Steen Steensen, Oscar Westlund
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 being developed, its normative underpinnings, and possible futures for the ...
Axel Bruns, Anja Bechmann, Jean Burgess, Andrew Chadwick et al.
In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. Researchers at leading international research organisations are deeply concerned about collateral impac...
Sherwin Chua, Oscar Westlund
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 to examine how emerging technology was appropriated and enacted in the conv...
Ragnhild Kr. Olsen, Ori Tenenboim, Kristy Hess, Oscar Westlund et al.
The intricate relationship between public service media (PSM) and social media platforms has emerged as a critical factor significantly impacting the legitimacy of the PSM institution. This study adopts a discursive institutionalism lens to examine how six PSM organizations across Europe, Australia ...
Tandoc, Edson C. Jr., Westlund, Oscar
In 2010, Save the Children UK ran its blogladesh campaign, organizing a media trip to Bangladesh to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals. Save the Children UK had recently appointed Liz Scarff as its first digital media manager and tasked her with finding innovative ways of using soci...
Oscar Westlund, Jan Lauren Boyles, Лэй Гуо, Magdalena Saldaña et al.
<p dir="ltr">Digital Journalism has an important role to play in encouraging and publishing research with societal relevance that advances digital journalism studies as a field. In this article we discuss the multiple types of articles we publish: research articles, conceptual articles, review artic...
Oscar Westlund, Matt Carlson, Basyouni Ibrahim Hamada, Natali Helberger et al.
This article addresses the growing global assault on academic freedom—a cornerstone of democratic societies now under increasing threat from authoritarian regimes. It highlights a global decline in that freedom since its peak 20 years ago, focusing on the United States in 2025 to illustrate rapidly ...
Kristy Hess, Scott A. Eldridge, Edson C. Tandoc, Oscar Westlund
This editorial intends to shine a spotlight on diversity in Digital Journalism scholarship. In celebration of International Women’s Day this year, the Digital Journalism editorial team led an initiative involving some of the world’s leading journals in journalism, communication, media studies, and m...
Oscar Westlund
The number of ways in which we use and rely on our mobile devices today is fascinating. There is no great reflection on the technological dependence on mobile devices and communication in everyday life. This is strikingly different from the ten years before the advent of contemporary smartphones wit...
Oscar Westlund
Academic freedom, a cornerstone of democratic societies and scientific progress, is facing an alarming global decline. Once a safeguard for scholarly independence, it has steadily eroded since its peak in the early 2000s, leaving researchers increasingly vulnerable to political interference, ideolog...
Oscar Westlund
This article problematizes the importance of scholarly public engagement in the salient case of misinformation. The article proposes a two-part approach for scholars to advance both explicit and tacit knowledge. First, scholars can create research-based, education-oriented materials in accessible fo...
Ragnhild Kr. Olsen, Oscar Westlund, Sherwin Chua, Ori Tenenboim et al.
This article introduces and advances the Platform Configurations and Isomorphism (PCI) framework. It integrates the platform configuration concept with institutional theory to offer a framework for analyzing Public Service Media (PSM) interactions with social media platforms in the provision of news...