Dawn Wheatley's research while affiliated with Dublin City University and other places

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Audiences exist in highly personalised, high-choice media environments built on a hybrid of established traditional brands and informal digital networks. Officials trying to reach the public must navigate such spaces, but public reluctance to consume news coverage is a challenge for health and government officials when trying to communicate with an...
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The recognition perspective is a valuable lens through which identity struggles and historical marginalization and abuses can be explored. This study analyzes Ireland’s Justice for Magdalene (JFM) campaign between 2009–2013; JFM was a group that fought for a state apology and redress for women and girls confined to Catholic-run laundries between th...
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Environmental journalists have been at the forefront of news industry changes. Over the past 30 years, they have had to deal with a range of challenges, including increased complexity, greater reliance on data, exposure to online negativity, and co-option into polarised political debates. At the same time, they have been among the most vulnerable t...
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Push notifications provide news outlets with direct access to audiences amid concerns around information overload, disinformation, and heightened competition for reader attention. Such news distribution is relevant because it (a) bypasses social media and news aggregators, reaching readers directly; (b) alters the agency and control of temporal new...
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Blocking other users is a common act on Twitter but one which is underexplored from a scholarly perspective, particularly the analysis of mass blocklists. Although traditionally associated with harassment, blocklists are increasingly engaged to create individualised environments that align with users’ personal convictions and exclude apparent trans...
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The opportunity for non-elite actors to share their opinions and experiences is often cited as a key democratic element of the media, developing in recent years alongside a rethinking of the audience as active contributors. Yet, given many of the temporal and resource-related newsroom pressures, the reliance on information subsidies and official or...
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This study of tweets ( n = 2247) explores discussions about a pro-choice blocklist (@Repeal_Shield) used during the 2018 Irish abortion referendum campaign, capturing conflicting interpretations of engagement and political participation. Although qualitative Twitter studies bring methodological challenges, deep readings were needed to analyse argum...
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This article presents a novel typology for analysing the routinisation of news and daily newsroom practices. Drawing inspiration from the work of Sigal, Tuchman and others, the framework—comprising eight categories—provides a reconceptualisation of routine and non-routine channels of news production to facilitate an exploration of source material,...
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Online journalism is associated with, among other characteristics, a breaking-news culture and sense of immediacy. However, in an era of falling resources, questions must be asked about how demand for quick content is fulfilled and what role external actors play in providing material to journalists under pressure. This article focuses on coverage o...

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... Newsrooms face increasing challenges to afford the expert division of labor that news beats entail (Robbins & Wheatley, 2021), but the thematic differentiation still allows for the organization and presentation of news content across subjects, either thematically or geographically (Gans, 1979;Magin & Maurer, 2019), differentiated by their topic, focus, and style (Lehman-Wilzig & Seletzky, 2010). ...
... ABD'de gerçekleştirilen bir çalışma (Gavilan ve diğerleri, 2020), anlık bildirimlerin tıklama oranını nasıl etkilediğini analiz etmiş, başlığın ve fotoğrafın canlılığının, tıklanma oranını arttırdığını göstermiştir. Kuzeybatı Avrupa ülkelerinde gerçekleştirilen bir çalışma (Wheatley & Ferrer-Conill, 2021), anlık haber bildirimlerini; aşırı bilgi yüklemesi, dezenformasyon ve okuyucunun dikkatini çekmek için artan rekabetle ilgili endişelerin karşısında, haber kaynakları açısından okura doğrudan erişim sağlamak için bir olanak olarak ele almıştır. Bu çalışmada mobil bildirimlerin; haber dağıtımının, sosyal medyayı ve haber toplayıcıları atlayarak doğrudan okura ulaştığı, haber kişiselleştirilmesinin aracısını ve kontrolünü değiştirdiği, haber kuruluşları ile okur arasındaki iletişimi güçlendirdiği savunulmaktadır. ...
... Therefore, they are essential tools for the prevention of harassment (Geiger, 2016;Jhaver, Ghoshal, Bruckman, & Gilbert, 2018), for the maintenance of safe spaces (Clark-Parsons, 2018), and even to preserve the mental health of interactors (Wheatley & Vatnoey, 2020). ...
... Aunque haya investigaciones sobre fuentes de información y sus clasificaciones en el ámbito de la comunicación (Zaman y Das, 2021;López-Rabadán y Casero-Ripollés, 2014;Traquina, 2013;Gomis, 2004;Gans, 2004;Kim y Weaver, 2003;Fontcuberta, 1993;Van Dijk, 1990;Wolf, 1987) y sobre fuentes de información y noticias sobre salud (Greene et al., 2022;Mayo-Cubero, 2020;Wheatley, 2020;Saavedra-Llamas et al., 2019;Stroobant et al., 2018;Tandoc Jr., 2018, Lopes et al., 2023, son escasos los estudios que han analizado las fuentes de información en la cobertura periodística sobre las vacunas (Gomes y Lopes, 2019;Langbecker y Catalán-Matamoros, 2021;Clarke et al., 2015), aspecto central de este estudio. Teniendo en cuenta que la crisis del coronavirus no ha impactado únicamente la salud, sino muchos otros ámbitos, como es el de la comunicación, este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto de la pandemia de covid-19 en las fuentes de información utilizadas en la cobertura sobre vacunas en los periódicos españoles El País y El Mundo. ...
... Although prior research has demonstrated the value of large-scale quantitative social media studies [63], big data approaches also have limitations in recognizing complex phenomena [65]. Therefore, we used a small stories paradigm, a systematic content analysis technique for interpreting both textual data and visual data [59], to investigate the social media data from a micro-perspective. ...
... Att detta blev en beståndsdel i formatet, finner sannolikt delvis sin förklaring i de senaste decenniernas tilltagande journalistiska skrivbordsbundenhet (Nyblom, 2022), alltså att journalister i högre grad sköter sitt arbete från skrivbordet på redaktionen, istället för att rapportera direkt från fältet. Detta inte behöver vara ett så stort problem för skriven journalistik, i alla fall sett till dess uttryck, eftersom den skrivande journalisten i teorin kan hämta bilder och intryck om händelser från sociala medier, eller få dem skickade till sig direkt av läsare (Wheatley, 2020). Men införandet av SR-värdet var tänkt att motverka förekomsten av motsvarande sådan nyhetsrapportering i radio, av åtminstone två skäl. ...
... A journalist seeking to hear multiple perspectives and report truthfully may be stymied by witnesses ordered not to speak to the media. Judicious treatment of sources can conflict with other priorities, such as the pressure to publish (Wheatley & O'Sullivan, 2017). Journalists and editors are constantly pressed to gamble on a story that is under-verified versus being beaten to market (Franklin & Canter, 2019, pp. ...