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Depictions and Politicization of the Truth in Democratic Politics
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Citizen journalism: Revisiting the concept and developments
Publication . Min, Seong Jae; Salgado, Susana; Mutsvairo, Bruce
The inception of modern citizen journalism takes its roots in the early 2000s, with users
appropriating social media platforms and blogs to report, distribute, and consume news. In
many places, these digital tools gave a new voice to those long denied by the authoritarian
control of the media landscape (Sheen et al., 2024). In historicizing citizen journalism,
Hughes (2011) argues that printing of pamphlets backing American colonies’ independence
from Britain was a defining moment for citizen journalism practice, suggesting
that the press freedom clause of the First Amendment of the US in 1791 was in fact to
protect citizen journalists because at that time there were no professional journalists.
Scholars such as Miller (2019) and Matheson (2014), however, consider citizen journalism
as a relatively new phenomenon, which gained momentum in the late 1990s and
early 2000s thanks to the ubiquity of digital technology. Other scholars like Blaagard
(2019) dispute appeals to confine citizen journalism to technological networks, preferring
to link it to its embodied and political roots.
Working paper: Quality of the European News Ecology
Publication . Salgado, Susana
Working paper on the Quality of the European News Ecology.
Placing Portuguese Right-Wing Populism Into Context: Analogies With France, Italy, and Spain
Publication . Biscaia, Afonso; Salgado, Susana
This chapter examines the discourse of the Portuguese right-wing populist André Ventura and compares it with his close counterparts, Santiago Abascal, Marine Le Pen, and Matteo Salvini. The empirical analysis is focused on the 2021 presidential campaign and looks at Twitter and YouTube as parts of an integrated political communication strategy that are used as tools of exposure and message dissemination. The results show how André Ventura appropriates the features of right-wing populism but adapts those to the Portuguese specific context as a strategy to gain both wider media visibility and popular support.
Assessing the prevalence and predictors of incivility in online news comments across six countries
Publication . Salgado, Susana; Zúñiga, Homero Gil; Silva, Pedro Alcântara da; Biscaia, Afonso; Coimbra, Miguel E.; Martins, Bruno; Francisco, Alexandre
Drawing on discussions about the manifestation of incivility in online news comments sections, our research operationalizes the concept of incivility and suggests a methodological approach that relies on manual and automated text analysis and regression analysis to assess its prevalence and identify its predictors. Relying on a data analysis of over two million comments on immigration and unemployment retrieved from twelve newspapers websites from six countries (Brazil, Chile, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States), our study confirms the prevalence of incivility in online news comments sections and shows that comments on the topic of immigration, with clear political orientation, particularly right-wing, and displaying populism and false information perception are more prone to include discursive features of incivility.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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CEEC IND 3ed
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2020.04070.CEECIND/CP1615/CT0007