THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM 2019 Innovations, Transitions and Transformations Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture Cardiff (Wales), 12 and 13 September 2019 ABSTRACTS Organised by: With the support of: NEWS ON STAGE Journalism’s various crises have been well-documented, such as lack of credibility and a Catherine Adams decline in its active role in the democratic process, but there has been a lack of constructive response or research into solutions to its problems. There is evidence of a growing audience for live, face-to-face events. This article reviews past and present [email protected] relationships between journalism and the stage and uses them as a springboard to introduce the concept of News Theatre. It configures a version of Habermas’s public space/sphere as a new locus for this kind of open journalism, performed to the public. In an age of confused news literacy, it presents examples to show how face-to-face journalism might be successful in helping to re-establishing its status and role in society as truth-teller. It argues that human intervention is now required to restore journalism’s authority and contends that journalism should consider communicating face-to-face, in order to rediscover its audience, by meeting them, in person. The paper points the way towards rebuilding communities of readers, strengthening the relationship between news, public and performance. The paper makes the historical connection between earliest known formats of News Theatre, from town crier, through revolutionary theatre in Russia and China and Living Newspapers of last century, to today’s experiments in event journalism around the world. It uses a theoretical framework to consider the role of audience as activists. It redefines the boundaries between journalism, theatre and political activism, and proposes a model which might help towards sustaining journalism for the future, while rediscovering the public sphere, through ‘News Theatre.’ THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM 2019 - ABSTRACTS AIRTIME TAKES THE STREET: This paper examines the strategies used by the Bilbao-based radio station Radio Candela INTERSECTIONALITY AND and how they have progressively created a space for intercultural exchange for the SPACE MAKING THROUGH Basque–Latin American community within the public sphere of the greater Bilbao metropolitan area. The main objective of this study is to identify and evaluate the CROSS-MEDIA AND CROSS- approaches the station has developed and employed for creating a medium of inclusion CULTURAL INITIATIVES through cross-cultural programming and activities—residencies and workshops in public Irati Agirreazkuenaga schools—in order to foster a multicultural dialogue and integration within the immigrant Ainara Larrondo communities in Bilbao. The station’s major achievement is thoroughly studied which Simon Peña consists of the creation of a multi-ethnic comparsa (festival group) into Bilbao’s Great Orge Castellano Week Festival, a major eight-day city-wide festival celebrated at the end of every August. The Basque Country provides a fitting scenario for a study on immigrant-focused media Estitxu Garai due to its socio-cultural context within Europe and Spain and the marked differences between the cultural traits and traditions of the region, making it an exemplary place to [email protected] analyze an ethnic radio station’s strategies thriving in a complex linguistic landscape. Qualitative analysis techniques have been applied to define what Radio Candela has done to build spaces of inclusion and to identify specific points of encounter and confrontation between the Latin-American community and the local residents. Results demonstrate that although a dialogue between opposing communities promoted by a medium and that has reached the streets of the city has begun, there is still a lack of more systematic and less anecdotal strategies for a true intersectionality. 3 THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM 2019 - ABSTRACTS ROBOT-EMPOWERED SOCCER Newsroom practices are slowly integrating automated AI-powered systems. Based on our NEWS IN THE NETHERLANDS: A four-year research project “The Automated Newsroom”, we had the opportunity to PERSPECTIVE ON READERS’ understand with clarity the impact of AI-powered systems in the reader’s quality of experience. After all, readers are the endpoint of the news production process. We EXPERIENCE developed a tool we called ‘PASS’ (Personalised Automated Soccer Text System), an AI- Jorge Alves Lino powered prototype automatically generating soccer news reports. We used PASS to study Chris Oomes the impact of AI in readers’ experience, including the evaluation of credibility of PASS- Linda van Loon generated sports articles compared with those written by journalists. How do Dutch Jeske van Dongen readers perceive the credibility of news articles written by machines, compared with Daniëlle Arets articles written by journalists? We defined "credibility" as a combination of “readability” and “reliability”, each quantified in five distinctive levels that we describe in this research. To understand and identify differences in perception, we selected short news articles in the [email protected] field of finances, police reports, and sports to elaborate in a comparative study. We presented these short news articles to several user groups of 150 respondents. While we instructed some groups that messages were written by journalists, we announced to other groups that computers had written these texts. We found, among others, that the perceived credibility between computer-written and journalist-written news articles were similar. Furthermore, newsreaders valued credibility of short sport-articles less, compared to short police and financial articles. This research presents the results of these user groups, including a comparison of topics and the credibility of computer-written versus journalist-written articles. 4 THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM 2019 - ABSTRACTS THE INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS In earlier work, the authors proposed that there was an affinity between affordances of OF POPULIST TIME: social media and styles of politics, an affinity which grounded itself upon the mediated JOURNALISM, SOCIAL MEDIA, nature of political time. Social media platforms like Twitter lend themselves to a populist political style, which, in terms of temporality, relate to the idea of short-circuiting notions of AND @REALDONALDTRUMP "democratic delay" that are built into liberal, representative political systems. Chris Anderson Henrik Bodker In this follow up paper, the authors begin an empirical investigation of the speculative claims they advanced in their initial paper. Specifically, they build a corpus of texts related [email protected] to two major political incidents in the United States-- the neo-Nazi protests in [email protected] Charlottesville, Virginia and their aftermath (2017), and the US government shutdown in early 2019. The corpus of texts consists of relevant Tweets by the President of the United States, @realdonaldtrump, during the time periods in question. They also analyze news media coverage of presidential tweets during the same time period, as well as broader coverage of the events and relevant hashtags. By coding this digital discourse to analyze the nature of political time, we hope to gain more empirically grounded insights into the following questions: How is the notion of "unmediation" or "immediacy" digitally constructed on Twitter? And, following that, how does the temporal aspects of populism feed into notions of populist politicians as more "authentic" or "pre-mediated? And, finally, how do these elements linked to the “real time” nature of twitter play into the construction of a broader political discourses? 5 THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM 2019 - ABSTRACTS HOW COMMUNITY MEDIA CAN Cyprus Community Media Center (CCMC) as a community media have filled the important ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF gap in the island of Cyprus. The Center have contributed to the media pluralism, freedom STANDARDS? of expression and access to the information. Since there are polarized media landscape and political party journalism tradition in the Cypriot mainstream media, certain groups of CASE STUDIES OF CCMC the communities, such as women, children, youth, LGBT, refugees are underrepresented. Aysu Arsoy In one hand, the ‘community media’ [CCMC] has offered a support and an access for a Metin Ersoy “diversification of voices in the Cyprus media landscape”. In the other hand ‘right based’ media practices are getting more significant in this sense. [email protected] ‘CCMC promotes the benefits of community-based media by giving people the skills to be [email protected] in control of their own messages’. The standards and outlets of the CCMC, we can reach to the following: The CCMC provided media training workshops such as “peace-building through listening” (Higgins, 2011) and “Community media for reconciliation” (Carpentier and Doudaki, 2013) and … loans equipment and provides support (Drucker and Gumpert, 2018). Brief summaries of the available research and studies about gives a successful community-based media reputation. However, since 29 June 2019 CCMC is unofficially shutdown. The working space is emptied and rented to a company and all equipment of CCMC are bought by another NGO. The closure of CCMC, which has made successful organizations and projects as a community media, will create a serious deficiency in the Cypriot media for pluralism. For the future of the community media at Cyprus, lessons from CCMC is taking important