We are pleased to announce the program of the 2nd edition of the Lisbon
Winter School for the Study of Communication that will take place at
Universidade Católica Portuguesa on January 7-11, 2020.
For registration and more details please check the Winter School website
<https://www.lisbonwinterschool.com/>.
*PROGRAM*
*TUESDAY, 7 JANUARY 2020*
*Venue: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Library Building, Second Floor*
*10.15* *– Registration and Coffee*
*11.15 – Opening Session*
*11.45 – Uncertainty in an Era of Fake News and Social Media*
*Dominique Brossard (University of Wisconsin-Madison)*
Chair: Nelson Ribeiro (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*14.15 - Paper Session I – Media Discourses on Green and Political Issues*
*Room: Exposições*
Chairs and Respondents: Teresa Ashe (The Open University), Catarina
Valdigem (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
(Un)Covering Sustainability: How journalists Perceive, Construct and Report
on Sustainable Finance
Nadine Strauß (University of Oxford)
Towing the Line: United States Press Coverage of the Green New Deal
Hanna E. Morris (Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania)
The Global Times’ Discourse of the 2018 Constitutional Amendment and
China’s New Populist Propaganda of Sensitive Political Issues
Joe Hua Fan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
*14.15 – Paper Session II – Uncertainty and Fear on Social Media*
*Room: Descobrimentos*
Chairs and Respondents: Dominique Brossard (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), Cátia Ferreira (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
The Role of Social Media in Bolstering a Weak Public Sphere and Civil
Society during a Time of Uncertainty: The Case of Greece
Michael Nevradakis (Deree – The American College of Greece)
Compulsory Continuous Connectedness: Liveness and Senses of Uncertainty in
Mainstream Social Media
Ludmila Lupinacci (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Twittering for Peace
Elizabeth Pinilla Duarte (University of Groningen)
*16.15 - Paper Session III – Journalism, Trust and Ethical Standards*
*Room: Exposições*
Chairs and Respondents: Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania),
Jessica Roberts (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Beyond Objectivity: The Epistemological Approach to Journalistic Truth
Margarita Khartanovich (University of Tampere)
Different Role, Different Ethics? Journalists Perception of their Role and
the Ethical Challenges and Risks while Covering a Murder Trial
Maria Bendix Wittchen (Roskilde University)
Dynamics of (Dis)Trust between the News Media and their Audience: The Case
of the 2019 Israeli Exit-Polls
Tali Aharoni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
*16.15 - Paper Session IV – Visual Media and Activism*
*Room: Descobrimentos*
Chairs and Respondents: Risto Kunelius (University of Helsinki), Adriana
Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
In One Hand a Camera and in the Other a Gun: State’s Adoption of Activist
Visual Strategies for Narrative Legitimacy
Anat Leshnick (University of Colorado Boulder)
See the Change! - Using Visual Storytelling in NGO Strategic Communication
Paulo Jorge Teixeira (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
TV News Representations of Contemporary Activism in Uncertain and Complex
Information Landscapes
Naíde Müller (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*WEDNESDAY, 8 JANUARY 2019*
*10.00 *– *Curated Lives: Smartphones as Tools of Control, Anticipation and
Avoidance*
*Carla Ganito (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)*
Chair: Fernando Ilharco (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*11.45 – Family Risk and Uncertainty in the Digital Age*
*Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science)*
Chair: Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania)
*14.30 – Visit to RTP Archive & Museum*
*THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 2020*
*10.00 – Climate Change: Discourses of Making and Unmaking*
* Teresa Ashe (The Open University)*
Chair: Risto Kunelius (University of Helsinki)
*11.45 – Science and Expertise under Fire: Political Control, Online
Harassment and Freedom of Expression*
* Esa Väliverronen (University of Helsinki)*
Chair: Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics and Political Science)
*14.15 – Paper Session V –* *Media, Precarity and Uncertainty*
*Room: Castro Marim*
Chairs and Respondents: Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and
Political Science), Catarina Duff Burnay (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Understanding Journalistic Environmental Precarity: A Holistic Approach to
Risk and the Civil Diminishment of Journalism
Sara Torsner (University of Sheffield)
Information Behavior in the Age of Uncertainty: The Case of Youngstown,
Ohio’s *The Vindicator*
Carla Everstijn (Kent State University)
“We’re all Told not to Put our Eggs in One Basket”: The Extension of
Neoliberal Worker Subject in the Online Video Industry
Zoë Glatt (London School of Economics and Political Science)
*14.15 - Paper Session VI – Terror and Fear in Legacy and Online Media*
*Room: Quatro Estações*
Chairs and Respondents: Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong),
Esa Väliverronen (University of Helsinki)
Debunking Fear: Ordinary Testimony and Emotional Evidence in the Mediation
of Crime and Policing
Kat Higgins (London School of Economics and Political Science)
A Comparative Study of how CNN and Al-Arabiya Report Terrorism in their
English and Arabic Websites
Waad Arif (University of Leeds)
Ritualisation of Crisis Communication in the Age of Uncertainty:
Crowd-enabled Responses to the Stockholm Terror Attack on Twitter
Minttu Tikka (University of Helsinki)
*16.15 – Paper Session VII - Covering and Challenging Official Narratives*
*Room: Castro Marim*
Chairs and Respondents: Victor Pickard (Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania), Ana Margarida Abrantes (Universidade Católica
Portuguesa)
From Shutdowns to Slowdowns: Storytelling after Internet Blackouts
Florence Madenga (Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania)
Media Coverages on Corruption and the Critical Capacity of Journalism in
China: An Empirical Analysis of The Beijing News (2004-2018)
Yang Hu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Piglets be Active: Debunking Peculiarities of Online Vigilantism in Russia
Rashid Gabdulhakov (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
*16.15 – Paper VIII – Journalism, Credibility and Trust*
*Room: Quatro Estações*
Chairs and Respondents: Fathali Moghaddam (George Washington University),
Jessica Roberts (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Survival Instinct, Sense of Service and Quality among Bodo and Karbi Tribal
Language Newspapers
Samarjit Kachari (Pondicherry University)
Eliminating Uncertainty by Fact-checking Practices: A Way to Rebuilding
Public Trust in the Media?
Angelina Toursel and Philippe Useille (Université Polytechnique des
Hauts-de-France)
A Horizontal Approach: How to Improve Social Aspects of Journalism by Being
more Sociable – a Study of Guga Chacra on Twitter
Fernanda Cristine Vasconcellos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica Rio Grande
do Sul/Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*FRIDAY, 10 JANUARY 2020*
*10.00 – Digital Migration: How Technologies Shape Transnational Movement
in Contexts of Uncertainty*
*Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong)*
Chair: Alexandra Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa
*11.45 –* *Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of
Uncertainty*
*Fathali Moghaddam (George Washington University) *
Chair: Catarina Burnay (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*14.15 - Paper Session IX – Media, Migration and Misogyny *
*Room: Castro Marim*
Chairs and Respondents: Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics and
Political Science), Alexandra Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
“Welcome to America”: Situating Memes, Mistaken Photographs, and
(Photo)journalism in the Trump Era
Jeanna Sybert (Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania)
When Chronic Uncertainty Makes for Uncertain Chronicles: A Case study on
PBS’s Independent Documentaries and their Storytelling on LatinX Migration
to the US
Alexandra J. Sanchez (KU Leuven)
When Veterans Try to Make TV for and by Veterans: Navigating the
Modern Military-Industrial-Communications-Complex
Muira McCammon (Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania)
*14.15 – Paper X – Reporting and Translating International Events in Times
of Uncertainty*
*Room: Quatro Estações*
Chairs and Respondents: Paula Espírito Santo (Universidade de Lisboa),
Eduardo Cintra Torres (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
From Bad to Better: Possible Implications of a Transnational News agency in
the Øresund Region
Mads Kæmsgaard Eberholst (Roskilde University)
Noticiero ICAIC newsreel: The Cuban News Coverage of Latin American
Dictatorships (1960-1990). How to Report Political Uncertainty under
Uncertain Conditions of News Production?
Camila Arêas (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
The Catholic, the Capitalist and the Post-Communism: Three Leaders
Rewritten in the Portuguese Newspaper *Diário de Notícias*
Márcia Dias Sousa (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*16.15 – Paper Session XI – Big Data, Archives and Surveillance*
*Room: Castro Marim*
Chairs and Respondents: Teresa Ashe (The Open University), Carla Ganito
(Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Platformizing the Health of a Nation: The Promise of Mobile Data and
Digital Infrastructure in South Korea’s Outbreak Management
Young Rim Kim (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
From Media Events to Forgetting Space: Non-archivisation in Digital
Memory—A Case Study of Bullet Comments in Live Streaming
Andong Li (King's College London)
*16.15 – Paper Session XII – Institutions and Representations*
*Room: Quatro Estações*
Chairs and Respondents: Peter Hanenberg (Universidade Católica Portuguesa),
Patrícia Dias (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
The New Vatican Spokesman in the Era of Uncertainty
Tereza Zavadilová (Charles University)
(Re)Mediating Jasmine in Aladdin’s 2019 Live-Action Film: Uncertainty,
Female Representation and Gender Ideology
Ana Flora Machado (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*SATURDAY, 11 JANUARY 2020*
*16.00 –* *Does Journalism Have a Future?*
*Victor Pickard (Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania)*
Chair: Peter Hanenberg (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*17.30 – Communicating Risk and Uncertainty via the Media*
*James Painter (University of Oxford)*
Chair: Luísa Leal de Faria (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
*18.45 – Concluding Remarks*
Nelson Ribeiro (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania)
Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Risto Kunelius (University of Helsinki)
*19.45 – Winter School Closing Dinner *
*For program updates and more information visit: **www.lisbonwinterschool.com
<http://www.lisbonwinterschool.com/>*
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