The new digital media landscape has created a high-choice media environment that has made it easier for people to find news and information that support their political beliefs and attitudes, and avoid news and information ...

During the last decade, migration has become one of the most salient and politicized issues in Europe, and even more so during and after the sharp rise in immigration in 2015. This issue appears to have consolidated a ...

News media’s use of horse race polls is a defining feature of contemporary political reporting. This thesis investigates how the news media use these opinion polls and how this coverage can influence two of the most central ...

Contemporary risk and crisis communication take place in a complex multiplatform and multivocal environment, where numerous social media foster and facilitate online participation. Lay social media users are thus able to ...

To news publishers, digital platform companies (or “platforms”) such as Google and Meta present both benefits and risks. Platforms offer publishers certain functionalities and services that may be beneficial, but they have ...

Journalist ’18 är den sjunde nationella journalistundersökningen som sedan 1989 har genomförts vid institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation vid Göteborgs universitet (JMG). Undersökningen genomfördes som ...

I denna avhandling undersöks kommunikation som ett samtida fenomen i offentlig förvaltning. Studien har en etnografisk ansats och det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom observationer av kommunikationsverksamheten ...

This thesis is about public participation as a social practice and its discursive construction. Generally, previous research has depicted public participation as a tensional practice that is both praised and criticized. ...