The Coverage and Reception of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Search the blog
Popular Categories
-
CORECON-based scientific event “Representing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the media: Insights from the international project CORECON 2024-2026” during the Open Linguistic Seminar at the University of Opole
The event was organized on May 7, 2026 and brought over 80 attendees – faculty members, doctoral candidates and students – together with CORECON researchers to discuss selected project results and ensure that materials created in the project are applicable in other contexts, be they research-, impact- or education-oriented. Context and rationale Open Linguistic Seminar…
-
How do journalism students perceive the ethics of AI-driven solutions in the newsroom?
During a recent scientific event organized by the CORECON team, we created an opportunity to discuss journalistic practices of conflict coverage as particularly prone to being manipulated by foreign hostile agents. At the same time, with a reduction of newsroom staff and the growing reliance on AI-driven tools to streamline and speed up the publication…
-
From research to practice: recommendations for journalism training and media literacy. Implications from all CORECON results in one booklet.
This blogpost showcases the recent online publication that is made available as a CORECON output: Recommendations for Journalism Training and Critical Media Literacy: Based on CORECON Project (2024-2026) By early 2026, the CORECON project had spawned over two dozen studies. Some studies are comparative and based on the three language-specific media coverage corpora. Others are…
-
Simulation games as tools for producing journalism policy recommendations
What are the solutions to challenges of journalism in the era of AI? How to improve guidelines, policies, and ethical codes for journalists? Can simulation games help answer these questions? The Polish subteam of CORECON piloted a simulation game in which participants role-played the work of a media outlet. The game was seen as a…
-
CORECON-based scientific event “Responsible journalism in the era of AI” as a FORTHEM Alliance collective short-term mobility at University of Opole
The event was organized 27-31 October 2025 and brought FORTHEM students of communication together with researchers and practitioners, in order to revisit the notion of responsible journalism in the era marked by rapid technological advancements, particularly the increasing influence of algorithms, AI-powered applications, and big-tech-controlled networking platforms. Context and rationale In the last few years…
-
Adolescents’ Perception of the War inUkraine on Social Media: A Researchers’ Night Experiment
Adolescents increasingly learn about geopolitics through social media feeds optimized for engagement rather than accuracy. During Researchers’ Night, we piloted a rapid, skills-based intervention aimed at improving Romanian teens’ judgments of Russia–Ukraine war headlines. Participants completed a brief pretest survey and rated a mix of verified and fabricated headlines. They then received a short lesson…