This study, entitled “Information Quality in Mozambican Web Journalism: from user experience to information quality,” stemming from the lack of answers to the question of how the characteristics of web journalism are exploited, sought to understand how the online newspaper “Mozambique Charter” uses interactivity, hyperlinks, and multimedia to improve the experience and quality of information for the internet user-reader. Using a qualitative approach, the authors examined ten editions of the online newspaper. The results show that, although images are used as a multimedia resource, other elements, such as videos and graphics, are not explored, limiting the journalistic narrative. Interactivity is also restricted, as the login requirement to comment discourages reader participation. Regarding hyperlinks, news articles almost never present external links, which do not direct to relevant content, reducing the potential for in-depth information. These findings indicate that the Mozambique Charter could enhance the exploration of interactivity, hyperlinking, and multimedia, offering a more dynamic, multimodal, and higher-quality information experience to users. These findings indicate that the Mozambique Charter could enhance the exploration of interactivity, hyperlinking, and multimedia, offering a more dynamic, multimodal, and higher-quality information experience to users. These improvements could encourage users to engage more deeply with the content, access more comprehensive and reliable information, develop critical thinking and digital literacy skills, and foster a more participatory and informed online community. By enhancing the quality and interactivity of online journalism, the Mozambique Charter can better meet the needs of modern readers and contribute to a stronger, more connected digital public sphere.

Press infographics play an important role in media literacy, particularly in cases where the use of text alone can compromise the full understanding of information. By enabling the media to be used critically, effectively and safely, infographics become an educational tool that counteracts the transmission of false or unverified information since they contribute to the creation of critical thinking in the face of disinformation and manipulation. Media and information literacy are, therefore, essential in citizenship education and should be developed throughout life. This paper aims to analyse the importance and the relationship between media literacy skills and the process of reading, perceiving and interpreting an infographic. Its operationalisation is based on the process of producing an independent, specific and analytical infographic on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Portugal. The press infographics produced made it possible to synthesise and visually represent the most relevant information on the subject. The results show that by making the journalistic narrative more objective and comprehensible, visual journalism makes a significant contribution to media literacy.

This study used interview and focus group discussion data to explore why journalists in Ghana feel reluctant to pursue investigative journalism. The study highlights the precarious nature of investigative journalism in Ghana, exposing safety and security concerns faced by journalists. The effects of increasing attacks on journalist’s practices and behavior include constant fear, anxiety, psychological stress, post-traumatic stress, and financial concerns. These challenges force many journalists to self-censor by avoiding investigative reporting altogether. The study advocates for the effective implementation of the Right to Information Act, robust legal protections, training, and insurance coverage for investigative journalists.

This study examines how religious minorities are represented and made intelligible within platform-native journalism, with particular attention to the discursive strategies employed by Indonesian digital news media on YouTube. The purpose of the study is to critically explore how intercultural meanings, inclusivity, and social legitimacy are constructed through audiovisual news content featuring minority religious groups, and how such representations operate within broader social and ideological contexts. Using a qualitative research design, the study applies Critical Discourse Analysis based on Teun A. van Dijk’s three-dimensional framework, encompassing textual structures, social cognition, and social context. The primary data consist of selected special-feature videos produced by Kumparan’s YouTube channel that focus on Sikh and Orthodox Christian communities in Indonesia, supported by secondary data from relevant literature and institutional documents. The findings reveal that platform-native journalism does not merely report on religious diversity but actively performs discursive inclusion through careful lexical choices, narrative framing, visual composition, and dialogic presentation. These strategies position minority religions as legitimate social actors while simultaneously aligning journalistic narratives with dominant norms of tolerance, harmony, and national pluralism. At the level of social cognition, the media organization demonstrates an awareness of its influential role in shaping public understanding of religious difference, while at the level of social context, the discourse reflects broader efforts to manage religious diversity within a multicultural society. The significance of this study lies in its contribution to religious and media studies by highlighting how digital journalism platforms function as sites where inclusion is not only articulated but enacted discursively. By foregrounding platform-native news practices, this research offers a nuanced understanding of religion, media power, and intercultural communication in contemporary society, making it relevant to international discussions on religion in the digital public sphere.

IntroductionDespite the significant impact of the media on individuals with mental illness, newspaper articles related to antidepressants have not been systematically studied. The present study aimed to analyze Brazilian journalistic coverage on the use of antidepressants to understand how the news presents and shapes the topic of antidepressants for its readers.MethodsThis qualitative study evaluated journalistic content on antidepressant use from Folha de São Paulo, a newspaper available in digital format. Articles published between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2023 were collected and stored in a database for analysis. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques, combined with machine learning, were applied. The R software (version 4.3.3) with tidytext, tm, tidyverse, and stringr packages was used for the analyses. The study identified patterns and trends in language usage, focusing on frequently occurring terms to understand how antidepressants are portrayed in media content.ResultsThe initial research was conducted using the keyword “antidepressants” in the search engine of the Folha de São Paulo. Of the articles assessed for eligibility, 182 were included in the study. Across all the articles, the analysis aimed to identify the most frequently used words, resulting in a word cloud. The most used words in the text body were “treatment,” followed by “years,” “anxiety,” “women,” and “pandemic.” Regarding the most frequent words in the titles, they were “depression,” “health,” and “study.” On average, there was no significant change in the total number of n-gramsused.ConclusionsThe findings illustrated how Brazilian media frames antidepressant use, revealing potential misinformation or stigma. Understanding these representations can guide strategies for improving public awareness and reducing stigma around mental health. By highlighting trends in journalistic narratives, this study contributes to public health policies that promote accurate, responsible communication about antidepressant use.

OP 20: Challenges and Opportunities for Health 1, B308 (FCSH), September 4, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30The living conditions of refugees and migrants in Greek camps, particularly in Moria, have been extensively covered by the media. At the same time, numerous studies have underlined the impact of poor living conditions on the health of refugees and migrants, while this aspect remains less researched in the literature on media representations of health and migration. In this context, the present paper draws attention to living conditions and explores how the media framing of them affects the representation of health issues.The overall objective of the research is to investigate the representation of health in the field of migration during the refugee and migration crisis in Greece (2015-2020), through a sample of 1193 news stories stemming from the online news pages of national (Ta Nea, Proto Thema) and international newspapers (The Guardian, The New York Times). For the analysis of news stories, a quantitative content analysis was conducted using an interdisciplinary encoding scheme developed for the study.Selected results from the research indicate that, although social determinants of health appeared in significant percentages in news stories, solutions to the problems arising from them are largely absent. At the same time, the way these determinants are framed tends to reinforce the portrayal of refugees and migrants as ‘victims’. These findings reveal that, when notions such as social determinants of health and structural violence, which are fundamental in the literature to comprehending the exposure of minorities to ill health, are embedded in the news content, they may lean towards serving the journalistic narrative rather than raising critical awareness of refugees’ and migrants’ health problems. To respond to this multidimensional challenge, the study proposes a new perspective for the coverage of health issues concerning migration, which is grounded in constructive journalism and inspired by the principles of global health.

Football has evolved beyond its athletic dimension to become a global cultural and media phenomenon. The concept of Disneyization, when applied to football, refers to its transformation into a spectacle designed for mass consumption, structured through emotionally charged and inspirational narratives. This article analyses the role of sports journalism in the Disneyization of Wrexham AFC, focusing on how journalistic narratives have presented the club’s acquisition by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney as a success story grounded in entertainment logic. Using a mixed-methods approach—combining a survey with three focus groups—the study examines how audiences perceive and evaluate the media narratives that contribute to the club’s spectacularisation and the legitimisation of celebrity-led ownership models. Findings reveal that Wrexham’s global image is largely constructed through affective storytelling promoted by journalism and streaming platforms, particularly the docuseries Welcome to Wrexham. While celebrity ownership is associated with narratives of authenticity and emotional involvement, state-backed models are more frequently linked to controversy and soft power strategies. This research highlights the narrative asymmetries that shape public perceptions of club ownership. It argues that sports journalism no longer acts merely as a transmitter of information but operates as a discursive agent producing cultural legitimacy. The case of Wrexham illustrates how football’s reconfiguration as transmedia entertainment reflects broader dynamics of commodification, narrative economy, and symbolic value.

Narrative (or storytelling) journalism has been proposed as an alternative for reconfiguring the information offered to audiences within the transmedia ecosystem, a product of the technological, economic, and cultural transformation of the media industries. The fact that the transmedia environment poses some ethical challenges for narrative journalists, however, warrants a thorough analysis of that situation. This study allows us to propose various standards, as a framework to guide journalistic practice in its commitment to question and reflect the reality of communities. From an applied ethics perspective, we utilize theories of Otherness and Moloney’s principles of transmedia journalism to achieve this goal and propose various axes of reflection and ethical standards to support journalistic practice committed to the narrative approach. Consequently, we outline how journalists can foster a more active relationship with their audiences, develop an empathetic relationship with the Other, and improve their ability to respect, recognize, and include while recognizing their diversity.

ABSTRACT In the evolving digital era, user-generated content (UGC) plays a crucial role in shaping journalistic narratives, shedding light on the corporeal realities of news coverage. This study delves into the embodied nature of UGC—its visual, auditory, and emotional components—that significantly enhance the perceptual immediacy and authenticity of news. Utilizing descriptive and correlational analyses, this research examines how these embodied characteristics impact journalistic authenticity and emotional resonance. The findings illuminate that aspects such as on-site Filming and emotional Language are closely linked with journalistic objectivity and emotional intensity. Moreover, the incorporation of UGC foregrounds ethical challenges, highlighting concerns over privacy and misinformation, which are pivotal in maintaining journalistic integrity. This analysis underscores the necessity for news organizations to adeptly navigate these complexities, promoting an understanding of how the corporeal engagement facilitated by UGC redefines journalistic practices and values. By emphasizing the material and discursive positioning of bodies in journalism, this paper contributes to broader discussions on the corporeal dimensions of communication in the digital age, offering guidelines for establishing ethical standards that respect both the integrity of news and its inherently participatory nature.

Aim. To identify and demonstrate the concept “parliamentarism” as an integrating factor of the Russian statehood, presented in the journalistic narratives created by the representatives of the Siberian democratic regionalism (regionalism) ideology at the beginning of the 20th century.Methodology. With use of tools of political textology, the written narratives containing political discussions on the development of representative bodies in Siberia and the entire Asian part of Russia are analyzed. The methodology of the “new political history” also played an epistemological role for cognitive purposes, which make it possible to direct discursive analysis to social groups.Results. It was established that at the beginning of the 20th century, the narrative about the prospects for the development of legislative and representative bodies in the peripheral and outlying territories of our Fatherland has become more active. It was revealed that the discourse had conceptual and systemic content. A clear holistic scheme was emerging by establishing and developing the zemstvo as a form of local self-government, legislatures at the regional level will be actively formed and effectively operate, which will make it possible to consider the true problems of territorial entities at the level of a single all-Russian parliament.Research implications. The results of the study can contribute to the development of the study of domestic political thought in pre-revolutionary Russia, in which the legacy of Siberian regionalists is still fragmentary. The paradigmatic concepts of the teachings of democratic regionalists, according to which parliamentarism, local self-government and federalism have an integrating principle of national statehood, they can be of importance for strengthening the foundations of the Russian state system.

Technological development implies ethical dilemmas for journalism, as each new way of presenting content brings peculiarities that confront established ethical guidelines. We believe that 360° audiovisual journalism is one of the new narrative possibilities that use emerging technologies. This study reflects on audiovisual journalistic narratives produced in 360° video seeking to identify ethical conflicts and ascertain which of them are perceived by the users participating in the research. Methodologically we developed bibliographic and documentary research, product analysis, and experimental research with users. We identified several ethical conflicts, but the participants demonstrated that they were not aware of which practices conflict with journalistic ethics.

ABSTRACT Moral imagination allows individuals to envision a range of moral scenarios and use that understanding to make moral judgments. Three types of journalistic narratives can inspire moral imagination through the power of emotion, moral awareness, and moral intuition. However, moral imagination may also fail due to four conditions: (1) journalism education, norms and practices, (2) empathic writing reserved for specific types of journalism, (3) a moral misalignment between journalists and audiences, and (4) audience preference for popcorn-style visual storytelling. To improve the opportunity for moral imagination, this essay argues that journalists should use affect-oriented digital platforms with an engaged and caring approach.

ABSTRACT This article delves into Djuna Barnes’s early journalism and poetry, focusing on how her portrayals of New York City during the 1910s shaped her evolution from an emerging journalist to a prominent avant-garde writer. Focusing on her journalistic work before she moved to Paris in 1921, the study highlights texts that feature geographical references to neighborhoods in and around New York City, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s spatial theory—particularly his concepts of “strategies,” “tactics,” “maps,” “tours,” and “itineraries”—this analysis illustrates how Barnes’s work transforms the city into a dynamic space of lived experiences and resistance. By focusing on marginalized figures—immigrants, workers, and urban outcasts—Barnes constructs spatial stories that reframe New York as a network of lived trajectories. Her journalistic narratives create itineraries or counter-maps that reconfigure the city’s geography, thereby offering new ways of experiencing the city’s spaces through Barnes’s performative articles, elaborate illustrations, and avant-garde poetry. Ultimately, this study provides valuable insights for scholars interested in urban themes, spatial theory, and avant-garde literature of the 1910s, and it effectively reveals a social and geographical map of New York city through Barnes’s unique perspective.

This research explores the possibilities that the metaverse currently provides for the media, as well as the limitations or obstacles that condition or slow down its development and implementation in the coming years. To this end, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 global technology experts specialising in virtual reality and the metaverse, who agreed that the first wave of journalism in the metaverse will be based mainly on immersive entertainment, gamified and experimental content. They also stress that the integration of the metaverse into news routines will be limited and conditioned by the optimisation of VR technology, the democratisation in the acquisition of devices, the progressive migration of the audience to virtual environments for the daily consumption of information, and the establishment and maturation of virtual communities, regulatory frameworks and social norms. It is concluded that this process will be slow and gradual, composed of two phases: a first phase of mass adoption of solutions and familiarisation with the systems; and a second phase that will be characterised by practices and developments of solutions in specific fields, such as those linked to journalistic narrative.

In 2020, the world faced a global state of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Slovenia, the situation coincided with the formation of Janez Janša's government in March. Janša's rise to power—and the rapid introduction of Covid-19 measures that significantly restricted public and civic space—prompted widespread resistance, most visibly through grassroots initiatives such as the anti-government bicycle demonstrations, also known as the Friday Protests. During this period, private media outlets closely affiliated with Janša's Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), including Demokracija magazine and Nova24TV, played an active role in shaping the political discourse, also in relation to the protests. This paper examines the affective dimensions of journalistic narratives about the anti-government protests as published in Demokracija magazine between 1 March 2020 and 28 February 2021. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of 41 articles, the study explores journalistic narratives as acts of “making people feel.” It engages with the concept of affective authoritarianism, understood as a political process that simultaneously mobilizes and generates specific affective intensities, emotions, and atmospheres that render individuals more receptive to authoritarian values, attitudes, and practices. This perspective contributes to ongoing scholarly debates by highlighting the affective conditions that intensify authoritarianism within formally democratic states.

The world has not been blind to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, thanks to the media. This research aims to unravel media management in the coverage of the war on Gaza and other Palestinian cities in the Latin American press, through the analysis of informative narratives that are rarely addressed in the international discussion and in the approaches of the editors of five journalistic platforms. The research combines content analysis and interviews in order to recognize the predominant frames, to verify the accuracy of the information against bias and misinformation and to identify the work routines in the output of the news. It concludes that the coverage has confronted two media frames: conflict and human interest; the former is evident in the journalistic narrative, in the prioritization of topics, actors and sources; the latter is found in the testimonies of the editors and their personal framings. The research found that journalists avoided the usual orientalisms in their news reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian situation but did not avoid contextual biases and misinformation. Despite the distance between the Middle East and Latin America, this war has altered the working and organizational routines of the media outlets hereby examined.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the development of domestic tourism in Syria in the early 1990s. Drawing upon a series of articles published in the national newspaper Al-Bath, it analyses the rhetoric and the symbols used by journalists to domestically promote a new tourism project, the Desert Festival (al-mahradjān al-ṣaḥrāwī). It argues that domestic tourism was used both as a mechanism for economic recovery and a nation-building tool by the Syrian regime. Journalistic narratives revolved around an Arab socialist imagery of unity, progress and modernisation, as well as Orientalist fantasies of desert romance and mystery, inviting nationals to immerse themselves in a Bedouin heritage described as being both familiar and strangely exotic.

In recent years, non-fiction journalism, regarded as a subset of literary and narrative journalism, has garnered significant attention in Chinese media. This trend underscores a notable departure from traditional journalistic norms of objectivity toward an emphasis on authenticity. Drawing upon a comprehensive analysis of 348 articles sourced from Southern People Weekly, a prominent media outlet for non-fiction journalism in China, this study examines the construction of authenticity along two distinct dimensions: voice and visibility. The voice dimension encompasses the utilization of first-person narratives by sources, the expression of authorial voice, and the orchestration of polyphony between journalists and their sources. The visibility dimension pertains to the portrayal of sources through visual imagery, the strategic presentation of journalists, and the scenic depiction of context and environment. Based on these findings, this study discusses the challenges posed by this narrative paradigm to the traditional notion of objectivity and its implications for the rising ideal of subjective journalism.

Transmedia storytelling is an emerging technique in digital journalism that enhances audiencecommunication across multiple platforms. Interactive, multimedia, and cross-platform forms of newsdistribution are increasingly being adapted using traditional journalistic narratives to involve the audience andensure trust. The study is an attempt to answer how the impact of transmedia storytelling has changed theway the audience is engaging, trusting, and consuming the news. The study takes its approach from a mixedmethod- research design and then translates quantitative surveys (n=500) and qualitative interviews (n=25)with media professionals to analyze the effectiveness of the transmedia storytelling techniques. Descriptivestatistics, correlation analysis (r= 0.72, p < 0.001), and thematic analysis were used to interpret audienceengagement and journalistic perspectives of transmedia storytelling. It has been found that 75% ofrespondents were found more engaged with transmedia content, especially with interacting (4.7/5) andmixing media (4.5/5). Moreover, the study finds out that transmedia storytelling helps build audience trust,but content verification and ethical issues are still hindering factors to overtake

The article points out the inferences to which we arrive when investigating what occurs in a class of senses called imaginary, the result of processes inherent to human subjectivity, when materialized in the form of narratives in media devices. The research proposes inbrications between the theories of the imaginary and the epistemology of mediatization, from which it is understood that the sense, once materialized, is at the mercy of reconfigurations according to as historical, social and geographic changes, that insert the enunciator and the interpretant in different contexts. Therefore, what intrigued us was what happens to the imaginary, a peculiar class of senses, when materialized. The research corpus adopted in our investigation were the journalistic narratives of the Kliemann Case, an episode that occurred in Rio Grande do Sul in the 1960s, which were tensioned in relation to a contemporary narrative about the same facts, as a way to verify, in analysis between utterances materialized in different moments, the reconfigurations of the imaginary.