Category: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Framing “victory” in the coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian war. An interview based on CORECON findings
Andrii Yaroshchuk is a PhD candidate in Communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona who took part in the CORECON Conference in early July 2025 and found interesting parallels between his research and the project’s findings. This blogpost reproduces some excerpts from an expert interview he conducted with CORECON research director prof. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, specifically…
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Scholarly highlights of the CORECON conference on July 9-11, 2025
On July 9-11, 2025, University of Lucian Blaga of Sibiu hosted the CORECON key event – the project-related international conference, whose theme was Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Mediation of Russian-Ukrainian War: Language, Representation, Society, Culture. In comparison to other conferences, its theme was relatively narrow in scope; however, the conference aimed at opening up mediated…
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CORECON contribution to Res Rhetorica journal: Releasing a thematic issue on “Mediated Rhetoric of Recent Conflicts” (June 2025)
This blogpost is an adaptation of the introduction to the thematic issue entitled “Mediated Rhetoric of Recent Conflicts” released in June 2025 as issue 2 of volume 12 of Res Rhetorica – a Web-of-Science and Scopus-indexed journal of the Polish Rhetoric Society. The blogpost explains the motivation for the issue and presents its most interesting…
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Using AI in qualitative research: Insights from CORECON-piloted analytic protocols
This blogpost is devoted to exemplifying how it is possible to ethically and productively use AI-powered tools in order to enhance analytic protocols for qualitative analyses of media materials. AI-powered enhancements designed for annotating, coding and analyzing textual data are now part of commercial versions of qualitative analysis software packages such as Atlas.ti or NVivo.…
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Outreach: Disseminating CORECON’s preliminary results and involving students and practitioners.
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…