Digital Disruption to Journalism and Mass Communication Theory

Brussels 2014

Thursday, 2 October

9:00 9:30 Opening Remarks: Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Munich; Editor,
Communication Theory

9:30 11:00
Re-theorizing Media Effects
Jane B. Singer, City University
London, UK
The Media Are Mutual: Rethinking Effects
Theories in a Digital Era
Christiane Eilders and Pablo Porten-
Che, Heinrich Heine University
Dsseldorf, Germany
The spiral of silence under online conditions:
Individual media repertoires and their effects on
public opinion perception and willingness to
speak out
David Levin, College of Management,
Israel
Nissim Katz, Bar ilan University and
College of Management, Israel
From imposition to negotiating Digital langue
and agenda setting theory
Marco Dohle and Uli Bernhard,
University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Theoretical Approaches on Presumed Media
Influences: Also Valid in the Online World?
Discussant:

11:00 11:15 Coffee

11:15 12:30
Exploring Digital Media Effects
Hanna Pincus and Hajo
Boomgarden, University of
Amsterdam, Department of
Communication, Netherlands
Media Effects of Multimedia Journalism: A study
on cognitive and affective effects of feature
multimedia storytelling
Paul Bolls, Erika Johnson, and Dawn
Schillenger Missouri School of
Journalism, USA
Advancing Research on Digital News Media
Through an Extended, Embodied, Motivated
Cognition Framework
Kjerstin Thorson, Annenberg School,
University of Southern California, USA
Esther Thorson, Missouri School of
Journalism, USA
The Impact of Digital News and Social Media
Use on Political Socialization of U.S. Teens
Discussant:

12:30 13:30 Lunch Break



13:30 15:00
Renegotiating Professional Journalism
Henrik rnebring, Michael Karlsson
and Karin Fast
Karlstad University, Sweden
The labor of journalism: challenges of
technological and economic restructuring
Gillian Brooks
Department of Sociology, The
University of Cambridge, UK
The Field of Online Journalism:
A Study of the Legitimizing Practices of Online
News Organizations
Stephanie Craft, University of Illinois,
USA
The ethics of plumbing, the ethics of journalism:
Theorizing the connection between professional
status and ethics
Piet Bakker
Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands
New journalism, new theories?
Discussant:

15:00 15:15 Coffee

15:15 16:45
Theorizing Journalism Practice and Production
Sophie Lecheler and Sanne
Kruikemeier, Amsterdam School of
Communication Research, University
of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Re-Evaluating Journalistic Routines in a Digital
Age: The Use of Online Sources
Julian Wallace and Konstantin Drr,
University of Zurich, Institute of Mass
Communication and Media Research
Beyond Traditional Gatekeeping How
Algorithms and Users Restructure the Online
Gatekeeping Process
Inbal Klein-Avraham and Zvi Reich,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Isreal
Dodged and burned: How digitization disrupted
photojournalism
Jean-Sbastien Barbeau, Universit
Panthon-Assas, Paris, France
Reconsidering the notion of time in gatekeeping.
The case of mediablogs in a comparison between
France and Quebec
Discussant:

16:45 17:00 Brief Remarks: Tim P. Vos, Missouri School of Journalism, USA



Friday, 3 October

9:00 10:30
Journalism, Audiences, and the Public Sphere
Ryan J. Thomas, Missouri School of
Journalism, USA

Soft Paternalism as a Framework for
Journalism Ethics
Nicholas Gilewicz, Annenberg School
for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania, USA
Reconceiving the Public Sphere: Truth-telling,
Parrhesia, and Digital Communication
Chris Peters and Tamara Witschge,
University of Groningen, Netherlands
From grand narratives of democracy to small
expectations of participation: Audiences,
citizenship, and interactive tools in digital
journalism
Ike Picone, Vrije Universiteit Brussels,
Belgium
Conceptualising news users in the new media
ecology. Audiences, publics, citizens
Discussant:

10:30 10:45 Coffee

10:45 12:15
Economic and Structural Transformation of Journalism
Stephan Russ-Mohl, Bartosz
Wilczek, Philip Di Salvo, Institute for
Media and Journalism, Universit della
Svizzera Italiana, Italy
Increasing Information Asymmetries: The
Changing Relationships between Journalists, PR
Professionals and Whistleblowers in the Digital
Age
Lea Hellmueller, Texas Tech
University, USA
You Li, Oakland University, USA
Disrupting Journalists Autonomy? How
Digitalization Challenges Journalism Culture
Aske Kammer, University of Southern
Denmark
The Convergence of Media Sectors
Harsh Taneja, Missouri School of
Journalism, USA
The World Wide Web and Global Cultural
Consumption: Integrating Theories of Media
Choice and Global Media Flows
Discussant:

12:15 13:30 Lunch Break




13:30 15:00
Theorizing from Content Studies
Jeanine Guidry, Yuan Zhang, and
Yan Jin, Richard T. Robertson School
of Media & Culture, Virginia
Commonwealth University, USA
Framing Public Health Issues with Images: How
Pinterest Tells Stories of Depression
Amanda Hinnant and Roma
Subramanian, Missouri School of
Journalism, USA
Rachel Young, University of Iowa,
USA
Comments on climate Does reader response
disrupt the reception of environmental journalism
stories?
Lukasz Wojtkowski, Nicolaus
Copernicus University in Torun,
Poland
Old Theories and New Media. Communication
of Online Popular Cultures
Margaret Duffy and Esther Thorson,
Missouri School of Journalism, USA
Youth Sensitivity to Ethically Problematic
Advertising:
A Qualitative Investigation
Discussant:

15:00 15:30 Concluding Address: Tim P. Vos, Missouri School of Journalism, USA
Theorizing in a time of transition