ECREA Sheffield schedule day one - Thursday 11 April 2024

The schedule for the opening day of the 2024 European Communication Research and Education Association at the University of Sheffield.

Day one - Thursday 11 April 2024

Registration and coffee

From 8:30am in The Wave.

Morning panels session one

Time and venue	Panel 1 Lecture Theatre 4	Panel 2 Seminar Room 1	Panel 3 Seminar Room 4	Panel 4 Seminar Room 11
9.30am	Welcome from Professor Jackie Harrison, Head of School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Sheffield and the ECREA Journalism Studies Section	-	-	-
10.00am	Venetia Papa, Leandros Savvides and Theodoros Kouros: Can AI-tools help journalists or replace them? Exploring the relationship between affordances of JECTAI and Connexun and journalistic norms	Jonathan Hendrickx, Phoebe Maares: Affordances of journalism. How scholarship adopts affordance theory to study journalistic practice	Daniel Jackson, Claudia Kozman, Jamie Matthews: Sourcing practices in sports news in comparative perspective.	Morten Skovsgaard: The real-world effects of constructive journalism: a field experiment of climate change news coverage
10.15am		Imke Henkel and Tim Markham: Parallel commonalities: imagining and enacting the public sphere in UK and German news texts and audiences during Covid-19	Claudia Mellado and Sarah Van Leuven: News sources in global perspective	Zhong Zhang: Non-profit environmental journalism under China’s authoritarianism: a case study of chinadialogue
10.30am	Jonas Blom, Lene Heiselberg & Arjen van Dalen: Is generative AI journalism credible? Audience perceptions of AI generated news headlines	Alexandra Schwingesa, Toni G.L.A. van der Meera, Irina Lock, and Rens Vliegenthart: Are the media biting hard enough? A cross-national study of public watchdog role expectations and performance evaluations in the era of Big Tech	Liri Blum and Zvi Reich: What should journalists know? A curriculum for beat journalists	Petra Kovačević, Natasha Van Antwerpen, Nadia Swijtink, Liesbeth Hermans: The effect of constructive and narrative journalism on audience responses to climate change news
10.45am	Lynge Asbjørn Møller, Morten Skovsgaard, Arjen van Dalen: Artificial ally or adversary? How journalists in different professional groups understand the role of artificial intelligence in news work	Jonathan Hendrickx and Kenza Lamot: The Relationship Between “User Needs” and User Engagement in Contemporary Digital Journalism: A Mixed-Methods Case Study	Jared Ahmad: (Re)imagining the caliphate: exploring the interplay between media and political (self)representations of the Islamic State (2014-2016)	Theresa Zeitlinger, Clara Juarez Miro, Sandra Banjac, Folker Hanusch: Hardly important? examining audiences understanding of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ news avoidance
11.00am	Agnes Gulyas: Exploring the influence of national context and structures on local media: an international comparative analysis of variations in the sector in Europe	Clara Juarez Miro, Sandra Banjac, Folker Hanusch: Audience-centric methods for journalism studies: Insights from a large-scale two-sided video ethnography	Ella Hackett, Gregory Perreault, Teodora Florido Tavares De Souza: memorializing women journalists: obituaries on women journalist role performance	Erik Knudsen, Morten Skovsgaard, Nini Lykke Susanne Aandahl Berge, Agnes Stenbomd: Can constructive news counter news avoidance? An experimental test of audience behaviour as a response to (non-)constructive news frames

Coffee

Served from 11.15am in the Wave.

Morning panels session two

Time and venue	Panel 5 Lecture Theatre 4	Panel 6 Seminar Room 1	Panel 7 Seminar Room 4	Panel 8 Seminar Room 11
11.45am	Hanne Peeters, Stephanie D’haeseleer, Kristin Van Damme, Pauljan Truyens: News consumption within media repertoires: prominent and diverse or absent and narrow?	PRECONSTITUTED PANEL: Emma Heywood, Ebele Okobi, Alasdair Stuart, Sacha Meuter, Dmitry Chernobrov: Ensuring high-quality journalism amidst conflict and crisis.	Mette Stentoft: Parallel realities: news-aversion and media practices among ethnic minority youth in Denmark	Corinna Lauerer, Andreas Riedl, Magdalena Obermaier: Risk or chance? effects of (non-) binary gender fair language in news
12.00pm	Jonathan Hendrickx and Folker Hanusch: The Concept of Diversity in Journalism Studies	Continues as above	Kiki de Bruin, Sanne Kruikemeier, Rens Vliegenthart, Yael de Haan: How to stay in touch? An experience sampling method study examining news avoidance	Cato Depauw and Stefaan Walgrave: News Diversity throughout the 21st century: Analysis of content diversity in the Flemish television news
12.15pm	Kim Löhmann, Phoebe Maares, Folker Hanusch: Filling a void: Exploring the contribution to diversity by peripheral journalistic actors	Continues as above	Kiki de Bruin, Erik Espeland, Rens Vliegenthart, Jesper Strömbäck: Investigating news (avoidance) repertoires: a longitudinal study of the relationship between intentional news avoidance and news repertoires	Andreas Riedl and Corinna Lauerer: Equality in and through language? Journalists' and recipients' perspectives on gender fair language in journalism
12.30pm	Gregory Perreault, Miriam Donauer, Folker Hanusch: Reporting diversity in lifestyle journalism: conceptualizing lifestyle journalism as an act of Inclusion	Continues as above	Wang Haoyu: Moderated mediation between disaster news overload and avoidance: the role of compassion fatigue and collectivism value	Joëlle Swart and Marcel Broersma: Overcoming news inequalities? How access to paid journalism affects low-income citizens’ news habits, informed citizenship and social involvement

Lunch

Served from 12.45pm in the Wave.

Keynote: Joseph Harker

25 years after Macpherson, why does the media still find racial diversity such a struggle?

Thursday 11 April, 2.00 - 3.00pm

Coffee

Served from 3pm in the Wave.

Afternoon panels

Time and venue	Panel 9 Lecture Theatre 4)	Panel 10 Seminar Room 1	Panel 11 Seminar Room 4	Panel 12 Seminar Room 11
3.30pm	Emma Graves: Lacking diversity: news sources in mainstream coverage of extended reality technologies	Zvi Reich: Rethinking generalism: an old/new epistemic framework for understanding journalists’ knowledge	Mette Stentoft and Mette Mørk: Evaluating the Impact of diversity awareness on source selection in Danish journalism education: a comparative analysis of exam papers	Camilla Dindler and Bolette Blaagaard: Views for all the people: mapping debate section contributors, topics, and qualifications in Danish letters to the editors
3.45pm	Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu: Listening for diversity, an analysis of equality, diversity and inclusion in narrative news podcasts	Phoebe Maares, Kim Löhmann, Daniel Nölleke, Folker Hanusch: Autonomy, objectivity and transparency: The meaning and negotiation of journalistic norms and values across different genres of journalism	Helen Johnston: The discursive construction of ‘news’: an analysis of journalism educators’ discourse	Stela Lechpammer: Death of authorship in online journalism
4.00pm	Henrik Bødker: “The leafing out of beech trees in Danish journalism”	Klára Smejkal and Iveta Jansová: Conceptualizations and constructions of values, identities, and roles of public service media through the lenses of the Czech PSM journalists and managers	Rana Arafat and Hannes Cools: Towards algorithmic gatekeeping and agenda setting: re-conceptualising key media theories in the age of artificial intelligence	Marlene Strehler-Schaaf, Charlotte Löb & Oliver Quiring: Sympathy, empathy, dislike or even hate? The relationship between activists and journalists
4.15pm	Sumaya Alnahed: The Implications of political messaging and newsroom diversity on mediating anti-racism protests in 2020	Sarah Van Leuven: Beyond the bylines: a structural analysis comparing beat composition across 14 countries		Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius: What can journalism do for epistemic democracy? Democratic imagination and the coverage of minoritised activism in the liberal media in Poland
4.30pm	Ans De Nolf, Lise-Lore Steeman, Rozane De Cock, Leen d’Haenens: Comparative analysis of discrimination reporting in Flemish television news: a multi-method approach’	Marília Gehrke & David Cheruiyot: Exposing journalism’s skeletons: targeted transparency through The Guardian’s Cotton Capital Project	Beth Wood: Keeping up with the kids: the role of generation z in today’s news media landscape	Anna Mavrikou: Post-migrant journalists in DACH-newsrooms: Perspectives on inclusion and exclusion