Hoe deed de Nederlandse journalistiek verslag van het Nederlands militair optreden tijdens de oorlog in Afghanistan? We hebben een vacature voor een promovendus die onderzoek gaat doen naar "Journalistiek, Oorlog en Collectief Geheugen: Afghanistan, 2001-2021" werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/pro...

Recently reminded of an excellent paper by @lynxlynxly.bsky.social @mjbroersma.bsky.social: IBM & Google use online courses to “reinforce their position by not only recruiting new AI talent, but also by securing their infrastructures & models to become dominant” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How do rural journalists negotiate between the dominant rules of the field and their position within local communities? Paper w/ Tyler Nagel in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social on rural-specific reporting practices, a-typical business ideas & unconventional innovations journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do rural journalists negotiate between the dominant metropolitan-based rules of their field and their position within communities? Paper out w/ Tyler Nagel. For rural-specific reporting practices, a-typical business ideas, & unconventional innovations, see journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just two days before her excellent PhD defense, the next paper of Kim Smeenk's PhD project on personal journalism was published. We show how displaying (happy) emotions has become a strategy to build report with audiences and to be considered more reliable www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Devising DigiD: the performativity of sociotechnical imaginaries in national digital identity systems First paper published from Maud Rebergen's PhD project on digital identification systems. With proud supervisors @riksmit.bsky.social and I. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now out (open access) from Alex Smit's PhD research: Understanding digital citizenship in everyday life: tensions between digital inclusion policies and disadvantaged citizens’ experiences w/ Alex Smit & @joelleswart.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just published with @joelleswart.bsky.social lead-author Alex Smit in @cogitatiosi.bsky.social: The Regime of Self‐Optimization: Lived Experiences of Enforced Digital Inclusion by Low‐Literate Citizens www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...

Excited to share our new pub in New Media & Society, co-authored with my supervisors @qfzhu.bsky.social @mjbroersma.bsky.social 🎉🎉 We explore how social norms are formed and guide prosocial behaviors within location-based meso-spaces. Link👉: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌟New pub led by @yichen1001.bsky.social on how social norms guide interaction in neighborhood groups on instant messaging platforms! If you're interested in meso spaces, online group dynamics or how IM groups function as civic infrastructure, check out our paper in NMS with @mjbroersma.bsky.social🔓👇

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Excited to share our new pub in New Media & Society, co-authored with my supervisors @qfzhu.bsky.social @mjbroersma.bsky.social 🎉🎉 We explore how social norms are formed and guide prosocial behaviors within location-based meso-spaces. Link👉: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🥳 More good news! The Digital Literacy Coalition (DLC), committed to increasing digital skills in Groningen & North Drenthe, receives substantial financial support from Nij Begun! @rug.nl @mjbroersma.bsky.social Learn more about the project 👇 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...

Flinke financiële steun Nij Begun voor project digicoaches Groningen en Noord-Drenthe

In alle gemeenten in Groningen en Noord-Drenthe komt er ruimte om mensen met een afstand tot de arbeidsmarkt op te leiden tot digicoach. Het initiatief...

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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

How can we effectively, and fairly, approach collaborative & comparative journalism research projects? In our next @rug.nl CMJS lunch lecture, @marenet.bsky.social discusses "The value (and challenges) of collaborative and comparative journalism research: a South African perspective"

Who is sharing the news? 1st paper published from Iris Baas' PhD study, w/ proud supervisors Tommaso Caselli, @marcestevedelvalle.bsky.social, & I. We show that ideological critique does not necessarily translate into alternative media consumption on Dutch Twitter firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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)

Journalism in a Fractured World

What role does journalism play in building a democratic society?

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Wat betekent GenAI voor het nieuwsgebruik en de nieuwswijsheid van kinderen en jongeren? @mjbroersma.bsky.social, Bart Verheij en ik hebben plek voor een PhD die zich wil verdiepen in dit onderwerp. De vacature vind je hier: lnkd.in/e73GCi4E, deadline sollicitaties 3 april. Meer weten? DM me gerust!

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...

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...

What would happen if we considered Silicon Valley as a locus of imperial machinations and as constituted by both imperialist and colonel encounters? j. Siguru Wahutu will discuss this in tomorrow's @unigroningen.bsky.social CMJS lunch lecture

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....

Denise Mensonides did an excellent job defening her thesis "Navigating the digital playground: a child-centred study on the development of digital literacies". It's part of our NWO supported Informed Citizenship for All project. You can read Denise's work here: research.rug.nl/nl/publicati...

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/...

(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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Which representations and (gameplay) activities in historical gaming spaces lend themselves well for extremist mobilization, and why? This Wednesday, Pieter van den Heede (@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social) will discuss this during our next CMJS lunch lecture @unigroningen.bsky.social

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

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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"Help, mijn kind wil op TikTok!" Mooi gesprek over mediaopvoeding gisteravond in Forum Groningen, georganiseerd door @unigroningen.bsky.social's Jantina Tammes School. Met interessante bijdrages van Peter Nikken, Mandy Oude Veldhuis-Talhout & Denise Mensonides olv Jetse Goris

Oratie Yael de Haan RUG met laudatio van @mjbroersma.bsky.social

Thanks @sethclewis.bsky.social & Mark Coddington! You can find the full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Playful Citizens: How Children Develop and Integrate News-Related Practices in Their Daily Lives

This paper studies children’s (aged 8–12) news-related practices and subsequent acts of lived citizenship in formal and informal social contexts. While children in this age group are increasingly e...

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