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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism113
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries110
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom97
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page93
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data77
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance77
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care62
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search57
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies54
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability52
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification50
Digital News Business Models in the Age of Industry 4.0: Digital Brazilian News Players Find in Technology New Ways to Bring Revenue and Competitive Advantage48
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment48
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical43
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance43
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities42
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media39
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues39
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism38
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology36
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions34
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment34
Normalizing Instagram34
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting34
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future33
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies33
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World32
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries30
What Makes for a Good News Experience: Developing a UX Perspective to Advance Audience Studies in Journalism29
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict29
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production29
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future28
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US28
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers26
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes26
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists26
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists26
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms25
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework25
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia24
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems24
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media24
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism24
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’24
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults23
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication23
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production23
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?22
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations22
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India22
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response21
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet21
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East21
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes21
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic20
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces20
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations20
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus20
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram20
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism20
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance19
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion19
Visual War Journalism19
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 Credibility18
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer18
Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of the 2022 Kenyan Election18
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload18
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India18
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism18
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy18
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”17
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies17
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines16
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism16
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts16
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice16
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research16
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok16
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media16
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data15
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies15
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses15
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism15
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences15
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future14
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions14
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures14
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment14
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society14
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices13
Less Hype, More Drama: Open-Ended Technological Inevitability in Journalistic Discourses About AI in the US, The Netherlands, and Brazil13
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains13
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies13
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here13
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders13
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services13
The Press as Platform: Institutional Isomorphism and the Strategic Adoption of Platform Logics13
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework13
Audience Expectations of Journalists: Demands, Beliefs and Assessments12
Nowhere to Feel Safe Anymore Mapping Public and Organisational Violence Against Journalists in Belgium12
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation12
“I Use Social Media as an Escape from All That” Personal Platform Architecture and the Labor of Avoiding News12
Podcasting as Alternative Media: Navigating Politics, Platform Power, and Journalistic Professionalism in China12
Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection12
Digital (In)Security in Latin America: The Dimensions of Social Media Violence against the Press and Journalists’ Coping Strategies12
News Diversity Under Algorithms: The Effects of Pre-Selected and Self-Selected Personalization on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)12
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom12
Emotion Sells: Rage Bait vs. Information Bait in Clickbait News Headlines on Social Media12
AI Hype Through an African Lens: A Critical Analysis of Language as Symbolic Action in Online News Publications11
The War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Visual Disinformation and the Limits of Specialized Fact-Checking. A Case-Study at Le Monde11
Contextualizing Platform Dependence and Publisher Disentanglements in India11
Predictive Data Stories: Characterizing a Nascent Data-Journalistic Genre11
How Disinformation Reshaped the Relationship between Journalism and Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Old and New Perspectives Revisited11
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
Journalism & Audience Datafication: How Audience Data Practices Shape Inequity10
A Human-Centered Design Approach to Creating Tools to Help Journalists Monitor Digital Political Ads: Insights and Challenges10
The Affective Epistemology of Digital Journalism: Emotions as Knowledge Among On-the-Ground and OSINT Media Practitioners Covering the Russo-Ukrainian War10
News Characteristics, Newsworthiness and Secondary Gatekeeping in Brazil: Influences of Right-Wing Authoritarianism10
Self-Censorship in Journalism: The Role of Emotional, Professional, and Institutional Factors10
Accounting for Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content10
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism10
A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines9
Defensive Journalism in Bangladesh: Consequences of the Digital Security Act on Journalism Practice9
Policies in Parallel? A Comparative Study of Journalistic AI Policies in 52 Global News Organisations9
Native Advertising on News Websites: The Impacts of Media Organizational Factors on Disclosure Clarity9
Will Time Matter with Cognitive Load and Retention in Online News Consumption?9
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study9
Phases of Going Digital: A Framework for Assessing Newsroom Digitalisation Process9
Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide9
News from the User’s Perspective: With Naivety to Validity9
AI in the German Media: Narratives of AI-in-Particular and AI-in-General in German Media Reporting About Artificial Intelligence8
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands8
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism8
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media8
10 Years of Digital Journalism (Studies): The Past, the Present, the Future8
The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Visibility: An Analysis of the Platform-Facing Markup Used by U.S.-Based Digital News Organizations8
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms8
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments8
The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation—a Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies8
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages8
The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News8
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study8
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model8
Correction8
Can Visuals Facilitate or Detract Attention to Text? Examining the Effects of the Amount and Type of Visuals on Attention to Digital Longforms7
Visuality as an Affordance on Instagram News Production7
ChatGPT, Generative AI, and an Epistemic Opportunity for Journalistic Authority7
Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Digital Journalism in Intermedia Competition: A Conjoint Analysis of Online News Users in the Austrian Market7
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space7
Pricing, Design and Cultivation – Conceptual Tools for the Normative Assessment of Fairness in the Age of Media Platformization7
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism7
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being7
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes7
The Relevance of Digital News: Themes, Scales and Temporalities7
Building Legislative Legitimacy of “Fake News” Laws: A Study of How Governments May Seek to Legitimize Policy Interventions Against Fake News7
Bringing People into the Story: How Virtual Reality Journalism Affects the Feeling of Presence7
Nudging Towards Exposure Diversity: Examining the Effects of News Recommender Design on Audiences’ News Exposure Behaviours and Perceptions7
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills7
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media7
Platform Retraction? Discourses of Entanglement and Disentanglement in News Media’s Platform Engagement7
Twitch’s Digital News Standard: Breaking Journalistic Boundaries in Platform Streaming Environments7
Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism?7
Thinking Hard, Thinking Smart: How News Users’ Cognitive Traits Guide Their Responses to Fact-Checks7
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis6
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook6
Authoritarian Algorithmic Publics: Conceptualising the Nexus of Authoritarianism and Digital Innovation Uptake in Russian News Media6
“How Trustworthy Is This Research?” Designing a Tool to Help Readers Understand Evidence and Uncertainty in Science Journalism6
WeChat and the Sharing of News in Networked China6
Public Knowledge and Expertise Under Authoritarian Siege: A Defense of Academic Freedom from Digital Journalism Studies6
Putting a Human Face on the Algorithm: Co-Designing Recommender Personae to Democratize News Recommender Systems6
Alternative Media/Journalism and the Communicative Politics of Contestation6
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism6
Viewer Preferences for Publication of Graphic Images of War6
Journalism (Ethics) in the Loop: Software Development as a Cultural Competency for News Organizations6
Explicating Local: An Audience-Based Framing of Local Community and Local News6
From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field6
Resistant and Misinformed: Understanding the Role of Elite Perceptions and Resistance Strategies Against COVID-19 Reporting in Legacy Media in Adopting COVID-19 Misperceptions6
From Media Systems to Digital Journalisms: An Introduction to the Special Issue6
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism6
Communicating a Local Journalism Crisis Online: How Media Workers Frame Industry Changes6
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair6
Resisting the Individualization of Risk: Strategies of Engagement and Caution in Journalists’ Responses to Online Mobs in the United States and Germany6
A Global Perspective on Data Journalism Materiality: Knowledge Production across Public Transparency Infrastructure Environments6
Collaborative Coding Cultures: How Journalists Use GitHub as a Trading Zone5
“A Hard Road With Personal Costs”: How Digital-First Nonprofit News Founders Navigate Precarity5
How People Integrate News into Their Everyday Routines: A Context-Centered Approach to News Habits5
(Electronic) Mailing the Editor: Emails, Message Boards and Early Interactive Web Design in the 1990s5
Considering Interinstitutional Visibilities in Combating Misinformation5
“Worse than the Harassment Itself.” Journalists’ Reactions to Newsroom Social Media Policies5
Recasting Twitch: Livestreaming, Platforms, and New Frontiers in Digital Journalism5
Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News5
Updating Public Value: How Journalists Understand Their Societal Role in the Context of Digital Platforms5
Post-Photojournalism : Post-Truth Challenges and Threats for Visual Reporting in the Russo-Ukrainian War Coverage5
A Discourse Community of Livebloggers? Routines, Conventions, and the Pursuit of Credibility in Dutch Liveblogs5
Hey Google, What is in the News? The Influence of Conversational Agents on Issue Salience5
People, Power, Platforms and the Business of Journalism5
Divides in News Verification: Antecedents and Political Outcomes of News Verification by Age5
Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok5
“Scooped by the Town Drunk”: Unpacking the Effects of COVID-19 on Rural Journalism Work5
Comparing the Empowerment Dynamics of Traditional Media and Social News Sites: The Case of GameStop5
Picturing Protest: Visual Framing in Authoritarian Media on Twitter5
Coping with Precarity: Journalists’ Strategies to Find Ease in a Professionally Vulnerable Situation5
‘It’s All About Money’ – News Users’ Folk Theory of Audience Data Utilisation in Journalism5
Is Social Media News More Subjective? ???? A Comparative Study of British Quality and Popular News Sources’ Adaptation to Facebook5
A Balance of Uncertainties: Renewing Attention to the Socialized Spaces Shaping Digital Journalism Studies5
Egyptian Women Journalists’ Feminist Voices in a Shifting Digitalized Journalistic Field5
Alternative Media in Lebanon: The Role of Digital Platforms in a Polarized Hybrid Media System5
How Political Identity and Misinformation Priming Affect Truth Judgments and Sharing Intention of Partisan News5
If You Have Choices, Why Not Choose (and Share) All of Them? A Multiverse Approach to Understanding News Engagement on Social Media5
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