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• The web server is working again

  [3 Feb 2020] The web server for students's work is no longer out of order.

• JMG's web server for students' work is out of order

  [20 Jan 2020] Web server out of order.

• Doctoral position in artificial intelligence and political language with the GRIPES project

  [15 Jan 2020] Welcome to apply to a doctoral position at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Clarification of the purpose behind the series In the mind of a party strategist

  [28 Nov 2019] This autumn, the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) has presented a series of talks "In the mind of a party strategist", where strategists from all parties represented in the Swedish parliament have been invited to talk about their experiences with political and strategic communication. The last planned talk in the series has resulted in criticism and a petition has been published in protest against allowing the Sweden Democrats to speak at the University of Gothenburg. JMG hereby wishes to clarify the purpose of the series.

• Ulla Carlsson honored with the Swedish UNESCO Prize before the Global MIL Conference 2019 in Gothenburg

  [21 Oct 2019] The worst thing that can happen in a democracy is if its citizens lose faith or interest and feel they have no part in public affairs. That¿s what makes the right to information and freedom of expression such a crucially important political issue. So says Ulla Carlsson, recipient of the 2019 Swedish UNESCO Prize.

• Big Boss Suffers PR Disaster at JMG Lecture

  [3 Oct 2019] Journalism and communications students grilled the powerful chairman of Volkswagen, Ferdinand Piëch, during a dramatic lecture on Tuesday that turned into a PR bloodbath for the beleaguered boss of the disgraced German car company. David ibison's first lecture was much appreciated by the students at JMG.

• New Book Launch: The digitization of media - a challenge for democracy

  [23 Sep 2019] In the age of digital communication, Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is more urgent than ever. In her new book, Ulla Carlsson, UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression, Media Development and Global Policy at University of Gothenburg, calls for new solutions as a part of a democracy strategy.

• Postdoctoral fellow to the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication

  [17 Sep 2019] We are hiring one postdoctoral fellow to work in the ERC-funded project Varieties of Media Effects at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Application for the popular PhD course Communicating Science is now open

  [28 Aug 2019] The elective Faculty PhD course Communicating Science will be given for the fourth time Fall/Winter 2019/20.

• Social journalists and a new social news media logic when social media is adopted in journalism

  [26 Aug 2019] Long time journalist (daily local and regional news) Ulrika Hedman defends her thesis "#InFlux. Journalists' adoption of social media and journalists' social roles" at University of Gothenburg on 6 September 2019.

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