Dear NUSErs and friends, Attached you will find our (Sarah, Ike, Pauljan) paper ‘When coping becomes civic risk: ‘Toxic’ news, delegation, and missed alarm signals.’ We presented an early draft of this paper during a workshop for a Special Issue on Distributed Citizenship (Journal: International Journal of Communication). Also this version is still quite drafty 😊. Feel free to give feedback on structure, coherency of the story, … We are particularly interested in: * Conceptualization and operationalization of the key concepts (toxic news, public connection, civic alarms, distributed citizenship). * Phrasing and operationalization of the RQs. * In an initial version we had a more descriptive RQ1: Which coping tactics do citizens use in response to perceived toxicity? * We are doubting if we need the current RQ3: How are coping regimes socially stratified across citizen groups, and what are the consequences for unequal exposure to civic “alarm signals”? * The Table in the Findings (does it make sense?) Our deadline for submission to the Special Issue is 30th of May. Thanks in advance and see you on Friday! Met vriendelijke groeten Kind regards [A close up of a logo Description automatically generated] <https://www.vub.be/> PAULJAN TRUYENS Researcher at imec<https://www.imec.be/nl>-SMIT<https://smit.vub.ac.be/> & VUB Communicatiewetenschappen<https://www.vub.be/nl/studeren-aan-de-vub/alle-opleidingen/bachelor-en-masteropleidingen-aan-de-vub/communicatiewetenschappen> Coordinator at Mediapunt<https://www.mediapuntvlaanderen.be/> T +32 (0)494 68 68 94 E pauljan.truyens@vub.be<mailto:pauljan.truyens@vub.be> PL9.4 - Pleinlaan 9 - 1050 Brussel - www.vub.be<http://www.vub.be> Main projects: MediapuntVlaanderen.be<https://www.mediapuntvlaanderen.be/> Nieuwsgebruik.be<https://www.nieuwsgebruik.be/> Resilientmedia.eu<https://resilientmedia.eu/> Publications: ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pauljan-Truyens?ev=hdr_xprf> Pure portfolio<https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/pauljan-truyens> ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1247-4540> Van: Constanza Gajardo via nuse_smit <nuse_smit@listserv.vub.be> Datum: vrijdag, 13 maart 2026 om 17:04 Aan: nuse_smit@listserv.vub.be <nuse_smit@listserv.vub.be> Onderwerp: [Nuse_smit] NUSE meeting paper Dear all, In preparation for next Friday’s unit meeting, please find attached a draft paper that we are currently working on with Courtney and Antonis as part of the INEQNEWS project. In this paper, we attempt to combine findings from a three-wave survey with insights from online in-depth data-trace interviews. While we initially planned to only circulate the literature review, we decided to also include the methods and (preliminary) results sections, as they may help provide a clearer sense of the overall direction of the paper. While there’s no particular deadline, ideally, we hope to submit it sometime before the summer to journals such as Social Media + Society, Human Communication Research, or New Media & Society. We are not clear about this yet, so suggestions are of course very welcome. In particular, we would greatly appreciate your thoughts on the following: * Is the problematization clear and convincing? * Is the literature review clear, and not too dense/repetitive? * We are currently experimenting with different ways of referring to “attention challenges” (e.g., attention control, attention problems). Since we do not want to frame this as a clinical issue but rather as a broader phenomenon related to attention, we would welcome suggestions on how best to approach this conceptually. * Any thoughts on key elements that should be highlighted in the discussion section? Many thanks and looking forward to your feedback. Have a great weekend! Best, Constanza
