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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries95
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload71
What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist67
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram62
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era61
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies53
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy53
Digital Press Criticism: The Symbolic Dimensions of Donald Trump’s Assault on U.S. Journalists as the “Enemy of the People”52
Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab51
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism50
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the COVID-19 Crisis46
Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media42
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception41
Spaces of Negotiation: Analyzing Platform Power in the News Industry38
Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists38
‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis37
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism35
Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment35
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets34
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter34
Safeguarding the Journalistic DNA: Attitudes towards the Role of Professional Values in Algorithmic News Recommender Designs34
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study31
“Flatten the Curve”: Data-Driven Projections and the Journalistic Brokering of Knowledge during the COVID-19 Crisis30
Do Small Streams Make a Big River? Detailing the Diversification of Revenue Streams in Newspapers’ Transition to Digital Journalism Businesses29
News as They Know It: Young Adults’ Information Repertoires in the Digital Media Landscape29
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values29
Shared Emotion: The Social Amplification of Partisan News on Twitter28
Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure28
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News28
Social Media and Trust in News: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Facebook on News Story Credibility27
Imagination, Algorithms and News: Developing AI Literacy for Journalism27
Moderating Uncivil User Comments by Humans or Machines? The Effects of Moderation Agent on Perceptions of Bias and Credibility in News Content26
Appreciating News Algorithms: Examining Audiences’ Perceptions to Different News Selection Mechanisms25
Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News25
Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus: Uncovering the Potential Impact of State Influence on the Production of Data-Driven News25
Alternative Media, Alternative Voices? A Quantitative Analysis of Actor Diversity in Alternative and Mainstream News Outlets25
Collective Social Correction: Addressing Misinformation through Group Practices of Information Verification on WhatsApp24
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills24
How Do Funding Models and Organizational Legacy Shape News Organizations’ Social Media Strategies? A Comparison of Public Service and Private Sector News Media in Six Countries23
Black Lives Matter Coverage: How Protest News Frames and Attitudinal Change Affect Social Media Engagement23
Alternative News Orientation and Trust in Mainstream Media: A Longitudinal Audience Perspective23
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*23
Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide22
Harassment of Journalists and Its Aftermath: Anti-Press Violence, Psychological Suffering, and an Internal Chilling Effect22
The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism22
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies22
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression22
Reengineering Journalism: Product Manager as News Industry Institutional Entrepreneur21
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook21
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News21
A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media: How the Personal and Professional Contribute to Power and Profit21
An Intersectional Approach to Exploring Audience Expectations of Journalism20
What a Special Issue on Latin America Teaches Us about Some Key Limitations in the Field of Digital Journalism20
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy20
News Engagement on Closed Platforms. Human Factors and Technological Affordances Influencing Exposure to News on WhatsApp20
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter20
Understanding Audience Engagement with Mainstream and Alternative News Posts on Facebook20
Between Journalistic and Movement Logic: Disentangling Referencing Practices of Right-Wing Alternative Online News Media20
You Should Read This Study! It Investigates Scandinavian Social Media Logics ☝19
Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic19
News Sharing, Gatekeeping, and Polarization: A Study of the #Bolsonaro Election19
Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them18
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology18
The Value of Local News in the Digital Realm – Introducing the Integrated Value Creation Model18
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism18
We’re in This Together: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for News Recommenders17
Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics17
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 Advantage17
A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation17
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication16
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System16
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes16
Understanding Alternative News Media and Its Contribution to Diversity16
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair16
Right-Wing, Populist, Controlled by Foreign Powers? Topic Diversification and Partisanship in the Content Structures of German-Language Alternative Media16
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media16
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom15
Showing off Your Social Capital: Homophily of Professional Reputation and Gender in Journalistic Networks on Twitter15
Towards a Normative Perspective on Journalistic AI: Embracing the Messy Reality of Normative Ideals15
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions15
Content Analyses of User Comments in Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Spanning Communication Studies and Computer Science15
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism15
In Search for an Audience-Supported Business Model for Local Newspapers: Findings from Clickstream and Subscriber Data15
Who is Responsible for Stopping the Spread of Misinformation? Examining Audience Perceptions of Responsibilities and Responses in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries15
A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines15
News Engagement: The Roles of Technological Affordance, Emotion, and Social Endorsement14
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content14
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms14
Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate14
On the Mainstream/Alternative Continuum: Mainstream Media Reactions to Right-Wing Alternative News Media14
Securing Whistleblowing in the Digital Age: SecureDrop and the Changing Journalistic Practices for Source Protection14
Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep14
When and How User Comments Affect News Readers’ Personal Opinion: Perceived Public Opinion and Perceived News Position as Mediators14
The Reconfiguration of News Work in Southern Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic14
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis14
Dimensions of Peripherality in Journalism: A Typology for Studying New Actors in the Journalistic Field14
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus13
Is Sensationalist Disinformation More Effective? Three Facilitating Factors at the National, Individual, and Situational Level13
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism13
The Str(AI)ght Scoop: Artificial Intelligence Cues Reduce Perceptions of Hostile Media Bias13
Why Media Systems Matter: A Fact-Checking Study of UK Television News during the Coronavirus Pandemic13
From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field13
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism13
Examining the Roles of Multi-Platform Social Media News Use, Engagement, and Connections with News Organizations and Journalists on News Literacy: A Comparison of Seven Democracies13
An Emotional Rally: Exploring Commenters’ Responses to Online News Coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis in Austria13
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism13
Between Personal and Public Interest: How Algorithmic News Recommendation Reconciles with Journalism as an Ideology13
“Crisis Coverage Gap”: The Divide between Public Interest and Local News’ Facebook Posts about COVID-19 in the United States12
Twitter in the News: An Analysis of Embedded Tweets in Political News Coverage12
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media12
Predicting Audience-Rated News Quality: Using Survey, Text Mining, and Neural Network Methods12
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries12
Power to the People? Conceptualising Audience Agency for the Digital Journalism Era12
Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory12
Strengthening Journalism from the Margins: Engaged Journalism in Brazil and Egypt12
Linking Media Content and Survey Data in a Dynamic and Digital Media Environment – Mobile Longitudinal Linkage Analysis12
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space12
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: News Recommendation as a Tool to Achieve Online Media Pluralism12
From Wild East to Forbidden City: Mapping Algorithmic News Distribution in China through a Case Study of Jinri Toutiao11
Cutting through the Hype: Understanding the Implications of Deepfakes for the Fact-Checking Actor-Network11
Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter11
“I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists11
Digital News Readership and Subscription in the United States during COVID-19: A Longitudinal Analysis of Clickstream and Subscription Data from a Local News Site11
Audiences behind the Paywall: News Navigation among Established versus Newly Added Subscribers11
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India11
Weaponizing Memes: The Journalistic Mediation of Visual Politicization11
Journalism Policy across the Commonwealth: Partial Answers to Public Problems11
Between Article and Topic: News Events as Level of Analysis and Their Computational Identification11
Invisible Friend or Foe?How Journalists Use and Perceive Algorithmic-Driven Tools in Their Research Process10
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices10
Everyday News Use and Misinformation in Kenya10
The Synergistic Effects of Solutions Journalism and Corporate Social Responsibility Advertising10
Alternative Media/Journalism and the Communicative Politics of Contestation10
The Watchdog Role of Fact-Checkers in Different Media Systems10
The Media Day, Revisited: Rhythm, Place and Hyperlocal Information Environments10
The Development of Data Journalism in China: Influences, Motivations and Practice10
How Disinformation Reshaped the Relationship between Journalism and Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Old and New Perspectives Revisited10
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media10
“Everything Has Changed, and Nothing Has Changed in Journalism”: Revisiting Journalistic Sourcing Practices and Verification Techniques during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Beyond10
Women’s Use and Abuse of the News Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mumsnet10
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response9
Can Filter Bubbles Protect Information Freedom? Discussions of Algorithmic News Recommenders in Eastern Europe9
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation9
Meet Today’s Young News Users: An Exploration of How Young News Users Assess Which News Providers Are Worth Their While in Today’s High-Choice News Landscape9
Using Messaging Apps in Audience Research: An Approach to Study Everyday Information and News Use Practices9
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom9
A New People’s Press? Understanding Digital-Native News Sites in Latin America as Alternative Media9
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions9
The Human Side of (News) Engagement Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency9
The Grey Area: How Regulations Impact Autonomy in Computational Journalism9
The Effects of Anthropomorphism on How People Evaluate Algorithm-Written News9
Exploring Data Visualisations: An Analytical Framework Based on Dimensional Components of Data Artefacts in Journalism9
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data9
Soft Power Journalism: A Visual Framing Analysis of COVID-19 on Xinhua and VOA’s Instagram Pages8
Normalizing Instagram8
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television8
Resource Exchanges Between Mobile News Apps and Third-Parties8
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification8
Political Alternative Media as a Democratic Challenge8
Correctives of the Mainstream Media? A Panel Study on Mainstream Media Use, Alternative Digital Media Use, and the Erosion of Political Interest as Well as Political Knowledge8
Affordances for Sense-Making: Exploring Their Availability for Users of Online News Sites8
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”8
Sponsored Content in Spanish Media: Strategies, Transparency, and Ethical Concerns8
Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in “Fake” News Websites8
The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece8
Moto-Taxis, Drivers, Weather, and WhatsApp: Contextualizing New Technology in Rwandan Newsrooms8
Uninformed and Misinformed: Advancing a Theoretical Model for Social Media News Use and Political Knowledge8
It’s a Dalliance! A Glance to the First Decade of the Digital Reader Revenue Market and How the Google’s and Facebook’s Payments Are Starting to Shape It8
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets8
We Were Innovators, but We Gave up: The Muted Digital Transition of Local Newspapers8
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism8
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?8
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework7
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses7
The No-Go Zone of Journalism Studies—Revisiting the Concept of Technological Determinism7
Go, Robots, Go! the Value and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Local Journalism7
Dealing with Opinion Power in the Platform World: Why We Really Have to Rethink Media Concentration Law7
The Affective Epistemology of Digital Journalism: Emotions as Knowledge Among On-the-Ground and OSINT Media Practitioners Covering the Russo-Ukrainian War7
Journalism and the Global South: Shaping Journalistic Practices and Identity Post “Arab Spring”7
Using Directional Cues in Immersive Journalism: The Impact on Information Processing, Narrative Transportation, Presence, News Attitudes, and Credibility7
Incidental Exposure and News Engagement: Testing Temporal Order and the Role of Political Interest7
Retrieving and Repurposing: A Grounded Approach to Hyperlocal Working Practices through a Subcultural Lens7
Safeguarding Editorial Independence in an Automated Media System: The Relationship Between Law and Journalistic Perspectives7
Escape Me If You Can: How AI Reshapes News Organisations’ Dependency on Platform Companies7
A Case of Claims and Facts: Automated Fact-Checking the Future of Journalism’s Authority7
Sponsored Editorial Content in Digital Journalism: Mapping the Merging of Media and Marketing7
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media7
Digital Infrastructures of COVID-19 Misinformation: A New Conceptual and Analytical Perspective on Fact-Checking7
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search7
Refracting the Pandemic: A Field Theory Approach to Chinese Journalists’ Sourcing Options in the Age of COVID-197
The Coming Archival Crisis: How Ephemeral Video Disappears Protest Journalism and Threatens Newsreels of Tomorrow7
Probabilistic Storytelling and Temporal Exigencies in Predictive Data Journalism7
Navigating Interactive Story Spaces. The Architecture of Interactive Narratives in Online Journalism7
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations7
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism7
AI ≥ Journalism: How the Chinese Copyright Law Protects Tech Giants’ AI Innovations and Disrupts the Journalistic Institution7
“Worse than the Harassment Itself.” Journalists’ Reactions to Newsroom Social Media Policies7
Introduction: Innovations, Transitions and Transformations in Digital Journalism: Algorithmic, Symbolic, and New Forms of Journalism6
The Familiarity Paradox: Why Has Digital Sourcing Not Democratized the News?6
Windows to the World: Imagining Flemish News Audiences and Their Views on Society through the Lens of News Repertoires6
Journalism beyond the Coup: Emerging Forms of Digital Journalism Practices in Post-Coup Zimbabwe6
Cascading Activation Revisited: How Audiences Contribute to News Agendas Using Social Media6
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach6
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance6
Egyptian Women Journalists’ Feminist Voices in a Shifting Digitalized Journalistic Field6
Designing Algorithmic Editors: How Newspapers Embed and Encode Journalistic Values into News Recommender Systems6
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism6
How to Reach Nirvana: Yandex, News Personalisation, and the Future of Russian Journalistic Media6
Press Freedom during Covid-19: The Digital Discourses of the International Press Institute, Reporters Sans Frontières, and the Committee to Protect Journalists6
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing6
Algorithmic News Diversity and Democratic Theory: Adding Agonism to the Mix6
“They’re Making It More Democratic”: The Normative Construction of Participatory Journalism6
Un-Locking Strategic Lock-Ins of Local Media: An Investigation of Local Media’s Preferences towards Public Support for Strategic Innovation6
Fact-Checking Interventions on Social Media Using Cartoon Figures: Lessons Learned from “the Tooties”6
Two Decades of Journalism Studies: Authorship, Networks and Diversity6
Contesting the Mainstream: Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research6
Networked Flak in CNN and Fox News Memes on Instagram5
Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News5
Change and Continuity in Digital Journalism: The Covid-19 Pandemic as Situational Context for Broader Arguments about the Field5
How People Integrate News into Their Everyday Routines: A Context-Centered Approach to News Habits5
Native Advertising in the Chinese Press: Implications of State Subsidies for Journalist Professional Self-Identification5
Making Sense of Pandemic-Induced Changes in Journalism and Beyond5
WeChat and the Sharing of News in Networked China5
We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the “Reinvention of Live” in Professional TV News Broadcasting5
Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-195
How the Trick is Done – Conditions of Success in Entrepreneurial Digital Journalism5
The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation—a Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies5
“How Trustworthy Is This Research?” Designing a Tool to Help Readers Understand Evidence and Uncertainty in Science Journalism5
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia5
Digital (In)Security in Latin America: The Dimensions of Social Media Violence against the Press and Journalists’ Coping Strategies5
Media Production Logics in Triple-Party News-Spaces: A Five-Dimensional Framework5
How Propaganda Works in the Digital Era: Soft News as a Gateway5
Facing Fakes: Understanding Tech Platforms’ Responses to Online Falsehoods5
If You Have Choices, Why Not Choose (and Share) All of Them? A Multiverse Approach to Understanding News Engagement on Social Media5
The Creation of Branded Content Teams in Spanish News Organizations and Their Implications for Structures, Professional Roles and Ethics5
Open-Source Repositories as Trust-Building Journalism Infrastructure: Examining the Use of GitHub by News Outlets to Promote Transparency, Innovation, and Collaboration5
Journalism and the Voice Intelligence Industry5
Putting a Human Face on the Algorithm: Co-Designing Recommender Personae to Democratize News Recommender Systems5
Pioneers as Peers: How Entrepreneurial Journalists Imagine the Futures of Journalism5
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