This article presents a review of communication research on user-generated content with a
special focus on studies which include a content analysis. The trends of research on this …

Gatekee** theory struggles to describe the rise of algorithms and users as information
selectors in digital spaces. Algorithms and users may co-exist as decision-makers and reach …

Amid growing difficulties for professionals generally, media workers in particular are
negotiating the increasingly contested boundary space between producers and users in the …

Due to its ability to process and create human-like texts, Generative AI such as ChatGPT is a
potential game changer in news making. This paper re-examines central research areas that …

The content industry has been undergoing a tremendous transformation in the last two
decades. We focus in this paper on recent changes in the form of social computing. Although …

Comments in online news could be the contemporary enactment of the eighteenth-century
cafés that founded public sphere. This article assesses to what extent do these forms of …

With the introduction of machine-written news, the automation of journalism has entered a
newphase. Algorithms can now automatically generate news stories on the basis of …

Current technological, organizational and institutional changes fundamentally alter the
relationship between journalism and its audience–with consequences not only for …

The arrival of new actors in the journalistic field increasingly necessitates new conceptual
approaches to better understand journalistic work in the digital age. Social network sites …

This article considers whether thinking about journalism's present set of challenges is best
served by the notion of “crisis.” It argues that adopting such a notion to explain a diverse set …