The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies

Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is an associate professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research explores the changing journalistic field, interloper media, and peripheral journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on digital journalism, including Online Journalism From the Periphery (2018). David Cheruiyot, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on digital media/press criticism, journalistic accountability, and global conflict reporting. Sandra Banjac, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is also affiliated with the Journalism Studies Centre, University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the changing relationship between journalists and audiences, and critical intersectional approaches to exploring inequalities within journalism. Joëlle Swart, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on changing everyday news use and how people develop habits, skills, and knowledge around news and journalism. She is a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism.

List of Contributors

Introduction: New trends, old threads in the digital journalism field

David Cheruiyot, Sandra Banjac, Joëlle Swart

Section 1: Digital Journalism (Studies): Theories and Concepts Revisited

1 Where is and isn’t Digital Journalism Studies: A meta-analysis of an emerging field

Manfred Antwi Kofi Asuman, Brian Ekdale

2 Hybrid journalism, its logic, and its mess.

Sergio Splendore

3 Explaining Variation in Changing News Practices

David Ryfe

4 Degradation and ‘desertification’ of digital local news ecosystems

Kristy Hess, Alison McAdam

5 Rationalizing journalistic mistakes and failures: Digital press criticism and the defense of autonomy

Danford Zirugo, David Cheruiyot

6 Transparency in Digital Journalism

Kyle Heim

7 Dark Participation in Digital Journalism

Johanna Klapproth, Thorsten Quandt

8 Ambivalent Disruption: Journalistic fields, Critical incidents, and Egyptian Digital Journalism

Hanan Badr

Section 2 – Citizens, Audiences, and Publics

9 Digital journalism and “radical audience studies”: Toward a cultural sociology of news use

Johan Lindell

10 News for all? Inequalities between news audiences in digital journalism (studies)

Joëlle Swart

11 “Digital Snappers”: Citizens, Cameraphones and Photojournalism

Stuart Allan

12 Digital Audiences and Evolving News Repertoires

Chris Peters, Kim Christian Schrøder, Julie Vulpius, and Josephine Lehaff

13 News Literacy and Digital Journalism

Melissa Tully, Patrick R. Johnson

Section 3 – Technology, data, and information

14 The value(s) of journalistic ‘innovation’: developing a critical conceptualization and research agenda

Frank Harbers

15 News Recommender Systems

Juliane A. Lischka, Laura Laugwitz, Nadja Schaetz

16 Metrics-driven news: the impact of data analytics on journalism

Ramón Salaverría

17 Taking control over analytics in journalism

Kenza Lamot, Steve Paulussen

18 Always just around the corner? How fact-checkers view capabilities and challenges in the emerging field of automated fact-checking

Lucas Graves, Mark Stencel and Kate Wilkinson

19 From positivism to complexity. The need to rethink Data Journalism scholarship after more than a decade of research on the field.

Eddy Borges-Rey

Section 4 – Revisiting Journalism’s Platforms and Economies

20 Digital Gatekeeping: New Platforms, Producers, And Complexities

Peter Bro, Lisa Merete Kristensen

21 Platform business poses risks for news publishers

Oscar Westlund, Merja Myllylahti, Sherwin Chua

22 Grant funded journalism: How Foundations & Governments Realign Incentives for News Production

Magda Konieczna

23 Newspaper paywalls and value creation

Ragnhild Kr. Olsen

24 Mobile News

Dawn Wheatley

25 Nonprofits/Humanitarian Journalism in a Digital Age

Matthew Powers

Section 5 – Digital Practices & Practitioners

26 Peripheral Actors and Journalistic Boundaries

Aljosha Karim Schapals

27 Storytelling Structures in Data Journalism: Introducing the Water Tower structure

Bahareh Heravi

28 Peripheral actors in lifestyle journalism

Folker Hanusch & Kim Löhmann

29 Digital Sourcing

Ansgard Heinrich, Pashcalia (Lia) Spyridou

30 News practices in deep media convergence in China

Joyce Y.M. Nip and Ting Su

31 Community radio in a digital age

Tanja Bosch

32 Podcasting and Diversity: Developing an open-border policy for podcast studies

Amanda Brouwers

Section 6 – Societal and Global Challenges

33 Seasonal Journalism and Climate Change

Henrik Bødker

34 Digital journalism & affective proximity in reporting wars and revolutions

Omar Al-Ghazzi

35 Safety of journalists: The symbolic violence and double burden of marginalized journalists

Sandra Banjac

36 Navigating the Dangers of Mainstream Visibility for Marginalized Communities through an Ethic of Solidarity in Digital Journalism

Anita Varma

37 Emotions in digital journalism

Johana Kotišová

38 Digital Networks and Collaborations: Addressing Violence against Journalists and Building Resilience

Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante, Sheila B. Lalwani

39 Images as moral objects: Humanitarian photography and the limits of image circulation

Lilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart

40 Digital Hate: Normalization in Management of Online Hostility

Gregory Perreault

Section 7 – Political and Ideological Challenges

41 Digital Journalism and Populism

Lena Frischlich

42 Open-source Investigations and the New Assemblages of Digital Investigative Journalism

Philip Di Salvo

43 From studios and advocates to brand practitioners:

Tracing the influence of political and commercial interests on digital narrative journalism

David O. Dowling

44 Countering Political Disinformation

Kevin Mudavadi, Dani Madrid-Morales

45 Populist Rhapsody: Struggle for Trust in Czech Public Service Media in a Fragmented Media Environment

Klára Smejkal

46 Digital surveillance and the transformation of journalism practice in the digital age

Allen Munoriyarwa

47 Digital tabloidization in an age of populism

Khulekani Ndlovu

Section 8 – Methods for/in Digital Journalism Studies

48 X Journalism: a concept and an observational tool for tracing the evolution of the field

Julius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen

49 Advancements in Experimental Research Approaches

Esther Greussing

50 Researching information exposure using computational methods

Lisa Merten

51 Revisiting the Ethnography of Digital Journalism

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Wambui Wamunyu

52 Reassembling digital journalism through arts-based methods

Sander Hölsgens

53 Methodological Challenges in Audience Research

Anna Sophie Kümpel, Luise Anter

54 Epilogue: Will the center hold? Relocating journalism in the digital

Marcel Broersma, Scott A. Eldridge II

Index