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Mark Coddington and Seth LewisOctober 8, 2020

Journalism faces a crisis in trust. Journalists fall into two very different camps for how to fix it

Plus: Life in a news desert, how journalists forge a digital self on social media, and online harassment of journalists as “mob censorship.”

Mark CoddingtonSeptember 26, 2019

“Glory and honor”: How professional identity shapes the way journalists do their work

“In an era in which trust in news is fractured and employment is precarious, we need to look more closely at the ways that journalists’ sense of their own professional value — or lack thereof — influences the work they do and the environment in which they do it.”

John WihbeyDecember 11, 2015

Investigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news and social media research

We sift through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the most interesting studies about social and digital media published in 2015.

Why don’t The New York Times (and other news organizations) link out to sources more often?

Matt Carlson & Seth C. LewisApril 27, 2015

What are the boundaries of today’s journalism, and how is the rise of digital changing who defines them?

In a new book, a group of academics look at how the big defining questions of the field — what is journalism? who is a journalist? who decides? — are changing.

John WihbeyJuly 29, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What makes commenters less civil, and the rise of digital longform

When journalists factcheck politicians (or don’t), how to flag bad behavior on social media, and getting past slactivism: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

John WihbeyJanuary 31, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: Linking helps save newspapers and how multitasking spikes arousal

Vigorous linking as an antidote to newspaper failure, who gets crowdfunded, and skepticism around the standard narrative of the Arab Spring: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

Joshua BentonNovember 18, 2013

OJR: An old web icon ends up repurposed as a spamblog

What was once the Online Journalism Review — for a time, maybe the finest website covering Internet journalism — is now a skeezy ad for an Australian startup. Caveat lector — especially when Comic Sans is involved.

John WihbeySeptember 30, 2013

What’s New in Digital Scholarship: The research on making comments better and American media exceptionalism

How men and women interact differently on Twitter, new books on digital politics, and China’s “human flesh search engine”: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

John WihbeyApril 25, 2013

What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Why journalists link (or why they don’t) and the libel potential of a retweet

The arguments for smarter public support of journalism, the rise of civic engagement in social media, and the changing practices of foreign correspondents: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

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