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The notifications sent by the 11 outlets in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Each circle represents a single notification sent during the 90-day sample.
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Push notifications provide news outlets with direct access to audiences amid concerns around information overload, disinformation, and heightened competition for reader attention. Such news distribution is relevant because it (a) bypasses social media and news aggregators, reaching readers directly; (b) alters the agency and
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... give further insight into the variations evident within countries, the strip chart in Figure 5 uses Sweden, Norway and Denmark to illustrate the time of day at which each notification was sent, presenting an overall visualisation of the density and hotspots throughout the day among these 11 outlets. For Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish daily, there is a heavy stream of activity between 6am and 11pm, a pattern mirrored by Aftenposten, a Norwegian afternoon paper and the Norwegian public broadcast NRK. ...
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... ABD'de gerçekleştirilen bir çalışma (Gavilan ve diğerleri, 2020), anlık bildirimlerin tıklama oranını nasıl etkilediğini analiz etmiş, başlığın ve fotoğrafın canlılığının, tıklanma oranını arttırdığını göstermiştir. Kuzeybatı Avrupa ülkelerinde gerçekleştirilen bir çalışma (Wheatley & Ferrer-Conill, 2021), anlık haber bildirimlerini; aşırı bilgi yüklemesi, dezenformasyon ve okuyucunun dikkatini çekmek için artan rekabetle ilgili endişelerin karşısında, haber kaynakları açısından okura doğrudan erişim sağlamak için bir olanak olarak ele almıştır. Bu çalışmada mobil bildirimlerin; haber dağıtımının, sosyal medyayı ve haber toplayıcıları atlayarak doğrudan okura ulaştığı, haber kişiselleştirilmesinin aracısını ve kontrolünü değiştirdiği, haber kuruluşları ile okur arasındaki iletişimi güçlendirdiği savunulmaktadır. ...
... Bu çalışmada mobil bildirimlerin; haber dağıtımının, sosyal medyayı ve haber toplayıcıları atlayarak doğrudan okura ulaştığı, haber kişiselleştirilmesinin aracısını ve kontrolünü değiştirdiği, haber kuruluşları ile okur arasındaki iletişimi güçlendirdiği savunulmaktadır. Toplamda otuz dört medya kuruluşunun yedi bini aşkın bildirimini analiz eden çalışma, haber kuruluşlarının mobil kanalı, kullanıcıların dikkatini çekmek ve dikkati sürdürmek için kullandığını ortaya koymuştur (Wheatley & Ferrer-Conill, 2021). ...
Gündelik yaşamın pek çok alanında kullanılan mobil cihazlar, çeşitli uygulamalar aracılığıyla kullanıcının deneyim ve tercihlerine ilişkin verilerin toplanmasında etkin olan araçlardır. İçerik üreticileri tarafından zaman ve mekân sınırı olmaksızın kullanıcıya içerikleri iletme olanağı sunan mobil cihazlar, zamanla kullanıcıların habere eriştiği ana mecralar haline gelmiştir. Günümüzde, başlıca haber kaynağının çevrimiçi kaynaklar olduğu Türkiye’de, temel gelir modeli reklama dayalı olan dijital ana akım haber medyası, kullanıcı etkileşim oranları ve trafiklerini yüksek tutmak için tüm mecraları etkin şekilde kullanmaya yönelmiştir. Google Haberler, Flipboard, Bundle gibi, farklı kaynaklardan haberleri derleyip kişiselleştirme algoritmalarıyla kullanıcılara sunan haber uygulamalarından faydalanan medya kuruluşları, kendi uygulamalarını da geliştirmiştir. Bu çalışmada, Similarweb “Haber” ve “Medya” kategorisinde, aylık ziyaret sayısına göre üst sıralarda gelen Sözcü, Hürriyet, Sabah ve Habertürk’ün mobil uygulamaları incelenmiştir. Hâlihazırda mülkiyet yoğunlaşması olan Türkiye’deki medya endüstrisinde mevcut güç ilişkilerinin dijital medya ortamında da sürdüğü varsayımından hareket eden bu araştırmada; anlık bildirim (push notification) yoğunluklarının gündeme göre ve uygulamalar arasında farklılaştığı görülmüş, uygulamalarda çokça hatayla karşılaşıldığı ve bildirim yoğunluğunun kullanıcı deneyimine zarar verdiği sonucuna varılmıştır. Anlık bildirimlerde politika haberleri ağırlıktayken, öne çıkarılan aktörler Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan ile bakanlar olmuştur. Çalışmanın sonucunda mobil uygulama bildirimlerinin ana akım medyanın içeriklerini, kullanıcının gündelik yaşam temposunda dikkatini yönelttiği yere taşıma olanağı sağladığı görülmüş; telefonların ekranlarının, anlık bildirimler aracılığıyla toplumdaki egemenlerin ve siyasal iktidar temsilcilerinin mesajlarının öne çıkarıldığı alanlar olarak konumlandırıldığı ortaya konulmuştur.
... Multiple information and curation operations act simultaneously or sequentially, leading to a complex online information consumption experience. For example, news providers not only try to attract audiences by pushing news notifications throughout the day but also compete with one another by simultaneously selecting several focal times for dissemination (Wheatley & Ferrer-Conill, 2021), thereby exacerbating the information load that the general public must handle. ...
... Compared to traditional news media, the online news environment displays highly distinct temporal characteristics. Online news is disseminated 24/7 (Wheatley & Ferrer-Conill, 2021). Meanwhile, information dissemination and user behavior are fragmented and clustered into short periods (Barabasi, 2005;Rodriguez et al., 2014). ...
The production and consumption of online news are usually under a bursty temporal pattern. However, little is known about the psychological and cognitive impacts of such bursty consumption of online news. The study employs a 2 (filled-interval length) × 2 (empty-interval length) × 2 (empty-interval burstiness) mixed design experiment to examine how temporal characteristics in online news consumption influence audiences’ cognition and retention. Specifically, three temporal characteristics in online news consumption—filled-interval length, empty-interval length, and empty-interval burstiness—are controlled in the experiment. We instructed fifty-two participants to read a sequence of health-related news posts under various temporal settings while tracking their eye movements. The results showed that (1) empty-interval length increased retention, (2) empty-interval burstiness increased retention but did not have a main effect on cognitive load, and (3) filled-interval length, empty-interval length, and burstiness jointly influence cognitive overload and retention level. The study highlights the holistic perspective in considering the information exposure effect, thus revealing the complex relationship between temporal information characteristics and cognitive reactions and offering empirical suggestions to improve information system design.
... Pre-defined time of the day: Using predefined timing to schedule alerts to avoid interruptions has been found to be effective in increasing attention to push messages . Research done by news media suggest that temporal patterns of push notifications' dissemination align with existing news consumption behaviours and is thus effective (Wheatley & Ferrer-Conill, 2020). However, the impact of this strategy can be controversial. ...
Mobile apps market is a growing market and the main technological enabler of apps are push notifications (PN). Today, users are currently receiving a daily average of 63 PN.
After an introduction that highlights the relevance of PN, this chapter covers the background of its topic –pop-up messages that emerge on the smartphone screen- and its characterization: (1) proactive communication with the user; (2) explicitly authorized through an opt-in request; (3) wide range of content, private and social, sent by social networks, commercial companies, or news publishers from apps or web site; (4) targeted according to the users’ interests, previous behaviors, or time of day; (6) always prompting the user to click on the PN that will land on the sender’s app / web site.
There is a steep competition for the user's attention to click through the PN message. Thus the chapter moves through to discuss the factors that influence the choice of whether to open or ignore a PN: (1) Timing in the delivery, disruption, and systems for managing PN in a non-disruptive way. (2) Top-down factors in PN usage, such as user profile, user reaction times, and user interest in the content (3) Bottom-up factors, such as message textual and visual features as an antecedent of click-through rate.
Before concluding, the chapter suggests future directions for researchers and practitioners: how to increase opt-in rates, user experience of PN, reasons to opt-out …
The chapter ends with a conclusion and a list of references.
... For the purposes of this article, which focuses on individual adoption of a news subscriptionand therefore does not take into account such long-term processes as socialization (e.g., Edgerly et al. 2018;Palmer and Toff 2020;Shehata 2016)a distinction can be made between what will be called facilitators and obstacles deriving from news media and news users themselves. News media seek to steer users' behavior via such strategies as social media promotion (Bayer and LaRose 2018), push notifications (Wheatley and Ferrer-Conill 2021) and newsletters (Hendrickx, Donders, and Picone 2020). News users themselves can inhibit undesirable habits by introducing friction, e.g., via various digital detox strategies (Syvertsen, 2020), or stimulate formation of desirable habits through imposing deliberate strategies such as taking preparatory action and programming effective cues (Lally, Wardle, and Gardner 2011). ...
This article uses the notion of habit to explore how news users adopt a new subscription into their everyday routines, and identifies facilitators and obstacles helping or inhibiting this process. Sixty-eight participants received a three-week newspaper trial subscription and were interviewed about their experiences afterward. Facilitators of repeated use were concurrent rewards; embedment into existing routines; and visual reminders. Obstacles were lack of steady routines; strong existing habits; perceived effort; disillusionment; and accessibility. Findings point to the importance of visibility: participants – even those with positive initial experiences – tended to forget their subscription. Visual cues were needed to remind participants to read their subscription: app icons, open browser tabs, social media posts, push notifications, and the print newspaper. Proactive implementation of these cues suggests participants themselves were also aware of their propensity to forget the subscription. Existing (news) habits either helped anchor use of the subscription or blocked it by being automatically cued up by context features. Results also point to a mental hurdle: having to muster up the cognitive and motivational energy to start reading the news. Finally, findings suggest that concurrently experienced rewards may be more conducive to news habit formation than retrospectively experienced rewards.
... Las alertas noticiosas en los móviles no solo son herramientas para distribuir contenido o aumentar el tráfico en las aplicaciones y en las páginas web (Lugo-Ortiz y Rodríguez Sánchez, 2021;Wheatley y Ferrer-Conill, 2020;Brown, 2017Brown, , 2018Wood, 2016;O'Connell, 2015;Westlund, 2013), sino también micronarrativas, o una forma única y breve de storytelling periodístico (o de contar historias) (Brown, 2017;Welsh et al., 2016;Newman, 2016). Constituyen piezas que, en sus propios méritos, comunican contenido noticioso para capturar la atención de las audiencias (Mäkelä et al., 2019;Brown, 2017Brown, , 2018. ...
Las alertas noticiosas en los móviles no solo representan vehículos para distribuir conteni-do o aumentar el tráfico en las aplicaciones y en las páginas web, sino también microna-rrativas periodísticas o una forma única de storytelling (contar historias). Este estudio explora cómo las notificaciones contribuyen al relato noticioso mediante el periodismo móvil. En particular, examina el lenguaje escrito-visual y las rutinas de producción de las alertas noticiosas en Puerto Rico. Mediante un análisis de contenido y entrevistas a los productores de las notificaciones, la investigación identificó que la mayoría de las alertas comunicaron, en tercera persona gramatical, datos de interés periodístico siguiendo el estilo informativo. Privilegiaron el texto con fotos sobre otros elementos mediáticos. Aun-que la mayor parte exhibió vocabulario sencillo y conciso, estas carecieron de claridad y precisión. Los periodistas reconocieron que no cuentan con guías estandarizadas para la producción de las notificaciones. La investigación apunta a que las alertas contribuyen al relato periodístico, pero que los medios no han potenciado sus posibilidades escritas ni multimedia. Palabras clave: alertas noticiosas; periodismo móvil; periodismo digital; aplicaciones móviles; Puerto Rico
... Las alertas noticiosas en los móviles no solo son herramientas para distribuir contenido o aumentar el tráfico en las aplicaciones y en las páginas web (Lugo-Ortiz y Rodríguez Sánchez, 2021;Wheatley y Ferrer-Conill, 2020;Brown, 2017Brown, , 2018Wood, 2016;O'Connell, 2015;Westlund, 2013), sino también micronarrativas, o una forma única y breve de storytelling periodístico (o de contar historias) (Brown, 2017;Welsh et al., 2016;Newman, 2016). Constituyen piezas que, en sus propios méritos, comunican contenido noticioso para capturar la atención de las audiencias (Mäkelä et al., 2019;Brown, 2017Brown, , 2018. ...
Las alertas noticiosas en los móviles no solo representan vehículos para distribuir contenido o aumentar el tráfico en las aplicaciones y en las páginas web, sino también micronarrativas periodísticas o una forma única de storytelling (contar historias). Este estudio explora cómo las notificaciones contribuyen al relato noticioso mediante el periodismo móvil. En particular, examina el lenguaje escrito-visual y las rutinas de producción de las alertas noticiosas en Puerto Rico. Mediante un análisis de contenido y entrevistas a los productores de las notificaciones, la investigación identificó que la mayoría de las alertas comunicaron, en tercera persona gramatical, datos de interés periodístico siguiendo el estilo informativo. Privilegiaron el texto con fotos sobre otros elementos mediáticos. Aunque la mayor parte exhibió vocabulario sencillo y conciso, estas carecieron de claridad y precisión. Los periodistas reconocieron que no cuentan con guías estandarizadas para la producción de las notificaciones. La investigación apunta a que las alertas contribuyen al relato periodístico, pero que los medios no han potenciado sus posibilidades escritas ni multimedia.
... Thus, there has been a shift in newsrooms to disseminate news primarily through their own platforms in a bid to increase revenue (Nelson 2021;Walters 2021;Westlund and Ekstr€ om 2018). Recent studies suggest that news organizations place more emphasis on disseminating news through their own platforms than using social media because of proprietary and revenue generating reasons (Chua and Westlund 2019;Hendrickx et al. 2021;Wheatley and Ferrer-Conill 2021). However the fact remains that social media offers larger audience reach to most news organizations who are still in the process of streamlining their websites (Chen and Pain 2021;Fincham 2021). ...
... However, news organizations are slowly realizing that free dissemination of news on social media results in a loss of gatekeeping control (Vos and Russell 2019;Walters 2021), as well as does not lead to increasing revenues (Chua and Westlund 2019; Westlund and Ekstr€ om 2018). Thus, contemporary newsroom policies encourage journalists to disseminate news through their own platforms simultaneously (Perreault and Ferrucci 2020;Wheatley and Ferrer-Conill 2021). Newsrooms in developed countries have begun attempts to attract audiences to their own platforms and away from social media (Steensen and Westlund 2020). ...
Although the intersection of social media usage and journalism practice enjoys a prominent place in many scholarly inquiries throughout the field of journalism studies, a comprehensive understanding of this body of literature is lacking. This study attempts to alleviate this problem. Through a systematic analysis of more than 150 studies primarily focusing on how journalists utilize social media in newswork, this article first classifies social media usage into three broad categories: news construction, news dissemination, and branding. Next, this study introduces a typology that visualizes and explores three dimensions of social media use: motivation (self vs. organization), prevalence (sporadic vs. prevalent), and disruption (disruptive vs. normalization). Our findings illustrate potential future research areas.
... Las alertas por SMS constituyen los primeros contenidos informativos en el móvil y han sido analizadas por diversos investigadores desde hace más de una década (Costa;Piñeiro, 2010). En la actualidad, las notificaciones push se reinventan y ocupan un lugar relevante para los principales medios de comunicación europeos (Wheatley;Ferrer-Conil, 2020). La masificación de los dispositivos móviles y sus altas cifras de adopción ha facilitado también el resurgimiento de las newsletters o boletines (Fagerlund, 2016). ...
Los móviles ocupan un lugar central en el conjunto de las innovaciones disruptivas que surgen en los últimos años en el entorno de los medios digitales. Este estudio describe el uso de los dispositivos móviles como plataforma de distribución y como herramienta periodística, convirtiéndose en grandes aliados de los medios. Palabras clave: medios digitales, medios nativos digitales, cibermedios, medios de comunicación, dispositivos móviles, periodismo móvil.
... However, this context alters the traditional models of consumption and how journalistic content is received. Dependence on non-proprietary platforms and media disintermediation are some of its most disruptive consequences in the media ecosystem [55]. Furthermore, ubiquitous and multiplatform mobile connectivity has created a context of hypermediation-of acceleration and multiplication of mediations-in which the loss of quality and reliability are obvious drawbacks [26]. ...
Mobile media transform traditional paradigms by providing new synchronous, localized and individualized formats and by modifying social contexts and the methods of production, emission and the reception of information. This chapter will analyze the effects of ubiquity on the journalistic environment and describe the affordances offered by mobile devices in this context. Outlined here are the main contents and narratives that arise in a scenario in which the participation and interaction of users is prevalent, and where the ubiquitous guarantees narrative micro-sequences that are mainly consumed in the interstices of people’s everyday lives.KeywordsUbiquitous journalismMobile journalismArtificial intelligenceBig data
... It should be noted that the use of push notifications is relevant for reputable media that are fighting for their own audience. Push notifications allow readers of certain media to subscribe to current news (even paid content) and receive them bypassing news aggregators and social media [16]. At the current stage of development, push notifications are widely used both abroad and in Ukraine; ...
The article summarises the approaches to the classification of innovative marketing communications used within the development of modern trends in the promotion of goods/services. The main goal of the study is to systematise and determine the prospects of innovative marketing communications used in Ukrainian and foreign markets. The systematisation of the literature on and approaches to solving the problem of the development of marketing communications has revealed that, despite the existence of a certain body of scientific and theoretical studies, there is a need to study a set of tools of this category, which are typical of both foreign and Ukrainian markets. The relevance of solving the scientific problem is that the modern role of marketing communications is a priority component of the success of both the entire marketing system and performance indicators of businesses, and the study of their current trends is necessary for improving market positions. The article studies systematisation and identification of the prospects of innovative marketing communications in the following logical order: description of approaches to the communications in Ukrainian and foreign markets; defining the prospects of their development and use. The methodological tools of the research included the system approach method and the method of trends. The study focuses on the years 2021–2022. The US and some European countries (including Ukraine) were chosen as the object of the study, since these countries were the focus of the existing scientific analysis of the studied issues. The article presents the results of an empirical analysis of the implementation of innovative marketing communications, which proved that the foreign market trends are generally similar to Ukrainian ones. The study empirically confirms and theoretically proves that countries that have an active business environment, even in case of a developing economy, quite effectively implement the latest approaches to the management of marketing communications, because their composition and level of efficiency affect economic and market results. The results of the study can be useful for Ukrainian businesses to apply in practice in terms of choosing optimal marketing communications as well as for scientists in the context of the development of scientific research and studying the current state of the issue under study.
