🔮 in the upcoming months we will conduct semi-structured interviews with both politicians and journalists to identify those emotional communities in everyday practice and interactions. (5/5)

🫂 by zooming in (and out) we can make sense of the chaos of communities, structures and characteristics (such as temporality, spatiality, density, or stability) within each community, as well as the turmoil of actors who have to juggle multiple feeling rules at the same time. (4/5)

🆕 we propose focusing on the emotional communities in which actors from both sides are placed. as actors can be (and probably always are) members of mulitple, overlapping, sometimes opposing emotional communities, this allows us to get a better picture of actors' positions within the field. (3/5)

ℹ️ current research on emotions in political journalism sometimes seems to be stuck in dichotomies, seperating rationality/objectivity from emotionality or treating both politics and journalism as seperable institutions. (2/5)

very happy that Melanie Haberl and me got the chance to present our thereotical framework on the emotional relationships between journalists and politicians at the ECREA Journalism Studies Conference: (1/5)