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 

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