Three Identity Groups: Journalists Versus Algorithmic Gatekeeping

Identifying meta-organizational, highly polarized, hermetic groups of journalists’ identities—this is the result of a qualitative research on the attitudes of experienced professional journalists from the leading Polish news media toward algorithmic gatekeeping and in this context their perception of journalists’ identities. The study has aimed to expand theoretical knowledge on journalists’ identities in the face of technological changes affecting a key element of journalism—the gatekeeper function. Liminal theory has been adopted as the research framework.