Sabina Mihelj delivered a presentation at the Virtual Scientific Conference organised by PERITIA (Policy, Expertise, and Trust), an EU-funded project investigating public trust in expertise. Held on 18-19 March, the theme of the conference was 'Trust in Expertise in a…
Václav Štětka delivered a talk on 20 November 2020 at the inaugural event of the newly launched Jean Monnet Network on European Media and Platform Policies - EuromediApp (http://euromediapp.org/). Organized in collaboration with the Euromedia Research Group (http://www.euromediagroup.org/), the online…
Sabina Mihelj gave a keynote at the annual ‘Moscow Readings’ conference, organised by the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, with support from the International Media and Communication research Association and UNESCO. The conference took place online on 19-20…
The Illiberal Turn team has published a study exploring how exposure to particular media types and news content impacts on attitudes to immigration and support for populism in the Czech Republic. Combining a 2-wave panel survey, digital data tracing, real-time…
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented our project team with unexpected challenges, but also opportunities. In several countries of Eastern Europe – including some of the countries covered in our project – the introduction of emergency measures coincided not only with…
We are very excited to announce that we are officially expanding our research team with three new members. Dr Markéta Doležalová, Dr Damian Guzek and Dr Ana Stojiljkovic are joining us as Local Research Assistants, working on the qualitative strand…
The New Year also brings a new member to the ‘Illiberal Turn’ project team: we are delighted to announce that we have recruited our second Research Associate, who will be working on the qualitative strand of the project with Professor…
Following the successful completion of Work Package 1 – which combined population surveys, digital tracking, media diaries and interviews, all conducted in the context of the 2019 EP elections in the Czech Republic – the research has now moved on…
The first stakeholder meeting for the Illiberal Turn project took place on 25 September 2019, hosted by the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University in Budapest. The meeting was attended by a distinguished panel comprised of representatives…
The Department of Communication and Media in the School of Social Sciences at Loughborough University is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work with Dr Vaclav Stetka (PI) and Professor Sabina Mihelj (Co-I) on the ESRC-funded research project “The…