In December 2023, a journal article by the project team entitled ‘The journalism-audience relationship in the digital age: A theoretical literature review’ was published in the renowned journal Journalism. Based on a theoretical literature review, Dr Bernadette Uth, together with Prof. Dr Helena Stehle, Ass.-Prof. Dr Claudia Wilhelm, Prof. Dr Hanne Detel and PD Dr Nicole Podschuweit, develops six different theoretical conceptualizations of the journalism-audience relationship in the digital age: (1) discursive, (2) expectation-based, (3) network-oriented, (4) technological, (5) parasocial, and (6) strategic-organizational.
