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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mob Censorship: Online Harassment of US Journalists in Times of Digital Hate and Populism120
Online Harassment and Its Implications for the Journalist–Audience Relationship92
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries74
The Political Power of Platforms: How Current Attempts to Regulate Misinformation Amplify Opinion Power73
Dimensions of Social Media Logics: Mapping Forms of Journalistic Norms and Practices on Twitter and Instagram61
Communal News Work: COVID-19 Calls for Collective Funding of Journalism60
What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist57
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload57
The Unified Framework of Media Diversity: A Systematic Literature Review56
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram54
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era45
Content for Free? Drivers of Past Payment, Paying Intent and Willingness to Pay for Digital Journalism – A Systematic Literature Review43
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 Gab42
Combating Disinformation on Social Media: Multilevel Governance and Distributed Accountability in Europe42
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies40
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism40
Man vs. Machine? The Impact of Algorithm Authorship on News Credibility39
China’s “Fake News” Problem: Exploring the Spread of Online Rumors in the Government-Controlled News Media39
The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond39
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy37
Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media36
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the COVID-19 Crisis35
Tackling Disinformation and Infodemics Demands Media Policy Changes33
Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists33
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception33
Online News User Journeys: The Role of Social Media, News Websites, and Topics32
Stronger and Safer Together: Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America31
User Perspectives on the News Personalisation Process: Agency, Trust and Utility as Building Blocks31
‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis30
Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment27
Shared Emotion: The Social Amplification of Partisan News on Twitter27
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets26
Spaces of Negotiation: Analyzing Platform Power in the News Industry26
The Meso News-Space: Engaging with the News between the Public and Private Domains26
Confirmation Bias in the Era of Mobile News Consumption: The Social and Psychological Dimensions25
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News25
Safeguarding the Journalistic DNA: Attitudes towards the Role of Professional Values in Algorithmic News Recommender Designs25
“Flatten the Curve”: Data-Driven Projections and the Journalistic Brokering of Knowledge during the COVID-19 Crisis25
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values24
Do Small Streams Make a Big River? Detailing the Diversification of Revenue Streams in Newspapers’ Transition to Digital Journalism Businesses23
Moderating Uncivil User Comments by Humans or Machines? The Effects of Moderation Agent on Perceptions of Bias and Credibility in News Content23
News as They Know It: Young Adults’ Information Repertoires in the Digital Media Landscape22
Exploring “Angry” and “Like” Reactions on Uncivil Facebook Comments That Correct Misinformation in the News22
Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure22
Appreciating News Algorithms: Examining Audiences’ Perceptions to Different News Selection Mechanisms22
What Drives Hyper-Partisan News Sharing: Exploring the Role of Source, Style, and Content22
Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus: Uncovering the Potential Impact of State Influence on the Production of Data-Driven News22
A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media: How the Personal and Professional Contribute to Power and Profit21
Engaging Citizens for Climate Change—Challenges for Journalism21
Platforms, Journalists and Their Digital Selves21
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*21
Digital Journalism, Social Media Platforms, and Audience Engagement: The Case of AJ+21
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression20
The Temporal Nature of Mobile Push Notification Alerts: A Study of European News Outlets’ Dissemination Patterns20
Collective Social Correction: Addressing Misinformation through Group Practices of Information Verification on WhatsApp20
What a Special Issue on Latin America Teaches Us about Some Key Limitations in the Field of Digital Journalism20
Alternative Media, Alternative Voices? A Quantitative Analysis of Actor Diversity in Alternative and Mainstream News Outlets20
The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism20
Imagination, Algorithms and News: Developing AI Literacy for Journalism20
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills20
Social Media and Trust in News: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Facebook on News Story Credibility19
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 Countries19
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism19
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study19
How to Cope with Dark Participation: Moderation Practices in German Newsrooms19
Reengineering Journalism: Product Manager as News Industry Institutional Entrepreneur19
An Intersectional Approach to Exploring Audience Expectations of Journalism19
News Engagement on Closed Platforms. Human Factors and Technological Affordances Influencing Exposure to News on WhatsApp19
Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News19
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook18
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter18
“Yes, I Saw It – But Didn’t Read It…” A Cross-Country Study, Exploring Relationships between Incidental News Exposure and News Use across Platforms18
Black Lives Matter Coverage: How Protest News Frames and Attitudinal Change Affect Social Media Engagement18
Signalling and Expressive Interaction: Online News Users’ Different Modes of Interaction on Digital Platforms17
News Sharing, Gatekeeping, and Polarization: A Study of the #Bolsonaro Election17
Alternative News Orientation and Trust in Mainstream Media: A Longitudinal Audience Perspective17
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies17
Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide16
Between Journalistic and Movement Logic: Disentangling Referencing Practices of Right-Wing Alternative Online News Media16
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News16
Understanding Audience Engagement with Mainstream and Alternative News Posts on Facebook16
Harassment of Journalists and Its Aftermath: Anti-Press Violence, Psychological Suffering, and an Internal Chilling Effect16
Creativity and Innovation in Technology-Mediated Journalistic Work: Mapping out Enablers and Constraints16
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology16
Between Attack and Resilience: The Ongoing Institutionalization of Independent Digital Journalism in Brazil15
You Should Read This Study! It Investigates Scandinavian Social Media Logics ☝15
The Information Security Cultures of Journalism15
The Value of Local News in the Digital Realm – Introducing the Integrated Value Creation Model15
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism15
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter14
Understanding Alternative News Media and Its Contribution to Diversity14
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media14
The Mechanisms of “Incidental News Consumption”: an Eye Tracking Study of News Interaction on Facebook14
A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines13
Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic13
Why Do People Share Political Information on Social Media?13
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content13
In Search for an Audience-Supported Business Model for Local Newspapers: Findings from Clickstream and Subscriber Data13
News Engagement: The Roles of Technological Affordance, Emotion, and Social Endorsement13
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom13
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy13
Who is Responsible for Stopping the Spread of Misinformation? Examining Audience Perceptions of Responsibilities and Responses in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries12
Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them12
Right-Wing, Populist, Controlled by Foreign Powers? Topic Diversification and Partisanship in the Content Structures of German-Language Alternative Media12
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair12
Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate12
Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics12
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication12
Towards a Normative Perspective on Journalistic AI: Embracing the Messy Reality of Normative Ideals12
Between Personal and Public Interest: How Algorithmic News Recommendation Reconciles with Journalism as an Ideology12
Showing off Your Social Capital: Homophily of Professional Reputation and Gender in Journalistic Networks on Twitter12
On the Mainstream/Alternative Continuum: Mainstream Media Reactions to Right-Wing Alternative News Media12
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System12
We’re in This Together: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for News Recommenders12
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism12
Commenters as a Threat to Journalism? How Comment Moderators Perceive the Role of the Audience11
Linking Media Content and Survey Data in a Dynamic and Digital Media Environment – Mobile Longitudinal Linkage Analysis11
Taming the News Feed on Facebook: Understanding Consumptive News Feed Curation through a Social Cognitive Perspective11
Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory11
A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation11
Weaponizing Memes: The Journalistic Mediation of Visual Politicization11
Audiences behind the Paywall: News Navigation among Established versus Newly Added Subscribers11
When and How User Comments Affect News Readers’ Personal Opinion: Perceived Public Opinion and Perceived News Position as Mediators11
Re-Digitizing Television News: The Relationship between TV, Online Media and Audiences11
Securing Whistleblowing in the Digital Age: SecureDrop and the Changing Journalistic Practices for Source Protection11
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media11
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes11
Journalism Policy across the Commonwealth: Partial Answers to Public Problems10
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: News Recommendation as a Tool to Achieve Online Media Pluralism10
Why Media Systems Matter: A Fact-Checking Study of UK Television News during the Coronavirus Pandemic10
Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment on Exposure and Sharing Decisions on Social Networking Sites10
Twitter in the News: An Analysis of Embedded Tweets in Political News Coverage10
Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep10
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism10
Is Sensationalist Disinformation More Effective? Three Facilitating Factors at the National, Individual, and Situational Level10
Transnational News Sharing on Social Media: Measuring and Analysing Twitter News Media Repertoires of Domestic and Foreign Audience Communities10
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions10
Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter10
Entrepreneurial News Sites as Worthy Causes? Exploring Readers’ Motivations Behind Donating to Latin American Journalism10
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis10
How Disinformation Reshaped the Relationship between Journalism and Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Old and New Perspectives Revisited10
The Egyptian Syndicate and (Digital) Journalism’s Unresolved Boundary Struggle9
How Message Features and Social Endorsements Affect the Longevity of News Sharing9
Can Filter Bubbles Protect Information Freedom? Discussions of Algorithmic News Recommenders in Eastern Europe9
“Crisis Coverage Gap”: The Divide between Public Interest and Local News’ Facebook Posts about COVID-19 in the United States9
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism9
The Reconfiguration of News Work in Southern Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic9
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus9
Affordances for Sense-Making: Exploring Their Availability for Users of Online News Sites9
Content Analyses of User Comments in Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Spanning Communication Studies and Computer Science9
Election Journalism: Investigating Media Bias on Telegram during the 2017 Presidential Election in Iran9
Between Article and Topic: News Events as Level of Analysis and Their Computational Identification9
The Synergistic Effects of Solutions Journalism and Corporate Social Responsibility Advertising9
Predicting Audience-Rated News Quality: Using Survey, Text Mining, and Neural Network Methods9
Strengthening Journalism from the Margins: Engaged Journalism in Brazil and Egypt9
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms9
Everyday News Use and Misinformation in Kenya9
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media8
“I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists8
The Media Day, Revisited: Rhythm, Place and Hyperlocal Information Environments8
Women’s Use and Abuse of the News Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mumsnet8
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 Democracies8
Innovation in Public Funding for Local Journalism: A Case Study of New Jersey’s 2018 Civic Information Bill8
From Wild East to Forbidden City: Mapping Algorithmic News Distribution in China through a Case Study of Jinri Toutiao8
Power to the People? Conceptualising Audience Agency for the Digital Journalism Era8
Connecting Journalism and Public Policy: New Concerns and Continuing Challenges8
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India8
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?8
An Emotional Rally: Exploring Commenters’ Responses to Online News Coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis in Austria8
A New People’s Press? Understanding Digital-Native News Sites in Latin America as Alternative Media8
Digital News Readership and Subscription in the United States during COVID-19: A Longitudinal Analysis of Clickstream and Subscription Data from a Local News Site8
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries8
The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece8
The Human Side of (News) Engagement Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency8
The Str(AI)ght Scoop: Artificial Intelligence Cues Reduce Perceptions of Hostile Media Bias8
“Worse than the Harassment Itself.” Journalists’ Reactions to Newsroom Social Media Policies8
Alternative Media/Journalism and the Communicative Politics of Contestation8
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions8
Exploring Data Visualisations: An Analytical Framework Based on Dimensional Components of Data Artefacts in Journalism7
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data7
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 It7
“Everything Has Changed, and Nothing Has Changed in Journalism”: Revisiting Journalistic Sourcing Practices and Verification Techniques during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Beyond7
Sourcing Diversity, Shifting Culture: Building “Cultural Competence” in Public Media7
Retrieving and Repurposing: A Grounded Approach to Hyperlocal Working Practices through a Subcultural Lens7
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space7
Resource Exchanges Between Mobile News Apps and Third-Parties7
The Grey Area: How Regulations Impact Autonomy in Computational Journalism7
Invisible Friend or Foe?How Journalists Use and Perceive Algorithmic-Driven Tools in Their Research Process7
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices7
Meet Today’s Young News Users: An Exploration of How Young News Users Assess Which News Providers Are Worth Their While in Today’s High-Choice News Landscape7
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 Advantage7
Correctives of the Mainstream Media? A Panel Study on Mainstream Media Use, Alternative Digital Media Use, and the Erosion of Political Interest as Well as Political Knowledge7
Sponsored Editorial Content in Digital Journalism: Mapping the Merging of Media and Marketing6
Moto-Taxis, Drivers, Weather, and WhatsApp: Contextualizing New Technology in Rwandan Newsrooms6
Refracting the Pandemic: A Field Theory Approach to Chinese Journalists’ Sourcing Options in the Age of COVID-196
Routinizing Facebook: How Journalists’ Role Conceptions Influence their Social Media Use for Professional Purposes in a Socialist-Communist Country6
Probabilistic Storytelling and Temporal Exigencies in Predictive Data Journalism6
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses6
Safeguarding Editorial Independence in an Automated Media System: The Relationship Between Law and Journalistic Perspectives6
Navigating Interactive Story Spaces. The Architecture of Interactive Narratives in Online Journalism6
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets6
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media6
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom6
Egyptian Women Journalists’ Feminist Voices in a Shifting Digitalized Journalistic Field6
Windows to the World: Imagining Flemish News Audiences and Their Views on Society through the Lens of News Repertoires6
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation6
How to Reach Nirvana: Yandex, News Personalisation, and the Future of Russian Journalistic Media6
The Coming Archival Crisis: How Ephemeral Video Disappears Protest Journalism and Threatens Newsreels of Tomorrow6
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism6
Dimensions of Peripherality in Journalism: A Typology for Studying New Actors in the Journalistic Field6
Cutting through the Hype: Understanding the Implications of Deepfakes for the Fact-Checking Actor-Network6
Characterizing Communication Patterns between Audiences and Newsbots6
Using Messaging Apps in Audience Research: An Approach to Study Everyday Information and News Use Practices6
Soft Power Journalism: A Visual Framing Analysis of COVID-19 on Xinhua and VOA’s Instagram Pages6
The Development of Data Journalism in China: Influences, Motivations and Practice6
Using Directional Cues in Immersive Journalism: The Impact on Information Processing, Narrative Transportation, Presence, News Attitudes, and Credibility6
Journalism beyond the Coup: Emerging Forms of Digital Journalism Practices in Post-Coup Zimbabwe6
Incidental Exposure and News Engagement: Testing Temporal Order and the Role of Political Interest6
Two Decades of Journalism Studies: Authorship, Networks and Diversity6
Sponsored Content in Spanish Media: Strategies, Transparency, and Ethical Concerns6
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television6
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing6
Dealing with Opinion Power in the Platform World: Why We Really Have to Rethink Media Concentration Law5
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism5
Native Advertising in the Chinese Press: Implications of State Subsidies for Journalist Professional Self-Identification5
Journalism and the Voice Intelligence Industry5
WeChat and the Sharing of News in Networked China5
Normalizing Instagram5
In the Name of the Right to be Forgotten: New Legal and Policy Issues and Practices regarding Unpublishing Requests in Slovenian Online News Media5
Malleable Multiplicity and Power Reliance: Identity Presentation by Chinese Journalists on Social Media5
The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation—a Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies5
Digital Infrastructures of COVID-19 Misinformation: A New Conceptual and Analytical Perspective on Fact-Checking5
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework5
Uninformed and Misinformed: Advancing a Theoretical Model for Social Media News Use and Political Knowledge5
Cascading Activation Revisited: How Audiences Contribute to News Agendas Using Social Media5
Pioneers as Peers: How Entrepreneurial Journalists Imagine the Futures of Journalism5
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach5
AI ≥ Journalism: How the Chinese Copyright Law Protects Tech Giants’ AI Innovations and Disrupts the Journalistic Institution5
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response5
Change and Continuity in Digital Journalism: The Covid-19 Pandemic as Situational Context for Broader Arguments about the Field5
The Familiarity Paradox: Why Has Digital Sourcing Not Democratized the News?5
Making Sense of Pandemic-Induced Changes in Journalism and Beyond5
Digital (In)Security in Latin America: The Dimensions of Social Media Violence against the Press and Journalists’ Coping Strategies5
The Watchdog Role of Fact-Checkers in Different Media Systems5
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”5
Rein and Laissez Faire: The Dual Personality of Media Regulation in India5
We Were Innovators, but We Gave up: The Muted Digital Transition of Local Newspapers5
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