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Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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37
Citations
7498
World Ranking
6177
National Ranking
1001

Overview

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the social sciences. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of media studies and communication, with particular attention to gender, feminism, social media, politics, misinformation, public relations, and rhetoric.

The scholar has published work in a variety of journals, with frequent venues including:

  • Digital Journalism
  • Journalism Studies
  • Journalism
  • Journalism Practice
  • PLoS ONE

Wahl-Jorgensen's recent papers include:

  • "The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism," 2021, Digital Journalism
  • "Conjecturing Fearful Futures: Journalistic Discourses on Deepfakes," 2021, Journalism Practice
  • "Introduction: The emotional turn in journalism," 2021, Journalism
  • "The epistemology of live blogging," 2020, New Media & Society
  • "The Affordances of Interview Research on Zoom: New Intimacies and Active Listening," 2021, Communication Culture and Critique

Collaboration appears as a key aspect of their research practice, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Thorsten Quandt
  • Matt Carlson
  • Mervi Pantti
  • Julia Boelle
  • Rhiannon Phillips

Their work spans several subfields including communication, sociology and political science, gender studies, political science and international relations, and general health professions. The main fields of study indicate a multidisciplinary approach grounded in social sciences.

Main areas of research involve:

  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Best Publications

  • The Handbook of Journalism Studies

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen;Thomas Hanitzsch

  • Citizens or Consumers: What the Media Tell us about Political Participation

    Justin Matthew Wren Lewis;S. Inthorn;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • The strategic ritual of emotionality: A case study of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles:

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • An emotional turn in journalism studies

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • "Have they got news for us"? Audience revolution or business as usual at the BBC?

    Andy Williams;Claire Wardle;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Letters to the Editor as a forum for public deliberation: Modes of publicity and democratic debate

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Disasters and the Media

    Mervi Pantti;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen;Simon Cottle

  • Emotions, Media and Politics

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Spiral of Moderation: Opinion Expression in Computer-Mediated Discussion

    Michael McDevitt;Spiro Kiousis;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society

    Arne Hintz;Lina Dencik;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • The construction of the public in letters to the editor: Deliberative democracy and the idiom of insanity

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Introduction: On why and how we should do journalism studies

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen;Thomas Hanitzsch

  • Media coverage of shifting emotional regimes: Donald Trump’s angry populism:

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • The culture of arts journalists Elitists, saviors or manic depressives?

    Gemma Harries;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Journalists and the Public: Newsroom Culture, Letters to the Editor, and Democracy

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • SUBJECTIVITY AND STORY-TELLING IN JOURNALISM: Examining expressions of affect, judgement and appreciation in Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • The Discursive Construction of Women Politicians in the European Press

    Inaki Garcia-Blanco;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Digital Citizenship and Surveillance| Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society — Introduction

    Arne Hintz;Lina Dencik;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • The Media Representation of Public Opinion: British Television News Coverage of the 2001 General Election

    Rod Brookes;Justin Lewis;Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

  • Audience views on user-generated content: exploring the value of news from the bottom up

    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen;Andrew Williams;Claire Wardle

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Hanitzsch
Thomas Hanitzsch Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wouter Poortinga
Wouter Poortinga Cardiff University
Fiona Wood
Fiona Wood Cardiff University
Spiro Kiousis
Spiro Kiousis University of Florida
Thorsten Quandt
Thorsten Quandt University of Münster
Jenny Kitzinger
Jenny Kitzinger Cardiff University

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