Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-11-06DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2756296
Hyo-sun Ryu,Jae Kook Lee
{"title":"News Frames and Online Political Hostility: Evidence from the 2022 South Korean Presidential Election","authors":"Hyo-sun Ryu,Jae Kook Lee","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2756296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2756296","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the relationship between election news frames and online political hostility using approximately 200,000 news stories and 24 million comments from the 2022 South Korean presidential election. Applying computational text analysis and a deep learning model, we categorized news frames into strategy and issue frames and analyzed their associations with political hostility and incitement to hostility in comments. Results show that strategy frames are associated with higher rates of both, with candidate-centered coverage showing stronger associations than horse-race coverage. Implications of these results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149360335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-11-03DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2757685
Johanna Wild
{"title":"Building the Open-Source Investigation Tools of the Future: Why Collaboration is Key","authors":"Johanna Wild","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2757685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2757685","url":null,"abstract":"Whenever we hold a workshop or talk with aspiring open-source researchers at conferences, there is one type of question that comes up time and again: “What are the best tools right now?” or “What tools should I learn first?” Beginners are often fixated on tools because to them, it can feel like knowing the right tools is synonymous with mastering open-source investigations. This is not the case. A clear research goal, creativity in finding dispersed online information in expected and unexpected places, and the tenacity to persist even when the research does not yield immediate results are more important than tools.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149358621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-22DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2751595
Anna Ryzhova,Eunike Piwoni,Florian Töpfl
{"title":"War, Feelings of Belonging, and News Diets: How Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine Did (Not) Change the News Repertoires of Russian Speakers in Germany","authors":"Anna Ryzhova,Eunike Piwoni,Florian Töpfl","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2751595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2751595","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, has influenced the news repertoires of first-generation Russian-speaking migrants living in Germany. While previous research suggests that news consumption patterns are typically stable, it has also shown that major disruptive events - such as the COVID-19 pandemic - have the potential for significant shifts. However, little research has explored how wars impact the transnational news repertoires of migrant communities. Grounded in 25 semi-structured interviews, the study demonstrates that the four types of news repertoires identified by previous research on Russian speakers in Germany prior to 2022 remained valid. Although very few participants indicated that they had completely switched repertoire type, nuanced changes were observed within the four types. These changes were accompanied by a complex process of renegotiating their sense of belonging to Russia. Moreover, across the four types, there was a spike in news use in the first weeks of the full-scale war, followed by news avoidance, and a “migration” to the platform Telegram. This study advances research on diasporic news repertoires, digital war, and disinformation by showing that geopolitical crises can shape the news repertoires of transnational audiences who have feelings of belonging to actors involved in conflict.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149241728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-22DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2751081
Agustin Ferrari Braun,Fernando van der Vlist,Thomas Poell
{"title":"Negotiating Infrastructural Integration: Cloud Services and the Evolution of News Website Ecosystems in France and the Netherlands","authors":"Agustin Ferrari Braun,Fernando van der Vlist,Thomas Poell","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2751081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2751081","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the infrastructural integration of European news media with digital platforms and third-party service providers between 2015–2025. Reviewing current research, we note increased scholarly attention to the infrastructural relations between news organizations and digital platforms. Yet, despite this heightened interest, we are still missing a systematic empirical examination of how infrastructural integration shapes the spaces of negotiation between news media and tech companies. We provide such an examination through a historical analysis of the top ten news websites in France and the Netherlands, using a custom version of the 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit on 9,456 archived snapshots. The analysis of evolving third-party service (de-)integrations, highlight the rise of audiovisual content and the decline of website analytics, as well as broader industry and regulatory developments (e.g., GDPR). These changes in website architectures point to shifting strategies of news organizations to adapt and preserve their independence in an online environment increasingly dominated by digital platforms. Yet, paradoxically, those strategies are enabled by cloud infrastructures provided by the same platform companies, deepening the dependence of news organizations on these companies. Thus, infrastructural integration is a process of demarcation of spaces and activities between news organizations and tech companies.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149241727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-18DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2742982
Johana Kotišová,Dariya Orlova
{"title":"OSINV vs. Core International Crimes: Practices and Professional Identities of Ukrainian Journalists, Investigators, and Researchers Investigating Atrocities","authors":"Johana Kotišová,Dariya Orlova","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2742982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2742982","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"179 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-13DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2746375
Kevin C. Mudavadi,Bingbing Zhang,Melissa Tully,Brian Ekdale,Jonas Nyabor,Nur Hossain,Shitemi Khamadi
{"title":"Negotiated Adaptability: How Peripheral Actors’ Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Shape Journalistic Practice","authors":"Kevin C. Mudavadi,Bingbing Zhang,Melissa Tully,Brian Ekdale,Jonas Nyabor,Nur Hossain,Shitemi Khamadi","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2746375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2746375","url":null,"abstract":"While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming newsroom practices globally, studies often examine journalists and peripheral actors in isolation, overlooking the reciprocal influence these actors exert on journalism. This study addresses this gap by drawing on 94 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with journalists and peripheral actors in Kenya’s urban and rural areas. Specifically, we examine how Kenyan journalists and peripheral actors engage with GenAI, how they believe it should be used in newsrooms, and how their practices and perspectives shape journalistic adaptation. Our findings show that the adoption of and resistance to GenAI by Kenyan journalists illustrate “negotiated adaptability”—a form of technological adaptation in which journalists’ decisions about whether, where, and how to use GenAI are shaped through ongoing negotiations, including with actors located at the periphery of the newsroom ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-13DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2744347
Rasa Jämsen,Ward van Zoonen,Mikko Villi
{"title":"From Institutionalized Data to Inconsistent Practices: The Dynamics of Datafied Employee Evaluation in Journalistic Work","authors":"Rasa Jämsen,Ward van Zoonen,Mikko Villi","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2744347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2744347","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations are increasingly relying on data to evaluate work, yet the role of data in shaping managerial practices remains uneven. The quantitative turn, referred to as datafication, has been an integral part of journalistic organizations for decades, while continuing to raise fundamental challenges for management. This paper examines how datafication is perceived when evaluating and being evaluated through data. Drawing on 25 interviews and 61 open-ended survey responses from a public-service media organization, we show how data becomes institutionalized in everyday work through organizational routines, technologies, and discourses that render data ‘taken-for-granted’. At the same time, its enactment in managerial practices remains uneven. Despite shared access to analytics, managers diverge in how they incorporate data into evaluation and feedback, resulting in inconsistent practices in the same organization. These findings refine research on datafication by demonstrating that institutionalization is selective rather than uniform, and by showing that data-related relational activities within organizations are central to how analytics are interpreted, negotiated, and enacted in practice.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-11DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2744880
Ellie Macdonald
{"title":"Too Much or Not Enough? The Decline of the Iconic News Image and the Adaptive Challenges of Visual Digital Journalism","authors":"Ellie Macdonald","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2744880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2744880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"167 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-10DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2744877
Volha Kananovich
{"title":"From Grassroots Sleuthing to Global Uptake: Epistemic Legitimation of Open-Source Investigations in Journalism Through Mediazona’s War Casualty Project in Russia’s War on Ukraine","authors":"Volha Kananovich","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2744877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2744877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-09DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2743866
Isabella Regan,Imar de Vries
{"title":"Between Journalism and Justice: Disciplinary Humility in Open-Source Investigations","authors":"Isabella Regan,Imar de Vries","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2743866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2743866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}