Month: October 2024

New Paper: “‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram”

Digital platforms, like Instagram, offer various ways for self-expression, support, and community building, but their content moderation practices reveal deep-rooted biases that affect who gets to participate platform organizing. In our recent paper “‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram” in Organization Studies, we – Monica Nadegger, Milena Leybold and Sean Kenney – explore how these platforms enforce norms through content moderation, shaping what contributions are deemed appropriate. Find out more in this blog post and in the full paper.

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International Research Project:
“Local Journalism and Municipal Communication in digital Transformation”

(from left to right: Urs Dahinden, Matthias Künzler, Ulla Autenrieth, Simon Gadras, Alwin Baumhöver, Johanna Burger, Caroline Dalmus, Malte Meyer)

The international research project “Local Journalism and Municipal Communication in Digital Transformation” brought together researchers from Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, and Austria to explore the digital transformation of local journalism and municipal communication. 

Our team presented the findings at the 10th European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, held from September 24 to 27. This year’s theme, “Communication & Social (Dis)order”, provided a platform for our panel presentation titled “Innovation as a Threat to Democracy? Effects of Local Communication’s Transformation on Democracies”. Here, we discussed the potential risks and opportunities of digital innovation in local communication, particularly the evolving interdependencies between municipalities and local media. 

For more information and access to project results, including practical recommendations for local media and municipalities, visit the project’s website where the results are available in German language.