Hi everyone,
Benjamin Toff from the University of Minnesota will visit SMIT on 24 April to present his latest book Avoiding the News<https://cup.columbia.edu/book/avoiding-the-news/9780231205191>. The talk will last for approximately 45 minutes and Q&A will follow. The talk will also be streamed at Teams.
Book outline:
Avoiding the News: Why Growing Numbers are Turning Away from Journalism and What Can be Done about It
More and more people globally are disengaging from news despite unprecedented abundance and ease of access. This presentation will provide an overview of findings from a new book examining why and what can be done about it, drawing on extensive survey data and qualitative interviews in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. News avoidance, most common among disadvantaged groups, is about both content and broader structures of everyday life: who people are, what they believe, and how technology platforms increasingly shape relationships with news.
Short Bio
Benjamin Toff is an assistant professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He studies public opinion, political communication, digital media, and changing journalistic practices.
From 2020-2023, he was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford where he led the Trust in News Project.<https://www.benjamintoff.com/research/trust-in-news-project> Dr Toff received his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies from Harvard University.
Prior to his academic career, Dr Toff worked as a professional journalist, mostly as a researcher at the New York Times from 2005-2011.
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From: Nathalie Van Raemdonck <Nathalie.Van.Raemdonck(a)vub.be>
Date: Friday, 2 February 2024 at 16:36
To: SMIT-NUSE <ES-SMIT-JTP(a)vub.be>
Subject: Tuesday NUSE meeting
Hey NUSE colleagues!
I was trying to finish a first draft of a paper to discuss with you this Tuesday at the NUSE team meeting, but unfortunately that is still a while away since I’m a bit stuck in the qualitative coding of my interviews… Ike recommended to still use the opportunity to have you gathered and that we could perhaps try out a different format for a feedback sessions, so if it’s alright with you, I’d love to get your feedback on the codes I’m developing for my paper :)
Attached you can find a 4page extended abstract of the paper to get some background (also welcome to provide feedback on this of course). I’ll still work on the codes in the next few days and present them on Tuesday.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
Best,
Nathalie
[Q9VJ43EY0nwggAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==]Nathalie Van Raemdonck
Doctoral researcher
IMEC-SMIT, BSOG, HAI +32477208719
Recent publications
Van Raemdonck, N. & Meyer, T. (2024). Why Disinformation is Here to Stay. A Socio-Technical Analysis of Disinformation as a Hybrid Threat<https://researchportal.vub.be/en/publications/why-disinformation-is-here-to…>. In L. Lonardo (Ed). Addressing Hybrid Threats: European Law and Policies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Van Raemdonck (2022) Instagram Stories and the spread of harmful content; where’s the friction<https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2022/12/19/instagram-stories-and-the-sprea…>? Media@LSE Blog
Van Raemdonck, N. & Pierson, J. (2022) Conceptueel kader voor wisselwerking van platformkenmerken, affordances en normen op sociale media [A conceptual framework for the mutual shaping of platform features, affordances and norms on social media<https://researchportal.vub.be/en/publications/a-conceptual-framework-for-th…>] Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap vol. 50 nr.4 pp.358-383 https://doi.org/10.5117/TCW2022.4.005.RAEM
Willaert, T.; Peeters, S.; Seijbel, J.& Van Raemdonck, N. (2022) Disinformation networks: A quali-quantitative investigation of antagonistic Dutch-speaking Telegram channels<https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12533>. First Monday, 27(5).
Van Raemdonck, N. & Pierson, J. (2021) "Taxonomy of Social Network Platform Affordances for Group Interactions<https://researchportal.vub.be/en/publications/taxonomy-of-social-network-pl…>," 14th CMI International Conference - Critical ICT Infrastructures and Platforms (CMI)
