮a𝐥 𝐜o𝐦m𝐮n𝐢c𝐚t𝐢o𝐧, l𝐨c𝐚l n𝐞w𝐬 𝐦e𝐝i𝐚, a𝐧d p𝐨l𝐢t𝐢c𝐚l p𝐞r𝐬u𝐚s𝐢o𝐧: journals.sagepub.com/toc/jmqc/103/2 #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly - Volume 103, Number 2
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Nice to see our Associate Editor ✍️@acadianjprof.bsky.social there too and many of our outstanding board members @karinwahlj.bsky.social @thanitzsch.bsky.social 🤩
The future of misinformation isn’t just about platforms. It’s about whether your town still has a newsroom. In this week's UnSpun Journal Club, I look at a paper on how local news outlets can be effective at stopping some kinds of fake news. Here or where you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
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I'm delighted to announce that I have had manuscripts rejected from ✨FIVE✨ different things this week. I know social media is primarily about our wins, but important to recognize that failures aren't really a side dish in academic life--they're the main dish. #commsky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Shadow CV- GP Perreault
Gregory P. Perreault University of South Florida Shadow CV Note: This shadow CVs is meant to provide others with information about my own academic failures. Normal CVs are essentially a record of aca...
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📖 Thrilled to see this issue out in print! The invited forum on ‘what is mass comm today’ is a must read! Thanks to all authors! 🙏 #commsky @markboukes.bsky.social @erikbucy.bsky.social @lanceholbert
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 5mo agoJMCQ Vol. 103(1) is out: an Invited Forum on adapting mass communication research to fragmented media + sections on credibility & fact-checking, conspiracy & misinformation, media use & private spaces, and news avoidance. journals.sagepub.com/toc/jmqc/103/1 #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social
Great to see this cross-cultural collaboration! ✍️
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 6mo agoPerreault, Danninger & Hanusch draw on 74 interviews with lifestyle journalists in #Austria and the #UnitedStates. Lifestyle journalism has inclusion potential—but many practitioners do not see themselves as realizing it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
Perreault, Danninger & Hanusch draw on 74 interviews with lifestyle journalists in #Austria and the #UnitedStates. Lifestyle journalism has inclusion potential—but many practitioners do not see themselves as realizing it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
A Missed Opportunity? How Lifestyle Journalists Think About Inclusion in Their Work - Gregory Perreault, Miriam Danninger, Folker Hanusch, 2026
Research on inclusion within journalism is devastatingly consistent: far from enhancing inclusion, journalism can actually diminish it. It is noteworthy that th...
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Important insights about lifestyle journalists in Austria 🇦🇹 @acadianjprof.bsky.social @aejmc.bsky.social
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 6mo agoPerreault, Danninger & Hanusch draw on 74 interviews with lifestyle journalists in #Austria and the #UnitedStates. Lifestyle journalism has inclusion potential—but many practitioners do not see themselves as realizing it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Studies are devastating consistent—hard news isn’t overly inclusive. In this paper with Miriam Danninger and Folker Hanusch (@jscvienna.bsky.social), we see lifestyle journalism as perfectly poised to increase the scope of “us” in the news journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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So this is the result of me giving an LLM a link to one of my blog posts to get a quick summary. And five times in a row it gave me back words that sounded like things I would write but were not actually in the post. And five times I called it a liar and finally:
Boundary Work in Small Town Newspapers in Canada: @acadianjprof.bsky.social
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is a compelling piece arguing rural journalism isn’t just a niche, but a distinct subfield with its own norms, challenges, and practices. #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🚨NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS🚨 Nope, you're not imagining things. In scientific terms, the world is "super-duper dark." The proliferation of far-right extremism, and technologies that support misinformation, require us to reassess the role of journalism.
I am reviewing a 68-page guide to effective chatbot prompting. There's a guide to using the guide. So, a guide for the guide on how to guide a chatbot.
Oxfam Canada says Canada’s richest one per cent, those with a net worth of C$7 million or more, now hold almost C$1.25 trillion in wealth, which is nearly as much as the bottom 80 per cent combined. #cdnpoli #equality #WEF #davos2026 @oxfamcanada.bsky.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social
New report finds Canada’s richest billionaires have more wealth than the GDP of some countries
Billionaire wealth reached a record high in 2025 in Canada and around the world, according to a new report from Oxfam.
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"Finding hope in Hegel" Wrote a short post for @acadianjprof.bsky.social's end of year newsletter on "what's bringing you hope". Strongly inspired by Alain de Botton and Hans Rosling.
Finding Hope in Hegel
By Tobias Dienlin, University of Zürich
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Time for our annual viewing of the academia-themed Just in Time for Christmas, in which she gets cold called by the “Dean of Yale,” who wants to publish her dissertation because it will be a bestseller and offers a flyout for a job she didn’t apply for, and mystical William Shatner shakes things up.
It’s great to see this special issue on AI and disinformation out! Congratulations to all authors and of course guest editors!! 📖 ✍️ 🎉
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 8mo agoChristian von Sikorski and Michael Hameleers have curated a timely and excellent special issue on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 👏 Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/JMQ/curr.... @profdimitrova.bsky.social @cvsikorski.bsky.social #commsky
⚡BIG NEWS⚡Excited to be the new Associate Editor for @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. Big shoes to fill, following the fantastic work of @connolly-ahern.bsky.social! Grateful to continue to serve this flagship journal 🙌
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe thank @acadianjprof.bsky.social for his excellent work as Book Reviews Editor and are delighted to welcome him to his new role as Associate Editor. 🎉 His experience and commitment will continue to strengthen the journal! @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
So proud to be part of this hard-working team! Thanks for leading us @profdimitrova.bsky.social!
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 9mo agoOur JMCQ editorial team met on November 5. Thank you to all for the thoughtful discussion and steady teamwork. We appreciate your commitment to rigorous scholarship! Big thank you also to our authors and reviewers who make JMCQ possible! #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social
Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research
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My new book is out, edited with the great James West and Carole O’Reilly: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... — if your institution doesn’t have access, please email me for a PDF! #mediahistory
Media Building
This book interrogates the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment.
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Even the pope condemns clickbait. The Guardian, a publication for the mature and thoughtful, uses a clickbait to advertise the story ✨
What a privilege to get to chat with the great team at University of Florida 🐊🐊Sharp students and insightful faculty—thanks for the opportunity to guest speak @linditacamaj.bsky.social and @cratebeats.bsky.social!
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Journalists have long claimed the domain of valid knowledge. In this article, Jakob Ohme and I explored, does journalism believe that this distribution, as many other things have been, be replicated by Chatbots? #commsky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PINGA...
ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries? Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms
Journalists have long claimed authority regarding the distribution of valid knowledge and hence, have discursively placed themselves in an intermediary role between audiences and the information th...
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ONLINE FIRST! @acadianjprof.bsky.social & @jnelz.bsky.social review 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions on the future of media. Drawing on a metajournalistic analysis, they show journalists’ trust in social media has declined, but confidence in audiences endures. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 The disadvantages of social media have become abundantly obvious to just about everyone. In this study, we were intrigued to see how journalists considered the audience in a platform space riddled with power imbalances. #commsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries: Digital Journalism: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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Moving story from the US today. Left me with a bit of dust in my eye. Class, character and kindness from Dave Butler.
A must-read by @jscvienna.bsky.social’s @birteleonhardt.bsky.social!
JMCQ@jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 10mo agoRead here all about how values shift under real newsroom pressures—and the negotiation strategies journalists use to reconcile them. @ipk-univie.bsky.social @profdimitrova.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #commsky
