Research

Our research focuses on the intersection of journalism with technology. This intersection is a “techno-journalistic space” (Ananny & Crawford, 2014, p. 192), in which “the blending of journalist-technologists” (Hermida & Young, 2016, p. 171) occurs.

• As a consequence, novel professional subgroups reinterpret journalism, including its norms, values, practices, and its content. Against this development, our research strives to understand novel subgroups and their vision for journalism as well as their practices and outcome of their work.
  
  Research projects:
  • Audience Editors and The Datafied Audience
  • Editorial Technologists in the Newsroom

Tech has often been developed outside journalism and then applied to the journalistic context. This has been changing. Tech is increasingly developed in journalism for journalism, with the help of computational-savvy journalist-technologists.

• AI changes how news is made and distributed. Regarding news distribution, our research assesses the potential of news recommender systems for democratic societies.
  • Diverse News Recommendations
  • Recommender Systems beyond Personalization
• Social media platforms and their obsucre algorithmic curation has the potential to change news supply as well as demand.
  • Clickbait Supply on Social Media
  • Generation AI

Overall, our research considers the relations between news, audiences, journalist-technologists, and tech applications in digital journalism.

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