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

*Reminder:* Call for Abstracts: MedieKultur. Special Issue: ’Trust and 
Distrust inPublic Communication’.

Special issue editors: Susanne Kjærbeck, Sanne Vergod Knudsen and 
NielsMøller Nielsen, Roskilde University, Denmark.

We welcome contributionsfor a Special Issue on ’Trust and Distrust 
inPublic Communication’ to be published in MedieKultur. Journal of 
Mediaand Communication Research.

View the full callhere: 
:_https://www.mediekultur.dk/announcement/view/1354__ 
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<https://www.mediekultur.dk/announcement/view/1354>>

Trust is generally considered a foundation for the legitimacy of 
thewelfare state and the public sector. Citizens pay taxes to the 
welfarestate on the assumption that it has the competence, expertise 
andintegrity to provide welfare and protect the interests and needs 
ofcitizens and society as a whole. As such, citizen’s trust is a 
crucialsocial and economic ressource and precondition for the endurance 
andlegitimacy of the public sector. However, in recent decades 
mostinstances of the public sector have undergone profound 
transformationsdue to political, financial communicative and 
media-technologicaldynamics. Consequently, it is now necessary to ask 
whether – and how –trust in these reshaped public sectors is being 
unsettled, displaces ortransformed along with it.These tendencies are 
visible in communicationfrom public authorities, in science and expert 
communication, in healthcommunication, in schools and universities, and 
elsewhere. At the sametime, it is also relevant to ask whether 
skepticisms, distrust, andcontroversy might function as constructive 
forces in situations wherethe 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 
arenotlimited 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 
noteshould be submitted by September 1st 
t_abstracts-trust@ruc.dk_<mailto:(abstracts-trust /at/ ruc.dk)>.Authors 
will be invited to submit fullarticles based on the focus and quality of 
abstracts. Deadline for fullarticles is January 17, 2027. Notification 
of acceptance will followshortly 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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