Latent communicative figurations: mapping quasi-visible strategic relational structures on Facebook

This study conceptualises latent communicative figurations, which are quasi-visible relational structures formed through social media affordances, for example as provided by partnership advertiseme...

Mediated information grounds: living with(in) pareshani, social networks and gendered media...

The rapid expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media has fundamentally transformed the production, distribution, and consumption of information, especially with...

The celebration of exploitation: A case study in platform promotion of users’ data - Isabelle...

This article explores how a large digital platform exploits its user data to legitimise itself through the tone, form and content of its public-facing outputs. ...

Media Systems and Violent Conflicts: A Theoretical Framework and Patterns of Transformation - Tamer...

This study provides a theoretical framework for the dynamic interactions between media systems and violent conflict. Taking the media system framework developed...

Journalistic Roles in Light of Populism: How German Public Service Media Representatives Discuss...

Public service media (PSM) face a democratic dilemma when covering right-wing populism: They are expected to be impartial and ensure pluralism in their reportin...

The power and pitfalls of constructive journalism: The effects of hopeful narratives in the news on...

Recent research has argued that constructive journalism, which presents negative news by focusing on positive values and solutions, may reduce audiences’ tenden...

What Does the Audience Want from Data Journalism? An Exploratory Study About Disclosure Transparency

Despite growing attention to studies of journalism-audience relationships in the digital age, niche areas such as data journalism remain underexplored. In this qualitative, exploratory study, I inv...

What to do when a war breaks out - Sarah Whitehead, 2026

A blueprint to save the BBC - Steve Barnett, Julian Petley, 2026

Can we afford to tell the truth? - BJR

Cuts to newspaper budgets have left many art critics relying on help from galleries to cover the expenses of their work

World's biggest news websites ranking: Traffic decline is global issue

Biggest news websites in 2026 (any language). Exclusive top-50 ranking based on Similarweb data including: South Korea, Japan, UK and US.

Journalism as a performance: Why journalists are trading bylines for stage time

Discover how reporters are opting for theatre halls to immerse audiences in stories of disaster and displacement

"What happens when journalism, activism and content creation collide on platforms that were not...

It's hard for journalists to stay objective and impartial in spaces built to reward strong opinions and clickbait content, but somebody's got to do it. Or maybe not

Structured Absence - Alondra Nelson, 2026

This essay argues that while generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be described as a platform, that description is analytically insufficient for understan...

Normative White Internet Practices: Performances at the Edge of a Digital Black Community - William...

Following the murder of George Floyd, more than 2,000 White-identifying Reddit users applied to the subreddit, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, in hopes of becoming verifi...

Preventing Radicalisation, or Forcing Ideological Consent? Crises, Uncertainty Reduction and...

With regard to the recent accumulation of crisis events in Europe, scholars stress the potential of online spaces to reduce people’s uncertainty through collect...

Mistrust as a precondition for critical thinking and media literacy

Media literacy can help individuals identify misinformation, including content that is deliberately and falsely presented as news. A key yet underexplored component of media literacy is how mistrus...

Marketing epistemic consumption: scientific knowledge, affect and gender in cosmeceutical adverti...

This article develops the concept of epistemic consumption to theorise the relationship between contemporary consumer culture, scientific knowledge and gender regulation through an analysis of cosm...