OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Digital Journalism is 13. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	113
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries	110
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	97
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	93
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	77
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	77
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	62
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	57
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	54
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	52
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	50
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	48
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	48
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical	43
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	43
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	42
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	39
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	39
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	38
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	36
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	34
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions	34
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment	34
Normalizing Instagram	34
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies	33

Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	33
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World	32
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	30
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	29
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production	29
What Makes for a Good News Experience: Developing a UX Perspective to Advance Audience Studies in Journalism	29
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US	28
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future	28
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes	26
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists	26
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists	26
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers	26
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework	25
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms	25
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media	24
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism	24
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’	24
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia	24
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems	24
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production	23
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults	23
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication	23
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India	22
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?	22
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations	22
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East	21
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes	21
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response	21
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet	21
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram	20
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism	20
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic	20
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces	20
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations	20
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus	20
Visual War Journalism	19
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media	19
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance	19
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion	19
Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of the 2022 Kenyan Election	18
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload	18
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India	18
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism	18
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	18
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility	18
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer	18
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies	17
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”	17
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice	16
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research	16

Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok	16
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media	16
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines	16
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism	16
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts	16
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences	15
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data	15
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies	15
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses	15
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism	15
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society	14
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment	14
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future	14
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures	14
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions	14
The Press as Platform: Institutional Isomorphism and the Strategic Adoption of Platform Logics	13
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework	13
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices	13
Less Hype, More Drama: Open-Ended Technological Inevitability in Journalistic Discourses About AI in the US, The Netherlands, and Brazil	13
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains	13
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies	13
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here	13
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders	13
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services	13