DigiPol: Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy

The AI Turn in Journalism Abstract: Unlike previous changes in digital media technologies over the past few decades, this AI “turn” in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with audiences. While AI complicates and challenges some existing professional, social, political, and economic structures, it also offers new ways to realize desired journalistic objectives that were previously considered to be impractical, if not impossible. Drawing on four orienting ideas—adoption and hype, power and dependency, audiences and democratic implications, and education and empowerment—I unpack the implications of this AI turn in journalism and the consequences for the future of the journalistic field.

Dear colleagues, we are delighted to invite you to our DigiPol research seminar given by DigiPol visiting fellow Tomás Dodds. Wednesday 3.30pm to 5pm School of the Arts Library or email rsouth@liverpool.ac.uk to join online. Abstract below. Please re skeet!

💥Upcoming event! 💥"The Politics of Platform Regulation"
🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT

Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content

Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

Front page of saferpolitics.org website

Yesterday we launched our SaferPolitics toolkit and training resources which are designed to support politicians and their staff with online safety based on research by @rosalynd.bsky.social & I. Find out more 👇
saferpolitics.org
@digipol.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social

I'm excited to attend the launch event of the Safer Politics Online Safety Tool Kit, headed up by my brilliant colleagues in @commmedia.bsky.social @harm365.bsky.social @rosalynd.bsky.social

NEWS I Launched today in the @sotauol.bsky.social library, a vital new online safety resource for political parties and their communications teams. Read more ⬇️

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...

@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk

Here we go - looking forward to Yannis Tzioumakis inaugural professorial lecture to a packed School of the Arts library! @sotauol.bsky.social

Brilliant initiative and work from my dear colleague Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (as well as Mark Pogson, @harm365.bsky.social, and @rosalynd.bsky.social)!

'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities'

3rd June 4-6pm (Online)

Our @craighaslop.bsky.social will be on this exciting panel exploring the ‘manosphere’. It's free and online!

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This week, as part of World Press Freedom Day, DigiPol director Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova and team launched the Global Index on Journalists' Safety based on data from the Worlds of Journalism Study and Unesco Data on journalist killings. Read more here-

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/08/u...

Dr Gilcrist in the school of the arts library - a wood panelled room. There is a projector with slides showing d depictions of menopause in culture and advertising

Starting now! Kate Gilchrist giving the DigiPol seminar on menopause and advertising. Fascinating so far!

A poster giving details and scannable QR codes to recruit participants for a research project at the University of Liverpool into the creation of accessible and inclusive spaces and resources for TTRPGs.

📢📢 WE ARE RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS📢📢

If you are interested in Dungeons and Dragons or TTRPGs more generally and would like to be involved in research seeking to create accessible and inclusive games and resources for players and GMs then check out this #CFP

@commmedia.bsky.social

@craighaslop.bsky.social

Picture from the back of a wood panelled library showing a screening of a film where a man is weightlifting while another person spots him

Poster for the screening showcase with a person pulling a red jumper over their head with a white tee underneath. The jumper reads 'how we love is who we are'

Fab turnout for the Queer Screen Cultures Showcase for LGBTQ+ History Month! Fab work by @garyneedham.bsky.social and Hannah Spaulding for pulling this together 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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📣 New artilcle from Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, Mark Pogson and colleagues 'Media Capture, Survival of the Corruptest and Journalistic Agency: The Case of Bulgaria' published in International Journal of Press/Politics. Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

After *that*, I'll be a British Academy fellow down in South Africa for a year from September, researching rural journalism in South Africa and making myself generally useful as a colleague to the South African Institute of International Affairs.

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I've been lucky enough to be awarded a CODESRIA fellowship to visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Dar es Salaam in May/June.

It's a grand full-circle meet up with Drs Mkoko and Dotto, with whom I was a baby MA student in Media at Rhodes University.

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Flyer for a hybrid panel event on media and the Ukraine war at Liverpool University on 27 Feb, from 14h30 - 16h30. To sign up, you can go to https://bit.ly/liverpoolmediaukraine The panel description reads: How has the war in Ukraine affected the work and structure of media? This panel brings together journalists, scholars and media professionals for a panel discussing how events in Ukraine have altered the media landscape, the working practices of journalists working in and on the war, and broader struggles over mediating the conflict JOANNA SZOSTEK Senior Lecturer in Political and International Studies at the University of Glasgow OLGA TOKARIUK Journalist and academy associate in the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House NINA KURYATA Ukraine and Defence Editor, Tortoise Media YAROSLAVA BUKHTA DPhil researcher on contemporary knowledge production in war at Oxford

We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards.

Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

Celebrate LGBTQ History Month with @commmedia.bsky.social! Enjoy queer films, videos and documentaries, curated by students from the Queer Film, Video, and Documentary module 🌈

📽️ Queer Screen Cultures Showcase
🗓️ Fri 28th Feb 1pm
📍 School Of The Arts Library
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

Grab the popcorn 🍿

For LGBTQ history month our Department is hosting a showcase to celebrates Queer Screen Cultures! 🎥

📆 Friday 28th Feb 1-5pm
💸 Free Sign-up req.

In show will be a range of queer films, videos, and documentaries curated by our students!

www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves Extreme weather events are short-term and have concrete impacts on local communities. This may make them easier to narrate for media outlets than the increases in global average temperatures. We us...

Jill Hopke and I have a new research paper (open access) out now in Environmental Communication.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our next seminar is happening this week! Join us in person or online. Details below 👇
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DigiPol Seminar - Dr Travis Coan (University of Exeter) at School Of The Arts Library - University of Liverpool Tickets are now available for DigiPol Seminar - Dr Travis Coan (University of Exeter) at School Of The Arts Library - University of Liverpool, Liverpool on Wed 12 Feb 2025. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

Please join us and Dr Travis Coan for our third DigiPol (@digipol.bsky.social) research seminar talk on 12 February, 16:00-17:30 (GMT) at the University of Liverpool in the School of the Arts Library. You can also join online, free tickets are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

This is happening this week! Join us in person or online for this on Wednesday! Full details below 👇

Don't forget to sign up for our DigiPol Seminar next week! Info below 👇

"Digipol: Going beyond the State: a collaborative model" at School Of The Arts Library - First Floor Tickets are now available for Digipol: Going beyond the State: a collaborative model at School Of The Arts Library - First Floor, Liverpool on Wednesday 5th February 2025 at 4:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

Join us for our next hybrid DigiPol research seminar 'Going beyond the State: a collaborative model' with Prof Xiaoling Zhang.
🗓️ Weds 5 February, 4.00-5.30pm
📍 School of the Arts Library

All welcome! Register: www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

"Digipol: Going beyond the State: a collaborative model" at School Of The Arts Library - First Floor Tickets are now available for Digipol: Going beyond the State: a collaborative model at School Of The Arts Library - First Floor, Liverpool on Wednesday 5th February 2025 at 4:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

Make sure to check out the next @digipol.bsky.social Event: "Going beyond the State: a collaborative model" with Professor Xiaoling Zhang.

📆 Weds 5th Feb 4:00-5.30pmPM
🌐SOTA Library, 19 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool

www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

Be careful out there on the snow while you're enjoying how pretty campus is ❤️⛄