Below, you find the academic publications that emerged from the INFOCORE project.

2021

• Fröhlich, R. & Jungblut, M. (2021). Epistemic evidence in strategic-persuasive communication: On the effects of investing in the truthfulness of NGOs’ strategic crisis and conflict communications. International Journal of Communication, 15.

2020

• Meyer, C. O., De Franco, C. & Otto, F. (2020). Warning about War: Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy. Cambridge University Press. Winner of the International Studies Association (ISA) 2021 Best Book Award as well as the 2021 ISA International Communication Section (ICOMM) Best Book Award.

2018

Edited Volume
Editor: Romy Fröhlich

• Fröhlich, R. (2018, Ed.). Media in war and armed conflict: The dynamics of conflict news production and dissemination. London, New York: Routledge.

• Fröhlich, R. (2018). Introduction (pp. 3-22).

• Baden, C. & Meyer, C. O. (2018). Dissecting media roles in conflict: A transactionist process model of conflict news production, dissemination, and influence (pp. 23-48).

• Baden, C. & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2018). Not so bad news? Investigating journalism’s contribution to what’s bad, and good, in news on violent conflict (pp. 51-75).

• Fröhlich, R. & Jungblut, M. (2018). The dynamics of strategic communication over time:
  Patterns of persuasive communication and its relevance for the construction of discourse on war and conflict (pp. 76-110).

• Berganza, R., Herrero-Jiménez, B., & Carratalá, A. (2018). The dynamics of parliamentary debates on war and conflict: Assessing the impact and role of the media on the political agenda (pp. 111-135).

• Dimitrakopoulou, D. & Lenis, S. (2018). #iProtest: The case of the Colourful Revolution in Macedonia (pp. 136-165).

• Hanitzsch, T. & Hoxha, A. (2018). Journalism of war and conflict: Generic and conflict-related influences on news production (pp. 169-190).

• Sangar, E. & Meyer, C. O. (2018). The enduring value of reliable facts: Why NGOs have become more influential in conflict discourse (pp. 191-217).

• Wolfsfeld, G. & Tsifroni, L. (2018). Political leaders, media, and violent conflict in the digital age (pp. 218-242).

• Micevski, I. & Trpevska, S. (2018). A game of frames in conflict transformation: Mapping the media active publics’ nexus of competing conflict frames (pp. 243-270).

• Frère, M.-S. & Fiedler, A. (2018). Balancing plausible lies and false truths: Perception and evaluation of the local and global news coverage of conflicts in the DRC (pp. 271-284).

• Fröhlich, R. (2018). The integration of findings: Consequences of empirical results for the advancement of theory building (pp. 287-309).

• Fröhlich, R. (2018). Practical implications and suggestions for the applied fields: Journalism, media assistance, NGOs and politics (pp. 310-333).

2017

Special Issue in Media, War & Communication
Guest Editors: Christoph Meyer and Marie-Soleil Frère

• Meyer, C. O., Baden, C. & Frère, M.-S. (2017). Navigating the complexities of media roles in conflict: The INFOCORE approach. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635217719754

• Baden, C. & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2017). The search for common ground in conflict news research: Comparing the coverage of six current conflicts in domestic and international media over time. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635217702071

• Hoxha, A. & Hanitzsch, T. (2017). How the news comes into being: Researching conflict news production through retrospective reconstruction interviews. Media, War & Conflict.

• Herrero-Jiménez, B., Arcila Calderón, C., Carratalá, A. & Berganza, R.(2017). The Impact of media and NGOs on four European parliament discourses about conflicts in the Middle East. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635217727310

• Fröhlich, R. & Jungblut, M. (2017). Between factoid and facts. The application of ‘evidence’ in NGO strategic communication on war and armed conflict. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635217727308

• Wolfsfeld, G. (2017). The Role of the media in violent conflicts in the digital age: Israeli and Palestinian leaders’ perceptions. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635217727312

• Dimitrakopoulou, D. & Boukala, S. (2017). Exploring democracy and violence in Burundi: A multi-methodical analysis of hegemonic discourses on Twitter. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635217727311

• Meyer, C. O., Sangar, E. & Michaels, E. (2017). How do non-governmental organisations influence media coverage of conflict? The case of the Syrian conflict, 2011-2014. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635217727309

Other publications

• Frère, M.-S. (2017). ‘I wish I could be the journalist I was, but I currently cannot’: Experiencing the impossibility of journalism in Burundi. Media, War & Conflict, 10(1) 3–24. doi: 10.1177/1750635217698334

• Fröhlich, R. (2017). The changes in modern activist communication: Theoretical in-sights into new challenges for public relations. In S. Duhe (ed.), New Media and Public Relations (3rd edition) (pp. 185-197). New York: Peter Lang.

• Baden, C. & David, Y. (2017). On Resonance: A study of culture-dependent reinterpretations of extremist violence in Israeli media discourse. Media, Culture & Society

• Baden, C. & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2017). Convergent news? A longitudinal study of similarity and dissimilarity in the domestic and global coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Journal of Communication. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12272

2016

• Baden, C. & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2016). Viewpoint, testimony, action: How journalists reposition source frames within news frames. Journalism Studies [Online First]. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1161495

• Fiedler, A. & Frère, M.-S. (2016), “Press Freedom in the African Great Lakes Region: A Comparative Study of Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo”, in Hayes, M. (ed.), Newsmaking Culture in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggle, Palgrave Macmillan.

• Frère, M.-S. (2016). Silencing the Voice of the Voiceless: The Destruction of the Independent Broadcasting Sector in Burundi. African Journalism Studies, 37(1), pp. 137-46.

• Frère, M.-S. & Fiedler, A. (2016), “Les médias dans la crise burundaise. «  Tu tues le coq, mais tu ne tues pas ce qu’il a chanté. »”, in L’Afrique des Grands Lacs, Annuaire 2016-2017, University of Antwerp.

• Frère, M.-S. et Fiedler, A. (2016), « Radio France Internationale and Deutsche Welle in Francophone Africa: International Broadcasters in a Time of Change », in Communication, Culture and Critique, n°9, p. 68-85.

• Fröhlich, R. (2016). Gender, media and security. In P. Robinson, P. Seib, & R. Fröhlich (eds.), Routledge handbook of media, conflict and security. Oxford: Routledge.

• Meyer, C. & Otto, F. (2016). How to Warn: ‘Outside-in Warnings’ of Western Governments about Violent Conflict and Mass Atrocities. Media, War & Conflict. 9(2).

• Robinson, P., Seib, P., & Fröhlich, R. (Eds.). (2016). Routledge handbook of media, conflict and security. Oxford: Routlege.

• Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. & Baden, C. (2016). Journalistic transformation. How source texts are turned into news stories. Journalism [Online First]. doi: 10.1177/1464884916667873

• Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K, Hanitzsch, T., & Nagar, R. (2016). Beyond Peace Journalism: Reclassifying Conflict Narratives in the Israeli News Media. Journal of Peace Research, 53(2), 151-165.

• Terzis, G. (2016) The End of Hypocrisy: Online Activism and Ethno-political Conflicts, Pacific Journalism Review, Vol 22(1)

2015

• Frère, M.-S. & Fiedler, A. (2015). Liberté de la presse et développement des médias: Les cas contrastés du Burundi et du Rwanda. In: Filip Reyntjes; Stef Vandeginste; Marijke Verpoorten (eds.): L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2014-2015 (pp 373–391). Antwerp: University Press Antwerp.

• Fröhlich, R. (2015). Frauen, Medien und Krieg: Die Darstellung von Frauen in der Kriegsbe-richterstattung überregionaler Tageszeitungen in Deutschland von 1989 bis 2000 [Women, media and war: The coverage of women in war coverage of German broadsheets between 1989 and 2000]. In F. Reer, K. Sachs-Hombach, & S. Schahadat (Ed.), Krieg und Konflikt in den Medien. Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven auf mediale Kriegsdarstellungen und deren Wirkungen [War and conflict in the media. Multidisciplinary perspectives on media representations of war and their effects] (pp. S. 117-141). Cologne: Halem.

• Sangar, E. (2015). From “memory wars” to shared identities: Conceptualizing the transnationalisation of collective memory. The Tocqueville Review, 36 (2), 65-93.

• Sopar, V., Trpevska, S., & Trajkoska, Z. (2015). Interethnic tensions: news of the day. In Vesna Sopar (ed.), Reporting on interreligious and interethnic tensions: The meaning behind the headlines (pp.19–60). Skopje: School of Journalism and Public Relations.

2014

• Hoxha, A., & Emini, D. (2014). Bosnia and Herzegovina in Kosovar Perspective: An Agenda for International Cooperation. In J. Olchowski, T. Stępniewski, B. Bojarczyk, & A. Sobol (eds.), Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans (pp. 37–52). Lublin: Institute of East-Central Europe.