0555-0025 Who Keeps the Gate? Digital Gatekeeping in New Media Kto jest strażnikiem? Cyfrowy gatekeeping w nowych mediach Pałka-Suchojad Karolina author Wydział Prawa i Nauk Społecznych, Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach Correspondence to: Karolina Pałka-Suchojad 21 06 2021 Tom 64, Numer 2 (246) 2021 91 99 Copyright © 2021 2021 <p>This article is the result of noticing the need to transpose the gatekeeping theory. Technological progress has left its mark on the media ecosystem, generating and then strengthening the convergence processes, and has also changed the understanding of gatekeeping. The architecture of new media, especially social media, places gatekeeping in the context of the network. This allows one to look at the classically understood process from a new perspective, in which the key is to base the concept on network diffusion. 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