
One of CORECON’s prospective lasting impacts is to raise language awareness of war reporting which then enables critical media literacy and to sensitize journalists to some of the traps of click-driven news mediation. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska discussed these issues during a recent visit at University of Valencia in Spain. The question of how war is represented…

The Second FORTHEM Conference – Connecting Science and Society – provided a valuable platform for academic exchange on variety of pressing issues. Among the diverse talks, two CORECON presentations explored how war coverage and media representations shape public perceptions and democratic resilience. In one speech, presenters BÂLC Denisa-Maria and TICĂRĂU Iulia-Maria examined the role of…

Topic modeling is an umbrella term used to denote a host of semi-automated or fully automated corpus linguistic methods that aim to map the content of texts by identifying dominant themes. When driven by an algorithm that is trained in either a supervised or unsupervised manner on a dataset, the method makes it possible to…

Data collection is the base for any empirical study and corpus analysis is a well-established method used within critical discourse studies. Jędrzej Olejniczak in his blogpost wrote about data collection, management and processing in CORECON. Here I explain the motivations behind methodological choices and our rationales in data collection and data annotation protocols used when…

During the FORTHEM meeting at the University of Opole in November 2024, several academics were invited to share good practices and experiences of international cooperation with Ukrainian scholars participating in the project “Supporting cooperation between the University of Opole and Ukrainian universities within the framework of the FORTHEM Alliance” of the NAWA organization. (Details of…

The fifth biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) and the Department of Applied Linguistics of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium on 12-13 December 2024 brought together over 60 researchers from Europe, America, Asia and Africa, to discuss the topics of “Look Who’s Talking: Voices and Sources in the News.” (Details of the…