Sophie Lecheler

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated whether and if the characteristics of immersive journalism are related to the experience of emotions, and which role the personality trait empathy tendency plays in this respect, and found that while the level of inclusion and interaction possibility increase the intensity of the experience, the immersive narrative influences the valence dimension of emotions.

TL;DR: In this article , actor-network theory was employed to investigate the tangible impact of deepfake technology on fact-checkers' work and found that, so far, deepfakes as novel actants are only impacting fact-checking routines to a limited degree and are considered a future challenge.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that many researchers within (digital) journalism studies remain reluctant to the implementation of open science practices which are geared at increasing transparency in the research process, such as sharing data, materials, protocols, power and statistical analyses etc.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compare how interventionist, watchdog, loyal, service, infotainment, and civic roles materialize across 11 thematic news beats and analyze the moderating effect of platforms, ownership, and levels of political freedom on journalistic role performance in hard and soft news.

TL;DR: This paper found that both the fake news cue and the anti-elitist cue have limited across-the-board effects but decrease credibility if the message is incongruent with voters' issue positions.