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

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

Prof. Dr. sc. soc. Anda Rožukalne

Academic Staff, Faculty of Social Sciences

 

PhD Jānis Juzefovičs

Lead Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. philol. Ilva Skulte

Academic Staff, Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Asst. Prof. Dr. paed. Alnis Stakle

Academic Staff, Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Asst. Prof. Dr. philol. Dite Liepa

Academic Staff, Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Mg. sc. soc. Līga Ozoliņa

Acting Vice-Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Head of Curriculum Quality Development, Faculty of Social Sciences
Academic Staff, Faculty of Social Sciences
Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Acting Lect. Mg. comm., Mg. math., Mg. paed. Diāna Kalniņa

Academic Staff, Statistics Unit
Acting Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences
Scientific Coordinator, Social Sciences Research Centre
PhD candidate

 

Projects

The Baltic Russophone identity in flux: Political behavior, boundary making, and media practices after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Making sense of the Covid-19 crisis: information-seeking and trust-making strategies of the Baltic media audiences at the times of the coronavirus pandemic

Public media and society: attitudes, perceptions and expectations: study into audience of the Latvian Television and Latvian Radio

Worlds of Journalism Study 2021-2023: Mapping journalism’s hostile environment

Horizon 2020 project Mediadelcom: Finding risks and opportunities for European media landscapes

Media Pluralism Monitor

Euromedia Ownership Monitor EU 12

Worlds of Journalism Study

“Vieglās valodas veicināšana sociālai iekļaušanai” (Promoting Easy-to-Read Language for Social Inclusion – PERLSI)

Life with COVID-19: Evaluation of overcoming the coronavirus crisis in Latvia and recommendations for societal resilience in the future

Publications

2024

Rožukalne, Anda; Skulte, Ilva. 27.06.2024. Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era : application of the media pluralism monitor in the European member states and in candidate countries in 2023. Country report : Latvia

Rožukalne, Anda, Aija Kažoka, and Linda Siliņa. 2024. 'Are Journalists Traitors of the State, Really?'—Self-Censorship Development during the Russian–Ukrainian War: The Case of Latvian PSM. Social Sciences 13, no. 7: 350
DOI: 10.3390/socsci13070350

2023

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

2022

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)

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

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

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

2020

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

2017

Juzefovičs, J. 2017. Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia: Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television. Bristol, Chicago: Intellect

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