Jennifer R Henrichsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4629546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer R Henrichsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer R |
| FAMILY NAME | Henrichsen |
| SIGNATURE | HENRICHSEN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4527-151X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Defending journalistic legitimacy and authority amid rising anti-press sentiment: A decade of metajournalistic discourse at a local Wyoming newspaper
Amid a global rise in populist anti-press rhetoric facilitated by social media platforms, journalists worldwide have struggled to define and defend their work to mistrustful audiences. Past research on anti-press rhetoric and journalistic responses has largely focused on national news, with few studies considering local journalism or audience-generated discourse. This study helps fill this gap by analyzing metajournalistic discourse from both loc…
The Role of Professional Norms and Ethics in Security Mental Models: The Case of Journalism
Complicity and Revictimization: Discursive Violence in Mexican and U.S. Press Coverage of Mexican Journalist Killings
With an environment of organized crime, criminal impunity, and precarious press freedom fueling systemic violence against journalists, Mexico consistently ranks as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world. News coverage is a vehicle to publicize this violence and pressure governing bodies into action, but past research suggests Mexican news coverage often ignores the issue of systemic violence against journalists. Research…
Disruptions in Normalization: Reflexive Monitoring in Journalism Adaptation and Audience Collaboration
In the adaptation of innovations, journalists often reflect on areas of concern that can lead to subsequent selection, a strategic process of diminishing the practice of a routine. Through the lens of normalization process theory and structuration theory, this article explores how journalists reflexively monitor innovations. The article also elaborates on the ways journalists evaluate disruptive circumstances that can lead them to select routines…
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation
Mob censorship, which “expresses the will of ordinary citizens to exert power over journalists through discursive violence” is traditionally considered a grassroots phenomenon. However, within technically mediated systems, who is behind the mob is sometimes unclear. We therefore ask how the technical affordances of the Internet and telecommunications networks complicate the identification of attackers and their motivations and multiply the forms …
Gender and Misinformation: Digital Hate and Harassment (Part Ii)
Social media platforms allow for free expression and speech, but also open possibilities for online misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, harm, and conspiracy theories (Nadim and Fladmoe, 2019). Here, gender as an analytical category plays a significant role in understanding how women, LGBTQ+ people, and members of various minorities, in particular, are disproportionately targeted by hate actors. In fact, through gendered violence and onlin…
Reconceptualizing Indigenous Journalism Through Boundaries, Small Worlds, and Information Poverty
Indigenous journalism is on the rise globally but remains understudied by communication and journalism scholars. In this paper, Chatman’s (1996) information poverty theory is utilised to analyse Indigenous journalists’ newsgathering practices and experiences in Canada because it has long been used to study marginalised groups but has not been applied to the study of Indigenous journalists or journalism. Twelve semi-structured interviews with Indi…
Boundaries, Barriers, and Champions: Understanding Digital Security Education in US Journalism Programs
Journalists are increasingly attacked in response to their work yet they often lack the necessary support and training to protect themselves, their sources, and their communications. Despite this, there has been limited scholarly attention that addresses how journalism schools approach digital security education. This paper draws from an analysis of 106 US programs and 23 semi-structured interviews with journalism students and professors to exami…
Understanding Nascent Newsroom Security and Safety Cultures: The Emergence of the “Security Champion
This paper utilizes concepts from new institutionalism to help explain journalists’ and news organizations’ resistance to implementing security-related practices despite a deteriorating safety and security environment for journalists in the United States. Through 30 interviews with journalists, technologists, and media lawyers, I identify three main variables for the resistance to the development of newsroom security cultures, as well as a new so…
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites
This article explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third-party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of major companies, which we identify. We successfully extracted privacy policies for 3856 sites, 17% of the total. The policies were written such that one might need a 2-year college education to understand them. Our co…
Journalists’ Mnemonic Techniques and the Rise of Trumpism
As journalists search for explanations for their reporting failures during the U.S. presidential election, it is worth examining how journalists may have facilitated the rise of Trump and Trumpism1 through a recursive turn to the past. Collective memory, or “a metaphor that formulates society’s retention and loss of information about its past in the familiar terms of individual remembering and forgetting” allows journalists to activate the famili…
Breaking Through the Ambivalence: Journalistic Responses to Information Security Technologies
Over the last several years, numerous journalists and news organizations have reported incidents in which their communications have been hacked, intercepted, or retrieved. In 2014, Google security experts found that 21 of the world's 25 most popular media outlets were targets of state-sponsored hacking attempts, and many journalists have watched helplessly as hackers took control of their social media accounts, targeting confidential information …
Don't shoot the messenger: Prospects for protecting journalists in conflict situations
One of the greatest threats to freedom of expression around the world is the violence committed against journalists practicing their profession in conflict situations. During the last 20 years, an alarming number of journalists have been targeted or killed when reporting about war. This situation has prompted several international organizations to offer suggestions on how to protect the messengers who report about war. In this study, the authors …
Breaking Through the Ambivalence: Journalistic Responses to Information Security Technologies
Over the last several years, numerous journalists and news organizations have reported incidents in which their communications have been hacked, intercepted, or retrieved. In 2014, Google security experts found that 21 of the world's 25 most popular media outlets were targets of state-sponsored hacking attempts, and many journalists have watched helplessly as hackers took control of their social media accounts, targeting confidential information …
Understanding Nascent Newsroom Security and Safety Cultures: The Emergence of the “Security Champion
This paper utilizes concepts from new institutionalism to help explain journalists’ and news organizations’ resistance to implementing security-related practices despite a deteriorating safety and security environment for journalists in the United States. Through 30 interviews with journalists, technologists, and media lawyers, I identify three main variables for the resistance to the development of newsroom security cultures, as well as a new so…
Don't shoot the messenger: Prospects for protecting journalists in conflict situations
One of the greatest threats to freedom of expression around the world is the violence committed against journalists practicing their profession in conflict situations. During the last 20 years, an alarming number of journalists have been targeted or killed when reporting about war. This situation has prompted several international organizations to offer suggestions on how to protect the messengers who report about war. In this study, the authors …
Boundaries, Barriers, and Champions: Understanding Digital Security Education in US Journalism Programs
Journalists are increasingly attacked in response to their work yet they often lack the necessary support and training to protect themselves, their sources, and their communications. Despite this, there has been limited scholarly attention that addresses how journalism schools approach digital security education. This paper draws from an analysis of 106 US programs and 23 semi-structured interviews with journalism students and professors to exami…
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites
This article explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third-party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of major companies, which we identify. We successfully extracted privacy policies for 3856 sites, 17% of the total. The policies were written such that one might need a 2-year college education to understand them. Our co…
Don't shoot the messenger: Prospects for protecting journalists in conflict situations
One of the greatest threats to freedom of expression around the world is the violence committed against journalists practicing their profession in conflict situations. During the last 20 years, an alarming number of journalists have been targeted or killed when reporting about war. This situation has prompted several international organizations to offer suggestions on how to protect the messengers who report about war. In this study, the authors …
Journalists’ Mnemonic Techniques and the Rise of Trumpism
As journalists search for explanations for their reporting failures during the U.S. presidential election, it is worth examining how journalists may have facilitated the rise of Trump and Trumpism1 through a recursive turn to the past. Collective memory, or “a metaphor that formulates society’s retention and loss of information about its past in the familiar terms of individual remembering and forgetting” allows journalists to activate the famili…
Breaking Through the Ambivalence: Journalistic Responses to Information Security Technologies
Over the last several years, numerous journalists and news organizations have reported incidents in which their communications have been hacked, intercepted, or retrieved. In 2014, Google security experts found that 21 of the world's 25 most popular media outlets were targets of state-sponsored hacking attempts, and many journalists have watched helplessly as hackers took control of their social media accounts, targeting confidential information …
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites
This article explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third-party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of major companies, which we identify. We successfully extracted privacy policies for 3856 sites, 17% of the total. The policies were written such that one might need a 2-year college education to understand them. Our co…
Understanding Nascent Newsroom Security and Safety Cultures: The Emergence of the “Security Champion
This paper utilizes concepts from new institutionalism to help explain journalists’ and news organizations’ resistance to implementing security-related practices despite a deteriorating safety and security environment for journalists in the United States. Through 30 interviews with journalists, technologists, and media lawyers, I identify three main variables for the resistance to the development of newsroom security cultures, as well as a new so…
Reconceptualizing Indigenous Journalism Through Boundaries, Small Worlds, and Information Poverty
Indigenous journalism is on the rise globally but remains understudied by communication and journalism scholars. In this paper, Chatman’s (1996) information poverty theory is utilised to analyse Indigenous journalists’ newsgathering practices and experiences in Canada because it has long been used to study marginalised groups but has not been applied to the study of Indigenous journalists or journalism. Twelve semi-structured interviews with Indi…
Boundaries, Barriers, and Champions: Understanding Digital Security Education in US Journalism Programs
Journalists are increasingly attacked in response to their work yet they often lack the necessary support and training to protect themselves, their sources, and their communications. Despite this, there has been limited scholarly attention that addresses how journalism schools approach digital security education. This paper draws from an analysis of 106 US programs and 23 semi-structured interviews with journalism students and professors to exami…
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation
Mob censorship, which “expresses the will of ordinary citizens to exert power over journalists through discursive violence” is traditionally considered a grassroots phenomenon. However, within technically mediated systems, who is behind the mob is sometimes unclear. We therefore ask how the technical affordances of the Internet and telecommunications networks complicate the identification of attackers and their motivations and multiply the forms …
Gender and Misinformation: Digital Hate and Harassment (Part Ii)
Social media platforms allow for free expression and speech, but also open possibilities for online misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, harm, and conspiracy theories (Nadim and Fladmoe, 2019). Here, gender as an analytical category plays a significant role in understanding how women, LGBTQ+ people, and members of various minorities, in particular, are disproportionately targeted by hate actors. In fact, through gendered violence and onlin…
The Role of Professional Norms and Ethics in Security Mental Models: The Case of Journalism
Complicity and Revictimization: Discursive Violence in Mexican and U.S. Press Coverage of Mexican Journalist Killings
With an environment of organized crime, criminal impunity, and precarious press freedom fueling systemic violence against journalists, Mexico consistently ranks as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world. News coverage is a vehicle to publicize this violence and pressure governing bodies into action, but past research suggests Mexican news coverage often ignores the issue of systemic violence against journalists. Research…
Disruptions in Normalization: Reflexive Monitoring in Journalism Adaptation and Audience Collaboration
In the adaptation of innovations, journalists often reflect on areas of concern that can lead to subsequent selection, a strategic process of diminishing the practice of a routine. Through the lens of normalization process theory and structuration theory, this article explores how journalists reflexively monitor innovations. The article also elaborates on the ways journalists evaluate disruptive circumstances that can lead them to select routines…
Defending journalistic legitimacy and authority amid rising anti-press sentiment: A decade of metajournalistic discourse at a local Wyoming newspaper
Amid a global rise in populist anti-press rhetoric facilitated by social media platforms, journalists worldwide have struggled to define and defend their work to mistrustful audiences. Past research on anti-press rhetoric and journalistic responses has largely focused on national news, with few studies considering local journalism or audience-generated discourse. This study helps fill this gap by analyzing metajournalistic discourse from both loc…
Political science (11 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Journalism (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)