Online news and digital journalism have been my primary research lines since 1994, approached from both theoretical and methodological perspectives. My work in this field spans from pioneering early studies to cutting-edge research on emerging media technologies.

  • Current Research & AI: I am currently exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on the digital media ecosystem. My latest projects examine the social dimensions of generative AI, AI-aided news production, originality, copyright law, and modern revenue models.
  • Foundational Work: My journey began in 1994 with the landmark text "El nuevo periódico electrónico". Over the years, my research has evolved to analyze media convergence, technological innovation, audience participation, and hypertextual structures.

Below, you can access selected publications, including early digital communication books and chapters on international quality media, alongside several previously unpublished texts.

T he most recent ones are Financing the media: In search of reader (and Google) revenue models, and its impact in news consumption (with Laura Pérez-Altable), Convergence and Innovation: The Conceptual and Methodological Basis of Technological Evolution and Cultural Complexity in Journalism (with Ainara Larrondo and Ivar John Erdal).

I am currently doing some research on the impact of artificial intelligence in the digital media system:  Without journalists, there is no journalism: the social dimension of generative artificial intelligence in the media, Artificial intelligence systems-aided news and copyright: assessing legal implications for journalism practices, and Merging or plagiarizing? The role of originality and derivative works in AI-aimed news production.

In this section you can find some previously unpublished texts (Design and architecture of online media (2011), Elementos de la comunicación digital. Hacia una teoría del ciberperiodismo, a book of 2007, and Innovación en el sistema mediático? El periodismo profesional en internet, 2015), and many books, chapters, and articles on the topic, including:

Palacios, Marcos; Diaz Noci, Javier (eds.). Online Journalism: Research Methods. A multidisciplinary approach in comparative perspective. 1 ed. Bilbao: Universidad del Pais Vasco; 2009.

Ruiz, Carlos; Domingo, David; Masip, Pere; Diaz Noci, Javier; Micó, Josep Lluís; Meso, Koldo. Public Sphere 2.0? The Democratic Qualities of Citizen. International Journal of Press/Politics 2011; 4(16): 463-487.

Díaz Noci, Javier; Domingo, David; Masip, Pere; Micó, Josep Lluís; Ruiz, Carles. Comments in News, Democracy booster or Journalistic Nightmare: Assessing the Quality and Dynamics of Citizen Debates in Catalan Online Newspapers. ISOJ: the official journal research journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism 2012; 2(1): 46-64.

Díaz Noci, Javier. History of Journalism on the Internet: A state of the art and some methodological trends. Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación 2013; 1(1): 253-272.

Tous-Rovirosa, Anna; Díaz Noci, Javier. Audience participation and political engagement in Europe: EU elections and the cases of Scotland and Catalonia in the Catalan Media (2014). Trípodos llenguatge, pensament, comunicació 2017; (39).

Díaz Noci, Javier. Mubarak Resigns: Assessing the Quality of Readers Comments in Online Quality Media. Trípodos llenguatge, pensament, comunicació 2012; 30: 83-107.

Larrondo, A.; Diaz Noci, J.. Hypertextual Structure of Online News: A Comparative Research on Quality Media. In: Diaz Noci, J.. Shapping the News Online. A comparative research on international quality media. 1 ed. Covilhã: Livros LabCom; 2014. p. 249-300. ​

Diaz Noci, J.. Introduction. Why to Study the Internet (and Online Journalism). In: Diaz Noci, J.. Shapping the News Online. A comparative research on international quality media. 1 ed. Covilhã: Livros LabCom; 2014. p. 17-62. ​

Diaz Noci, J.. Narratology of Online News. In: Diaz Noci, J.. Shapping the News Online. A comparative research on international quality media. 1 ed. Covilhã: Livros LabCom; 2014. p. 171-192. ​

Diaz Noci, J. Newsroom Convergence: A Comparative Research. In: Diaz Noci, J. Shapping the News Online. A comparative research on international quality media. 1 ed. Covilhã: Livros LabCom; 2014. p. 301-341.

Díaz Noci, Javier. Market and Globalisation: Communication, Journalism and the Internet. In: Fernández Sanz, Juan José; Rubio Moraga, Angel L.; Sanz Estables, Carlos; (eds.). Prensa y periodismo especializado V. 1 ed. Madrid: Departamento de Historia de la Comunicación Social (UCM)/Asociación de la Prensa de Guadalajara; 2012. p. 431-474.

Infotendencias Group. Media Convergence. In: Siaperas, Eugenia; Veglis, Andreas; (eds.). The Handbook of Global Online Journalism. 1 ed. Londres: Wiley & Sons; 2012. p. 21-38.

Diaz Noci, Javier. La interactividad y el periodismo online: una aproximación teórica al estado de la cuestión. Diálogos possíveis 2006; 5(2): 7-28.

Meso Ayerdi, Koldobika; Larrañaga Zubizarreta, Jose; Díaz Noci, Javier; Larrondo Ureta, Ainara. El impacto de Internet en los medios de comunicación vascos. 1 ed. Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco; 2007.

Diaz Noci, Javier. La Escritura digital. Hipertexto y construcción del discurso informativo en el periodismo electrónico. 1 ed. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco, Servicio Editorial; 2002.

Meso Ayerdi, Koldobika; Diaz Noci, Javier. Medios de comunicación en Internet. 1 ed. Madrid: Anaya Multimedia; 1997.

Meso Ayerdi, Koldobika; Armañanzas Sodupe, Emiliana; Diaz Noci, Javier. El periodismo electrónico. Información y servicios multimedia en la era del ciberespacio. 1 ed. Barcelona: Ariel Comunicación; 1996.