Join the free, virtual #LeverhulmeNewsUse conference! I'll discuss my single-authored work in progress on how news consumption and avoidance🚫📰relate to conspiracy beliefs & COVID-19 vaccine opposition🚫💉 in Austria using the data from Austrian National Election Study @VieCER_

Excited to speak at the news use conference organized by Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Tom Roberts Emily Setty Maria Nerina Boursinou LeverhulmeNewsUse surrey.ac.uk/events/2024032…

Honored to speak at tomorrow's #LeverhulmeNewsUse Conference launching Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only)' visionary project studying the ever-changing, elusive, and disappearing (?) audiences of 'The News'. For more about the project and the conference abstracts, see: drive.google.com/file/d/1ia4gso…

Professor Kim Schroeder will be talking about 'Mapping cross-media news repertoires across borders. – repurposing the reuters digital news report for cross-national comparison of news diets'.

Sahana Udupa What a start to the #LeverhulmeNewsUse conference with truly engaging keynotes from Sahana Udupa and Kim Schrøder.

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder ⏰Now, off to our first panel of the day on ‘Datafication, artificial intelligence, immersive media and the news’, chaired by Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only). Looking forward to presentations by Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri, Neil Thurman, Alex Wasdahl and many more!!!

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Our first speaker is Liisa Ovaska from Tampere University, on 'Why do newsrooms collect user data? Folk theories of datafied journalism'.

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Liisa Ovaska Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri and Neil Thurman from LMU Munich will be 'Exploring whether and why automation affects the comprehensibility of data-driven news articles'.

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Liisa Ovaska Last but not least, the panel will conclude with Alex Wasdahl from the University of California, presenting 'Machine credibility: how news readers evaluate AI-generated content'

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Liisa Ovaska Next plenary session is starting at 11:00 with Professor @BritaYtreArnefrom the University of Bergen (Norway). Brita’s talk is titled ‘Too much news. News satiation as a novel perspective on overload and avoidance in news use research’.

This is US! The The Leverhulme Trust funded LeverhulmeNewsUse project is about to launch at 1130!!! Hopefully cool talks from myself, Thomas Roberts Dr Emily Setty & Nerina Boursinou!

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Liisa Ovaska Dr Emily Setty Thomas Roberts The Leverhulme Trust Welcome back to the Emerging Directions in News Use Research Conference and the #LeverhulmeNewsUse project Launch, funded by The Leverhulme Trust! Lots of presentations and great discussions in our view, but we want to hear what YOU think of our #LeverhulmeNewsUse conference so far!

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Liisa Ovaska Dr Emily Setty Thomas Roberts The Leverhulme Trust The second panel on ‘Journalism, audiences, journalistic practices’ - slightly shorter but equally exciting – is starting in a few minutes. Tune in!

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Liisa Ovaska Dr Emily Setty Thomas Roberts The Leverhulme Trust Happy to welcome Tatiana Chervyakova from Universidade Lusófona — Centro Universitário de Lisboa with her talk on ‘Media that refused news: characteristics and strategies of non-commercial slow-journalism media. A case study of Fumaça, Setentae Quatro, Divergente from Portugal’.

Sahana Udupa Kim Schrøder Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only) Sina Thaesler-Kordonouri Neil Thurman Alex Wasdahl Liisa Ovaska Dr Emily Setty Thomas Roberts The Leverhulme Trust Right after, Jan Lauren Boyles and Richard Mensah Adonu from Iowa State University on ‘Building a computational curriculum for understanding news: best practices from journalism schools’.

Delighted to join this morning's "Emerging Directions in News Use Research" conference (organized by @newsusesurrey) alongside Greenlee School | Iowa State U graduate student Mensah Richard Adonu. #LeverhulmeNewsUse

Great start to #LeverhulmeNewsUse event led by dependably visionary Not-Tweeting Prof Ranjana Das (on LinkedIn only). My co-panelist Prof Lynn Schofield Clark offers powerful questions for the important subfield of audiences of news to end her talk.

Jonathan Corpus Ong Back from a short break with panel 3 ‘Disinformation: case studies from around the world’ which features presentations from Dominika Betakova, Sarah Khan, Dr Alison Preston -Head of Research Ofcom, as well as Professor Laura Storch.

Jonathan Corpus Ong Dominika Betakova Ofcom Laura Storch Sarah Khan presents her work titled ‘Love jihad, land jihad, boycott Bollywood, conversion: Mapping online disinformation campaigns through far-right female political influencers in India’