Day one - 24 April 2025

09:00 - 11:30 TRAIN Contemporary Debates

This activity is just for the course participants. The TRAIN symposium starts with lunch at 12:00.

• Course presentations by students at Grand Hotel, seminar room
• Chairs: Andre Jansson, Karlstad University and Bo Reimer, Malmö University

11:30 - 12:00 Registration at Gamla Rådhuset (in front of the Grand Hotel)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Gamla Rådhuset

13:00 - 14:00 Keynote Panel: Critical Currents in Media and Communications

(Gamla Rådhuset)

• Kristina Riegert (Södertörn University), Reporting on Gaza
• Michal Krzyzanowski (Uppsala University), Discursive Shifts and Normalisation of Illiberalism and Neoliberalism
• Georgia Aitaki (Karlstad University), Repackaging the Past in Popular Culture
• Paola Sartoretto (Jönköping University), From Capitalist Realism to Ancestral Future: Understanding Commoning Practices through Theoretical Syncretism
  
• Chair: Renira Gambarato
  
  

14:00 - 15:30 Doctoral Presentations - Parallel Sessions (Gamla Rådhuset)

Session 1

Chair: Peter Berglez

1. Challenges to visual journalism ethics imperiled by AI, Elin Rantakrans, Mid Sweden University

Discussant 1: Matilda Tudor, Uppsala University

Discussant 2: Anna Roosvall, Stockholm University

2. Actionable and reliable? Managers’ and journalists’ views on the validity of newsroom metrics to guide journalistic work, Carina Tenor, Karlstad University

Discussant 1: Amanda Ramsälv, University of Gothenburg

Discussant 2: Catrin Johansson, Mid Sweden University

3. Frames in thought and Schema development: Hidden sources of stability and change via frame content, Johannes Johansson, University of Gothenburg

Discussant 1: Lotten Wiklund, Umeå University

Discussant 2: Peter Berglez, Örebro University

Session 2

Chair: Annika Bergström

1. Social inequalities in News Media Avoidance, 1986-2023: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis, Erik Espeland, University of Gothenburg

Discussant 1: Martin Lindstam, Uppsala University

Discussant 2: Annika Egan Sjölander, Umeå University

2. The “heaping plate” revolutions: Popular communication, food media and decolonial thinking in the post-covid Brazilian agroecology movement, Fernanda Favaro, Malmö University

Discussant 1: Maja Rintala, Umeå University

Discussant 2: Paola Sartoretto, Jönköping University

3. Practicing data journalism in post-communist Europe: A comparative study of Poland, Latvia and Estonia, Sanna Volny, Södertörn University

Discussant 1: Erik Björklund, Stockholm University

Discussant 2: Annika Bergström, University of Gothenburg

15:30-16:00 Coffee Gamla Rådhuset

16:00-17:00 Roundtable – Eco Media Footprinting (Gamla Rådhuset)

• Chairs: Göran Bolin (Södertörn University) and Annette Hill (Jönköping University)
  
  

Check in Grand Hotel Jönköping

17:00-18:00 TRAIN organization meeting (for members) Gamla Rådhuset (top floor)

18:30-19:00 Drinks available at Gamla Rådhuset

19:00 Dinner Gamla Rådhuset

Day 2 - 25 April 2025

09:00-10:30 Doctoral Presentations (Gamla Rådhuset)

Chair: Mats Ekström

1. Introducing their research topic, Zamohuhle Mthethwa and Simon Tengberg, Stockholm University

2. “Trust me, I’m right”: Comparing far-right influencer communication strategies on Telegram during the Ukraine war, Christian Schwieter, Stockholm University

Discussant 1: Valdemar Holt, Mid Sweden University

Discussant 2: Mats Ekström, University of Gothenburg

3. Islamophobic mashups: Far-right video activism on TikTok, Hugo Ekström, University of Gothenburg

Discussant 1: Else Mikkelsen Båge, Karlstad University

Discussant 2: Andreas Widholm, Stockholm University

10:30-11:00 Coffee Gamla Rådhuset

11:00-12:00 Roundtable and Reflections TRAIN Forward (Gamla Rådhuset)

• Chair: Annette Hill, everyone welcome
  
  

12:00-13:00 Lunch Gamla Rådhuset

TRAIN ends.

Carina Tenor - Actionable and reliable Pdf, 229.1 kB.

Elin Rantakrans - Challenges to Visual Journalism Ethics Imperiled by AI Pdf, 238.7 kB.

Erik Espeland - Social inequalities in News Media Avoidance Pdf, 928.3 kB.

Fernanda Favaro - The “heaping plate” revolutions Pdf, 398 kB.

Hugo Ekström - Islamophobic Mashups Pdf, 546 kB.

Johannes Johansson - Frames in thought and Schema development Pdf, 3.1 MB.

Sanna Volny - Practicing data journalism in post-communist Europe Pdf, 439.5 kB.

There are three types of costs, see below. Pick your choice and then book your place for TRAIN by emailing this contact for room and food booking: info@grandhoteljonkoping.se.

Book by March 21st to secure your hotel room, quoting 95790 in your email.

1. SEK 3200 (inc VAT), including all meals and accommodation in single room
2. SEK 2850 (inc VAT), including all meals and accommodation in shared double/twin room (name of the sharing person must be included in the application)
3. SEK 2075 (inc VAT), including all meals – No accommodation
   

Book your hotel room and place at TRAIN by March 21 2025.

Email Annette and Renira with the final list of participants from your department by April 10 2025.

Send in doctoral drafts by April 10 2025.

Deadline for registration:10 April.

As part of the TRAIN charter there is a yearly symposium where both PhD students and senior researchers in Media and Communication Studies discuss and present current research. PhD student presentations are prioritized, but senior researchers are able to present research if there is space in the programme.
Also, as part of the TRAIN charter participants who do not present papers are expected to function as discussants. Paper presentations have often been combined with a panel debate, dealing with relevant topics. If the number of presenting participants is large, parallel sessions are arranged.

For TRAIN 2025 symposium there will be student and senior researcher presentations, including parallel sessions.

Those students presenting work from their thesis may consider the following:

1. Send in a draft of doctoral work (article, chapter, or outline) in advance of the TRAIN symposium via the registration form. Your draft may be approximately 7-10 pages, or around 4-5000 words. Please provide context to your thesis (aims, objectives, research questions) when submitting your draft article, chapter or outline. Submit your working text by April 10 in a word document, with a clear title and your name in the file title.
   
   
2. There will be allocation of student and senior researcher discussants for each doctoral work. Allocation of discussants will be distributed to everyone by April 14 and materials can be accessed via this website.
   
   
3. For the student seminars at TRAIN, prepare with a 10 minute presentation of your thesis work. Discussants can prepare for 5-10 minutes each in slots of approximately 30 mins per student (depending on the number of student presentations).
   

Meeting room at Gamla Rådhuset, with large tv screen, whiteboard and flip chart.
Can be furnished for up to 30 persons on 3 separate large tables.
Breakout room: Meeting room on entrance level at Grand Hotel, with large tv screen, whiteboard and flip chart seating up to 25 persons on 5 separate smaller tables

Food and drink
Meals day 1

• Lunch salad, bread, 1 main course, water and coffee
• Afternoon fika cake/sweetbun, fruit, tea and coffee
• Dinner 3 course dinner
  

Meals day 2

• Breakfast included for overnight guests
• Morning fika sweetbun, tea and coffee
• Lunch salad, bread, 1 main course, water and coffee