Media. Audiences. Journalism. Society.
- The mediatised society
The experience of this research group comes from long-term cooperation in international and national level projects. In these projects, the group’s members have defined several new research directions and become promoters of innovation in the social sciences in Latvia. Its purpose is to search for new answers to the current problems of the mediatised society, developing new research approaches, contributing to the improvement of theories and study methods, as well as offering research conclusions to media policy decision-makers, the media industry, and social partners.
Main research directions
- mediatisation
- journalism
- visual communication
- media literacy
- media and feminism
- press freedom
- media regulation and self-regulation
- mass media theories
- media language
- media consumption patterns of children and young people
- AI-based media
- audience research tools
- The shifting relationship between media and society
Building on the traditions of audience research and journalism studies, the research group seeks to
- explore the ways people today use, experience, and make sense of media and journalism;
- examine how media institutions imagine their audiences, engage with them, and build relationships with the public at large;
- address the implications these processes have on the self-image of journalists and the ways journalism is made.
This research focus provides new knowledge and better understanding of the shifting relationship between media and society in a time of personalised and fragmented media use, political and ideological polarisation on the part of both media and their audiences, widespread disinformation and other forms of information manipulation, declining media trust, media scepticism and cynicism, information overload, and news fatigue and avoidance.
Group members
Head of Curriculum Quality Development, Faculty of Social Sciences
Academic Staff, Faculty of Social Sciences
Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences
Academic Staff, Faculty of Social Sciences
Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences
Acting Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences
Scientific Coordinator, Social Sciences Research Centre
PhD candidate
Projects
Worlds of Journalism Study 2021-2023: Mapping journalism’s hostile environment
Horizon 2020 projekts Mediadelcom: Finding risks and opportunities for European media landscapes
Euromedia Ownership Monitor EU 12
Publications
- 2024
- 2023
Juzefovičs, J, 2023. "Making sense of the Covid-19 crisis: Information-seeking practices and attitudes towards information providers among Baltic audiences". Journal of Baltic Studies.
DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2290603
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/making-sense-of-the-…Kõuts-Klemm, R., Eberwein, T., Peruško, Z., Vozab, D., Rožukalne, A., Skulte, I., & Stakle, A. 2023. "Media and Journalism Research in Small European Countries". Media and Communication, 12, Article 7205
Link: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.7205Vihalemm, T., Juzefovičs, J. 2023. "'They say we are all zombies’: Rethinking the role of audiences in a mediatized international conflict", Global Media and Communication. 19(1): 3–28.
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/they-say-we-are-all-…- 2022
Juzefovičs, J. 2022. "Making Sense of Public Media in Times of Geo-Political Crisis: Latvian Public Media and their Ethno-Linguistic Majority and Minority Audiences". In: Chakars, J., Ekmanis, I. eds. Information Wars in the Baltic States: Russia’s Long Shadow. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 55–79
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/making-sense-of-publ…Jõesaar, A., Rožukalne, A. & Jastramskis, D. 2022. "Trust in public service media in the Baltic states", Journal of Baltic Studies, 53:4, 587–611.
DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2022.21278161
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01629778.2022…Kõuts-Klemm, R., Rožukalne, A. & Jastramskis, D. 2022. "Resilience of national media systems: Baltic media in the global network environment". Journal of Baltic Studies.
DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2022.2103162
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01629778.2022.2…Rožukalne, A. & Liepa, D. 2022. "From 'Covid idiots' to 'Covidshow' and 'covidhysteria'. Analysis of digital news commenters verbal aggressiveness and means of linguistics creativity during Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia" (2020–2021). Media Studies, 3, 329–360
Rožukalne, A., & Kažoka, A. 2022. “It’s complicated, but we put it “simply”. Analysis of the media literacy framing in Latvian Media Support Fund projects (2018 - 2020). Comunicação Pública, 17(33)
Link: https://doi.org/10.34629/cpublica.513Vihalemm, T., Juzefovičs, J. 2022. "Navigating Conflicts through the Media: The Sceptical and Self- Responsible Repertoires of Baltic Russian-Speakers". East European Politics and Societies and Cultures 36(2): 423–445.
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/navigating-conflicts…- 2020
Juzefovičs, J., Vihalemm, T. 2020. "Keeping channels open or screening out? The digital practices of Baltic Russian-speakers during the Russia-Ukraine conflict". Russian Journal of Communication 12(3): 262–283.
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/keeping-channels-ope…Rožukalne, A., Skulte, I., & Stakle, A. 2020. "Media education in the common interest: Public perceptions of media literacy policy in Latvia". Central European Journal of Communication, 13(2/26), 202–229
Link: https://doi.org/10.19195/1899-5101.13.2(26).4- 2019
Vihalemm, T., Juzefovičs, J., and Leppik, M. 2019. "Identity and Media-use Strategies of the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking Populations Amid Political Crisis". Europe-Asia Studies 71(1): 48–70.
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/identity-and-media-u…- 2017
Juzefovičs, J. 2017. "Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia: Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television". Bristol, Chicago: Intellect.
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/broadcasting-and-nat…Tejkalová, N. et al. 2017. "In media we trust: Journalists and institutional trust perceptions in post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries". Journalism Studies 18(5): 629–644.
Link: https://science.rsu.lv/en/publications/in-media-we-trust-jo…
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