Research of December 2017

Research of December 2017. Picture: Snow by Nathan Fertig, license CC0 1.0

Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in December 2017 about journalism research. The list is updated a couple of times per week. The bolded titles link to JRN articles written about the studies.

PublishedTitleAuthor(s)Journal / publisher
2017-12-01Bias, Bullshit and Lies: Audience Perspectives on Low Trust in the MediaNic Newman & Richard FletcherReuters Institute
2017-12-01Virtual Foreign Correspondence: Experimental Instructions in Digital Foreign News ReportingOliver Hahn, Florian Stalph & Tom StellerJournalism & Mass Communication Educator
2017-12-06The Global Expansion of Digital-Born News Media Tom Nicholls, Nabeelah Shabbir and Rasmus Kleis NielsenReuters Institute
2017-12-04‘Everything is negative’: Schoolteachers’ perceptions of news coverage of educationKathryn ShineJournalism
2017-12-04Keeping pace with journalism training in the age of social media and convergence: How worthwhile is it to teach online skills?Ainara Larrondo Ureta, Simón Peña FernándezJournalism
2017-12-06Has Digital Distribution Rejuvenated Readership?
Revisiting the age demographics of newspaper consumption
Neil Thurman & Richard FletcherJournalism Studies
2017-12-4What does the crowd think? How online comments and popularity metrics affect news credibility and issue importanceT Franklin WaddellNew Media & Society
2017-12-05New digital realities and old public service broadcasting models – the case of public access and participation in Singapore’s televisual landscapeTania Lim, Azad Bali, Marcus MooMedia International Australia
2017-12-07Hacks and hackers: the ethos and beliefs of a group of Data-Driven Journalism professionals in BrazilMarcelo Ruschel TräselRevista Famecos
2017-12-04“You’re Fake News!”: The 2017 Poynter Media Trust SurveyAndrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan & Jason ReiflerPoynter Institute
2017-12-07The 3 types of news subscribers: Why they pay and how to convert themTran HaAmerican Press Institute
2017-12-05Pathways to Media Reform in Sub‑Saharan Africa: Reflections from a Regional ConsultationHerman Wasserman & Nicholas BenequistaCenter for International Media Assistance
2017-12-07Financialisation of news in China in the age of the Internet: the case of XinhuanetXin XinMedia, Culture & Society
2017-12-07Reversed positionality, reversed reality? The multimodal Environmental Justice frame in mainstream and alternative mediaRenée Moernaut, Jelle Mast & Yves PepermansInternational Communication Gazette
2017-12-05Tracking the Virality of News in Smart CitiesKhawar Hasham, Kamran Soomro &
David Ludlow
Companion Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
2017-12-06Upvote My News: The Practices of Peer Information Aggregation for Breaking News on reddit.comAlex Leavitt & John J. Robinson Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2017-12-06Tabloids in the Era of Social Media?: Understanding the Production and Consumption of Clickbaits in Twitter"Abhijnan Chakraborty,
Rajdeep Sarkar,
Ayushi Mrigen & Niloy Ganguly
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2017-12-06Would You Slack That?: The Impact of Security and Privacy on Cooperative Newsroom WorkSusan E. McGregor, Elizabeth Anne Watkins & Kelly CaineProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2017-12-08‘Our newsroom in the cloud’: Slack, virtual newsrooms and journalistic practiceMel Bunce, Kate Wright & Martin ScottNew Media and Society (preprint from City, University of London repository)
2017-12-13Journalism and mass communication education in the Arab World: Towards a typologyEisa Al Nashmi, Mariam F Alkazemi, Wayne Wanta
International Communication Gazette
2017-12-13Why context, relevance and repetition matter in news reporting: Interpreting the United Kingdom’s political information environmentStephen Cushion, Justin Lewis, Allaina KilbyJournalism
2017-12-13Where does Afghanistan fit in China’s grand project? A content analysis of Afghan and Chinese news coverage of the One Belt, One Road initiativeAzeta Hatef, Luwei Rose LuqiuInternational Communication Gazette
2017-12-12Deconstruction of a taboo: press coverage of sexual violence against children in pedagogical institutions in Germany 1950–2013Arno Görgen, Heiner FangerauMedia, Culture & Society
2017-12-12Newspaper portrayal of Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Latin American newspapers: A content analysisYicheng Zhu, Longxing Wang
International Communication Gazette
2017-12-13Climate Change in the Media: Poland’s ExceptionalismZbigniew W. Kundzewicz, James Painter & Witold J. KundzewiczEnvironmental Communication
2017-12-14Source, Please?
A content analysis of links posted in discussions of public affairs on Reddit
Polly Straub-CookDigital Journalism
2017-12-14Solutions Journalism: The effects of including solution information in news stories about social problemsKaren McIntyreJournalism Practice
2017-12-14“Ice Cream is Worse, and Joblessness is Not an Option”: Gendered experiences of freelancingDunja Antunovic, Jenna Grzeslo & Anne HoagJournalism Practice
2017-12-14The New Gatekeepers: An Institutional-level View of Silicon Valley and the Disruption of JournalismFrank Michael RussellJournalism Studies
2017-12-14Tweeting the Agenda: How print and alternative web-only news organizations use Twitter as a sourceKaitlin C. BaneJournalism Practice
2017-12-14Film language analysis in society news: A case study of The New York TimesTe-Yuan Chen, Hsuan-Chi Liu & Chia-Yu HsuPacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings
2017-12-14This Tweet Brought to You by a Journalist: How Comment Gatekeeping Influences Online News CredibilityT Franklin WaddellElectronic News
2017-12-15How U.S. and Chinese journalists think about plagiarismNorman P. Lewis, Bu Zhong, Fan Yang & Yong ZhouAsian Journal of Communication
2017-12-13Record number of journalists jailed as Turkey, China, Egypt pay scant price for repressionElana BeiserCommittee to Protect Journalists
2017-12-11In Repressive Countries, Citizens Go ‘Dark’ to Share Independent NewsKate MusgraveCenter for International Media Assistance
2017-12-16“You Talkin’ to Me?”: The Implied Reader in Canadian Business MagazineKaren GrandyCanadian Journal of Communication
2017-12-16News as Hazardous Waste: Postmedia, the Competition Bureau, and the Supreme Court of CanadaMarc EdgeCanadian Journal of Communication
2017-12-16The Meanings of “Multicultural” in Canada’s 1991 Broadcasting ActKyle ConwayCanadian Journal of Communication
2017-12-15The Fragmentation of Work, Entertainment, E-Mail, and News on a Personal Computer: Motivational Predictors of Switching Between Media ContentLeo Yeykelis, James J. Cummings & Byron ReevesMedia Psychology
2017-12-17Fake news from Africa: Panics, politics and paradigmsHerman WassermanJournalism
2017-12-02National newspaper-reporting on state examinations: An historical exposition of the exceptional case of the Irish Leaving CertificateTom O'Donoghue, Jim Gleeson & Orla McCormackEncounters in Theory and History of Education
2017-12-19When the crisis comes home: Emotions, professionalism, and reporting on 22 March in Belgian journalists’ narratives Johana KotisovaJournalism
2017-12-19The Heat is On: Thermal Sensing and Newsgathering – A Look at the Legal Implications of Modern NewsgatheringRoy S. Gutterman & Angela M. RulffesCommunication Law and Policy
2017-12-19Using Text Mining to Compare Online Pro- and Anti-Vaccine Headlines: Word Usage, Sentiments, and Online PopularityZhan Xu & Hao GuoCommunication Studies
2017-12-11Identifying paths to audience success of media products: the media decision-makers’ perspectiveMarcel Verhoeven, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, Isabelle Krebs, Gabriele Siegert & Christoph SommerInternational Journal on Media Management
2017-12-21Does press freedom cause human development? Examining BangladeshAminul Islam & Ataul Gani OsmaniMedia Asia
2017-12-20When gender, colonialism, and technology matter in a journalism startupMary Lynn Young, Candis CallisonJournalism
2017-12-20Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in MediaAnya Schiffrin et al.Central European University
2017-12-19Indian news media and the production of news in the age of social discoveryZeenab Aneez et al.Reuters Institute
2017-12-21Generating a voice among ‘media monsters’: hybrid media practices of Taiwan’s Anti-Media Monopoly MovementShiau Ching Wong & Scott WrightAustralian Journal of Political Science
2017-12-21Indonesian news auto summarization in infrastructure development topic using 5W+1H considerationRendra Budi Hutama, Ali Ridho Barakbah & Afrida Helen2017 International Electronics Symposium on Knowledge Creation and Intelligent Computing
2017-12-01Fine-grained news recommendation by fusing matrix factorization, topic analysis and knowledge graph representationKuai Zhang et al.2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
2017-12-04Time-aware relation extraction for entities using news headlinesNivedita Sinha et al.2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
2017-12-19Socio-cultural conditioning of style and structure in journalistic discourse: The distinctively “objective” textuality of Iranian political news reportingMohammad Makki & Peter R.R. WhiteDiscourse, Context & Media
2017-12-01Fake News: A Technological Approach to Proving the Origins of Content, Using BlockchainsSteve Huckle & Martin WhiteBig Data
2017-12-31What’s in a Name? Journalistic Boundary Work and a High School Newspaper’s Effort to Ban “Redskin”Marina A. Hendricks & Ryan J. ThomasJournalism & Mass Communication Educator
2017-12-29Mobile apps and news: a Taiwanese case of curationLuc Chia-Shin LinThe Journal of International Communication
2017-12-29I “Like” That: Exploring the Characteristics That Promote Social Media Engagement With News PhotographsT.J. Thomson & Keith GreenwoodVisual Communication Quarterly
2017-12-29“Really Social Photojournalism” and a Photojournalistic Changing of the Guard: Observations and InsightsGabriel B. TaitVisual Communication Quarterly
2017-12-22Relationship between advertising and consumption in China: Exploring the roles of economic development and mass mediaSylvia M. Chan-Olmsted & Linsen SuGlobal Media and China
2017-12-21More coverage is less confidence? Media portrayal of “one country, two systems” in Hong KongClement Y. K. SoChinese Journal of Communication
2017-12-08“Gay Guys are Shit-Lovers” and “Lesbians are Obsessed With Fingers”: The (Mis)Representation of LGBTIQ People in Thai News MediaKangwan Fongkaew et al.Journal of Homosexuality
2017-12-08Evaluating news actors in Chinese hard news reporting: language patterns and social valuesChangpeng HuanText & Talk
2017-12-07Foreign, Domestic, and Cultural Factors in Climate Change Reporting: Swedish Media’s Coverage of Wildfires in Three ContinentsPeter Berglez & Rolf LidskogEnvironmental Communication
2017-12-09
On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach
Marta Zampa & Marina BletsasSemiotica
2017-12-18An Al-Jazeera Effect in the USA? A Review of the EvidenceTal Samuel-AzranGlobal Media Journal: German Edition
2017-12-22The decline and redefinition of New Zealand current affairs television programmesSarah BakerThe Political Economy of Communication
2017-12-23Participation in the Hybrid Political Newsmaking and Its Consequences on Journalism EpistemologyLaura Iannelli & Sergio SplendoreComunicazioni Sociali
2017-12-23The Post-Intermediation of Truth. Newsmaking from Media Companies to PlatformsFausto Colombo,
Simone Tosoni & Maria Francesca Murru
Comunicazioni Sociali
2017-12-23Between disinformation tactics and deciphering strategies, towards a semio-political analysis of “fake news” and “alternative facts”Francois Allard-HuverComunicazioni Sociali
2017-12-20Selective Exposure to Misinformation:
Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S.
presidential campaign
Andrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan & Jason ReiflerDartmouth College
2017-12-01For Video Games, Bad News Is Good News: News Reporting of Violent Video Game StudiesAllen Copenhaver et al.Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
2017-12-21Journalism as Model for Civic and Information LiteraciesNatalia Smirnov et al.Cognition and Instruction
2017-12-18Interpreting as an influencing factor on news reports: A study of interpreted Chinese political discourse recontextualized in English newsLingqian Zheng & Wen RenPerspectives
2017-12-19A news-topic recommender system based on keywords extractionZihuan Wang et al.Multimedia Tools and Applications
2017-12-22The frame changers: journalists, the conflict, and peace processMaria ArmoudianIrish Political Studies
2017-12-19Socio-cultural conditioning of style and structure in journalistic discourse: The distinctively “objective” textuality of Iranian political news reportingMohammad Makki, Peter R.R. WhiteDiscourse, Context & Media
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