• 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 ...
    • Borte bra, men hjemme best? Journalistisk kreativitet, samhandling og arbeidskultur, i digitale rom på hjemmekontor 

      Asker, Cecilie (Master thesis, 2021)
      Denne kvalitative studien undersøker hvordan tolv journalister, fra VG, Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende og Stavanger Aftenblad, har opplevd arbeidshverdagen under koronapandemien, da åpne kontorlandskap og trange møtelokaler ...
    • Communal News Work: COVID-19 Calls for Collective Funding of Journalism 

      Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine; Pickard, Victor; Westlund, Oscar (Digital Journalism;Volume 8, Issue 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-28)
      It is widely held that journalism, journalists and news all play important roles for democracy and an informed citizenry. News publishers have journalistic authority and are oftentimes seen as one of the most important ...
    • Competition, Change, and Coordination and Collaboration: Tracing news executives’ perceptions about participation in media innovation 

      Westlund, Oscar; Krumsvik, Arne H.; Lewis, Seth C. (Journalism Studies;Volume 22, 2021 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-09)
      Technological disruptions and increasing competition in the digital mediascape have fundamentally altered the market conditions for news media companies, raising corresponding concerns about the future of journalism. News ...
    • Countering Algorithmic Bias and Disinformation and Effectively Harnessing the Power of AI in Media 

      Shin, Don; Hameleers, Michael; Park, Yong Yin; Jeong nam, kim; Triell, Daniel; Diakopolous, Nicholas; Helberger, Natali; Lewis, Seth C.; Westlund, Oscar; Baumann, Sabine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
    • Critical Moments of Coordination in Newswork 

      Westlund, Oscar; Ekström, Mats (Journalism Practice;Volume 15, 2021 - Issue 6: Future of Journalism, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-08)
      This article focuses on journalistic practices and coordination, more specifically how journalists coordinate when producing Online Live Broadcasts (OLB). An analytical framework that lends from the Knowledge-Based View ...
    • Data Journalism and Misinformation 

      Westlund, Oscar; Hermida, Alfred (The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)
      This chapter focuses on the intersection of data journalism and misinformation by discussing research into epistemic practices for finding and working with data as well as how data is used to make claims about events and ...
    • Data-driven news work culture: Reconciling tensions in epistemic values and practices of news journalism 

      Ekström, Mats; Ramsälv, Amanda; Westlund, Oscar (Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-21)
      This study investigates the epistemological implications of the appropriation of audience analytics in a data-driven news culture. Focussing on two central aspects of epistemology, epistemic value and epistemic practices, ...
    • Digital Journalism (Studies); Defining the Field 

      Eldridge II, Scott A.; Hess, Kristy; Tandoc JR, Edson; Westlund, Oscar (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-12)
      This book brings together a collection of articles published in a Digital Journalism special issue in 2019 titled “Digital Journalism (Studies) - Defining the Field”, edited by the four of us in our capacity as the Digital ...
    • 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 ...
    • The Epistemologies of Breaking News 

      Ekström, Mats; Waldenstrom, Amanda; Westlund, Oscar (Journalism Studies;Volume 22, 2021 - Issue 2: Future on Journalism, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-28)
      The study analyses the epistemologies of online breaking news, focusing on the distinctive epistemic practices and challenges in the production of continuous news updates and online live broadcast. The analytical framework ...
    • The epistemologies of data journalism 

      Ramsälv, Amanda; Ekstrom, Mats; Westlund, Oscar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Amid digital developments, data journalism has gained a strong foothold among news publishers and in public discourse. With its authoritative claims and informative visualizations, it can play a significant role in the ...
    • EPISTEMOLOGIES OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM AND MISINFORMATION 

      Ekström, Mats; Lewis, Seth C.; Westlund, Oscar (Academic article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09)
      Verified, fact-based information is presumed to be an important feature in society, for citizens individually and for democratic governance as a whole. During much the 20th century, legacy news media enjoyed a prominent ...
    • Epistemology and Journalism 

      Ekström, Mats; Westlund, Oscar (In Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Oxford University Press;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019-02)
      Epistemology is a central issue in journalism research. Journalism is among the most influential knowledge-producing institutions in modern society, associated with high claims of providing relevant, accurate, and verified ...
    • Four conceptual lenses for journalism amidst big data: Towards an emphasis on epistemological challenges 

      Westlund, Oscar; Lewis, Seth C. (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Th e social world is increasingly quantifi ed, rendered as digital trace information – geolocation, web metrics, self-tracking, social graphs, likes and shares, and much more. Such data may be collected and analysed at ...
    • 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 ...
    • Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships 

      Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas; Westlund, Oscar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This article explores how platforms, news publishers, and fact-checkers describe the trade- offs they make in partnerships to counter misinformation. Using 54 interviews with these actors active in the global fact-checking ...
    • Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships 

      Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas; Westlund, Oscar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This article explores how platforms, news publishers, and fact-checkers describe the trade- offs they make in partnerships to counter misinformation. Using 54 interviews with these actors active in the global fact-checking ...
    • The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking 

      Steensen, Steen; Kalsnes, Bente; Westlund, Oscar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This article analyses the novel form of live political fact-checking, as performed by the Norwegian fact-checking organisation Faktisk.no during the Norwegian parliamentary election campaign in 2021. The aim of the study ...