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Divides in News Verification: Antecedents and Political Outcomes of News Verification by Age Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Rebecca Ping Yu
News verification has been an important practice to combat fake news, but relatively little work has explored the antecedents and outcomes of news verification outside of experimental settings. Thi...
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Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Biying Wu-Ouyang
While the theoretical framework of curated flows provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the social media environment, it overlooks the interactions between curators and the mechanisms pert...
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The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Dalia Elsheikh, Daniel Jackson, Nael Jebril
The benefits of analytics on news media organisations’ revenues and traffic have been well documented, yet their consequences for news production and content remain double edged. To date, most empi...
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Some Ideas to Update “Comparing Media Systems” to the Digital Age Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Paolo Mancini
In recent years, we have enjoyed a flourishing of studies, books, and articles on comparative research on “legacy” journalism. Fewer have been the attempts to study in a comparative way how digital...
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The Algorithmic Gut Feeling – Articulating Journalistic Doxa and Emerging Epistemic Frictions in AI-Driven Data Work Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Hartley Jannie Møller, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
This article explores the epistemic practices and doxa of data workers in a news organisation in Denmark that is currently developing and experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI)-driven reco...
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From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Maud Peeters, Pieter Maeseele
Alternative media users have long been an empirical and theoretical blind spot. This study addresses this gap by exploring the affective dimensions of alternative media use in the context of post-t...
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Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Gregory Gondwe
This study investigates the integration of Ubuntu philosophy into AI-driven journalism practices in Subs-Saharan Africa. With a particular focus on its challenges, opportunities, and implications f...
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The Threat of Misinformation on Journalism’s Epistemology: Exploring the Gap between Journalist’s and Audience’s Expectations when Facing Fake Content Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Enrique Núñez-Mussa, Andrea Riquelme, Sebastián Valenzuela, Valeria Aldana, Fabián Padilla, Renato Bassi, Sebastián Campos, Eliana Providel, Marcelo Mendoza
This study analyzes the discourse of reporters, editors and audiences in focus groups and in-depth interviews, examining the expectations on journalists when facing misinformation. While both group...
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Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ansgard Heinrich, David Cheruiyot
This article interrogates the level of appreciation of the informational ecology that informs today’s news production. Through a scoping review of literature on media production in global conflict ...
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A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Oscar Westlund, Magdalena Saldaña
Published in Digital Journalism (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2024)
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Diasporic Epistemologies in Cuban Independent Journalism Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sara García Santamaría, Ted A. Henken
This article examines how digital diasporic journalism changes epistemic practices in the Cuban context. The last decade has seen a practical transnationalization of digitally native independent ne...
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Online Harassment, Psychological Stressors, and Occupational Dysfunction among Journalists Working in a Conflict Zone Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah, Ivana Cvetkovic, Tamar Ginossar, Rahman Ullah, Danish Baber, Autumn Slaughter
Amid increasing threats and assaults against journalists across the globe, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in northwest Pakistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalis...
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Forensic Architecture and the Aesthetics of Post-Human Testimony Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Francesca Romeo
Forensic Architecture, a civilian-led open source investigative agency, synthesizes the disciplines of investigative journalism, fine art, legal studies, and forensics to redefine witnessing, testi...
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Do You Speak Disinformation? Computational Detection of Deceptive News-Like Content Using Linguistic and Stylistic Features Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Noëlle Lebernegg, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Petro Tolochko, Hajo Boomgaarden
Amid growing concerns about the proliferation and belief in false or misleading information, the study addresses the need for automated detection in the public domain. It revisits and replicates sc...
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Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Young Eun Moon, Seth C. Lewis
This study seeks to address two research needs in journalism studies. First, there is a need for research that situates political reporters’ social media engagement as part of a broader investigati...
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Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Sharon Ringel
Despite the common perception that everything on the internet will remain there forever, certain news elements consistently disappear. This leads to the loss of essential contextual aspects crucial...
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Phases of Going Digital: A Framework for Assessing Newsroom Digitalisation Process Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Marju Himma, Signe Ivask
The success stories of digitalised newsrooms mostly depict outstanding news organisations with abundant resources. However, newsrooms with limited resources (e.g., local newspapers, media organisat...
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A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sina Blassnig, Edina Strikovic, Eliza Mitova, Aleksandra Urman, Anikó Hannák, Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser
News recommender systems (NRS), the algorithmic automation and personalization of news recommendations, may benefit both media producers and users. Yet, they raise concerns about the quality, diver...
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Acutely Precarious? Detecting Objective Precarity in Journalism Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Jana Rick
Journalism often gets described as a profession of precarity. However, there is a lack of quantitative research on the topic, since the question remains open, how many journalists actually work und...
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The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sebastián Valenzuela, Marcelo Santos
Published in Digital Journalism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Defining the Moments of Transition: When Do Chat Groups Become Meso News-Spaces? Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Olga Pasitselska
Messaging apps increasingly shape the domain of political and news-related communication. Leaning on theoretical and methodological advancements in the special issue, this commentary aims to furthe...
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How Does It Look from Where You Are? A Visual Media Framing Analysis of the 2022 War in Ukraine Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Anna Young, Foluke Omosun
In this study, the authors analyzed how U.S., UK, Russian, and Ukrainian media visually framed the 2022 Russian war in Ukraine. Prior research emphasized the importance of studying media framing of...
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Post-Photojournalism: Post-Truth Challenges and Threats for Visual Reporting in the Russo-Ukrainian War Coverage Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Carolina Fernández-Castrillo, Celia Ramos
The visual framing of war has always been the most challenging area of photojournalism, and even more so in the post-digital age, when the transition from analog to digital becomes almost indisting...
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“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Nick Mathews, Benjamin Toff
Researchers and practitioners recently have observed the intricate and ever-evolving relationship between publishers and platforms may be reaching a crucial crossroads as each fight for relevancy a...
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The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Moran Yarchi, Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
The increasing mediatization of war makes battles over public image evermore prominent. Individual citizens, no longer mediated by traditional gatekeepers, engage in public diplomacy and citizen-jo...
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“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Julie Vulpius
Amid an increasing focus on becoming audience-centric in news organizations, there is growing interest in studying non-journalistic actors, i.e., intralopers; internally hired non-journalistic acto...
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Mob Censorship Revisited: Questions, Findings, and Challenges Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Silvio Waisbord
Published in Digital Journalism (Vol. 11, No. 10, 2023)
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Epistemic Contests in Journalism: Examining Struggles over Journalistic Ways of Knowing Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Matt Carlson
In the face of struggles over journalistic epistemology arising in the present, this study proposes the concept of “epistemic contests” as a way of analyzing efforts by various actors to shape know...
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“Join the Coalition”: How Pioneer Journalism Communities Reimagine Journalistic Epistemology from the Periphery Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bissie Anderson
This article examines how pioneer journalism communities reimagine journalistic epistemology from the periphery, and traces how ideas about journalism as a form of knowledge are embodied in their m...
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Escape Me If You Can: How AI Reshapes News Organisations’ Dependency on Platform Companies Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Felix M. Simon
Platform companies play a crucial role in the creation, dissemination, and business of news. They are also central actors in artificial intelligence (AI) which has led some to argue that the increa...
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From News Softening to Social News Softening: Comparing Patterns of Political News Coverage on Different (Social) Media Channels in Germany and Switzerland Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Miriam Klein, Melanie Magin, Andreas A. Riedl, Linards Udris, Birgit Stark
Many news media publish content on social media where it must meet the success factors of algorithmic selection in order to attract attention. One possible strategy for that is news softening. Howe...
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A Discourse Community of Livebloggers? Routines, Conventions, and the Pursuit of Credibility in Dutch Liveblogs Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Sebastiaan van der Lubben, Yael de Haan, Jaap de Jong, Willem Koetsenruijter
Liveblogs are very popular with the public and journalists alike. The problem, though, is their credibility, given the uncertainty of the covered events and the immediacy of their production. Littl...
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From Media Systems to Digital Journalisms: An Introduction to the Special Issue Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Anna A. Gladkova
Nearly half a century since the first calls for comparisons of national-level media-political relations, comparative studies of media systems – and even more so of digital journalism – are still an...
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The Affective Epistemology of Digital Journalism: Emotions as Knowledge Among On-the-Ground and OSINT Media Practitioners Covering the Russo-Ukrainian War Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Johana Kotišová, Lonneke van der Velden
In this paper, we seek to introduce the term “affective epistemology” into digital journalism studies. Building on twenty-seven interviews with media workers reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian War an...
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A Global Perspective on Data Journalism Materiality: Knowledge Production across Public Transparency Infrastructure Environments Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Lindita Camaj, Gerry Lanosga, Jason Martin
It is widely accepted that data materiality serves as the breeding ground of data journalism’s performativity, in some cases functioning as the sole ingredient for news construction. Material ident...
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The Three “Cs” of Digital Local Journalism: Community, Commitment and Continuity Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Agnes Gulyas, Kristy Hess
In a rapidly changing digital world, scholars have focused on new technologies, communication trends, and have re-imagined new ways of doing or transforming journalism. In these endeavours, however...
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Aggregation and the New News Order: A Practice Theory Approach Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Dan Wang, Steve Zhongshi Guo
This study examines the transforming power of aggregation in a traditional newsroom based on the practice theory approach. Through ethnographic observations of aggregated news production in action ...
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“Find the Joy”: A War Correspondent’s Tweets and the Rise of an Affective Age in News Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Perry Parks
This study provides empirical support for undertheorized phenomena in contemporary digital news reporting—the foregrounding of joy-based news values and the presentation of affective, immanent atmo...
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Should I Stay or Should I Code? Of Collaboration and Do-It-Yourself Programming in Investigative Journalism Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Espen Sørmo Strømme
For journalists, numerous digital tools such as spreadsheets or web application are readily available for easy implementation. However, using programming to build or modify scripts has been an unex...
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Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Jannie Møller Hartley, Caitlin Petre, Mette Bengtsson, Aske Kammer
In this introduction, we draw together the articles in the special issue on the platformization of news, highlighting that the articles contribute by answering two central questions. First, what is...
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What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Mike Ananny
To understand how journalism is made and what news is, it is helpful to center “the press” as an object of analysis and concern, a way to see the conditions under which news is made and made meanin...
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Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Damian Trilling, Erik Knudsen
What makes people share political news on Facebook? Prior studies have identified how different features predict audiences’ likelihood to share news on social media – the so-called shareworthiness ...
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AI as an Apolitical Referee: Using Alternative Sources to Decrease Partisan Biases in the Processing of Fact-Checking Messages Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Myojung Chung, Won-Ki Moon, S. Mo Jones-Jang
Abstract While fact-checking has received much attention as a tool to fight misinformation online, fact-checking efforts have yielded limited success in combating political misinformation due to partisans’ biased information processing. The efficacy of fact-checking often decreases, if not backfires, when the fact-checking messages contradict individual audiences’ political stance. To explore ways
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#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Michael Koliska, Prashanth Bhat, Utsav Gandhi
Abstract During the 2019 Indian general election, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi launched his #MainBhiChowkidar (I am also a watchman) campaign, which can be understood as an attempt to undermine the institutionalized watchdog or monitoring system, including journalism, in democratic India. Through the lens of positioning theory, this qualitative study examines how 89 Indian journalists responded
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Understanding Audience Behavior with Digital Traces: Past, Present, and Future Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sanguk Lee, Tai-Quan Peng
Abstract In recent decades, significant transformations in audience characteristics and the media environment have necessitated a reassessment of audience analysis. Communication scholars have increasingly recognized the value of utilizing digital traces as valuable resources to understand audience behaviors. This research presents a comprehensive review of 243 audience analyses that incorporate digital
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Continuities and Breaks in Digital Journalism and Media Systems Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Silvio Waisbord
Published in Digital Journalism (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Factbait: Emotionality of Fact-Checking Tweets and Users’ Engagement during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and the COVID-19 Pandemic Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jiyoung Lee, Brian C. Britt
Abstract Given the importance of fact-checking in reducing the spread of false information on social media, prior research has examined effective fact-checking strategies. The current study addresses this question by conducting a computational analysis of actual fact-checking tweets of three representative fact-checking organizations in the United States (Factcheck.org, PolitiFact, Snopes), replies
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News “Attraction” and Digital Inequalities: Incidental News Exposure and the Equalization or Stratification of Political Information Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Matthew Barnidge, Trevor Diehl, Daniel S. Lane
Abstract Understanding the impact of digital media on news inequalities is critical for democracy. The literature on incidental exposure challenges the idea that major platforms shrink information gaps, and research has turned to the identification of variables that explain how those gaps widen or persist. We use Latent Class Analysis to operationalize the metaphor of “attracting the news” and investigate
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Relevance as a Mechanism in Evaluating News-Ness among American Teens and Adults Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Emily K. Vraga, Stephanie Edgerly
Abstract Definitions of news are increasingly fraught in today’s media environment, making audience assessments of news-ness – the degree to which something is considered news – particularly important. Drawing from literature on representation in news and news-ness, we explore how seeing news that features a similar age group affects ratings of news-ness. We also argue that relevance offers as a psychological
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Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Haiyan Jia, S. Shyam Sundar
Abstract With the rising availability and volume of data, journalists are finding ways to integrate data-rich information into news content and make them accessible to everyday news readers by accompanying them with exemplifying cases. However, these exemplars do not always fully capture the complexity of the data patterns, leading to significant biases in readers’ issue perceptions. Drawing on the
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The Entanglements between Data Journalism, Collaboration and Business Models: A Systematic Literature Review Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
Abstract Despite it being somewhat of a niche project back in 2009, at this stage of its evolution, data journalism has gained significant traction to grow into a maturing field. However, little is known about the intersection of data journalism and collaboration in the news organizations’ business models from an infrastructure perspective, that is, key activities, key resources, and partner networks
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“I Use Social Media as an Escape from All That” Personal Platform Architecture and the Labor of Avoiding News Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Kjerstin Thorson, Ava Francesca Battocchio
Abstract We examine the work that U.S. young adults undertake to design and maintain their personal media worlds across digital platforms, and the consequences of those practices for news use. Drawing on 50 in-depth interviews with 18-34-year-olds, including a shared reading of participants’ most-used social media platforms, we develop the concept of personal platform architecture and articulate links
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What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Shangyuan Wu
Abstract The circulation of fake news on social media platforms has drawn increasing concern. At this point, the community reporting of fake news remains a key mechanism used by these platforms to identify information to block or label as misleading. Yet, little is known about the factors that motivate or dissuade the use of this mechanism and its perceived effectiveness to combat fake news. This study
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Hey Google, What is in the News? The Influence of Conversational Agents on Issue Salience Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Valeria Resendez, Theo Araujo, Natali Helberger, Claes de Vreese
Abstract The emerging use of Conversational Agents (CAs), such as Google Assistant, highlights the role of algorithmic gatekeeping power in news consumption. However, our knowledge of the effects of CAs on shaping the public’s perception of the most important topics (issue salience) is limited. To investigate this, we conducted a seven-day longitudinal survey in the Netherlands, comparing the most
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Datafication of Journalism: How Data Elites and Epistemic Infrastructures Change News Organizations Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Nadja Schaetz, Juliane A. Lischka, Laura Laugwitz
Abstract Data has become an increasingly important commodity for news organizations. The capability to extract, store, and analyze data is also central to organizational decision-making. Drawing on the concept of epistemic infrastructures, this study sheds light on organizational datafication in journalism. Analyzing job advertisements of incumbent broadcast, print legacy, and online-only news outlets
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European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Olivier Standaert, Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel, Laura Amigo
Abstract This article studies local news media’s relationship with audiences from an organizational perspective. It is based on 45 semi-structured interviews conducted in eleven local news organizations in European French-speaking countries (France, Switzerland and Belgium), that explored the implementation of actions aiming at revitalizing the link with audiences, the role of the hierarchy and the
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What Does a Journalist Look like? Visualizing Journalistic Roles through AI Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Ryan J. Thomas, T. J. Thomson
Abstract The question of “who is a journalist?” has animated much discussion in journalism scholarship. Such discussions generally stem from the intersecting technological, economic, and social transformations journalism has faced in the twenty-first century. An equally relevant aspect, albeit one that has hitherto been less studied, is what a journalist looks like. Some studies have tackled this through
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Mob Censorship Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Barbie Zelizer
Published in Digital Journalism (Vol. 11, No. 10, 2023)
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Contesting the Mainstream: Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Lena Frischlich, Scott A. Eldridge II, Tine Ustad Figenschou, Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Kristoffer Holt, Stephen Cushion
Abstract In order to better understand alternative news media, we need to focus more centrally on the audiences that regularly consume them. This special issue, entitled “Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding Alternative News Media,” advances such an audience turn. In the introduction, we outline how scholars have understood and characterized alternative news audiences. These have ranged from seeing
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From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Lucas Graves, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Rebekah Larsen
Abstract The global field of fact-checking organizations has experienced a dramatic shift in focus since 2016, from checking claims by politicians and other public figures to policing viral misinformation on social networks. What practitioners call “debunking,” once a minor focus, now dominates the agenda of leading outlets and accounts for the bulk of fact-checks produced worldwide, driven in part