By Rayana Zapryanova Lucia Mesquita is a Jolt researcher whose research is focused on Collaborative Journalism. She aims to understand how collaborations work in practice, what are the best practices for collaborative journalism, and how various stakeholders perceive collaborative journalism. Collaborations are usually done when the investigating process has bigger requirements than a media outlet […]
Category: Politics, Values and Ethics
The unexplored benefits of user-generated content
By Rayana Zapryanova The need for journalists to use user-generated content has become greater now that they cannot reach certain places because of lockdowns or because they don’t have the capacity to tell certain stories. In some form or another, news organisations worldwide use this type of content – from viral videos to memes. After […]
New Publication: how migrants use social media to raise human-rights claims
Jolt ESR Sara Creta has published a research article in the journal Media, War & Conflict. The article, “I hope, one day, I will have the right to speak”, examines how migrants used the official Facebook page of UNHCR Libya to protest their conditions and raise human-rights claims. Media, War & Conflict is an international, […]
Sudanese and Algerian authorities exploit Covid-19 to tighten repressive policies
Jolt researcher Sara Creta and journalist Sofian Philip Naceur have published a report investigating how Sudanese and Algerian authorities are exploiting Covid-19 to undermine movements for political change. Covid-19 has provided an opportunity for failing regimes to tighten already prevalent repressive policies against activists, media, and government opponents. Authorities and state actors in Sudan and […]
Digital Services Act, Brussels Effect and the Future of the Internet
By Charis Papaevangelou, ESR at University of Toulouse III The Brussels Effect is an interesting concept coined in 2012 by Ana Bradford, a Finnish-American professor at the Columbia Law School. The gist of the concept is this: Europe may not be an economic or innovatory stronghold comparable to the United States or China, but it […]
Automation in online content moderation: in the search of lost legitimacy and the risks of censorship
By Charis Papaevangelou (UPS), Jiahong Huang (UvA), Lucia Mesquita (DCU), and Sara Creta (DCU) At a recent workshop, JOLT ESRs worked in multi-disciplinary teams to develop ideas for research projects that address a major issue surrounding media and technology. As the European Commission prepares to announce its much-anticipated Digital Services Act, four ESRs review the […]
Investigating surveillance and journalism
By Dimitri Bettoni, ESR at Dublin City University Ligaiya Romero, a photographer, filmmaker and scholar who covered the protests spread in the US following the death of George Floyd, was quoted in a recent letter from the Authority Collective. She says: “As photographers/filmmakers, we need to ask ourselves, is this image sousveillance (from the bottom […]
Collaborative Journalism
A model to conceptualise, typify and criticise the phenomenon By Lucia Mesquita, ESR at Dublin City University This thesis aims to conceptualize, typify and criticize the models and types of collaborative journalism. The present research focuses on the everyday media practices of journalists and other professionals that are part or are conducting collaborative efforts in […]
Studying the Political Economy of Digital Platforms’ Regulation in Times of Pandemic
By Charilaos Papaevangelou, ESR at the Université de Toulouse III, Paul Sabatier While the Covid-19 crisis has severely affected almost every aspect of our lives, it has made blatantly clear just how relevant our work is. As I wrote in a blog post last May, online platforms saw the crisis as an opportunity to regain […]
Do you help us make the news?
By Gabriela Sansverino, ESR at the Université de Toulouse III, Paul Sabatier 2020 has been an apocalyptic year. And we are only half way through it. As the world falls apart around us, with a global pandemic brought on by the spread of the coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter protests that took over streets […]