A memorable (& my first!) @udc2023 MIC Center Annenberg School has ended. Thank you to my brilliant fellow panelists @shmacek1, Mickey Huff, Andy Roth (all Project Censored) & Hektor Haarkötter (INA) for insights on news neglect, censorship & #agendacutting around the globe!

Very excited about this upcoming book talk (18 Jan) with Igor Prusa PhD et PhD at Japan Center Universität München ⬇️

Brilliant work by Igor Prusa PhD et PhD on the role of media scandals in Japanese society & politics. Thank you, Igor, for presenting this at the Universität München Japan Center! Here’s the book: routledge.com/Scandal-in-Jap…

Wie wird freie Medienberichterstattung durch juristische Anwaltsstrategien eingeschränkt? Und welche Rolle spielt #agendacutting dabei? Eine hochspannende und aktuelle Studie dazu von Uwe Krüger | @ukrueg.bsky.social (IfKMW Leipzig) Max Beuthner & Connor Endt! ⬇️

Great to see the latest Perspectives on Politics issue out! Feeling honored to be part of its special section on #democracy with an article on the aging democracy. @gabriele_vogt

More and more countries are facing an #agingdemocracy these days. It was great talking to the The Wall Street Journal about our research on the political implications of a graying democracy. @gabriele_vogt Here's the original piece in Perspectives on Politics: doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

Herzogschloss in Straubing: Pegelstand der #Donau vorher und nachher #Hochwasser #Bayern

It was great seeing you in Munich, Chris Schimkowsky! Fascinating topic and I’m looking forward to a reunion—perhaps next time in Tokyo!

Old voters are getting more powerful, and they don’t want anyone messing with their benefits on.wsj.com/4cNPswV on.wsj.com/4cNPswV

For all those interested in geopolitics in East Asia—don’t miss this one!

Very honored to be part of the newly released Media Compass! Many thanks to @AljoshaKarim and Christian Pentzold for their excellent editorial guidance and for initiating this wonderful, much-needed project. This is a highly useful reference book for generations to come!

CHAPTER 32: Japan🇯🇵 Yosuke Buchmeier emphasizes the intricate connections between mainstream media, politics, and business in Japan, illustrating how these relationships weaken media independence and limit information diversity, despite constitutional guarantees of press freedom

The Aging Democracy: Demographic Effects, Political Legitimacy, and the Quest for Generational Pluralism Yosuke Buchmeier (Yosuke Buchmeier) and Gabriele Vogt (@gabriele_vogt) buff.ly/3AKw4Tv

... and just like that, it's a wrap! 🎬 Having just returned from #ECREA2024 in Ljubljana, we have officially completed our daily teasers of the various chapters featured in the Media Compass over the past six weeks. 📕

Very honored to be part of the upcoming Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2025)! Great thanks to Alessandro Nai, Max Grömping & Dominique Wirz for their excellent editorial guidance and for initiating this ambitious, much-needed project. It’s monumental!

Many preprints for the Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2025) are already available! Here’s mine on #agendacutting - the intentional omission or diminution of significant and/or controversial issues on the news agenda, keeping relevant issues off the public's attention

New #openaccess article on media politics and news journalism in Japan out now in #Publizistik link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Highly insightful study by Chris Schimkowsky on official discourses on the COVID-19 risk on Tokyo‘s trains! I like the conceptualization as “selective neglect”. This could as well be considered a variation of #agendacutting

Thank you Chris Schimkowsky!

Mehr politische Partizipation junger Menschen setzt mehr und bessere politische Bildung voraus. Das war das (Zwischen-)Fazit einer sehr anregenden Diskussion zur alternden #Demokratie heute morgen an der @APBTutzing Mehr zum Thema hier (auf Englisch): doi.org/10.1017/S15375…