OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Digital Journalism is 12. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mob Censorship: Online Harassment of US Journalists in Times of Digital Hate and Populism	120
Online Harassment and Its Implications for the Journalist–Audience Relationship	92
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries	74
The Political Power of Platforms: How Current Attempts to Regulate Misinformation Amplify Opinion Power	73
Dimensions of Social Media Logics: Mapping Forms of Journalistic Norms and Practices on Twitter and Instagram	61
Communal News Work: COVID-19 Calls for Collective Funding of Journalism	60
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload	57
What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist	57
The Unified Framework of Media Diversity: A Systematic Literature Review	56
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram	54
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era	45
Content for Free? Drivers of Past Payment, Paying Intent and Willingness to Pay for Digital Journalism – A Systematic Literature Review	43
Digital Press Criticism: The Symbolic Dimensions of Donald Trump’s Assault on U.S. Journalists as the “Enemy of the People”	43
Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab	42
Combating Disinformation on Social Media: Multilevel Governance and Distributed Accountability in Europe	42
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism	40
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	40
The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond	39
Man vs. Machine? The Impact of Algorithm Authorship on News Credibility	39
China’s “Fake News” Problem: Exploring the Spread of Online Rumors in the Government-Controlled News Media	39
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	37
Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media	36
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the COVID-19 Crisis	35
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception	33
Tackling Disinformation and Infodemics Demands Media Policy Changes	33

Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists	33
Online News User Journeys: The Role of Social Media, News Websites, and Topics	32
User Perspectives on the News Personalisation Process: Agency, Trust and Utility as Building Blocks	31
Stronger and Safer Together: Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America	31
‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	30
Shared Emotion: The Social Amplification of Partisan News on Twitter	27
Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment	27
The Meso News-Space: Engaging with the News between the Public and Private Domains	26
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets	26
Spaces of Negotiation: Analyzing Platform Power in the News Industry	26
“Flatten the Curve”: Data-Driven Projections and the Journalistic Brokering of Knowledge during the COVID-19 Crisis	25
Confirmation Bias in the Era of Mobile News Consumption: The Social and Psychological Dimensions	25
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News	25
Safeguarding the Journalistic DNA: Attitudes towards the Role of Professional Values in Algorithmic News Recommender Designs	25
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values	24
Do Small Streams Make a Big River? Detailing the Diversification of Revenue Streams in Newspapers’ Transition to Digital Journalism Businesses	23
Moderating Uncivil User Comments by Humans or Machines? The Effects of Moderation Agent on Perceptions of Bias and Credibility in News Content	23
What Drives Hyper-Partisan News Sharing: Exploring the Role of Source, Style, and Content	22
Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus: Uncovering the Potential Impact of State Influence on the Production of Data-Driven News	22
News as They Know It: Young Adults’ Information Repertoires in the Digital Media Landscape	22
Exploring “Angry” and “Like” Reactions on Uncivil Facebook Comments That Correct Misinformation in the News	22
Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure	22
Appreciating News Algorithms: Examining Audiences’ Perceptions to Different News Selection Mechanisms	22
Digital Journalism, Social Media Platforms, and Audience Engagement: The Case of AJ+	21
A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media: How the Personal and Professional Contribute to Power and Profit	21
Engaging Citizens for Climate Change—Challenges for Journalism	21
Platforms, Journalists and Their Digital Selves	21
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*	21
The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism	20
Imagination, Algorithms and News: Developing AI Literacy for Journalism	20
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills	20
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression	20
The Temporal Nature of Mobile Push Notification Alerts: A Study of European News Outlets’ Dissemination Patterns	20
Collective Social Correction: Addressing Misinformation through Group Practices of Information Verification on WhatsApp	20
What a Special Issue on Latin America Teaches Us about Some Key Limitations in the Field of Digital Journalism	20
Alternative Media, Alternative Voices? A Quantitative Analysis of Actor Diversity in Alternative and Mainstream News Outlets	20
An Intersectional Approach to Exploring Audience Expectations of Journalism	19
News Engagement on Closed Platforms. Human Factors and Technological Affordances Influencing Exposure to News on WhatsApp	19
Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News	19
Social Media and Trust in News: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Facebook on News Story Credibility	19
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 Countries	19
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism	19
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study	19
How to Cope with Dark Participation: Moderation Practices in German Newsrooms	19
Reengineering Journalism: Product Manager as News Industry Institutional Entrepreneur	19
Black Lives Matter Coverage: How Protest News Frames and Attitudinal Change Affect Social Media Engagement	18
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook	18
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter	18
“Yes, I Saw It – But Didn’t Read It…” A Cross-Country Study, Exploring Relationships between Incidental News Exposure and News Use across Platforms	18
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies	17

Signalling and Expressive Interaction: Online News Users’ Different Modes of Interaction on Digital Platforms	17
News Sharing, Gatekeeping, and Polarization: A Study of the #Bolsonaro Election	17
Alternative News Orientation and Trust in Mainstream Media: A Longitudinal Audience Perspective	17
Creativity and Innovation in Technology-Mediated Journalistic Work: Mapping out Enablers and Constraints	16
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology	16
Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide	16
Between Journalistic and Movement Logic: Disentangling Referencing Practices of Right-Wing Alternative Online News Media	16
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News	16
Understanding Audience Engagement with Mainstream and Alternative News Posts on Facebook	16
Harassment of Journalists and Its Aftermath: Anti-Press Violence, Psychological Suffering, and an Internal Chilling Effect	16
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism	15
Between Attack and Resilience: The Ongoing Institutionalization of Independent Digital Journalism in Brazil	15
You Should Read This Study! It Investigates Scandinavian Social Media Logics ☝	15
The Information Security Cultures of Journalism	15
The Value of Local News in the Digital Realm – Introducing the Integrated Value Creation Model	15
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter	14
Understanding Alternative News Media and Its Contribution to Diversity	14
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	14
The Mechanisms of “Incidental News Consumption”: an Eye Tracking Study of News Interaction on Facebook	14
A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines	13
Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Why Do People Share Political Information on Social Media?	13
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content	13
In Search for an Audience-Supported Business Model for Local Newspapers: Findings from Clickstream and Subscriber Data	13
News Engagement: The Roles of Technological Affordance, Emotion, and Social Endorsement	13
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom	13
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy	13
Showing off Your Social Capital: Homophily of Professional Reputation and Gender in Journalistic Networks on Twitter	12
On the Mainstream/Alternative Continuum: Mainstream Media Reactions to Right-Wing Alternative News Media	12
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System	12
We’re in This Together: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for News Recommenders	12
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism	12
Who is Responsible for Stopping the Spread of Misinformation? Examining Audience Perceptions of Responsibilities and Responses in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries	12
Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them	12
Right-Wing, Populist, Controlled by Foreign Powers? Topic Diversification and Partisanship in the Content Structures of German-Language Alternative Media	12
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair	12
Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate	12
Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics	12
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication	12
Towards a Normative Perspective on Journalistic AI: Embracing the Messy Reality of Normative Ideals	12
Between Personal and Public Interest: How Algorithmic News Recommendation Reconciles with Journalism as an Ideology	12