The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism
Introduction to Special Issue: Covering Covid-19: The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22010896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thorsten Quandt (0000-0003-1937-0282, University of Münster, corresponding author), Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (0000-0002-8461-5795, Cardiff University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1199-1207 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Digital Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21670811.2021.1996253 |
| OpenAlex | W3213253989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 25 |
The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on all spheres of society, including journalism. It has brought about dramatic changes in journalistic routines and working practices, as well as in audience behavior. In this introduction to a special issue of Digital Journalism focused on the impact of the pandemic, we make the case that it should be seen as a critical moment for journalism – a moment of significant importance and reconsideration of past, present and future. This view of the coronavirus crisis as a critical moment can reveal multiple co-occurring, partially overlapping and, in some cases, also paradox developments: it can be (a) a turning point, (b) a transformation, (c) an amplifier, (d) a starting point or (e) destruction. The articles included in the special issue reveal the multitude of profound effects the coronavirus crisis has had on journalism in a very short time span and elaborate on the potential upheaval this may bring in the future. Ultimately, the crisis represents an opportunity to rethink the meaning and practices of digital journalism. It invites journalism researchers to explore new and innovative methods, as well as the reassessment of existing categories, concepts and theories
Epistemology · Journalism · Media studies · Pandemic · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Communication and COVID-19 Impact · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts
Fact-Checking and Check-Worthiness Determination on Tempo.co during Covid-19 Pandemic
Populism, Media and Journalism
Themen & Timing. Die Krisenkommunikation der deutschen Landesregierungen in der Corona-Pandemie – eine (teil-)automatisierte Inhaltsanalyse zentraler Kommunikationskanäle
Knowledge broker, trust broker, value broker
Cobertura del Covid-19 en la Prensa Local en España
Exploring News Innovations, Journalistic Routines, and Role Perceptions during the Covid-19 Pandemic
On the Margins
The structures that shape news consumption
Towards the individuated journalistic worker in pandemic times
Change and Continuity in Digital Journalism
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism
I love learning new things
Solving journalism with data
Introduction
Operationalising Hybrid Newsroom Ethnography
“Living Amoeba of an Organization”
Media-alan työntekijöiden kokemuksia etätyöstä ja työhyvinvoinnista koronapandemian aikana
How should journalism education deal with evolving newsrooms? – Learning experiences from internships through online collaborative tools
The unseen strains
Equilibrismo entre la profesión y la vida
Considering Interinstitutional Visibilities in Combating Misinformation
Making Sense of Pandemic-Induced Changes in Journalism and Beyond
Datafication of Journalism
“I love my job, but my job is destroying me”. Permacrisis’ toll on journalistic practice and perceptions about journalism in Southern Europe
No watchdogs on Twitter
Gatopardismo mediático
Covid-19, Job Satisfaction, and Feelings of Occupational Alienation Among American Journalists
Covid-19 Research in Communication Journals
Countering or Reinforcing (Gendered) Inequalities? Ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic in and Through Media
Introduction to Global Media and China’s Special Issue on Covid-19
Who Controls the Narrative? How Brazilian Parliamentarians Pursue Epistemic Authority in Times of Crisis
Rally and Recalibrate
How Covid-19 is Revamping Journalism
Newsafety
Covid-19 as a Critical Incident for Journalism
Organizational and Occupational Innovation when Implementing a Covid-19 Live Tracker in VG Newsroom
Being there”
Challenges of Journalists Across All Continents in the Coverage of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Locked Up
How the Pandemic Shaped the Digital Skills of Journalists in Turkey
Newswork in crisis
Social media, media freedom and misinformation
Exploring the Value of Computational Methods for Metajournalistic Discourse
It was a Real Town Newspaper”
Contacta con expertos y pacientes”
Periodismo en duelo
Covid-19 induced changes to news gathering and news production
“Good News is No News, Despite the Crisis”
“Truth” Versus “Public Interests
“Data Frames”
Journalistic practice in times of crisis
Arab News Sources and Practices in Times of Crisis
Competing Frames and Melodrama
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the Covid-19 Crisis
“Flatten the Curve”
Making Sense of Pandemic-Induced Changes in Journalism and Beyond
Women’s Use and Abuse of the News Media during the Covid-19 Pandemic on Mumsnet
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis
Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus
Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of Covid-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries
What Use is a Critical Moment
Dark Participation
Academic Caregivers on Organizational and Community Resilience in Academia (Fuck Individual Resilience)
Examining Inequitable Workload in a Time of Crisis
Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding
Communal News Work
From “Far Away” to “Shock” to “Fatigue” to “Back to Normal
A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media
From organizational crisis to multi-platform salvation? Creative destruction and the recomposition of news media
Layoffs, inequity and Covid-19
Theoretical frameworks in political ecology and participatory nature/forest conservation
Journalists on Covid-19 Journalism
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |