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70th Annual Conference of the DGPuK: IfK researchers represented with several contributions

The 70th annual conference of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK) is currently taking place. From 19 to 21 March, high-ranking researchers from German universities will meet in Berlin to discuss the social significance of communication science research. Under this year's motto ‘Public sphere(s) and their values’, the focus will be on the importance of values that characterise social coexistence and influence public discourse. Numerous researchers from the Department of Communication Science (IfK) Münster are also represented at the conference.

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Knowledge graphs can now be queried with Facepager

The ‘Facepager for NFDI’ project has been successfully completed. The open source programme Facepager, which makes it easier for researchers to get started with automated data collection, has been expanded in recent months specifically for applications in the field of digital humanities.

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Excursion of the InDesign-AG to JVA Herford

Writing journalistic texts in a juvenile detention centre? This has been the norm at Herford Prison for several years now. The prisoners publish the print magazine ‘Popshop’ several times a year - with informative texts on all kinds of topics, from biographies and true crime to recipes. The magazine is produced in collaboration with pupils from Georg-Müller-Gesamtschule in Bielefeld, who discuss the content of the latest issue with the prisoners in monthly editorial meetings and work on it together. Last winter semester, the IfK also took part in this cooperative, voluntary project: as a design partner, around 10 students took care of the formal design of the magazine. To this end, working groups were formed to deal with all layout-related issues, allowing them to express themselves creatively. The result is an exciting winter issue. The participants in the design workshop have now visited Herford Prison.