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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries	95
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload	71
What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist	67
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram	62
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era	61
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	53
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	53
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 Gab	51
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism	50
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the COVID-19 Crisis	46
Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media	42
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception	41
Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists	38
Spaces of Negotiation: Analyzing Platform Power in the News Industry	38
‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	37
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism	35
Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment	35
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets	34
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter	34
Safeguarding the Journalistic DNA: Attitudes towards the Role of Professional Values in Algorithmic News Recommender Designs	34
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study	31
“Flatten the Curve”: Data-Driven Projections and the Journalistic Brokering of Knowledge during the COVID-19 Crisis	30
News as They Know It: Young Adults’ Information Repertoires in the Digital Media Landscape	29
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values	29

Do Small Streams Make a Big River? Detailing the Diversification of Revenue Streams in Newspapers’ Transition to Digital Journalism Businesses	29
Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure	28
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News	28
Shared Emotion: The Social Amplification of Partisan News on Twitter	28
Social Media and Trust in News: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Facebook on News Story Credibility	27
Imagination, Algorithms and News: Developing AI Literacy for Journalism	27
Moderating Uncivil User Comments by Humans or Machines? The Effects of Moderation Agent on Perceptions of Bias and Credibility in News Content	26
Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News	25
Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus: Uncovering the Potential Impact of State Influence on the Production of Data-Driven News	25
Alternative Media, Alternative Voices? A Quantitative Analysis of Actor Diversity in Alternative and Mainstream News Outlets	25
Appreciating News Algorithms: Examining Audiences’ Perceptions to Different News Selection Mechanisms	25
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills	24
Collective Social Correction: Addressing Misinformation through Group Practices of Information Verification on WhatsApp	24
Black Lives Matter Coverage: How Protest News Frames and Attitudinal Change Affect Social Media Engagement	23
Alternative News Orientation and Trust in Mainstream Media: A Longitudinal Audience Perspective	23
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*	23
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	23
The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism	22
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies	22
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression	22
Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide	22
Harassment of Journalists and Its Aftermath: Anti-Press Violence, Psychological Suffering, and an Internal Chilling Effect	22
Reengineering Journalism: Product Manager as News Industry Institutional Entrepreneur	21
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook	21
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News	21
A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media: How the Personal and Professional Contribute to Power and Profit	21
What a Special Issue on Latin America Teaches Us about Some Key Limitations in the Field of Digital Journalism	20
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy	20
News Engagement on Closed Platforms. Human Factors and Technological Affordances Influencing Exposure to News on WhatsApp	20
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter	20
Understanding Audience Engagement with Mainstream and Alternative News Posts on Facebook	20
Between Journalistic and Movement Logic: Disentangling Referencing Practices of Right-Wing Alternative Online News Media	20
An Intersectional Approach to Exploring Audience Expectations of Journalism	20
Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
News Sharing, Gatekeeping, and Polarization: A Study of the #Bolsonaro Election	19
You Should Read This Study! It Investigates Scandinavian Social Media Logics ☝	19
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology	18
The Value of Local News in the Digital Realm – Introducing the Integrated Value Creation Model	18
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism	18
Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them	18
Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics	17
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 Advantage	17
A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation	17
We’re in This Together: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for News Recommenders	17
Understanding Alternative News Media and Its Contribution to Diversity	16
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair	16
Right-Wing, Populist, Controlled by Foreign Powers? Topic Diversification and Partisanship in the Content Structures of German-Language Alternative Media	16
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	16
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication	16
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System	16

The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes	16
Showing off Your Social Capital: Homophily of Professional Reputation and Gender in Journalistic Networks on Twitter	15
Towards a Normative Perspective on Journalistic AI: Embracing the Messy Reality of Normative Ideals	15
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions	15
Content Analyses of User Comments in Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Spanning Communication Studies and Computer Science	15
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism	15
In Search for an Audience-Supported Business Model for Local Newspapers: Findings from Clickstream and Subscriber Data	15
Who is Responsible for Stopping the Spread of Misinformation? Examining Audience Perceptions of Responsibilities and Responses in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries	15
A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines	15
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom	15
Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate	14
On the Mainstream/Alternative Continuum: Mainstream Media Reactions to Right-Wing Alternative News Media	14
Securing Whistleblowing in the Digital Age: SecureDrop and the Changing Journalistic Practices for Source Protection	14
Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep	14
When and How User Comments Affect News Readers’ Personal Opinion: Perceived Public Opinion and Perceived News Position as Mediators	14
The Reconfiguration of News Work in Southern Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis	14
Dimensions of Peripherality in Journalism: A Typology for Studying New Actors in the Journalistic Field	14
News Engagement: The Roles of Technological Affordance, Emotion, and Social Endorsement	14
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content	14
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms	14
From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field	13
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism	13
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 Democracies	13
An Emotional Rally: Exploring Commenters’ Responses to Online News Coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis in Austria	13
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism	13
Between Personal and Public Interest: How Algorithmic News Recommendation Reconciles with Journalism as an Ideology	13
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus	13
Is Sensationalist Disinformation More Effective? Three Facilitating Factors at the National, Individual, and Situational Level	13
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism	13
The Str(AI)ght Scoop: Artificial Intelligence Cues Reduce Perceptions of Hostile Media Bias	13
Why Media Systems Matter: A Fact-Checking Study of UK Television News during the Coronavirus Pandemic	13
Predicting Audience-Rated News Quality: Using Survey, Text Mining, and Neural Network Methods	12
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	12
Power to the People? Conceptualising Audience Agency for the Digital Journalism Era	12
Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory	12
Strengthening Journalism from the Margins: Engaged Journalism in Brazil and Egypt	12
Linking Media Content and Survey Data in a Dynamic and Digital Media Environment – Mobile Longitudinal Linkage Analysis	12
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space	12
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: News Recommendation as a Tool to Achieve Online Media Pluralism	12
“Crisis Coverage Gap”: The Divide between Public Interest and Local News’ Facebook Posts about COVID-19 in the United States	12
Twitter in the News: An Analysis of Embedded Tweets in Political News Coverage	12
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media	12