Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is an associate professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research explores the changing journalistic field, interloper media, and peripheral journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on digital journalism, including Online Journalism From the Periphery (2018).David Cheruiyot, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on digital media/press criticism, journalistic accountability, and global conflict reporting.Sandra Banjac, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is also affiliated with the Journalism Studies Centre, University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the changing relationship between journalists and audiences, and critical intersectional approaches to exploring inequalities within journalism.Joëlle Swart, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on changing everyday news use and how people develop habits, skills, and knowledge around news and journalism. She is a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: New trends, old threads in the digital journalism fieldDavid Cheruiyot, Sandra Banjac, Joëlle SwartSection 1: Digital Journalism (Studies): Theories and Concepts Revisited1 Where is and isn’t Digital Journalism Studies: A meta-analysis of an emerging fieldManfred Antwi Kofi Asuman, Brian Ekdale2 Hybrid journalism, its logic, and its mess. Sergio Splendore3 Explaining Variation in Changing News PracticesDavid Ryfe4 Degradation and ‘desertification’ of digital local news ecosystemsKristy Hess, Alison McAdam5 Rationalizing journalistic mistakes and failures: Digital press criticism and the defense of autonomyDanford Zirugo, David Cheruiyot6 Transparency in Digital JournalismKyle Heim7 Dark Participation in Digital Journalism Johanna Klapproth, Thorsten Quandt8 Ambivalent Disruption: Journalistic fields, Critical incidents, and Egyptian Digital JournalismHanan BadrSection 2 – Citizens, Audiences, and Publics9 Digital journalism and “radical audience studies”: Toward a cultural sociology of news useJohan Lindell10 News for all? Inequalities between news audiences in digital journalism (studies)Joëlle Swart11 “Digital Snappers”: Citizens, Cameraphones and PhotojournalismStuart Allan12 Digital Audiences and Evolving News RepertoiresChris Peters, Kim Christian Schrøder, Julie Vulpius, and Josephine Lehaff13 News Literacy and Digital JournalismMelissa Tully, Patrick R. JohnsonSection 3 – Technology, data, and information14 The value(s) of journalistic ‘innovation’: developing a critical conceptualization and research agendaFrank Harbers15 News Recommender SystemsJuliane A. Lischka, Laura Laugwitz, Nadja Schaetz16 Metrics-driven news: the impact of data analytics on journalismRamón Salaverría17 Taking control over analytics in journalismKenza Lamot, Steve Paulussen18 Always just around the corner? How fact-checkers view capabilities and challenges in the emerging field of automated fact-checkingLucas Graves, Mark Stencel and Kate Wilkinson19 From positivism to complexity. The need to rethink Data Journalism scholarship after more than a decade of research on the field.Eddy Borges-ReySection 4 – Revisiting Journalism’s Platforms and Economies 20 Digital Gatekeeping: New Platforms, Producers, And ComplexitiesPeter Bro, Lisa Merete Kristensen21 Platform business poses risks for news publishersOscar Westlund, Merja Myllylahti, Sherwin Chua22 Grant funded journalism: How Foundations & Governments Realign Incentives for News ProductionMagda Konieczna23 Newspaper paywalls and value creationRagnhild Kr. Olsen24 Mobile News Dawn Wheatley25 Nonprofits/Humanitarian Journalism in a Digital Age Matthew PowersSection 5 – Digital Practices & Practitioners26 Peripheral Actors and Journalistic BoundariesAljosha Karim Schapals27 Storytelling Structures in Data Journalism: Introducing the Water Tower structureBahareh Heravi28 Peripheral actors in lifestyle journalism Folker Hanusch & Kim Löhmann29 Digital SourcingAnsgard Heinrich, Pashcalia (Lia) Spyridou30 News practices in deep media convergence in ChinaJoyce Y.M. Nip and Ting Su31 Community radio in a digital ageTanja Bosch32 Podcasting and Diversity: Developing an open-border policy for podcast studiesAmanda BrouwersSection 6 – Societal and Global Challenges33 Seasonal Journalism and Climate ChangeHenrik Bødker34 Digital journalism & affective proximity in reporting wars and revolutionsOmar Al-Ghazzi35 Safety of journalists: The symbolic violence and double burden of marginalized journalistsSandra Banjac36 Navigating the Dangers of Mainstream Visibility for Marginalized Communities through an Ethic of Solidarity in Digital JournalismAnita Varma37 Emotions in digital journalismJohana Kotišová38 Digital Networks and Collaborations: Addressing Violence against Journalists and Building Resilience Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante, Sheila B. Lalwani39 Images as moral objects: Humanitarian photography and the limits of image circulationLilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart40 Digital Hate: Normalization in Management of Online HostilityGregory PerreaultSection 7 – Political and Ideological Challenges 41 Digital Journalism and PopulismLena Frischlich42 Open-source Investigations and the New Assemblages of Digital Investigative JournalismPhilip Di Salvo43 From studios and advocates to brand practitioners:Tracing the influence of political and commercial interests on digital narrative journalismDavid O. Dowling44 Countering Political DisinformationKevin Mudavadi, Dani Madrid-Morales45 Populist Rhapsody: Struggle for Trust in Czech Public Service Media in a Fragmented Media EnvironmentKlára Smejkal46 Digital surveillance and the transformation of journalism practice in the digital ageAllen Munoriyarwa47 Digital tabloidization in an age of populismKhulekani NdlovuSection 8 – Methods for/in Digital Journalism Studies48 X Journalism: a concept and an observational tool for tracing the evolution of the fieldJulius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen49 Advancements in Experimental Research ApproachesEsther Greussing50 Researching information exposure using computational methodsLisa Merten51 Revisiting the Ethnography of Digital JournalismHayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Wambui Wamunyu52 Reassembling digital journalism through arts-based methodsSander Hölsgens53 Methodological Challenges in Audience ResearchAnna Sophie Kümpel, Luise Anter54 Epilogue: Will the center hold? Relocating journalism in the digitalMarcel Broersma, Scott A. Eldridge IIIndex

Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is an associate professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research explores the changing journalistic field, interloper media, and peripheral journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on digital journalism, including Online Journalism From the Periphery (2018).David Cheruiyot, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on digital media/press criticism, journalistic accountability, and global conflict reporting.Sandra Banjac, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is also affiliated with the Journalism Studies Centre, University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the changing relationship between journalists and audiences, and critical intersectional approaches to exploring inequalities within journalism.Joëlle Swart, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on changing everyday news use and how people develop habits, skills, and knowledge around news and journalism. She is a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: New trends, old threads in the digital journalism fieldDavid Cheruiyot, Sandra Banjac, Joëlle SwartSection 1: Digital Journalism (Studies): Theories and Concepts Revisited1 Where is and isn’t Digital Journalism Studies: A meta-analysis of an emerging fieldManfred Antwi Kofi Asuman, Brian Ekdale2 Hybrid journalism, its logic, and its mess. Sergio Splendore3 Explaining Variation in Changing News PracticesDavid Ryfe4 Degradation and ‘desertification’ of digital local news ecosystemsKristy Hess, Alison McAdam5 Rationalizing journalistic mistakes and failures: Digital press criticism and the defense of autonomyDanford Zirugo, David Cheruiyot6 Transparency in Digital JournalismKyle Heim7 Dark Participation in Digital Journalism Johanna Klapproth, Thorsten Quandt8 Ambivalent Disruption: Journalistic fields, Critical incidents, and Egyptian Digital JournalismHanan BadrSection 2 – Citizens, Audiences, and Publics9 Digital journalism and “radical audience studies”: Toward a cultural sociology of news useJohan Lindell10 News for all? Inequalities between news audiences in digital journalism (studies)Joëlle Swart11 “Digital Snappers”: Citizens, Cameraphones and PhotojournalismStuart Allan12 Digital Audiences and Evolving News RepertoiresChris Peters, Kim Christian Schrøder, Julie Vulpius, and Josephine Lehaff13 News Literacy and Digital JournalismMelissa Tully, Patrick R. JohnsonSection 3 – Technology, data, and information14 The value(s) of journalistic ‘innovation’: developing a critical conceptualization and research agendaFrank Harbers15 News Recommender SystemsJuliane A. Lischka, Laura Laugwitz, Nadja Schaetz16 Metrics-driven news: the impact of data analytics on journalismRamón Salaverría17 Taking control over analytics in journalismKenza Lamot, Steve Paulussen18 Always just around the corner? How fact-checkers view capabilities and challenges in the emerging field of automated fact-checkingLucas Graves, Mark Stencel and Kate Wilkinson19 From positivism to complexity. The need to rethink Data Journalism scholarship after more than a decade of research on the field.Eddy Borges-ReySection 4 – Revisiting Journalism’s Platforms and Economies 20 Digital Gatekeeping: New Platforms, Producers, And ComplexitiesPeter Bro, Lisa Merete Kristensen21 Platform business poses risks for news publishersOscar Westlund, Merja Myllylahti, Sherwin Chua22 Grant funded journalism: How Foundations & Governments Realign Incentives for News ProductionMagda Konieczna23 Newspaper paywalls and value creationRagnhild Kr. Olsen24 Mobile News Dawn Wheatley25 Nonprofits/Humanitarian Journalism in a Digital Age Matthew PowersSection 5 – Digital Practices & Practitioners26 Peripheral Actors and Journalistic BoundariesAljosha Karim Schapals27 Storytelling Structures in Data Journalism: Introducing the Water Tower structureBahareh Heravi28 Peripheral actors in lifestyle journalism Folker Hanusch & Kim Löhmann29 Digital SourcingAnsgard Heinrich, Pashcalia (Lia) Spyridou30 News practices in deep media convergence in ChinaJoyce Y.M. Nip and Ting Su31 Community radio in a digital ageTanja Bosch32 Podcasting and Diversity: Developing an open-border policy for podcast studiesAmanda BrouwersSection 6 – Societal and Global Challenges33 Seasonal Journalism and Climate ChangeHenrik Bødker34 Digital journalism & affective proximity in reporting wars and revolutionsOmar Al-Ghazzi35 Safety of journalists: The symbolic violence and double burden of marginalized journalistsSandra Banjac36 Navigating the Dangers of Mainstream Visibility for Marginalized Communities through an Ethic of Solidarity in Digital JournalismAnita Varma37 Emotions in digital journalismJohana Kotišová38 Digital Networks and Collaborations: Addressing Violence against Journalists and Building Resilience Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante, Sheila B. Lalwani39 Images as moral objects: Humanitarian photography and the limits of image circulationLilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart40 Digital Hate: Normalization in Management of Online HostilityGregory PerreaultSection 7 – Political and Ideological Challenges 41 Digital Journalism and PopulismLena Frischlich42 Open-source Investigations and the New Assemblages of Digital Investigative JournalismPhilip Di Salvo43 From studios and advocates to brand practitioners:Tracing the influence of political and commercial interests on digital narrative journalismDavid O. Dowling44 Countering Political DisinformationKevin Mudavadi, Dani Madrid-Morales45 Populist Rhapsody: Struggle for Trust in Czech Public Service Media in a Fragmented Media EnvironmentKlára Smejkal46 Digital surveillance and the transformation of journalism practice in the digital ageAllen Munoriyarwa47 Digital tabloidization in an age of populismKhulekani NdlovuSection 8 – Methods for/in Digital Journalism Studies48 X Journalism: a concept and an observational tool for tracing the evolution of the fieldJulius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen49 Advancements in Experimental Research ApproachesEsther Greussing50 Researching information exposure using computational methodsLisa Merten51 Revisiting the Ethnography of Digital JournalismHayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Wambui Wamunyu52 Reassembling digital journalism through arts-based methodsSander Hölsgens53 Methodological Challenges in Audience ResearchAnna Sophie Kümpel, Luise Anter54 Epilogue: Will the center hold? Relocating journalism in the digitalMarcel Broersma, Scott A. Eldridge IIIndex

Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is an associate professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research explores the changing journalistic field, interloper media, and peripheral journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on digital journalism, including Online Journalism From the Periphery (2018).David Cheruiyot, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on digital media/press criticism, journalistic accountability, and global conflict reporting.Sandra Banjac, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is also affiliated with the Journalism Studies Centre, University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the changing relationship between journalists and audiences, and critical intersectional approaches to exploring inequalities within journalism.Joëlle Swart, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on changing everyday news use and how people develop habits, skills, and knowledge around news and journalism. She is a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: New trends, old threads in the digital journalism fieldDavid Cheruiyot, Sandra Banjac, Joëlle SwartSection 1: Digital Journalism (Studies): Theories and Concepts Revisited1 Where is and isn’t Digital Journalism Studies: A meta-analysis of an emerging fieldManfred Antwi Kofi Asuman, Brian Ekdale2 Hybrid journalism, its logic, and its mess. Sergio Splendore3 Explaining Variation in Changing News PracticesDavid Ryfe4 Degradation and ‘desertification’ of digital local news ecosystemsKristy Hess, Alison McAdam5 Rationalizing journalistic mistakes and failures: Digital press criticism and the defense of autonomyDanford Zirugo, David Cheruiyot6 Transparency in Digital JournalismKyle Heim7 Dark Participation in Digital Journalism Johanna Klapproth, Thorsten Quandt8 Ambivalent Disruption: Journalistic fields, Critical incidents, and Egyptian Digital JournalismHanan BadrSection 2 – Citizens, Audiences, and Publics9 Digital journalism and “radical audience studies”: Toward a cultural sociology of news useJohan Lindell10 News for all? Inequalities between news audiences in digital journalism (studies)Joëlle Swart11 “Digital Snappers”: Citizens, Cameraphones and PhotojournalismStuart Allan12 Digital Audiences and Evolving News RepertoiresChris Peters, Kim Christian Schrøder, Julie Vulpius, and Josephine Lehaff13 News Literacy and Digital JournalismMelissa Tully, Patrick R. JohnsonSection 3 – Technology, data, and information14 The value(s) of journalistic ‘innovation’: developing a critical conceptualization and research agendaFrank Harbers15 News Recommender SystemsJuliane A. Lischka, Laura Laugwitz, Nadja Schaetz16 Metrics-driven news: the impact of data analytics on journalismRamón Salaverría17 Taking control over analytics in journalismKenza Lamot, Steve Paulussen18 Always just around the corner? How fact-checkers view capabilities and challenges in the emerging field of automated fact-checkingLucas Graves, Mark Stencel and Kate Wilkinson19 From positivism to complexity. The need to rethink Data Journalism scholarship after more than a decade of research on the field.Eddy Borges-ReySection 4 – Revisiting Journalism’s Platforms and Economies 20 Digital Gatekeeping: New Platforms, Producers, And ComplexitiesPeter Bro, Lisa Merete Kristensen21 Platform business poses risks for news publishersOscar Westlund, Merja Myllylahti, Sherwin Chua22 Grant funded journalism: How Foundations & Governments Realign Incentives for News ProductionMagda Konieczna23 Newspaper paywalls and value creationRagnhild Kr. Olsen24 Mobile News Dawn Wheatley25 Nonprofits/Humanitarian Journalism in a Digital Age Matthew PowersSection 5 – Digital Practices & Practitioners26 Peripheral Actors and Journalistic BoundariesAljosha Karim Schapals27 Storytelling Structures in Data Journalism: Introducing the Water Tower structureBahareh Heravi28 Peripheral actors in lifestyle journalism Folker Hanusch & Kim Löhmann29 Digital SourcingAnsgard Heinrich, Pashcalia (Lia) Spyridou30 News practices in deep media convergence in ChinaJoyce Y.M. Nip and Ting Su31 Community radio in a digital ageTanja Bosch32 Podcasting and Diversity: Developing an open-border policy for podcast studiesAmanda BrouwersSection 6 – Societal and Global Challenges33 Seasonal Journalism and Climate ChangeHenrik Bødker34 Digital journalism & affective proximity in reporting wars and revolutionsOmar Al-Ghazzi35 Safety of journalists: The symbolic violence and double burden of marginalized journalistsSandra Banjac36 Navigating the Dangers of Mainstream Visibility for Marginalized Communities through an Ethic of Solidarity in Digital JournalismAnita Varma37 Emotions in digital journalismJohana Kotišová38 Digital Networks and Collaborations: Addressing Violence against Journalists and Building Resilience Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante, Sheila B. Lalwani39 Images as moral objects: Humanitarian photography and the limits of image circulationLilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart40 Digital Hate: Normalization in Management of Online HostilityGregory PerreaultSection 7 – Political and Ideological Challenges 41 Digital Journalism and PopulismLena Frischlich42 Open-source Investigations and the New Assemblages of Digital Investigative JournalismPhilip Di Salvo43 From studios and advocates to brand practitioners:Tracing the influence of political and commercial interests on digital narrative journalismDavid O. Dowling44 Countering Political DisinformationKevin Mudavadi, Dani Madrid-Morales45 Populist Rhapsody: Struggle for Trust in Czech Public Service Media in a Fragmented Media EnvironmentKlára Smejkal46 Digital surveillance and the transformation of journalism practice in the digital ageAllen Munoriyarwa47 Digital tabloidization in an age of populismKhulekani NdlovuSection 8 – Methods for/in Digital Journalism Studies48 X Journalism: a concept and an observational tool for tracing the evolution of the fieldJulius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen49 Advancements in Experimental Research ApproachesEsther Greussing50 Researching information exposure using computational methodsLisa Merten51 Revisiting the Ethnography of Digital JournalismHayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Wambui Wamunyu52 Reassembling digital journalism through arts-based methodsSander Hölsgens53 Methodological Challenges in Audience ResearchAnna Sophie Kümpel, Luise Anter54 Epilogue: Will the center hold? Relocating journalism in the digitalMarcel Broersma, Scott A. Eldridge IIIndex