Digital JournalismPub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2218454
Lucas Graves, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Rebekah Larsen
{"title":"From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field","authors":"Lucas Graves, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Rebekah Larsen","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2218454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2218454","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44639825","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 : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2220366
Diarmaid Harkin, Monique Mann
{"title":"Electronic Surveillance and Australian Journalism: Surveillance Normalization and Emergent Norms of Information Security","authors":"Diarmaid Harkin, Monique Mann","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2220366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2220366","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41840133","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 : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2218902
Ewa Nowak-Teter, Bartłomiej Łódzki
{"title":"What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability","authors":"Ewa Nowak-Teter, Bartłomiej Łódzki","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2218902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2218902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47479797","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 : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2170899
Gerald Walulya, Florence Namasinga Selnes
{"title":"“I thought You Are Beautiful”: Uganda Women Journalists’ Tales of Mob Violence on Social Media","authors":"Gerald Walulya, Florence Namasinga Selnes","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2170899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2170899","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47367537","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 : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2214901
K. A. Ihlebæk, T. U. Figenschou
{"title":"Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers","authors":"K. A. Ihlebæk, T. U. Figenschou","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2214901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2214901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45025573","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 : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2211626
Venetia Papa, Theodoros Kouros
{"title":"Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms","authors":"Venetia Papa, Theodoros Kouros","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2211626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2211626","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study engages in a sociotechnical analysis of Facebook and Google to understand the material means by which these corporations strive to engage journalists vis-à-vis their business models. Through affordance theory, we argue that interfaces of technological artifacts are manifestations of their implicit politics and ideology, given that affordances entail normative claims about what users should do. Our study draws from Google News Initiative and Facebook Journalism Project to explore: how the affordances of FJP and GNI tools allow particular behaviors and encourage certain journalistic norms to emerge? We analyzed nine journalist-oriented tools from FJP and GNI, by performing a discursive interface analysis. Findings indicate that FJP and GNI tools affordances can encourage four distinct journalistic norms: (1) successful journalism should circulate widely on platforms, (2) successful journalism should be aware of the ways competition is measured in FJP and GNI, (3) successful journalism should attract loyal readership as defined by platforms and (4) successful journalism should make money through platforms. We argue that FJP and GNI tools affordances can facilitate a form of platform schooling which, in addition to journalism schools and work environments, can might dictate what is and what is not “successful journalism.”","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43681399","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 : 2023-05-28DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2214791
L. Frischlich, Scott A. Eldridge, T. U. Figenschou, K. A. Ihlebæk, Kristoffer Holt, Stephen Cushion
{"title":"Contesting the Mainstream: Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research","authors":"L. Frischlich, Scott A. Eldridge, T. U. Figenschou, K. A. Ihlebæk, Kristoffer Holt, Stephen Cushion","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2214791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2214791","url":null,"abstract":"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 them as (i) ideal participants and activists; as (ii) being misinformed and manipulated; and as (iii) being critical users. Drawing on studies published in this special issue, we highlight how these studies provide new and revealing empirical insights that advance all three perspectives. Taken together, the articles make a strong argument to move beyond binary ideations of normatively “good” or “bad” alternative news audiences. In our view, they signal the need to better understand the complexity behind audience engagement not just with alternative news media but mainstream journalism more generally. Based on this argument, we identify several starting points for moving the field forward with such an audience turn in mind.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48526444","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 : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2211635
Luise Anter, A. Kümpel
{"title":"Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study","authors":"Luise Anter, A. Kümpel","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2211635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2211635","url":null,"abstract":"The use of information has changed in recent years—particularly among young adults, for whom social media are now the most important gateway to engage with news and various other types of information. Focusing on Instagram, this multi-method research project takes an audience-centered approach and investigates how young adults use the platform for (which kind of) information, the information needs that guide their use, and the contextual dynamics that shape their understandings of ‘information (use).’ Empirically, the study builds on a combination of a seven-day diary study with semi-structured qualitative interviews with 48 German Instagram users aged 18 to 24. Analyzing the diaries in conjunction with the interview transcripts allowed us to gain rich insights into information usage practices and how these are influenced by the characteristics of (audiovisual) social media platforms as well as the motives and needs of using them. The findings suggest that Instagram is an integral part of young adults’ information repertoires, although information is usually not actively sought. Moreover, platform characteristics and affordances not only shape possible and actual information behaviors but also matter for whether participants understand their Instagram use as information use.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48468362","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 : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2209153
Roan Schellingerhout, Davide Beraldo, M. Marx
{"title":"Accounting for Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content","authors":"Roan Schellingerhout, Davide Beraldo, M. Marx","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2023.2209153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2209153","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates under which video watch conditions YouTube’s recommender system tends to develop a preference for conspiracy-classified videos. Whereas existing research on so-called filter bubbles and rabbit holes tends to rely on non-personalized recommendations and on standard watch patterns, this study puts personalization and diversified user strategies at the center of its design. 20 authenticated bots have been instructed to watch YouTube content based on four distinct watch strategies. In a baseline strategy, bots watched non-conspiracy videos only. Treatment strategies involved watching conspiracy-classified content, selected based on either non-personalized, partly-personalized, or fully-personalized input. Bots watched a total of 15 videos, and after each video their top 20 homepage recommendations were collected and classified as either conspiracy-related or not. This allowed us to measure the impact of each video watched and of each watch strategy on the proportion of conspiracy-classified content recommended at each step. The same experiment has been reverted, exposing the treatment groups to non-conspiracy videos only, to assess the persistence of this pattern. Our results show that users primed with conspiracy-classified content tend to quickly receive a much larger proportion of conspiracy-classified recommendations. Inverting this pattern proves significantly more difficult than generating it. There are also indications that watch strategies relying on personalized content as input might produce stronger effects. This article contributes evidence to the argument that YouTube’s recommendation system is prone to generating strong, potentially pernicious recommendation patterns. Moreover, it contributes a replicable methodology that puts personalization at the center of the stage in the study of content personalization algorithms.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44576372","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}