Michael Opgenhaffen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4209359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Opgenhaffen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Opgenhaffen |
| SIGNATURE | OPGENHAFFEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1729-3578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sourcing News Amidst Conflict: Strategies and Challenges of Foreign Correspondents Covering the Israel-Gaza War’s Beginning
This study examines news sourcing practices of foreign correspondents covering the Israel-Gaza war from October 7, 2023. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted between March and August 2024 with 13 correspondents from 10 countries, this research explores how journalists manage the tension between delivering breaking news and ensuring information reliability during the early phases of war. The study’s unique contribution lies in its real-time ex…
“You can self-censor without losing edge”: Mainstreaming the great replacement within German far-right YouTube vodcasts
This study examines how Great Replacement Theory is mainstreamed within German far-right YouTube vodcasts. Analyzing 40 videos (50 + hours), we identify three discursive mechanisms facilitating mainstreaming: (1) institutional delegitimization creates epistemic voids, (2) statistical weaponization provides alternative empirics, and (3) deniability engineering denies extremist affiliation. Crucially, these mechanisms do not require audience recons…
Who engages with fact-checking? Identifying factors influencing exposure to and reading of multi-platform verification
Fact-checkers have the potential to guide citizens toward accurate information, but it is unclear to what extent fact-checkers are reaching this potential among the general public as research on the factors that predict exposure to and deeper reading of fact-checks remains limited. Building on the Opportunity-Motivation-Ability Framework, this survey study (N = 2520) aims to address this research gap. A representative sample of the Flemish popula…
Remediating Authority: How Journalists Adjust Their Sources for TikTok Audiences
status: Published online
Does fact-checking influence media trust? Longitudinal evidence from Flanders
Fact-checking is vital in combating misinformation, yet concerns persist regarding potential unintended effects on media trust. This study investigates causal dynamics between exposure to fact-checks and media trust over time, using a random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) with longitudinal panel data from Flanders (Belgium) across three waves in 6 months before the 2024 elections. Findings indicate that people who encounter more fac…
The Remediation of Fact-Checks on Social Media: Insights from a Multi-Platform Content Analysis
The rise of social media has escalated the spread of misinformation, and the practice of fact-checking has become a key tool in the fight against it. Over time, the practice of fact-checking evolved and in recent years, fact-checking practices have shifted to social media platforms. However, social media’s unique logic requires fact-checkers to adapt—or “remediate” - their content to these platforms, which can prove to be challenging. Research is…
Consolation Strategies in Children’s News: A Comparative Content Analysis of Television and TikTok
This study examined consolation strategies in children’s news on television and their remediated content on TikTok. A content analysis of 987 TikTok videos and 201 broadcasts of the Flemish children’s news program Karrewiet was conducted using a codebook developed through focus groups with children aged 8 to 12 ( N = 101) and validated via member-check interviews. Results revealed that television news relies on experts and child sources for conso…
Children’s perceptions of scary news in Belgium: Examining parental mediation and consolation strategies from their perspective
Negative news items can cause fear reactions in children, which has prompted various parental mediation strategies and recommendations for news makers on how to make the news less scary. However, recent studies about what factors in news elicit fear and how children themselves perceive and experience the mediation of news by adults are limited. This study therefore conducted 12 focus groups with children aged 8 to 12 (N = 101) in Belgium. Results…
The Influence of Anticipated Negative Public Feedback on Social Media News Editors and Fact-Checkers
sponsorship: We would like to acknowledge Jack McMartin for initiating the research project "The Circulation of Science News in the COVID-19 Era" (KU Leuven Impulse Fund) that laid the foundation for this paper. (KU Leuven|COVID-19)
Claim Negations vs. Fact Affirmations: Evidence of the Content and Effects of Fact-Check Headlines
sponsorship: This paper has been written as part of the BENEDMO project which has received funding from the European Union under Grant Agreement number INEA/CEF/ICT/A2020/2381738. (European Union|INEA/CEF/ICT/A2020/2381738)
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe
After a significant surge of active fact-checking organisations over the past decade, fact-checkers now operate in more than 100 countries. Although the fact-checking movement is diverse, the majority of organisations function at a national level. However, some organisations operate on a sub-state scale, based either on community or geographic region. These fact-checkers investigate statements relevant to specific populations that might otherwise…
Creating the Newsfeed: How Social Media Editors Remediate the News for Facebook and Instagram
Social media editors (SMEs) play a vital role in disseminating the news from the news website to the social media platforms. A growing body of literature is exploring how they adapt – or as we argue remediate – the news for social media. Such remediations typically involve headline shortening, image and video modifications, and crafting status messages and captions that align with what they perceive as an effective fit for the social media logic.…
Introduction: Understanding Social Media Journalism
status: Published
News packaging during a pandemic: A computational analysis of news diffusion via Facebook
Facebook remains the most important platform where social media editors package and try to ‘sell’ media outlets’ online news articles to audiences. In one of the first studies of its kind, we assess how this practice was effectuated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use computational analysis to determine the polarity, subjectivity and use of some linguistics features in the status messages of 140,359 Facebook posts of 17 mainstr…
Making it Fit: How Science News Gets Remediated for Facebook and Instagram
Today’s news users have a wide range of options when it comes to news consumption. Articles can be read on an app, via a news website, on social media or a printed newspaper. To provide these different platforms news media have become integrated newsrooms that shovel news as a standard practice. After posting a news article to the news website, the same news article can later appear on a social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.…
Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post
Engineering teams – a form of newsroom innovation labs – have been heralded as survival entities in the news ecosystem as they have the potential to improve where news goes and moves. At The Washington Post, these teams have been around for three years, and they started to implement tools like election models fueled by A.I. and smart data pipelines that can possibly affect the autonomy and the tasks of the broader newsroom. By applying the proces…
Social media news editors as journalists or marketeers: Who are they and how do they identify themselves
Social media editors (SMEs) have become fixtures in contemporary newsrooms as part of designated social media teams. A growing body of scholarship has explored their daily work routines and how they try to ‘sell’ online news on platforms such as Facebook while caught in the middle between mass media and social media logics. Thus far, there is little clarity on how SMEs can be classified as newsroom workers, and even less so on how they classify a…
Fact-Checking Interventions on Social Media Using Cartoon Figures: Lessons Learned from “the Tooties”
Fact-checking as a specific genre has become more important than ever over the past two decades to counter misinformation. However, we know from previous research that people rarely actively search for fact-checks. This study therefore argues for the importance of fact-checks as so-called direct content interventions on social media. More specifically, this article discusses the findings about an innovative way to implement these fact-check inter…
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods
Social media have offered politicians a way to reach a broader audience and citizens a dynamic way to respond and interact with politicians’ communication. In this study we focus on how two important dimensions of the social media messages of politicians impact different types of user engagement: the distinction between political and private posts and the degree of emotionality of the post. Additionally, we compare the amount and types of interac…
New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects: How Second-generation Newsroom Innovation Labs are Changing the News Ecosystem
Over the past ten years, various newsroom innovation labs have emerged to modernize journalistic workflows. These labs have started to alter the news ecosystem, and we therefore focus on the organization, the roles, and the projects of innovation labs. This exploratory study conducted interviews with members of labs of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Der Spiegel, and BR. Results on the organizational level show that there are t…
Where exactly between utopia and dystopia? A framing analysis of AI and automation in US newspapers
Over the last 60 years, media outlets have been covering emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. This countrylevel study wants to give a nuanced overview of how these technologies were covered in US newspapers. First, a Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling was conducted on articles on AI and automation in The New York Times and The Washington Post between 1985 and 2020. Second, an inductive manual frami…
We Rewrote This Title: How News Headlines Are Remediated on Facebook and How This Affects Engagement
Social media have become a very important news platform, both for the presentation and consumption of news by social media users. News is therefore eagerly shared by news media on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in the hope of reaching as many news consumers as possible. In this highly competitive media landscape, news media aim to attract consumer attention to these news stories by incorporating the social media logic into the…
China’s Pathway to Climate Sustainability: A Diachronic Framing Analysis of People’s Daily ’s Coverage of Climate Change (1995–2018)
This study explores the evolution of the climate discourses of China’s flagship party paper People’s Daily. Climate reports during COP1-24 (1995–2018) are analyzed in terms of the underlying development ideas and framings of climate change. It is found that climate change received increasing attention, with the years 2007 and 2015 representing two historical hallmarks of reporting. In tandem, the official discourses underwent noticeable shifts, t…
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-Making and Autonomy in Newsgathering
Newsroom innovation labs have been created over the last ten years to develop algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) that suggest and summarise what news is. Although these ANRs are still in an early stage and have not yet been implemented in the entire newsroom, they have the potential to change how newsworkers fulfil their daily decisions (gatekeeping) and autonomy in setting the agenda (agenda-setting). First, this study focuses on the new dynami…
Negotiating climate change: A frame analysis of COP21 in British, American, and Chinese news media
Climate negotiations have increasingly resonated with global governance and world power relations. However, media studies of climate change have paid relatively less attention to media frames of the problem solving. This study addresses this issue by examining the media coverage of COP21 from three countries that have considerable influence on climate politics: the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. By applying an inductive frame analy…
Presenting News on Social Media: Media logic in the communication style of newspapers on Facebook
With the rising popularity of social media as news sources, a new common format element for presenting news has emerged: in addition to the classic headline, lead and picture, news organizations add a status message when they share their news articles on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Based on media logic theory, we argue that the communication style of these messages is likely to be more interpersonal and subjective. To investigate t…
Social Media Guidelines for Journalists: An investigation into the sense and nonsense among Flemish journalists
Now that an increasing number of journalists and editorial offices make use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to research, break, distribute and discuss the news, social media guidelines are being issued with increasing frequency by news organizations that want to indicate to journalists what is and is not permitted on these platforms. This study investigates how Flemish journalists experience the sense and nonsense of these …
Where exactly between utopia and dystopia? A framing analysis of AI and automation in US newspapers
Over the last 60 years, media outlets have been covering emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. This countrylevel study wants to give a nuanced overview of how these technologies were covered in US newspapers. First, a Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling was conducted on articles on AI and automation in The New York Times and The Washington Post between 1985 and 2020. Second, an inductive manual frami…
Social media news editors as journalists or marketeers: Who are they and how do they identify themselves
Social media editors (SMEs) have become fixtures in contemporary newsrooms as part of designated social media teams. A growing body of scholarship has explored their daily work routines and how they try to ‘sell’ online news on platforms such as Facebook while caught in the middle between mass media and social media logics. Thus far, there is little clarity on how SMEs can be classified as newsroom workers, and even less so on how they classify a…
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods
Social media have offered politicians a way to reach a broader audience and citizens a dynamic way to respond and interact with politicians’ communication. In this study we focus on how two important dimensions of the social media messages of politicians impact different types of user engagement: the distinction between political and private posts and the degree of emotionality of the post. Additionally, we compare the amount and types of interac…
New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects: How Second-generation Newsroom Innovation Labs are Changing the News Ecosystem
Over the past ten years, various newsroom innovation labs have emerged to modernize journalistic workflows. These labs have started to alter the news ecosystem, and we therefore focus on the organization, the roles, and the projects of innovation labs. This exploratory study conducted interviews with members of labs of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Der Spiegel, and BR. Results on the organizational level show that there are t…
Social media gatekeeping: An analysis of the gatekeeping influence of newspapers’ public Facebook pages
Due to the rising importance of social media platforms for news diffusion, newspapers are relying on social media editors to promote the distribution of their news items on these platforms. In this study, we investigate how much of an impact these social media editors really have, focusing on the impact of newspapers’ public pages on Facebook. Since the actions of individual users are not visible on many platforms due to privacy consideration, we…
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-Making and Autonomy in Newsgathering
Newsroom innovation labs have been created over the last ten years to develop algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) that suggest and summarise what news is. Although these ANRs are still in an early stage and have not yet been implemented in the entire newsroom, they have the potential to change how newsworkers fulfil their daily decisions (gatekeeping) and autonomy in setting the agenda (agenda-setting). First, this study focuses on the new dynami…
Introduction: Understanding Social Media Journalism
status: Published
Distinctiveness' and programme diversity in public broadcasting revisited: A seven-country comparison
In the past decade, public service broadcasters have been confronted with major shifts affecting their remit, portfolio and financing. Heavily fuelled by cutbacks and increasing competition, discussions on 'distinctiveness' have resurfaced again and stand central in many policy discussions on the legitimacy of public service broadcasting. This article critically contextualizes discussions on distinctiveness within broader scholarly work on genre …
Creating the Newsfeed: How Social Media Editors Remediate the News for Facebook and Instagram
Social media editors (SMEs) play a vital role in disseminating the news from the news website to the social media platforms. A growing body of literature is exploring how they adapt – or as we argue remediate – the news for social media. Such remediations typically involve headline shortening, image and video modifications, and crafting status messages and captions that align with what they perceive as an effective fit for the social media logic.…
Making it Fit: How Science News Gets Remediated for Facebook and Instagram
Today’s news users have a wide range of options when it comes to news consumption. Articles can be read on an app, via a news website, on social media or a printed newspaper. To provide these different platforms news media have become integrated newsrooms that shovel news as a standard practice. After posting a news article to the news website, the same news article can later appear on a social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.…
Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post
Engineering teams – a form of newsroom innovation labs – have been heralded as survival entities in the news ecosystem as they have the potential to improve where news goes and moves. At The Washington Post, these teams have been around for three years, and they started to implement tools like election models fueled by A.I. and smart data pipelines that can possibly affect the autonomy and the tasks of the broader newsroom. By applying the proces…
We Rewrote This Title: How News Headlines Are Remediated on Facebook and How This Affects Engagement
Social media have become a very important news platform, both for the presentation and consumption of news by social media users. News is therefore eagerly shared by news media on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in the hope of reaching as many news consumers as possible. In this highly competitive media landscape, news media aim to attract consumer attention to these news stories by incorporating the social media logic into the…
Journalistic Tools of the Trade in Flanders: Is there a fit between journalism education and professional practice
This research is based on two observations. First, journalism practice has changed rapidly and dramatically in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Digitization has imposed pressures on conventional business models, transformed the news production process, and redefined the relationship between newsmakers and their audiences. Second, during that same period Flemish journalism education has boomed, resulting in as many as six professional…
Multimedia, interactive and hypertextual features in divergent online news platforms: An exploratory study of Flemish online news
This paper argues for not studying the Web as one, homogeneous medium, but instead as a meta–medium that carries various divergent news media like news blogs, discussion forums, Web TV, and RSS news feeds, each with a specific presentation style. Based on a content analysis of Flemish online news media, the level of multimedia, interactivity and hypertext of different divergent news platforms are identified. Results suggest that multiple online p…
Parental Mediation of Television Viewing in the Context of Changing Parent-Child Relationships in Belgium: A latent growth curve analysis in early and middle adolescence
The present study analyzed long-term trends in parental mediation of adolescent television viewingand how this mediation related to changes in teenagers’ attachment to their parents. A Belgianpanel of early adolescents (n 1⁄4 883) and of middle adolescents (n 1⁄4 651) rated three times in threeconsecutive years how often their parents used restrictive mediation, instructive mediation, andsocial co-viewing to control their television viewing. The …
Journalistic Tools of the Trade in Flanders: Is there a fit between journalism education and professional practice
This research is based on two observations. First, journalism practice has changed rapidly and dramatically in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Digitization has imposed pressures on conventional business models, transformed the news production process, and redefined the relationship between newsmakers and their audiences. Second, during that same period Flemish journalism education has boomed, resulting in as many as six professional…
Social Media Guidelines for Journalists: An investigation into the sense and nonsense among Flemish journalists
Now that an increasing number of journalists and editorial offices make use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to research, break, distribute and discuss the news, social media guidelines are being issued with increasing frequency by news organizations that want to indicate to journalists what is and is not permitted on these platforms. This study investigates how Flemish journalists experience the sense and nonsense of these …
Social media gatekeeping: An analysis of the gatekeeping influence of newspapers’ public Facebook pages
Due to the rising importance of social media platforms for news diffusion, newspapers are relying on social media editors to promote the distribution of their news items on these platforms. In this study, we investigate how much of an impact these social media editors really have, focusing on the impact of newspapers’ public pages on Facebook. Since the actions of individual users are not visible on many platforms due to privacy consideration, we…
Presenting News on Social Media: Media logic in the communication style of newspapers on Facebook
With the rising popularity of social media as news sources, a new common format element for presenting news has emerged: in addition to the classic headline, lead and picture, news organizations add a status message when they share their news articles on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Based on media logic theory, we argue that the communication style of these messages is likely to be more interpersonal and subjective. To investigate t…
Negotiating climate change: A frame analysis of COP21 in British, American, and Chinese news media
Climate negotiations have increasingly resonated with global governance and world power relations. However, media studies of climate change have paid relatively less attention to media frames of the problem solving. This study addresses this issue by examining the media coverage of COP21 from three countries that have considerable influence on climate politics: the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. By applying an inductive frame analy…
News through a social media filter: Different perspectives on immigration in news on website and social media formats
Social media have become important news sources, prompting news organizations to create social media accounts to publish news. This requires a medium-based translation, in which social media editors must remediate news – selecting and possibly re-interpreting content – to accommodate a different audience and format. In this study we investigate this remediation for the issue of immigration, comparing the news coverage of immigration on the websit…
The Use of Social Media by Chinese Climate Journalists: A Case Study of COP21
The aim of this paper is to probe into the social media use by Chinese climate journalists through the examination of their professional practices on social media. Taking COP21 as a case, the study conducted a survey from Chinese COP21 journalists and analyzed WeChat and Weibo posts from Chinese journalists and tweets from their UK and US colleagues. The results show the prevalent use of WeChat among Chinese journalists and the personalization of…
Distinctiveness' and programme diversity in public broadcasting revisited: A seven-country comparison
In the past decade, public service broadcasters have been confronted with major shifts affecting their remit, portfolio and financing. Heavily fuelled by cutbacks and increasing competition, discussions on 'distinctiveness' have resurfaced again and stand central in many policy discussions on the legitimacy of public service broadcasting. This article critically contextualizes discussions on distinctiveness within broader scholarly work on genre …
China’s Pathway to Climate Sustainability: A Diachronic Framing Analysis of People’s Daily ’s Coverage of Climate Change (1995–2018)
This study explores the evolution of the climate discourses of China’s flagship party paper People’s Daily. Climate reports during COP1-24 (1995–2018) are analyzed in terms of the underlying development ideas and framings of climate change. It is found that climate change received increasing attention, with the years 2007 and 2015 representing two historical hallmarks of reporting. In tandem, the official discourses underwent noticeable shifts, t…
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-Making and Autonomy in Newsgathering
Newsroom innovation labs have been created over the last ten years to develop algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) that suggest and summarise what news is. Although these ANRs are still in an early stage and have not yet been implemented in the entire newsroom, they have the potential to change how newsworkers fulfil their daily decisions (gatekeeping) and autonomy in setting the agenda (agenda-setting). First, this study focuses on the new dynami…
Fact-Checking Interventions on Social Media Using Cartoon Figures: Lessons Learned from “the Tooties”
Fact-checking as a specific genre has become more important than ever over the past two decades to counter misinformation. However, we know from previous research that people rarely actively search for fact-checks. This study therefore argues for the importance of fact-checks as so-called direct content interventions on social media. More specifically, this article discusses the findings about an innovative way to implement these fact-check inter…
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods
Social media have offered politicians a way to reach a broader audience and citizens a dynamic way to respond and interact with politicians’ communication. In this study we focus on how two important dimensions of the social media messages of politicians impact different types of user engagement: the distinction between political and private posts and the degree of emotionality of the post. Additionally, we compare the amount and types of interac…
New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects: How Second-generation Newsroom Innovation Labs are Changing the News Ecosystem
Over the past ten years, various newsroom innovation labs have emerged to modernize journalistic workflows. These labs have started to alter the news ecosystem, and we therefore focus on the organization, the roles, and the projects of innovation labs. This exploratory study conducted interviews with members of labs of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Der Spiegel, and BR. Results on the organizational level show that there are t…
Where exactly between utopia and dystopia? A framing analysis of AI and automation in US newspapers
Over the last 60 years, media outlets have been covering emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. This countrylevel study wants to give a nuanced overview of how these technologies were covered in US newspapers. First, a Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling was conducted on articles on AI and automation in The New York Times and The Washington Post between 1985 and 2020. Second, an inductive manual frami…
We Rewrote This Title: How News Headlines Are Remediated on Facebook and How This Affects Engagement
Social media have become a very important news platform, both for the presentation and consumption of news by social media users. News is therefore eagerly shared by news media on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in the hope of reaching as many news consumers as possible. In this highly competitive media landscape, news media aim to attract consumer attention to these news stories by incorporating the social media logic into the…
News packaging during a pandemic: A computational analysis of news diffusion via Facebook
Facebook remains the most important platform where social media editors package and try to ‘sell’ media outlets’ online news articles to audiences. In one of the first studies of its kind, we assess how this practice was effectuated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use computational analysis to determine the polarity, subjectivity and use of some linguistics features in the status messages of 140,359 Facebook posts of 17 mainstr…
Making it Fit: How Science News Gets Remediated for Facebook and Instagram
Today’s news users have a wide range of options when it comes to news consumption. Articles can be read on an app, via a news website, on social media or a printed newspaper. To provide these different platforms news media have become integrated newsrooms that shovel news as a standard practice. After posting a news article to the news website, the same news article can later appear on a social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.…
Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post
Engineering teams – a form of newsroom innovation labs – have been heralded as survival entities in the news ecosystem as they have the potential to improve where news goes and moves. At The Washington Post, these teams have been around for three years, and they started to implement tools like election models fueled by A.I. and smart data pipelines that can possibly affect the autonomy and the tasks of the broader newsroom. By applying the proces…
Social media news editors as journalists or marketeers: Who are they and how do they identify themselves
Social media editors (SMEs) have become fixtures in contemporary newsrooms as part of designated social media teams. A growing body of scholarship has explored their daily work routines and how they try to ‘sell’ online news on platforms such as Facebook while caught in the middle between mass media and social media logics. Thus far, there is little clarity on how SMEs can be classified as newsroom workers, and even less so on how they classify a…
Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe
After a significant surge of active fact-checking organisations over the past decade, fact-checkers now operate in more than 100 countries. Although the fact-checking movement is diverse, the majority of organisations function at a national level. However, some organisations operate on a sub-state scale, based either on community or geographic region. These fact-checkers investigate statements relevant to specific populations that might otherwise…
Creating the Newsfeed: How Social Media Editors Remediate the News for Facebook and Instagram
Social media editors (SMEs) play a vital role in disseminating the news from the news website to the social media platforms. A growing body of literature is exploring how they adapt – or as we argue remediate – the news for social media. Such remediations typically involve headline shortening, image and video modifications, and crafting status messages and captions that align with what they perceive as an effective fit for the social media logic.…
Introduction: Understanding Social Media Journalism
status: Published
The Remediation of Fact-Checks on Social Media: Insights from a Multi-Platform Content Analysis
The rise of social media has escalated the spread of misinformation, and the practice of fact-checking has become a key tool in the fight against it. Over time, the practice of fact-checking evolved and in recent years, fact-checking practices have shifted to social media platforms. However, social media’s unique logic requires fact-checkers to adapt—or “remediate” - their content to these platforms, which can prove to be challenging. Research is…
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