Digital Journalism

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom105
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism98
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability88
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance86
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance70
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies67
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment58
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page52
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data50
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care47
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search46
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries46
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 Advantage45
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification40
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting39
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical38
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities37
Normalizing Instagram35
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions35
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues32
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology32
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media32
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism31
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment30
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future29
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies29
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production28
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World28
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US27
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict27
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future27
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries27
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes26
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms25
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers24
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists24
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework24
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists24
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’24
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media23
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism23
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems23
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India23
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production22
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults22
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication22
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations21
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom21
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia21
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations21
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response20
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes20
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet20
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?20
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East20
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism19
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram19
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic18
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy18
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility18
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces18
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus18
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion18
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok17
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media17
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance17
Visual War Journalism17
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India17
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer17
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism17
Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of the 2022 Kenyan Election17
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice16
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences16
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research16
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload16
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media15
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”15
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data15
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts15
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism15
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses15
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies15
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines15
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media15
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism15
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future14
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom14
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment14
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures14
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions14
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society14
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here13
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices13
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework13
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains12
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies12
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom12
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies12
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services12
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders12
The Press as Platform: Institutional Isomorphism and the Strategic Adoption of Platform Logics12
Emotion Sells: Rage Bait vs. Information Bait in Clickbait News Headlines on Social Media12
Audience Expectations of Journalists: Demands, Beliefs and Assessments12
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