Digital News

How platform ecosystems change news supply and news exposure

Overview

Our lab focuses on how digital platform ecosystems (e.g., apps, social media, algorithms) and big tech companies change news. This includes cross-platform journalism, news use on different digital platforms, and effects on how citizens stay informed.

Featured publications

Advancing Cross- and Multi-Platform Research: Understanding Digital News Flows via Computational Methods

Research Methods for Social Media Journalism

Identification of major barriers to multi- and cross-platform research and computational ways to alleviate them.

Nov 3, 2025

Epistemologies of digital news production: power and technological adaptation in knowledge production

Digital Journalism

In this Special Issue, we rethink epistemological changes in journalism through the lens of power.

Feb 25, 2025

Biased social media debates about terrorism? a content analysis of journalistic coverage of and audience reactions to terrorist attacks on YouTube

Social Media + Society

News about and audience reactions to terrorism are subject to bias.

Oct 24, 2024

Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter

Digital Journalism

German news outlets adapt content to social media technically but not communicatively.

Oct 20, 2022

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Featured projects

Understanding the diversity of digital news flows

Weave Program

To understand how digital platforms and big tech change news, we study the diversity of news across platforms.

Forschungsmonitor

Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia

The Forschungsmonitor discusses research on current societal challenges.