OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Digital Journalism is 11. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion	98
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing	71
The Human Side of (News) Engagement Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency	62
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study	61
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media	61
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology	57
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance	53
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	53
AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press	50
The Crisis of the Institutional Press	50
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	44
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception	44
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	42
Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory	39
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News	38
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism	38
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	36
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	34
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media	34
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes	34
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	32
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	32
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism	30
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms	30
Political Alternative Media as a Democratic Challenge	29

What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*	29
Facing Fakes: Understanding Tech Platforms’ Responses to Online Falsehoods	28
What’s the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism	27
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model	25
The Three “Cs” of Digital Local Journalism: Community, Commitment and Continuity	25
From Transparency to Transactive Memory System: How Do Newsrooms’ GitHub Pages Shape News Outlet Credibility?	25
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands	25
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages	24
The Entanglements between Data Journalism, Collaboration and Business Models: A Systematic Literature Review	24
A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome	24
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism	23
Information Competition in Disruptive Media Markets: Investigating Competition and User Selection on Google	23
Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-19	23
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice	22
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter	22
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being	22
We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the “Reinvention of Live” in Professional TV News Broadcasting	22
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces	22
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era	21
The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Visibility: An Analysis of the Platform-Facing Markup Used by U.S.-Based Digital News Organizations	21
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India	21
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism	20
Visuality as an Affordance on Instagram News Production	20
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	20
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: News Recommendation as a Tool to Achieve Online Media Pluralism	20
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility	20
The Corrective Effect of Fact-Checking and Hostile Media Perceptions: A Three-Way Interaction Model between Social Media News Usage and Political Misperceptions	20
Networked Flak in CNN and Fox News Memes on Instagram	20
How Propaganda Works in the Digital Era: Soft News as a Gateway	19
Visual War Journalism	19
The (Non-)Adoption of Participatory Newsroom Innovations under Authoritarian Rule: How Comment Sections Diffused in Belarus and Azerbaijan (1998–2017)	19
Contesting the Mainstream: Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research	19
Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in “Fake” News Websites	19
The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece	19
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets	19
10 Years of Digital Journalism (Studies): The Past, the Present, the Future	19
“I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists	18
Resource Exchanges Between Mobile News Apps and Third-Parties	18
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	18
Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate	18
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	18
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News	18
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments	17
The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News	17
We Were Innovators, but We Gave up: The Muted Digital Transition of Local Newspapers	16
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	16
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media	16
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies	16
Between Personal and Public Interest: How Algorithmic News Recommendation Reconciles with Journalism as an Ideology	15
Journalism and the Global South: Shaping Journalistic Practices and Identity Post “Arab Spring”	15

Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	15
From the Fringes to the Core – An Analysis of Right-Wing Populists’ Linking Practices in Seven EU Parliaments and Switzerland	15
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills	15
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism	15
Correction	14
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy	14
“It’s Trauma on a Deadline”: Change, Continuity and Harm After the “Racial Reckoning”	14
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	14
Correction	14
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice	14
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism	14
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism	14
AI ≥ Journalism: How the Chinese Copyright Law Protects Tech Giants’ AI Innovations and Disrupts the Journalistic Institution	14
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	14
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	13
Conceptualizing Journalists’ Safety around the Globe	13
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data	13
Normalizing Instagram	13
Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter	13
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media	13
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer	13
Escape Me If You Can: How AI Reshapes News Organisations’ Dependency on Platform Companies	13
Safeguarding Editorial Independence in an Automated Media System: The Relationship Between Law and Journalistic Perspectives	13
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”	12
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television	12
Epistemic Contests in Journalism: Examining Struggles over Journalistic Ways of Knowing	12
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	12
The “Conditional Unbias” of Data Journalism in China’s News Industry	12
Everyday News Use and Misinformation in Kenya	12
Go, Robots, Go! the Value and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Local Journalism	12
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets	12
Sensing What’s New: Considering Ethics When Using Sensor Data in Journalistic Practices	12
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	12
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach	12
“Find the Joy”: A War Correspondent’s Tweets and the Rise of an Affective Age in News	11
News “Attraction” and Digital Inequalities: Incidental News Exposure and the Equalization or Stratification of Political Information	11
Sponsored Content in Spanish Media: Strategies, Transparency, and Ethical Concerns	11
The Relevance of Digital News: Themes, Scales and Temporalities	11
Navigating Interactive Story Spaces. The Architecture of Interactive Narratives in Online Journalism	11
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 It	11
Diasporic Epistemologies in Cuban Independent Journalism	11
Can Visuals Facilitate or Detract Attention to Text? Examining the Effects of the Amount and Type of Visuals on Attention to Digital Longforms	11