• Ask a Journalist: Roles, Relations and Subjectivity in Online Reader–Journalist Dialogues 

      Hågvar, Yngve Benestad (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      If you could ask a journalist anything – what would it be? The Norwegian online paper VG.no was not sure what to expect when it launched its general “Question and Answers” forum in 2014 as an integrated part of a complex ...
    • Audience-Centric Engagement, Collaboration Culture and PlatformCounterbalancing: A Longitudinal Study of Ongoing Sensemaking of Emerging Technologies 

      Chua, Sherwin; Westlund, Oscar (Media and Communication;Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Emerging Technologies in Journalism and Media: International Perspectives on Their Nature and Impact, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-10)
      Digital journalism studies have done little in terms of studying longitudinally the interrelationships between emerging technology and convergent news practices. This study addresses that void by using a sensemaking approach ...
    • Dialogue as a Journalistic Ideal 

      Hornmoen, Harald; Steensen, Steen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-04-16)
      Discussions and practices related to participatory and interactive journalism emphasize the dialogical aspects of journalism. However, throughout history, the idea of dialogue in journalism has taken a variety of forms. ...
    • The Dislocation of News Journalism: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Epistemologies of Digital Journalism 

      Ekström, Mats; Westlund, Oscar (Media and Communication;Volume 7, Issue 1 (2019): Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-11)
      This article focuses on news journalism, social media platforms and power, and key implications for epistemology. The conceptual framework presented is intended to inspire and guide future studies relating to the emerging ...
    • Invisible Locative Media: Key Considerations at the Nexus of Place and Digital Journalism 

      Erdal, Ivar John; Øie, Kjetil Vaage; Westlund, Oscar; Oppegaard, Brett (Media and Communication;Vol 7, No 1, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-19)
      Mobility and location awareness are pervasive and foundational elements of contemporary communication systems, and a descriptive term to synthesize them, “locative media”, has gained wide spread use throughout mobile media ...
    • Journalism and source criticism: Revised approaches to assessing truth-claims 

      Steensen, Steen; Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Graves, Lucas; Kalsnes, Bente; Westlund, Oscar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article presents a hermeneutical epistemology for the assessment and production of truth-claims in journalism. This epistemology is based on Gadamer’s functional hermeneutics, and it advances the concept of source ...
    • Navigating the Scholarly Terrain: Introducing the Digital Journalism Studies Compass 

      Eldridge II, Scott A.; Hess, Kristy; Tandoc, Edson C.; Westlund, Oscar (Digital Journalism; Volume 7, 2019 - Issue 3: Defining Digital Journalism (Studies), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This article by the Digital Journalism Editorial Team surfaces with the explicit ambition to reassess the field of Digital Journalism Studies and map a future editorial agenda for Digital Journalism. The article dissects ...
    • News Media's Rhetoric on Facebook 

      Hågvar, Yngve Benestad (Journalism Practice;Volume 13, 2019 - Issue 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-08)
      While Facebook is an important distribution channel for today’s media houses, there is a lack of research on how news outlets choose to present their stories in social media. The present study aims to narrow this gap by ...
    • Theories of Journalism in a Digital Age. An exploration and Introduction 

      Steensen, Steen; Ahva, Laura (Journalism Practice;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-10)
      This special issue introductory article investigates contemporary notions of theory in journalism studies. Many scholars have argued that we need better ways of conceptualising what journalism is and how it develops in a ...
    • What a Story! Interpretative Rhetoric in News Media’s Facebook Updates 

      Hågvar, Yngve Benestad (Journalism Practice;Volume 13, 2019 - Issue 8: Journalism research in practice: Scholarly inquiry for journalists, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-19)
    • What does digital journalism studies look like? 

      Steensen, Steen; Larsen, Anna M. Grøndahl; Hågvar, Yngve Benestad; Fonn, Birgitte Kjos (Digital Journalism;Volume 7, 2019 - Issue 3: Defining Digital Journalism (Studies), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-08)
      This article analyses the characteristics of digital journalism studies through an empirical investigation of all articles published in the journal Digital Journalism, from its launch in 2013 to issue 6, 2018. The aim of ...
    • What is Digital Journalism Studies? 

      Steensen, Steen; Westlund, Oscar (Book; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-22)
      What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies' central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods ...