[Commlist] Call for Abstracts: MedieKultur. Special Issue: ’Trust and Distrust in Public Communication’

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 contributionsfor 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_ 
<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 
notlimited 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 t_abstracts-trust@ruc.dk_ 
<mailto:(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.



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