Digital Journalism

Papers
(The median citation count of Digital Journalism is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism134
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries130
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability113
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom94
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification87
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment64
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care61
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data59
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance58
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues55
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance55
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities53
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting43
Normalizing Instagram41
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical39
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology39
The User Experience of TikTok and Its Compatibility with News38
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism35
What Makes for a Good News Experience: Developing a UX Perspective to Advance Audience Studies in Journalism34
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries34
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future31
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production29
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies29
Future Imaginaries of Visual Open Source Investigative Journalism29
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World27
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment27
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict26
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future25
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes25
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists25
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists25
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers24
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework24
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US24
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism23
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India23
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’23
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults23
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia23
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media22
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production22
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems22
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism21
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic21
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram21
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations21
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance20
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet20
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response20
Visual War Journalism20
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations20
Conceptualising Youth Media Strategies: Balancing Platforms, Profiles, and People19
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media19
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility19
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism19
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India18
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces18
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok17
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy17
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer17
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research17
Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of the 2022 Kenyan Election17
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts17
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies17
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here16
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences16
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies16
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice16
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services16
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines16
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism16
AI Hype in Journalism: Visibility, Power, and the Politics of Media Narratives15
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses15
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future15
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains15
Convergent Epistemic Practices in Visual Fact-Checking15
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society15
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment14
The Press as Platform: Institutional Isomorphism and the Strategic Adoption of Platform Logics14
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders14
How Disinformation Reshaped the Relationship between Journalism and Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Old and New Perspectives Revisited13
Podcasting as Alternative Media: Navigating Politics, Platform Power, and Journalistic Professionalism in China13
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework13
Digital (In)Security in Latin America: The Dimensions of Social Media Violence against the Press and Journalists’ Coping Strategies13
Emotion Sells: Rage Bait vs. Information Bait in Clickbait News Headlines on Social Media13
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures13
The War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Visual Disinformation and the Limits of Specialized Fact-Checking. A Case-Study at Le Monde13
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies13
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom12
Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection12
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation12
Less Hype, More Drama: Open-Ended Technological Inevitability in Journalistic Discourses About AI in the US, The Netherlands, and Brazil12
“I Use Social Media as an Escape from All That” Personal Platform Architecture and the Labor of Avoiding News12
Nowhere to Feel Safe Anymore Mapping Public and Organisational Violence Against Journalists in Belgium12
News Diversity Under Algorithms: The Effects of Pre-Selected and Self-Selected Personalization on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)12
Audience Expectations of Journalists: Demands, Beliefs and Assessments12
Journalism & Audience Datafication: How Audience Data Practices Shape Inequity11
News Characteristics, Newsworthiness and Secondary Gatekeeping in Brazil: Influences of Right-Wing Authoritarianism11
AI Hype Through an African Lens: A Critical Analysis of Language as Symbolic Action in Online News Publications11
Continuities and Breaks in Digital Journalism and Media Systems11
Are News Media Biting Hard Enough? Public Watchdog Role Expectations and Performance Evaluations in the Era of Big Tech11
Predictive Data Stories: Characterizing a Nascent Data-Journalistic Genre11
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism10
The Affective Epistemology of Digital Journalism: Emotions as Knowledge Among On-the-Ground and OSINT Media Practitioners Covering the Russo-Ukrainian War10
The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation—a Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies10
Contextualizing Platform Dependence and Publisher Disentanglements in India10
Native Advertising on News Websites: The Impacts of Media Organizational Factors on Disclosure Clarity10
News from the User’s Perspective: With Naivety to Validity10
Policies in Parallel? A Comparative Study of Journalistic AI Policies in 52 Global News Organisations10
Self-Censorship in Journalism: The Role of Emotional, Professional, and Institutional Factors10
Phases of Going Digital: A Framework for Assessing Newsroom Digitalisation Process10
Defensive Journalism in Bangladesh: Consequences of the Digital Security Act on Journalism Practice10
Will Time Matter with Cognitive Load and Retention in Online News Consumption?10
Accounting for Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content10
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments9
Visuality as an Affordance on Instagram News Production9
10 Years of Digital Journalism (Studies): The Past, the Present, the Future9
The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Visibility: An Analysis of the Platform-Facing Markup Used by U.S.-Based Digital News Organizations9
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media9
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model9
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being9
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands9
The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News9
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism9
AI in the German Media: Narratives of AI-in-Particular and AI-in-General in German Media Reporting About Artificial Intelligence9
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study9
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms9
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages8
Can Visuals Facilitate or Detract Attention to Text? Examining the Effects of the Amount and Type of Visuals on Attention to Digital Longforms8
Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Digital Journalism in Intermedia Competition: A Conjoint Analysis of Online News Users in the Austrian Market8
Thinking Hard, Thinking Smart: How News Users’ Cognitive Traits Guide Their Responses to Fact-Checks8
Platform Retraction? Discourses of Entanglement and Disentanglement in News Media’s Platform Engagement8
ChatGPT, Generative AI, and an Epistemic Opportunity for Journalistic Authority8
The Relevance of Digital News: Themes, Scales and Temporalities8
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space8
Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism?8
Twitch’s Digital News Standard: Breaking Journalistic Boundaries in Platform Streaming Environments8
Nudging Towards Exposure Diversity: Examining the Effects of News Recommender Design on Audiences’ News Exposure Behaviours and Perceptions8
Building Legislative Legitimacy of “Fake News” Laws: A Study of How Governments May Seek to Legitimize Policy Interventions Against Fake News8
Pricing, Design and Cultivation – Conceptual Tools for the Normative Assessment of Fairness in the Age of Media Platformization8
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism7
Explicating Local: An Audience-Based Framing of Local Community and Local News7
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism7
From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field7
From Media Systems to Digital Journalisms: An Introduction to the Special Issue7
Journalism (Ethics) in the Loop: Software Development as a Cultural Competency for News Organizations7
Alternative Media/Journalism and the Communicative Politics of Contestation7
Bringing People into the Story: How Virtual Reality Journalism Affects the Feeling of Presence7
Public Knowledge and Expertise Under Authoritarian Siege: A Defense of Academic Freedom from Digital Journalism Studies7
Resisting the Individualization of Risk: Strategies of Engagement and Caution in Journalists’ Responses to Online Mobs in the United States and Germany7
Resistant and Misinformed: Understanding the Role of Elite Perceptions and Resistance Strategies Against COVID-19 Reporting in Legacy Media in Adopting COVID-19 Misperceptions7
A Global Perspective on Data Journalism Materiality: Knowledge Production across Public Transparency Infrastructure Environments7
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook7
Viewer Preferences for Publication of Graphic Images of War7
Putting a Human Face on the Algorithm: Co-Designing Recommender Personae to Democratize News Recommender Systems7
Authoritarian Algorithmic Publics: Conceptualising the Nexus of Authoritarianism and Digital Innovation Uptake in Russian News Media7
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis7
A Balance of Uncertainties: Renewing Attention to the Socialized Spaces Shaping Digital Journalism Studies6
“Worse than the Harassment Itself.” Journalists’ Reactions to Newsroom Social Media Policies6
Divides in News Verification: Antecedents and Political Outcomes of News Verification by Age6
‘It’s All About Money’ – News Users’ Folk Theory of Audience Data Utilisation in Journalism6
Collaborative Coding Cultures: How Journalists Use GitHub as a Trading Zone6
Is Social Media News More Subjective? ???? A Comparative Study of British Quality and Popular News Sources’ Adaptation to Facebook6
Coping with Precarity: Journalists’ Strategies to Find Ease in a Professionally Vulnerable Situation6
Hey Google, What is in the News? The Influence of Conversational Agents on Issue Salience6
Taking Care Online: Reconceptualising Professional Wellbeing for Social Media Engagement in Journalism6
How People Integrate News into Their Everyday Routines: A Context-Centered Approach to News Habits6
People, Power, Platforms and the Business of Journalism6
“Scooped by the Town Drunk”: Unpacking the Effects of COVID-19 on Rural Journalism Work6
Post-Photojournalism : Post-Truth Challenges and Threats for Visual Reporting in the Russo-Ukrainian War Coverage6
Considering Interinstitutional Visibilities in Combating Misinformation6
Communicating a Local Journalism Crisis Online: How Media Workers Frame Industry Changes6
“How Trustworthy Is This Research?” Designing a Tool to Help Readers Understand Evidence and Uncertainty in Science Journalism6
Picturing Protest: Visual Framing in Authoritarian Media on Twitter6
Conceptualizing Fidelity: Reimagining Contemporary Visual Journalism’s Occupational Ideologies6
When Software Becomes the Newsroom: Journalists and the Loss of Organizational Connections6
Recasting Twitch: Livestreaming, Platforms, and New Frontiers in Digital Journalism6
Debate Spaces for Everyone? How Public Service Media Aim to Reshape Audience Engagement and Interactions5
Relevance as a Mechanism in Evaluating News-Ness among American Teens and Adults5
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets5
Imagination, Algorithms and News: Developing AI Literacy for Journalism5
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology5
Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News5
Spaces of Unmoderated Hate? The Legitimization of Anti-Immigration Narratives on Right-Wing Alternative Media5
Journalism and the Global South: Shaping Journalistic Practices and Identity Post “Arab Spring”5
Comparing the Empowerment Dynamics of Traditional Media and Social News Sites: The Case of GameStop5
Design Implications for a Burgeoning Digital Product Ecosystem: Roles, Culture and Engagement5
(Trans)Locality in Social Media News Engagement: Geographic Effects on the Quality of Online Discussion5
How Does GenAI “See” Climate Change: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of GenAI for Climate Visual Journalism5
Do News Media Want to Disentangle from Platforms?5
Infrastructures of Media Freedom: Expanding Journalism’s Ethical Horizon5
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy5
Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok5
How Political Identity and Misinformation Priming Affect Truth Judgments and Sharing Intention of Partisan News5
A Discourse Community of Livebloggers? Routines, Conventions, and the Pursuit of Credibility in Dutch Liveblogs5
Coding and Capability-Building in Nonprofit Digital-Native News Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Latin America (LATAM)5
Protest Paradigm Revisited: Is Depicting Protestors’ (Counter)Violence Really Bad?5
Envisioning a More Inclusive Future for Digital Journalism: A Diversity Audit of Journalism Studies (2013–2021)5
Cutting through the Hype: Understanding the Implications of Deepfakes for the Fact-Checking Actor-Network5
“Find the Joy”: A War Correspondent’s Tweets and the Rise of an Affective Age in News5
“I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists5
Alternative Media in Lebanon: The Role of Digital Platforms in a Polarized Hybrid Media System5
Updating Public Value: How Journalists Understand Their Societal Role in the Context of Digital Platforms5
“A Hard Road With Personal Costs”: How Digital-First Nonprofit News Founders Navigate Precarity5
Electronic Surveillance and Australian Journalism: Surveillance Normalization and Emergent Norms of Information Security5
Joining the Dots: The Literacies of Multimodal Longform Journalism5
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