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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 6h

ONLINE FIRST! @acadianjprof.bsky.social & @jnelz.bsky.social review 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions on the future of media. Drawing on a metajournalistic analysis, they show journalists’ trust in social media has declined, but confidence in audiences endures.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 6h

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! How is media use interconnected with our everyday life? Anna Grøndahl Larsen explores how media use helps citizens connect with local publics, underscoring the overlooked importance of local contexts in public connection.
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Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 6d

ONLINE FIRST! This study by Jing Meng and Haiyan Wang examines how journalist podcasters in China carve out alternative news spaces through non-confrontational strategies, balancing professionalism, personalization, and subtle platform resistance.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 6d

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! Finnish news users often see the use of audience data as commercially driven. But is it only about money? @liisaovaska.bsky.social highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of how audience data is used in journalism.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 9d

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 9d

ONLINE FIRST! This article by @shangyuanwu.bsky.social investigates if established legacy news organizations adapting to #TikTok logics have indeed unanchored their news from traditional news values, norms, routines and roles and whether that is concerning.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 9d

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Jimmy Ochieng et al. offers a comprehensive view on #visual representation of presidential candidates and the impact of #media images on the outcome of a Kenyan election.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 17d

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Constanza Gajardo, David Domingo & Irene Costera Meijer examines how the expectations of #journalists and users about the role of digital platforms coincide or differ in terms of the affordances for engagement with each other.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 17d

ONLINE FIRST! This commentary by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @rodzam.bsky.social, & Jon Benedik A. Bunquin argues for taking tech hype in #journalism more seriously as an object of inquiry.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Helle Sjøvaag et al maps the actors involved in the subsea cable sectors, internet exchange points, content delivery networks and the data centres and cloud services that traffic, store and process digital journalism.
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News organisations are growing increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures for the distribution of news, AI implementation, and management of data. In this article, we argue that this depende...

Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Bouziane Zaid et al utilizes the concept of “media capture” as a theoretical framework to explore the political and economic control exerted over the media landscape in Morocco.
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This study utilizes the concept of “media capture” as a theoretical framework to explore the political and economic control exerted over the media landscape in Morocco. It expands the analysis to i...

Is Social Media News More Subjective? 😱 A Comparative Study of British Quality and Popular News Sources’ Adaptation to Facebook

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Elena Savinova et al compared the subjectivity of Facebook news posts versus news articles on the websites of four major British news outlets.
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With the increasing popularity of social media networks as platforms for news distribution, there is a growing concern that news is becoming more subjective due to adaptation to the shareability an...

Emotion Sells: Rage Bait vs. Information Bait in Clickbait News Headlines on Social Media

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Jieun Shin et al examined clickbait headlines on social media, focusing on which types of news organizations tend to use this content strategy and whether these strategies effectively drive audience engagement.
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Despite the widespread use of clickbait news headlines, the concept and function of clickbait remain underdeveloped. This study examined clickbait headlines on social media, focusing on which types...

Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Dominique S. Wirz et al explores to what extent news stories on Instagram and TikTok provide relevant information about current affairs, and to what extent this information is combined with entertaining elements.
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News companies increasingly produce genuine content for social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. Unlike content posted on Facebook or X, these news stories are often stand-alone news pr...

Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Zicheng Cheng et al investigates the factors that influence news users’ tolerance towards journalism errors.
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Accuracy, or getting the news right, has been viewed as a paramount journalism value. However, in the digital age, the pressure to disseminate news rapidly has increased the possibility that errone...

The News Feed is Not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Noise McNally & Marco Bastos examines the effects of a series of significant algorithm changes within Facebook’s News Feed on user engagement with news content on the platform between 2011-2020.
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This study examines the effects of a series of significant algorithm changes within Facebook’s News Feed on user engagement with news content on the platform between 2011-2020. By tracking public a...

Designing Algorithmic Editors: How Newspapers Embed and Encode Journalistic Values into News Recommender Systems

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Wen Shi & Jinhui Li collects data from Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) and attempts to capture the dynamics of news diversity with complex interaction of algorithm and human agency.
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Recommender systems are increasingly used to prioritise and personalise content on news websites, and many news organisations develop their own systems to align them with internal logics, values, a...

Alternative Media in Lebanon: The Role of Digital Platforms in a Polarized Hybrid Media System

Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 24d

This article by Tamer Farag and colleagues aims to contribute to the literature about the roles and limitations of alternative media activism in different hybrid media systems. Available with OPEN ACCESS.
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This article aims to contribute to the literature about the roles and limitations of alternative media activism in different hybrid media systems by scrutinizing the organizational and discursive c...