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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion98
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing86
The Human Side of (News) Engagement Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency80
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media71
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance63
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study61
Correction60
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being59
Correction59
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism56
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data54
Facing Fakes: Understanding Tech Platforms’ Responses to Online Falsehoods53
AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press50
The Crisis of the Institutional Press43
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search43
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability42
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care39
Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory38
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 Advantage38
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism38
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification37
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media35
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms34
What’s the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism33
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands33
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model33
From Transparency to Transactive Memory System: How Do Newsrooms’ GitHub Pages Shape News Outlet Credibility?32
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages31
A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome30
Networked Flak in CNN and Fox News Memes on Instagram29
Information Competition in Disruptive Media Markets: Investigating Competition and User Selection on Google29
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice29
Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-1929
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces29
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility27
Visuality as an Affordance on Instagram News Production27
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media25
The Corrective Effect of Fact-Checking and Hostile Media Perceptions: A Three-Way Interaction Model between Social Media News Usage and Political Misperceptions25
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: News Recommendation as a Tool to Achieve Online Media Pluralism25
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism24
We Were Innovators, but We Gave up: The Muted Digital Transition of Local Newspapers24
The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece24
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies24
Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate23
The Entanglements between Data Journalism, Collaboration and Business Models: A Systematic Literature Review23
Resource Exchanges Between Mobile News Apps and Third-Parties23
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets23
“I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists23
Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in “Fake” News Websites23
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance22
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism22
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments22
Visual War Journalism22
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment22
The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News22
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India21
From the Fringes to the Core – An Analysis of Right-Wing Populists’ Linking Practices in Seven EU Parliaments and Switzerland21
Journalism and the Global South: Shaping Journalistic Practices and Identity Post “Arab Spring”20
The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Visibility: An Analysis of the Platform-Facing Markup Used by U.S.-Based Digital News Organizations20
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy19
“It’s Trauma on a Deadline”: Change, Continuity and Harm After the “Racial Reckoning”19
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism19
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills19
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom19
Political Alternative Media as a Democratic Challenge19
Between Personal and Public Interest: How Algorithmic News Recommendation Reconciles with Journalism as an Ideology19
AI ≥ Journalism: How the Chinese Copyright Law Protects Tech Giants’ AI Innovations and Disrupts the Journalistic Institution19
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News19
Contesting the Mainstream: Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research18
The Three “Cs” of Digital Local Journalism: Community, Commitment and Continuity18
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*18
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy18
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes18
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies18
10 Years of Digital Journalism (Studies): The Past, the Present, the Future18
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era17
How Propaganda Works in the Digital Era: Soft News as a Gateway17
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology17
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism16
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter16
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism16
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News16
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism16
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception15
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance15
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page15
In Search for an Audience-Supported Business Model for Local Newspapers: Findings from Clickstream and Subscriber Data15
Joining the Dots: The Literacies of Multimodal Longform Journalism15
The Relevance of Digital News: Themes, Scales and Temporalities15
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology14
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice14
Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News14
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer14
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities14
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach14
Coding and Capability-Building in Nonprofit Digital-Native News Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Latin America (LATAM)14
“Find the Joy”: A War Correspondent’s Tweets and the Rise of an Affective Age in News14
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts14
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media14
News “Attraction” and Digital Inequalities: Incidental News Exposure and the Equalization or Stratification of Political Information14
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 It13
Dimensions of Peripherality in Journalism: A Typology for Studying New Actors in the Journalistic Field13
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues13
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies13
Can Visuals Facilitate or Detract Attention to Text? Examining the Effects of the Amount and Type of Visuals on Attention to Digital Longforms13
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism13
Go, Robots, Go! the Value and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Local Journalism13
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media12
Escape Me If You Can: How AI Reshapes News Organisations’ Dependency on Platform Companies12
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media12
Conceptualizing Journalists’ Safety around the Globe12
Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter12
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data12
Normalizing Instagram11
Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep11
News Coverage of the Arab Spring: State-Run News Agencies as Discursive Propagators of News11
Nudging Towards Exposure Diversity: Examining the Effects of News Recommender Design on Audiences’ News Exposure Behaviours and Perceptions11
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload11
Navigating Interactive Story Spaces. The Architecture of Interactive Narratives in Online Journalism11
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism11
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok11
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions11
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television11
Electronic Surveillance and Australian Journalism: Surveillance Normalization and Emergent Norms of Information Security11
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences11
Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism?11
Black Lives Matter Coverage: How Protest News Frames and Attitudinal Change Affect Social Media Engagement10
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space10
Mitigating Hostility in Digital Journalism: Digital Hostility as Ossifier of Field Boundaries10
Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post10
Scanning vs. Thorough Processing the News: Antecedents of First- and Second-Level Incidental Exposure and the Role of the Relevance Appraisal10
Harassment of Journalists and Its Aftermath: Anti-Press Violence, Psychological Suffering, and an Internal Chilling Effect10
Cutting through the Hype: Understanding the Implications of Deepfakes for the Fact-Checking Actor-Network10
The Relationship Between Incidental News Exposure and Political Participation: A Cross-Country, Multilevel Analysis10
Sensing What’s New: Considering Ethics When Using Sensor Data in Journalistic Practices9
The “Conditional Unbias” of Data Journalism in China’s News Industry9
The No-Go Zone of Journalism Studies—Revisiting the Concept of Technological Determinism9
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting9
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”9
Safeguarding Editorial Independence in an Automated Media System: The Relationship Between Law and Journalistic Perspectives9
Everyday News Use and Misinformation in Kenya9
Diasporic Epistemologies in Cuban Independent Journalism9
The Threat of Misinformation on Journalism’s Epistemology: Exploring the Gap between Journalist’s and Audience’s Expectations when Facing Fake Content9
Envisioning a More Inclusive Future for Digital Journalism: A Diversity Audit of Journalism Studies (2013–2021)9
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets9
Sponsored Content in Spanish Media: Strategies, Transparency, and Ethical Concerns9
Pioneers as Peers: How Entrepreneurial Journalists Imagine the Futures of Journalism9
Epistemic Contests in Journalism: Examining Struggles over Journalistic Ways of Knowing9
Imagination, Algorithms and News: Developing AI Literacy for Journalism9
The Alternative Truth Kept Hidden From Us: The Effects of Multimodal Disinformation Disseminated by Ordinary Citizens and Alternative Hyper-Partisan Media8
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions8
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values8
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here8
A Matter of Organisational Silence: Media Managers Struggling to Make Sense of the Online Harassment of Journalists as a Collective Issue in Journalism8
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies8
Do Small Streams Make a Big River? Detailing the Diversification of Revenue Streams in Newspapers’ Transition to Digital Journalism Businesses8
Alternative Media, Alternative Voices? A Quantitative Analysis of Actor Diversity in Alternative and Mainstream News Outlets8
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom8
The News Feed is Not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News8
Mob Censorship Revisited: Questions, Findings, and Challenges8
Can AI Become Walter Cronkite? Testing the Machine Heuristic, the Hostile Media Effect, and Political News Written by Artificial Intelligence8
Understanding Audience Behavior with Digital Traces: Past, Present, and Future8
Nudging News Readers: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding When and How Interface Nudges Affect News Selection8
Incidental Exposure and News Engagement: Testing Temporal Order and the Role of Political Interest8
Mob Censorship8
News from Messenger? A Cross-National Comparative Study of News Media's Audience Engagement Strategies via Facebook Messenger Chatbots7
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests7
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses7
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment7
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society7
Cascading Activation Revisited: How Audiences Contribute to News Agendas Using Social Media7
Balancing Efficiency and Inclusivity7
Media Production Logics in Triple-Party News-Spaces: A Five-Dimensional Framework7
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair7
The Gamification of Digital Journalism: Innovation in Journalistic Storytelling7
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter7
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future7
Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic7
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment7
Explicating Local: An Audience-Based Framing of Local Community and Local News7
Power to the People? Conceptualising Audience Agency for the Digital Journalism Era7
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies7
Dealing with the Black Box: European Journalists and the Threats of Spyware7
Press Freedom during Covid-19: The Digital Discourses of the International Press Institute, Reporters Sans Frontières, and the Committee to Protect Journalists7
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices7
Journalism as a Service: How Tablet News Service Influences Subscriber Retention and Long-Term Profitability7
Between Journalistic and Movement Logic: Disentangling Referencing Practices of Right-Wing Alternative Online News Media6
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures6
WeChat and the Sharing of News in Networked China6
Viewer Preferences for Publication of Graphic Images of War6
Resisting the Individualization of Risk: Strategies of Engagement and Caution in Journalists’ Responses to Online Mobs in the United States and Germany6
Two Decades of Journalism Studies: Authorship, Networks and Diversity6
Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists6
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains6
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict6
“It is Easier to Leave Death Threats than to Get Them Taken Down!” – Systematising Journalists’ Battles with Online Mobs6
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism6
Rational-Critical User Discussions: How Argument Strength and the Conditions Set by News Organizations Are Linked to (Reasoned) Disagreement6
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework6
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services6
Pushing Boundaries—Hybrid Advertising in Digital News Media: A Content Analysis of Media Kits6
Protest Paradigm Revisited: Is Depicting Protestors’ (Counter)Violence Really Bad?6
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future6
Putting a Human Face on the Algorithm: Co-Designing Recommender Personae to Democratize News Recommender Systems6
From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field5
Right-Wing, Populist, Controlled by Foreign Powers? Topic Diversification and Partisanship in the Content Structures of German-Language Alternative Media5
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation5
Using Facebook Messenger versus Groups for News Engagement5
Design Implications for a Burgeoning Digital Product Ecosystem: Roles, Culture and Engagement5
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders5
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies5
Datafication of Journalism: How Data Elites and Epistemic Infrastructures Change News Organizations5
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers5
Refracting the Pandemic: A Field Theory Approach to Chinese Journalists’ Sourcing Options in the Age of COVID-195
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism5
Weaponizing Memes: The Journalistic Mediation of Visual Politicization5
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries5
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production5
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World5
Digital (In)Security in Latin America: The Dimensions of Social Media Violence against the Press and Journalists’ Coping Strategies5
Sponsored Content in 2020: Back to the Future?5
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists5
Relevance as a Mechanism in Evaluating News-Ness among American Teens and Adults5
The Watchdog Role of Fact-Checkers in Different Media Systems5
Twitter in the News: An Analysis of Embedded Tweets in Political News Coverage5
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