Last night, @snurb.info and I were lucky to catch up with 10 out of 72 (!) authors of chapters in the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2nd. ed) on the sidelines of #ECREA2026. It was really special to see all these wonderful and talented folks, some for the first time in person.

📣 CULCORC at #ECREA2026

David Ongenaert (Charles University) presented research co-authored with Nico Carpentier on how peace was discursively constructed in Russian and Ukrainian news coverage.

📍 Geopolitics, War, and Media Session

#ECREA2026 #CULCORC

Pretty neat panel on cross-platform news exposure, and methods for tracking it, to end the first full day at #ECREA2026 / #ECC2026. Liveblog here:

Fabulous #ECC2026 / #ECREA2026 panel on polarisation in climate change debates, also involving my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues Carly Lubicz & sam vilkins Liveblog here:

Some cool presentations on political uses of TikTok in a hot room at #ECREA2026 / #ECC2026. Liveblog here:

How expensive is democracy? That was one of the questions underlying today's keynote by Frank Esser at #ECC2026 #ECREA2026

A powerful example of why this year's conference theme, Shifting Grounds, feels particularly relevant.

@medjourmuni.bsky.social
@ecreaeu.bsky.social

Day 2 of #ECC2026 #ECREA2026 Conferencing!

We kicked off the Keynote lectures with amazing Lenka Waschková Císařová from @medjourmuni.bsky.social

One idea that particularly resonates with me: peripherality is an analytical resource, not a disadvantage.

@ecreaeu.bsky.social

Interesting question at #ECC2026 / #ECREA2026: “what do we (communication scholars) lose if we adapt too slowly ?”

My answer: some enterprising grifter will move in ahead of us, with all the wrong answers. As we saw with Jonathan Haidt and the social media bans, in Australia and elsewhere.

📣 I recently contributed to 360info’s collection of articles on the ‘Age of Anger’, and have just republished my piece at snurb.info – addressing the fallacies of ‘social media bans’ and pointing out infoglut as the real problem. May be of interest to #ECREA2026 folks:

snurb.info/node/3670

With no thanks to Slideshare's issues, I've finally posted my own presentation from the DigiWorld #ECREA2026 pre-conference on the blog. This is on behalf of a much larger @qutdmrc.bsky.social research team, and is our first attempt to use the Meta Content Library properly.

snurb.info/node/3687

📣 Creative practices of hope

One of the parallel sessions brought together Ali Minanto and Yaroslava Kutsai. They explored street art and democratic contestation and how museums in Oslo and Dubai construct environmental futures, respectively.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

#CULCORC #ECREA2026 #IAMCR

📣 #Hope in the details

Elisabeth Wennerström (Charles University) explored how hope emerges in Swedish environmental journalism through resistance, dialogue and small-scale actions that challenge powerlessness amid environmental crisis.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

#CULCORC #ECREA2026 #IAMCR

📣 (Youth) voices of hope: Digital media, civic imagination and identity

Maedbh Pierce explored bi+ community media as a site of hope and self-determination, while Uxía Sánchez Lorda examined the ambivalent role of hope in #ThatGirl and #CleanGirlAesthetic.

#CULCORC #ECREA2026 #IAMCR

And that’s the morning sessions at the DigiWorld #ECREA2026 pre-conference on social media and political campaigning blogged:

📣 Keynote session: #Hope, change and critique

Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and Nico Carpentier opened the conference with keynote talks exploring hope, critique and social change, from “post-hope” to the translation of hope into social practice

Chaired by Vaia Doudaki
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Brno running. #ECREA2026