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🔓👇

🥳 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...

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)

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/...

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

"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....

Excellent summary today in RQ1 of our latest paper led by Denise Mensonides about the news-related practices of 8-12 year old children (w/ Anna Van Cauwenberge & Marcel Broersma): rq1.substack.com/p/what-audie...

On 29 and 30 January, the annual RMeS winter school will take place. This time at @maastrichtu.bsky.social on "Data justice in media studies: interdisciplinary and digital approaches". www.rmes.nl/rmes-winter-...

We offer a similar workshop grant for Research Master students who are members of RMeS, the Dutch Research School for Media Studies. It's a great opportunity to organize a workshop around your own research interests and build a network. See: rmes.nl

Exciting opportunity for PhD students who are members of RMeS, the Dutch Research School for Media Studies! Apply for our workshop grant to organize a workshop around their own research and share their expertise with a new generation of scholars. More info: rmes.nl

Great to see this latest issue of @cogitatiomac.bsky.social out - both because it was edited by my @unigroningen.bsky.social colleagues Cigdem Bozdag and Qinfeng Zhu, but also because I was able to work again with Kun He and @mjbroersma.bsky.social to write about 'Tactics of Disconnection' in China.

New paper out with Kun He & @seldridge.com in which we show how socially and culturally ingrained visual semiotic resources are used to demonstrate netizens’ affinities with ‘the people’ and dislikes of ‘the elite’ in online and bottom-up populism in China. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Personal journalism is on the rise, Kim Smeenk, Frank Harbers and I show in a new article. Mostly in quality newspapers, journalists are centering their own experiences, writing in the first person. It urges scholarship to rethink subjectivity and objectivity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Persoonlijke journalistiek wordt steeds dominanter, laten Kim Smeenk, Frank Harbers en ik zien in een nieuw artikel. Tussen 1999 en 2019 steeg het aantal artikelen waarin journalisten in de Ik-vorm over hun ervaringen spraken van 5 tot 9,8 procent journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper with Kun He and @seldridge.com in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: Tactics of Disconnection: How Netizens Navigate China’s Censorship System www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

It's happening again! The CfP for Future of Journalism 2025 is out now! Link below - can't wait to see you all in sunny Cardiff in September!

During our first rmes.nl course in Rome students did research projects on, f.e., digital storytelling & placemaking, QR codes bridging the physical & digital city, & the representation of landmarks on Instagram @kfvanes.bsky.social and I had our own project: www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/11/plac...

Calling all PhD candidates and motivated RMA students affiliated with RMeS to join @kfvanes.bsky.social and I in Rome first week of April 2025 to do research on media in the city with an intro to datawalking! RMeS KNIR course Media in the (Eternal) City is back! www.rmes.nl/rmes-knir-co...

Children of 8-12y employ many playful news-related practices. These allow for light-hearted explorations of news and create opportunities for acts of lived citizenship. However, conceptualizing news as serious hinders teachers' recognition of such practices.

Happy to share this latest paper by Kun He, Marcel Broersma, and myself in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social We look at tactics of disconnection that social media users employ to navigate censorship in China, showing how these differ b/w 'ordinary' and 'elite' users www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...