37.1557, Calls: MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research - "Special Issue: Trust and Distrust in Public Communication" (Jrnl)

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Date: 23-Apr-2026
From: Sanne Vergod Knudsen [sannekn at ruc.dk]
Subject: MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research - "Special Issue: Trust and Distrust in Public Communication" (Jrnl)


Journal: MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research
Issue: Trust and Distrust in Public Communication
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2026

Call for Abstracts: MedieKultur. Special Issue: ’Trust and Distrust in
Public Communication’.
Special issue editors: Susanne Kjærbeck, Sanne Vergod Knudsen and
Niels Møller Nielsen, Roskilde University, Denmark.
We welcome contributions for a Special Issue on ’Trust and Distrust in
Public Communication’ to be published in MedieKultur. Journal of Media
and Communication Research.
View the full call here:
https://www.mediekultur.dk/announcement/view/1354
Trust is generally considered a foundation for the legitimacy of the
welfare state and the public sector. Citizens pay taxes to the welfare
state on the assumption that it has the competence, expertise and
integrity to provide welfare and protect the interests and needs of
citizens and society as a whole. As such, citizen’s trust is a crucial
social and economic ressource and precondition for the endurance and
legitimacy of the public sector. However, in recent decades most
instances of the public sector have undergone profound transformations
due to political, financial communicative and media-technological
dynamics. Consequently, it is now necessary to ask whether – and how –
trust in these reshaped public sectors is being unsettled, displaces
or transformed along with it. These tendencies are visible in
communication from public authorities, in science and expert
communication, in health communication, in schools and universities,
and elsewhere. At the same time, it is also relevant to ask whether
skepticisms, distrust, and controversy might function as constructive
forces in situations where the welfare state or democratic systems
appear skewed or even eroded. And is trust always a positive force in
contexts marked by conflict, global social change, professionalized
communication, digitalization, and new technologies such as artificial
intelligence
Possible topics welcomed in this special issue include, but are not
limited to:
 - Citizens’ trust as a social resource for the welfare state — and
how this trust is changing
 - Personal encounters with trust and public institutions
 - Technology and trust: digitalization and automation of
communication
 - Trust and distrust: Boundaries and operations
 - Politicization, negotiation, and communication of trustworthiness
 - Artificial intelligence and trust in public institutions
Abstracts (500 words) plus references and a short biographical note
should be submitted by September 1st abstracts-trust at ruc.dk.  Authors
will be invited to submit full articles based on the focus and quality
of abstracts. Deadline for full articles is January 17, 2027.
Notification of acceptance will follow shortly thereafter. Articles
and abstracts may be written in English, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.
No payment from the author will be required.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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