Digital Journalism

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism139
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data116
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries97
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability90
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment67
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance66
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification60
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care60
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom60
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance56
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical54
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities44
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting41
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues40
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology39
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism39
The User Experience of TikTok and Its Compatibility with News36
Normalizing Instagram34
What Makes for a Good News Experience: Developing a UX Perspective to Advance Audience Studies in Journalism34
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future32
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies29
The Consumption of Pink Slime Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?29
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production29
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World29
Future Imaginaries of Visual Open Source Investigative Journalism28
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment27
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict26
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US25
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future25
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes25
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists25
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers24
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism24
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India24
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems24
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists24
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework24
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’23
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia23
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production23
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media23
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic22
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults22
Same Same But (Very) Different? A Mixed-Method Approach on Security-Related News Consumption on Traditional and Social Media and Its Relation to Negative Emotional Responses and Feelings of (In)Securi22
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram22
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations21
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet21
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations21
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism20
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance20
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response20
Beyond the Byline: Audience Expectations for AI Disclosure in News Media20
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism19
Visual War Journalism19
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility19
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces18
Conceptualising Youth Media Strategies: Balancing Platforms, Profiles, and People18
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India18
Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of the 2022 Kenyan Election18
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media18
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research17
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts17
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences17
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok17
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice17
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer17
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies16
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here16
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines16
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism16
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains15
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies15
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services15
The Press as Platform: Institutional Isomorphism and the Strategic Adoption of Platform Logics14
Convergent Epistemic Practices in Visual Fact-Checking14
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment14
AI Hype in Journalism: Visibility, Power, and the Politics of Media Narratives14
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses14
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders14
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society14
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies13
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future13
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework13
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom13
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures13
Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection13
Nowhere to Feel Safe Anymore Mapping Public and Organisational Violence Against Journalists in Belgium13
Who Controls the Narrative? How Brazilian Parliamentarians Pursue Epistemic Authority in Times of Crisis13
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation13
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