Immersive journalism (IJ) is often assumed to be inherently emotion-inducing. Through using inclusive technology, interaction possibilities and immersive narratives, the audience should ideally experience what feels like to be in a certain situation. However, for the most part we do not know to which …

Liveblogs are very popular with the public and journalists alike. The problem, though, is their credibility, given the uncertainty of the covered events and the immediacy of their production. Little is known about how journalists routinize the unexpected—to paraphrase Tuchman—when journalists report …

The growth of so-called hyperlocal media has created new challenges for research, blurring some of the classic boundaries of local journalism and traditional media. In this chapter we try to understand the role hyperlocal media have in the local media ecosystem by focusing on two European countries: …

Innovations in digital storytelling techniques have spurred on the development of new journalistic and audience practices. The production processes of interactive and immersive journalistic narratives are highly technological and require specialist knowledge of both journalism and design, and require …

There has been limited adoption of Immersive Journalism (IJ) by the audience; simultaneously, the audience’s perspective is rarely considered in the production and research of IJ. At this point, however, it is crucial to incorporate an audience perspective to identify potentially unintended effects of …

In this response to the article by Matt Carlson and Chris Peters, we consider the challenge that the authors deem key for journalism studies and their answer to this challenge: “realist journalism studies.” We explore what the authors mean by decentring journalism studies, by “realism,” and the reason …

Social networks and news outlets use recommender systems to distribute information and suggest news to their users. These algorithms are an attractive solution to deal with the massive amount of content on the web [6]. However, some organisations prioritise retention and maximisation of the number of …

Het doel van deze studie was om meer inzicht te krijgen in de manier waarop mensen informatie verwerken na het zien van constructief nieuws. In dit kader werd een experiment (N = 575, 18 – 90 jaar) uitgevoerd om te onderzoeken hoe constructieve, in vergelijking met niet-constructieve, nieuwsverslaggeving …

Tot 1960 was de lokale journalistiek het belangrijkste venster op het regionale én wereldnieuws. Dat vertellen onderzoeker Chris van der Heijden, onderzoeker bij Journalismlab en Jan Maarten Pekelharing, journalist en auteur van een boek over lokale journalistiek in de podcast van Journalism Lab. Dat …

Nieuwsmedia lijken over onvoldoende kennis te beschikken om jongeren te bereiken. Een belangrijke vraag is hoe de professionele journalistiek een gevoel van desillusie kan voorkomen dat Millennials ervaren wanneer ze nieuws consumeren. Constructieve journalistiek wordt vaak gezien als een manier om het …