Lindita Camaj
Associate Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Lindita Camaj is interested in global perspectives on digital news, politics, and data and information access.
Biography
Lindita Camaj is an associate professor at the College of Journalism and Communications. Overall, her research connects journalism with broader societal problems in mature and emerging democracies. For example, she has explored the causes and consequences of news audience fragmentation; the role of social media for voter deliberation and incivility; media effects on political trust and protest behavior in post-conflict societies; structural conditions under which news media can help curb corruption; and the impact of freedom to information and open data policies on journalists’ access to information in a variety of contexts
Areas of Expertise (4)
Information and Data Access
Global Media and Democratization
Global Media and Social Change
Journalism and Technology
Media Appearances (1)
The week in politics, deleting Facebook, & Jonathan Franzen
Houston Public Media online
2021-10-20
On Wednesday’s Houston Matters: We discuss all the latest news in our weekly politcal roundup. Also this hour: Do the benefits of social media outweigh its potential negatives? And author Jonathan Franzen discusses his new novel, Crossroads, and explains why he loves visiting Texas – even though his latest visit to Houston for an event with Inprint Oct. 25 will be a virtual one.
Articles (3)
The Democratic Value of Strategic Game Reporting and Uncivil Talk: A Computational Analysis of Facebook Conversations During U.S. Primary Debates
Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlyLindita Camaj, et. al
2024-02-13
This study explores discourse features on Facebook pages of news organizations during the 2020 U.S. primary debates using a state-of-the-art machine-learning model. Informing the scholarly debate about the implications of strategic game reporting in online spaces, we find that it is not necessarily linked to uncivil discourse, yet it might deter from relevant conversations.
A Global Perspective on Data Journalism Materiality: Knowledge Production across Public Transparency Infrastructure Environments
Digital JournalismLindita Camaj, et. al
2023-11-16
It is widely accepted that data materiality serves as the breeding ground of data journalism’s performativity, in some cases functioning as the sole ingredient for news construction. Material identity is closely tied to the historical process that originated it, yet few studies have explored how unequal public policies on government transparency affect news production in data journalism.
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?
Journal of Information Technology & PoliticsLindita Camaj, et. al
2023-06-27
This study provides insights on how journalists in the Western Balkans conceptualize and practice audience engagement during electoral campaigns. Taking a holistic approach, we first explore audience demand and news supply of strategic and negative election news on Facebook, then turn to news editors to explore what type of audience logic drives their reporting.
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