Liberal democracies across the world are facing a range of challenges, from the growing influence of illiberal leaders and parties to deepening polarization and declining trust in political elites and mainstream media. Although these developments attracted significant scholarly attention, the…
Over two dozen scholars from more than ten countries gathered at Loughborough University on 28-29 April for one of the first in-person conferences in two years, focusing on the relationship between news media and the rise of illiberalism around the…
The Illiberal Turn team is happy to announce that we have published yet another paper, this time in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, titled News consumption and immigration attitudes: a mixed methods approach. The paper adopts a mixed-methods…
The Illiberal Turn team has started off 2022 with a new study published in the International Journal of Press/Politics, using a media repertoires approach to investigate selective news exposure and polarisation in four Eastern European countries. Using a combination of…
Václav Štětka contributed to a panel titled "Ensuring the Safety of Journalists: a constant battle" that took place on 6 December as part of the Online School for Journalists and Media Practitioners, organized by the Centre for Media Pluralism and…
We are inviting abstracts for a conference "Media and the Illiberal Turn: Challenges to democracy and public communication in light of the COVID-19 pandemic" that will mark the closure of "The Illiberal Turn" project. The conference will take place on…
Václav Štětka and Sabina Mihelj presented the new project report "Rebuilding trust and countering polarization in (post)pandemic times" at the annual meeting of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), one of our project's key institutional partners. Combining an on-site and…
Building on original empirical evidence collected across the period of two years in four Central and Eastern European countries, The Illiberal Turn project is launching a report with practical recommendations for the development of media policies and journalistic practices with…
The report covering the period from May 2020 to August 2021 has just been published, summarizing the activities and achievements of The Illiberal Turn during this time. The report provides a snapshot of some of the most interesting results stemming…
Our project was represented at the 8th European Communication Conference, organized by the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Václav Štětka and Sabina Mihelj presented three papers arising from the project: “News consumption and polarization in Central and Eastern…