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From Product to Service: The Diffusion of Dynamic Content in Online Newspapers
Abstract
This study documents a steady increase in dynamic journalism on the Web sites of twenty-four U.S. newspapers, including a sharp rise in 2006 of multimedia elements, particularly video. This trend was particularly apparent for newspapers in our sample with print circulation between 100,000 and 120,000. While traditional news categories are the most common source of dynamic content, the growth over time is coming from coverage of weather, sports, crime, and accidents. There also appears to be a rise in hourly updating of softer news.
... This is the vision of networked journalism, according to which journalists actively cooperate with their audiences as citizens (Van der Haak, Parks, and Castells 2012;Beckett and Mansell 2008). Arguably, this kind of journalism, where the emphasis is on network relations, can be considered post-industrial (Anderson, Bell, and Shirky 2012): rather than delivering the news report as a finite 'product' to their audiences, which was the end-objective of industrial journalism, journalists now seek to provide a service to various networked communities (Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves 2007;Kovach and Rosenstiel 2011;Robinson 2011). The journalism of service is to the mutual benefit of journalists and the members of the communities that they address (Lewis, Holton, and Coddington 2014). ...
... But it is also different in terms of its logic: what matters for social media journalists is not the foreclosed procedure of getting 'the story together', putting it out, and hoping it makes a 'headline'. Journalism is not a 'product', the journalist says, echoing similar claims in the academic literature (Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves 2007;Robinson 2011;Kovach and Rosenstiel 2011). Journalism is about 'having a relationship' with specific groups of people who are 'relevant', the journalist argues. ...
... Journalism as practised on online networks becomes a fluid endeavour Deuze 2008), a project of continuously becoming something other than what it used to be (Deuze and Witschge 2018). Journalism on social media can be ambient and social (Hermida 2010(Hermida , 2012a, participatory ) and networked (Beckett 2010), relational (Lewis 2020) and reciprocal (Lewis, Holton, and Coddington 2014), more of a service to various communities than a finite industrial product (Usher 2012;Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves 2007). Journalists hybridise newer and older norms and technologies (Chadwick 2013), and in this sense reconfigure their values to include social media in their practice (Tandoc and Vos 2016). ...
In my PhD thesis I advance a critical understanding of change and continuity in social media driven professional journalism; one that is grounded on a major discursive contradiction, namely that journalists embrace both the networking logic of social media and the critique of its civic shortcomings, in order to represent journalism as an institution of reformed and civic-minded networked action.
... The earliest news websites consisted of little more than offline content posted online (Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves 2007). This "shovelware" format was augmented by the presence of features that provided site visitors with opportunities for human and medium interaction. ...
... pressures to remain relevant and successful have nudged most newsrooms to not just adopt, but embrace, interactive elements and dynamic news content (Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves 2007;Vujnovic et al. 2010). For example, according to a recent content analysis, roughly 85 percent of local television news websites included comment sections (Stroud, Muddiman, and Scacco 2015). ...
Although interactive features, such as comment sections, used to be rare on news websites, they are now the norm. Based on theoretical concepts of interactivity and convergence, we analyze whether diverse sites are similar in the provision and use of interactive features online. We conduct a content analysis of 155 news websites to examine the presence and use of social media buttons, lists of hyperlinks, polls, comment sections, and mobile sites. Television news and newspaper websites are compared, as are local and more broadly targeted news sites. The findings provide little evidence for interactive convergence. Rather, results reveal many differences in the adoption and use of interactive features based on medium and target. Reasons for differences across these sites are discussed.
... The third approach is informative because this study examines how top online stories change under pressure of immediacy. Previous studies have examined the relationship between immediacy and specific news content (Kutz and Herring, 2005;Tremayne et al., 2007). Online news editors change the headline of a story to provide readers with the latest stories (Kutz and Herring, 2005) (Tremayne et al., 2007). ...
... Previous studies have examined the relationship between immediacy and specific news content (Kutz and Herring, 2005;Tremayne et al., 2007). Online news editors change the headline of a story to provide readers with the latest stories (Kutz and Herring, 2005) (Tremayne et al., 2007). ...
Online news production is guided by journalists’ institutional orientation such as monitoring and imitation, which can result from power relations among popular news websites. Bourdieu suggested that news media are positioned within a set of economic and symbolic power relations. Given this framework, this study investigates how 13 popular Korean news websites respond to headlines of top online stories on their competitor websites by tracking the headlines on an hourly basis during one consecutive week. The results indicate that the top-ranked news websites often initiate the posting of headlines, whereas others simply follow the headlines by posting similar headlines. But symbolic power relations are not straightforward, because the leading news websites imitate the headlines posted by intermediary or following news websites. Power relations for the production of online news are a complex and fast phenomenon.
... Accordingly, user participation in the production of news potentially blurs the distinction between news producers and consumers and implies that journalists and media organizations are losing some control over their own news outlets in a "tactical war for control over the text" (Cover, 2006, p. 141), control which is at the center of the journalistic profession and the mass media"s power (Deuze, 2007;Singer, 2003). Although mainstream online news media did once limit their users to such forms of participation as prearranged polls (Kent, 2008), this is no longer the case in many countries, with user participation, although still limited, gradually increasing (Bucy, 2004;Greer & Mensing, 2006;Tremayne, Schmitz Wiess, & Calmon Alves, 2007). ...
... This is a pilot study of one case and therefore presents limited possibilities for generalization. Since longitudinal research has indicated that news media users are gradually taking a larger role in the cocreation of news, however, it seems sensible to suggest that not only will online news users be overwhelmingly likely to help cover future crises, but also that their role will expand even further (Bucy, 2004;Greer & Mensing, 2006;Tremayne et al., 2007). ...
Public relations research has recently explored how the digitalization of the media has affected crisis communications, focusing on such phenomena as corporate websites and blogs. This study first argues that digitalization involving user participation also changes traditional news production and that this affects the frame in which issues and crisis are told and understood. It then empirically explores media users" influence on news frameworks through a case study of how mainstream Swedish online news covered the swine flu outbreak in 2009, finding that such users were an integral part of the media coverage of that crisis, contributing with a variety of voices that primarily criticized the media"s paradigms. It concludes by discussing these findings" implications for crisis communications, in particular the impact of crisis communications becoming multidirectional and decentralized through participatory journalism.
... At the same time the number of monthly unique visitors to the top 50 US online newspapers grew from 8 million in 2014 to close to 14 million in 2020. Tremayne et al. (2007) discuss the advantages that online newspapers have over traditional paper news papers including increased capacity to display news, flexibility in including content like video, live availability, permanent access and interactivity. Laine et al. (2020) emphasized the significance of satisfying user preferences and tastes while generating the page layout, which requires frequent updating of the latest news contents covering various topic categories that draw most attention during each update period. ...
Purpose
The home page design of a digital news website is a key factor in determining its attractiveness to readers. This study aims to propose an approach to manage the frequent adjustment of the dynamic layout of the news content on the website home page in a real-time environment to increase its attractiveness to readers.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper shows that this news website layout design problem can be modeled as an optimization problem based on the information of news contents that change within a multiple-period planning horizon similar to the dynamic facility layout problem. A hybrid genetic algorithm-based approach integrated with local search heuristic methods is also proposed to improve the solution.
Findings
This paper finds that the DPLP model is effective in modeling the changing layout of a digital news website. The problem can solved in a timely manner using the proposed hybrid genetic algorithm.
Research limitations/implications
This paper was based on hypothetical data and on the assumption of equal section size. Actual data would help fine-tune the application of the dynamic facility layout model. As well the algorithm could be enhanced for unequal size sections.
Practical implications
The model should help online newspapers apply sophisticated algorithms to optimize the layout of news websites dynamically in a timely manner.
Social implications
News websites are increasingly the desired medium to consume news. So it has an important role in educating society. Thus optimizing and improving the process will help in this regard.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first one to apply the DPLP model to the digital newspaper website dynamic design problem.
... Format-type diversity is one of the subcomponents to assess content diversity (Napoli, 1999). Since the mid-2000s, the growing adoption of online video content has changed the format of digital content that was once predominantly textual (Tremayne et al., 2007). For traditional video content produced by broadcast media, one can investigate different types of television shows, for example, in terms of situation comedies, made-for-TV movies, and variety programmes, but in the digital context, while marketing and data services identified popular online video content types, such as music video, tutorial, product review (Statista, 2021), little is known about non-marketing-driven genres in terms of their video content type and format. ...
... Especially online news outlets rely on hyperlinks because they cost them nothing while fulfilling the important role of building trust among the outlet's readership. Given that hyperlinks are immediate (Tremayne et al., 2007), they save the author of a discourse a lot of time and energy as the author can link their own content to some other content via a hyperlink. At the same time, the reader is spared the additional time and effort to search for that additional content. ...
The monograph Digital media discourse in linguistic research offers an exploration into the relationship between discourse as a manifestation of language in the digital media and the research possibilities available in the field of linguistics, but not without referring to sociolinguistics, media studies, etc. Substantial research has been devoted to the separate aspects of the subject matter initiated in this book. Especially during the last two decades, the media, discourse and the digital realm have been rather frequent topics successfully elaborated on by authors who have been given due credit in this book. However, it seemed to me that there are not enough resources that would provide systematic and comprehensive insights into how to analyse, understand, describe and further explore digital media discourse by relating linguistic research with theoretical frameworks from communication studies, political studies, journalism etc. These frameworks may, in fact, shed new light on how digital media discourse is both created and perceived while offering some new understanding of all the affordances and constraints entailed in digital media discourse in linguistic research.
... Tremayne et al. (2007) proposes asks about whether or not these multimedia elements were part of the dynamic journalism that was steadily increasing over the course of the study (p. 829). ...
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... (2) active adaptation (2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008); and (3) disruptive emancipation (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) (Garc ıa-Avil es, Carvajal-Prieto, De Lara- Gonz alez, et al. 2018, 27). Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves (2007) have documented "a steady increase in dynamic journalism" on the websites of twenty-four US newspapers (for additional single-country studies, see Adams 2008;Karlsson et al. 2015;Koliska and Chadha 2017;Singer 2014). By contrast, other studies have compared the adoption of innovations among news organizations across national contexts (Arrese 2016; Toepfl and Litvinenko 2018;Domingo et al. 2008;English 2016;Humprecht and Esser 2018;Nordheim, Boczek, and Koppers 2018). ...
Extant research on how innovations diffuse among news organizations over time has largely focussed on democratic contexts. By contrast, this is the first longitudinal study to investigate the spread of a participatory newsroom innovation under authoritarian rule. Adopting a multiple case study design, the article reconstructs the histories of comment sections on the opinion-leading online media in two authoritarian contexts, which varied maximally with regard to the outcome of the diffusion process. In Belarus, the diffusion process followed a classic S-shaped curve of adoption, whereas in Azerbaijan adoption rates remained low during the studied period. The study identified primarily three factors that obstructed the diffusion process in Azerbaijan: (1) the restrictive policy of the authoritarian leadership specifically towards audience participation on news websites (social system), (2) the low intensity of communicative exchange between local and foreign news organizations (communication channels), (3) the advent of the successor technology in 2010 (time).
... Because in this study we were interested in news media framing of line-of-duty death incidents occurring prior to (and after) the digital age, print news sources were the appropriate form of media to explore. Prior research has found that crime and accident stories from online news outlines have become less analytical and more episodic, focusing more on providing frequent updates to breaking news stories (Barnhurst 2013;Tremayne et al. 2007). Scholars have also found that online news outlets provide more content, multimedia features, interactivity, and other revenue-generating features (Greer and Mensing 2004). ...
The line‐of‐duty death of a police officer challenges the public’s shared views of social order and morality. Local news media help audiences make sense of these tragedies. This study examines how attributions of responsibility are framed in local print news stories, guided by the question, “How do news stories frame the cause of death when police officers are killed in the line of duty?” We conducted an ethnographic content analysis of stories about line‐of‐duty deaths published in Indianapolis, Indiana newspapers between 1872 and 2019. Six frames promoting causal explanations for police officer deaths emerged from our analysis: moral depravity, gun availability and lethality, the nature of the job, unaddressed mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, and officer failings. While line‐of‐duty deaths have been consistently framed as a result of individual and societal moral depravity over time, we also find that officer deaths have more recently been framed as simply being part of the job. We discuss our findings within the broader framing of social problems literature, recognizing how frames shift over time and conflate social issues to maintain their salience.
... Some researchers have used update counts to show how the updating process occurs (e.g. Lim, 2012;Saltzis, 2012;Xu, 2014), some looked at the types of news being updated (Coutts, 2019) and others examined the types of changes found in the content (Karlsson, 2011;Lim, 2012;Salaverr ıa, 2005;Saltzis, 2012;Tremayne et al., 2007;Xu, 2014). ...
Purpose
News research scholars define immediacy as constant news updating, whereas scholars in other fields conceptualize it more broadly as meaning closeness. The present study explicates the concept of immediacy and proposes a multidimensional notion of news immediacy that reflects physical and psychological closeness to the news.
Design/methodology/approach
A scale for measuring multifaceted immediacy was developed and tested in a between-subjects design experiment. Four dimensions were extracted from the analysis: transportation, involvement, vividness and timeliness.
Findings
The results reveal greater immediacy in online than print news contexts. Involvement is key to the experience of immediacy in both contexts; yet the feeling of being transported to the places of the news events was stronger among online than print news users. The latter relied more on vividness of the news presentation to attain closeness to the news.
Originality/value
Implications of the study were discussed.
... Meanwhile, studies have determined that each platform offers a unique set of affordances that shape the nature of the content delivered to the public. For example, while television relies mainly on moving images, radio uses audio content, print news is based on text and static images, and online and social media platforms blend all of these elements (e.g., Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves 2007;Reich 2011;Chadwick 2013;Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Neiger 2015;McMullan 2017). ...
Previous research has analyzed the extent to which the structural characteristics of news organizations and the outlets where journalists operate explain differences in media diversity. Based on a content analysis of 16,281 news stories from Chilean television, radio, print, online media and Twitter, this study examines whether differences in source diversity remain stable across news media platforms within the same medium. The findings show that both platform type and medium significantly influence the presence of source diversity at different levels. Our results speak to the strong influence that each media platform has on how journalists manage news balance and number of sources when producing a story. They also provide strong evidence of the importance of the macro organizational structure of the medium for the type of sources included in the news. Likewise, our study questions common assumptions as it reveals that online media do not favor the presence of a greater diversity of sources and points of view in the news and are associated with a lower degree of diversity in general.
... Regarding the velocity of media communications, journalists in the traditional media era had primary agency in determining the velocity by which information about negative events reached constituents for two reasons (Lee, 2015;Tremayne, Weiss, & Alves, 2007). First, journalists prioritized in-depth analysis and fact-checking over speedier reporting and also adhered to publication cycles, such as daily newspapers and weekly magazines, which delayed information dissemination (Levinson, 2009). ...
Negative social evaluations and the strategies a firm employs to manage them have garnered significant attention among management scholars. However, past research has given less attention to the social media era's revolutionary effects on these dynamics. As such, we theorize that the social media era's greater velocity, emotionality, and communality increase the likelihood that social disapproval will spread faster and more empathetically among a more heterogeneous set of constituents. We develop a framework that explicates how a firm's response strategies can prevent, contain, and attenuate social disapproval, which we define as constituents' general enmity toward a firm. Our framework predicts that a firm's greater initial transparency is more likely to prevent social disapproval, while a reticent response to others' initial disclosures is more effective at containing it. Once social disapproval has spread, however, we theorize that a firm can more effectively attenuate it by responding more deliberatively and accommodatively. Further, we theorize how traditional media era contingencies of event severity, actor prominence, and message inauthenticity take on additional meaning and have unexpected effects on the social disapproval management process in the social media era.
... Underlining the ubiquity of location-aware smartphones in the consumption of content, we would like to pose the question of whether hyperlocal media could be contextualised as part of LBS (Gruteser & Grunwald, 2003;Küpper, 2005;Rau & Ehlers, 2018;Schiller & Voisard, 2004). This would firstly necessitate the conceptualisation of journalism as a service (Eide & Knight, 1999;Ferrucci, 2015;Tremayne et al., 2007) and the underlining of the key functions of journalism: sense-making, scrutiny and advocacy as-a-service (Deuze, 2008;McNair, 2009). This would then allow us to relate the notion of hyperlocal media to other forms of local services aimed at, for instance, keeping citizens informed about ongoing community development and events not necessarily related to journalism. ...
... Regarding the velocity of media communications, journalists in the traditional media era had primary agency in determining the velocity by which information about negative events reached constituents for two reasons (Lee, 2015;Tremayne, Weiss, & Alves, 2007). First, ...
... A convergência tecnológica significou uma verdadeira revolução na sociedade do século XXI, e os meios de comunicação também foram afetados nas suas estruturas e conteúdos. Não só os antigos modelos de produção de notícias foram alterados (PATERSON; DOMINGO, 2008;TREMAYNE;WEISS;ALVES, 2007), mas a mídia também abriu suas "portas" para conteúdo gerado pelo usuário, permitindo e incentivando a inclusão de comentários, fotos, vídeos, blogs e até mesmo artigos feitos pelos leitores (para exemplos e as implicações deste fato incontroverso, consulte DOMINGO et al., 2008;HERMIDA;THURMAN, 2008;THURMAN, 2008 No caso galego, é mais interessante do que nunca continuar com este estudo após a chegada brilhante nos últimos meses de um bom número de mídias em internet com modelos de negócio inovadores. ...
Este artigo faz uma reflexão teórica sobre o conceito de convergência na Comunidade Autônoma da Galícia, na Espanha. Nesta área geográfica, caracterizada pelo seu respeito à tradição jornalística (principalmente ligada à imprensa) e sua inércia, é possível distinguir duas atitudes diferentes (conflitantes mesmo) com o fenômeno de convergência. Coexistem, portanto, estratégias de conservação (concentrando-se principalmente no lado do negócio do fenômeno convergente) com estratégias de renovação (criação de novos espaços na web, grande aposta nas possibilidades das novas tecnologias e das redes sociais). Apresentamos um estudo analítico sobre a coexistência dessas duas interpretações da convergência (mercadológica e tecnológica, respectivamente) no ecossistema comunicativo da Galícia. Podemos detectar o início de uma tensão dialética entre os discursos de renovação e conservação que atualmente convivem em harmonia, Supõe-se que, com o passar do tempo, a indústria de informação da Galícia opte para a rota que garanta a sobrevivência dos seus meios de comunicação.
... Technological convergence has meant a real revolution in the 21 st century society, and the media were also affected with respect to their structures and contents. Not only were old news production models changed (PATERSON; DOMINGO, 2008;TREMAYNE, WEISS;ALVES, 2007), but the media has also opened its "doors" to contents produced by the user, encouraging and allowing the inclusion of comments, photos, videos, blogs and even articles done by readers (for examples and implications of this undisputed fact, see DOMINGO et al., 2008;HERMIDA;THURMAN, 2008;THURMAN, 2008). This project was the first general study of the press in Spain upon the completion of 10 years of digital media activities in our country. ...
This paper offers a theoretical reflection on the concept of convergence in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, in Spain. In this geographic area, marked by its respect for journalistic tradition (especially referring to the press) and its inertia, it is possible to distinguish two different attitudes (actually conflicting) with regard to the convergence phenomenon. Conservation strategies coexist, therefore, (focusing mainly on the business aspect of the convergent phenomenon) with renovation strategies (creation of new spaces on the web, great commitment to the possibilities offered by new technologies and social networks). We are presenting an analytical study of the coexistence of these two interpretations of convergence (marketing and technological, respectively) in the communication ecosystem of Galicia. We can recognize the beginning of a dialectic tension between the discourses of renovation and conservation which at present coexist in harmony. It is assumed that the information industry in Galicia will eventually choose the path that guarantees the survival of its media.
... Regarding the velocity of media communications, journalists in the traditional media era had primary agency in determining the velocity by which information about negative events reached constituents for two reasons (Lee, 2015;Tremayne, Weiss, & Alves, 2007). First, journalists prioritized in-depth analysis and fact-checking over speedier reporting and also adhered to publication cycles, such as daily newspapers and weekly magazines, which delayed information dissemination (Levinson, 2009). ...
... En la otra tendencia se alinean Holsti (1969), Bardin (1986) y Krippendorff (1990, para quienes, en síntesis, además de las características antes descritas el análisis de contenido ha de realizar inferencias a partir de las propiedades textuales 1 . 1 Para la elaboración de esta comparativa nos ha resultado especialmente ilustrativo el recorrido trazado por González Villariny (2008: 78) a partir de los manuales de Gaitán y Piñuel (1998), Wimmer y Dominick (1996) y Krippendorff (1990). L 22 La ascensión de los cibermedios de comunicación, dentro del paradigma informativo, ha ocasionado la aparición de una vasta cantidad de estudios centrados en el mensaje periodístico que utilizaban como metodología principal el análisis de contenido manual, como muestran los trabajos de Li (1998); Schultz (1999); Salaverría, López, Limia Fernández et al. (2005); Tremayne, Schmitz y Calmon (2007); Zhou, Chang y Peng (2008); Micó y Masip (2008); ...
Este libro se inserta dentro de la novedosa corriente de estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico de la Casa del Rey: mediante el análisis de casi cuatro mil contenidos informativos, publicados en ABC.es y ELPAÍS.com durante los años 2009 y 2011, se han clasificado los temas en que tiende a aparecer Juan Carlos I, pero también se han examinado determinadas variables enclavadas en el análisis del discurso que evalúan cuantitativamente las declaraciones del monarca. Una tarea hercúlea que, sin embargo, muestra sus frutos, al confirmar por primera vez en la historia de la democracia la existencia del tabú de la expresividad real: la estrategia retórica más importante de la Corona, la cual enuncia la autocensura a la que ha de someterse don Juan Carlos para cumplir eficazmente con sus labores cotidianas.
... Some studies touch upon the issues but do not examine the content per se. Tremayne et al. (2007) studied how often hard, neutral, and soft news items were updated over a three-year period and found an increase in all three categories. Other studies focus on specific dimensions in content development. ...
Although considerable efforts have studied online news, studies so far have not investigated how the actual news topics are affected by digitalization in general, if at all, or compared them to different media constructs. Instead, changes in content are assumed or illustrated anecdotally rather than systematically assessed. This empirical study, covering Swedish and UK news sites within tabloid, quality morning, and local/regional varieties between 2002 and 2012, shows that there is a tabloidization effect in general but that it is stronger in tabloids and in Sweden compared to the UK. Further, this tabloidization can be more precisely described as a shift from political to more lifestyle journalism, as it is in the areas where the prime growth and decline are found. In addition, the study reveals that it is the slower news that increases most suggesting that the immediate character of online news is mediated by production conditions
... While initially sparking controversy about its viability and relevancy to journalism, it has now become an essential way for news consumers worldwide to contribute to and also receive valuable news and participate in public life. With the massification of digital and interactive technologies and developing platforms, the news industry has gradually opened its 'gates' and warmed to audience participation and engagement in the production of news (Chan-Olmsted and Park, 2000;Greer and Mensing, 2006;Larsson, 2012;Rosenberry, 2005;Schultz, 1999;Singer, 2014;Tremayne et al., 2007). Recognizing the need to create a culture of sharing and participation by partnering with news audiences, media organizations are now presenting multiple opportunities for users to comment, share, and create content to varying degrees. ...
Based on a national survey and a qualitative content analysis of US daily news editors’ understanding of citizen journalism, we identify key ideas associated with the concept of Citizen Journalism Complexity. Patterns related to those dimensions that may impact editors’ conceptions of the phenomenon at the individual and organizational levels are examined. A total of 10 core ideas emerged in the aggregate discussion, but a majority of the participants defined the concept simplistically focusing on one- or two-dimensional definitions. Arguments from journalistic professionalism (occupational roles), audience engagement/collaboration (normative values), and behavioral practices are represented. This article discusses the extent to which citizen journalism is defined and guided by demographic variables, individual journalistic experience, and organizational characteristics.
... En otro trabajo sobre los ciberdiarios estadounidenses, los autores subrayaban el crecimiento exponencial de la implementación de los recursos (Tremayne, Schmitz y Calmon, 2007). ...
A través de la multimedialidad los cibermedios pueden articular un lenguaje
más flexible que el de los medios convencionales. En nuestro análisis de
contenido, focalizado en las alusiones a Juan Carlos I durante 2009 y 2011,
evaluamos tanto la integración de recursos multimedia en ABC.es y ELPAÍS.
com, como el protagonismo concedido al rey de España en esos recursos.
En los resultados destaca la elevada implementación audiovisual de la
monarquía: casi seis unidades de cada diez, en ABC.es, y casi ocho de cada
diez, en ELPAÍS.com, poseían algún tipo de recurso audiovisual. La conclusión
más importante es la relativa al protagonismo: ambas cabeceras, a priori
distanciadas simbólicamente, denotan un patrón estructural semejante en la
caracterización del monarca, lo que evidencia la elevada direccionalidad de
las informaciones descriptivas de la institución monárquica.
... Regarding the change, early research found that there was an almost complete absence of multimodality (Colson & Heinderyckx, 2008;MacGregor, 2003;O'Sullivan, 2005;Quandt, 2008B). However, more recent longitudinal research indicates there is a slow but clear movement towards more multimodality in web news (Greer & Mensing, 2006;Karlsson & Clerwall, 2012;MacGregor, 2014;Tremayne, Weiss, & Alves, 2007). Together with lack of vision among management (Vobic, 2011) and with attitudes varying from slightly positive to hostile among journalists (Larrondo, Domingo, Erdal, Masip, & Van del Bulck, 2014; O'Sullivan & Thurman & Lupton, 2010), it is not surprising that it has taken quite some time for multimodality to have impact. ...
In the early 21st century, almost everyone takes journalism on the web for granted. However, it was not many years ago that journalism moved online and a distinct form of journalism began to develop. Ranging from online doubles of the paper editions to publications exclusively produced for the web, the evolvement of web journalism has entailed both dramatic and not-so-dramatic changes in the way that journalistic products are produced, disseminated, and received. Online journalism has usually been demarcated from traditional journalism by four traits: interactivity, immediacy, hypertextuality, and multimodality. These characteristics are generally identified by scholars as points where journalism on the web brings added value in comparison to the old print newspapers. Interactivity involves various aspects of user activity and participation in the processes of consuming, contributing to, and disseminating news afforded by the web. Immediacy refers to the nature and consequences of the faster pace of publication in web news. Hypertextuality has to do with the possibilities of linking journalistic texts to other texts, which makes the text more transparent and open. Multimodality denotes the telling of news with the use of many different modes at the same time. When studying research about these aspects of web journalism, three general observations can be made. First, researchers have approached these characteristics unevenly in terms of scope and interest. The interactive aspects of web journalism are by far the most investigated. Second, the four characteristics have been studied through the lenses of different theoretical frameworks. Third, empirical research shows that change in journalism is slow and not always as radical as many predicted when journalism on the web was in its infancy.
... Esa convergencia se ha producido en diferentes ámbitos del periodismo, tanto estructurales como en los procesos de producción y difusión de contenidos (Tremayne, Weiss y Alves, 2007;Paterson y Domingo, 2008, Navarro, 2009, y ha afectado a las relaciones del medio con su audiencia, con la publicidad y con los propios profesionales . Y es que, en palabras de López García (2011: 91), el cambio es tan profundo que lo único que permanece es "lo básico, la esencia del periodismo -el periodismo puro y duro-, y la necesidad de los ciudadanos de disponer de información para poder moverse en la sociedad". ...
La presente investigación plantea la evaluación de la interactividad y la participación en las páginas web de los principales diarios deportivos españoles de acuerdo a los datos de audiencia correspondientes al Estudio General de Medios (EGM). En concreto, se analizan los sitios web de Marca, As, Sport y Mundo Deportivo). Para ello se emplea un modelo de análisis compuesto por 36 indicadores organizados alrededor de ocho parámetros básicos, que miden aspectos como la interacción entre el medio de comunicación y el usuario, o la adaptación del medio a las herramientas propias de la Web 2.0, entre otros. Con ello se pretende averiguar si existe una relación entre el índice de audiencia del medio y el nivel de interactividad y participación de sus sitios web. Los resultados muestran que, efectivamente, los diarios con un mayor número de lectores son los que más han adaptado su página web a las necesidades de participación e interacción que demanda el usuario.
... On the one hand, with instant publication only a tweet away for most journalists and news organizations online, there are now more opportunities for transparency in the newsgathering process (Craft & Heim, 2009;Lasorsa, 2012). In the past, newsgathering processes were relatively unknown outside the newsroom, and all that the public had access to was whatever the journalists could verify and put together before the deadline (Tremayne, Weiss, & Alves, 2007). In contrast, with the rise of speed-driven journalism, journalists now have the opportunity to share with the world every twist and turn in a developing story, encompassing both what they do and do not know, though some suggest that the extent to which journalists actually do so may be limited (Hermida, 2013). ...
To examine how journalists use, and are affected by, social media in their pursuit for speed, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 11 journalists from various U.S. national, metropolitan, and local newspapers. Findings revealed an industry-wide expectation that journalists engage with audiences on social media. But in terms of practice, most interviewees reported that they mainly use Twitter to facilitate news work (i.e., contact hard-to-reach sources) and communicate with other journalists; audiences are rarely their focus on social media. The interviewees were also asked about their perception of how Twitter affects audiences. Most interviewees were unsure of its impact on credibility, but believed that it may promote news use, although not contribute to news organizations’ bottom line. This study offers five reasons why social media are not saving the newspaper industry, and discusses managerial implications regarding the gap between social media expectations and practices.
... This paper contributes to the literature on the digital transition of newspapers (e.g. Tremayne, Weiss, and Alves 2007;Mitchelstein and Boczkowski 2009;Aris 2011; We argue that, in the face of digital disruption, the strong grip on the printed paper can have negative implications for Japanese newspapers, as the print-first approach contradicts the highly networked and digitized Japanese society that would be exceptionally well suited for having people read newspaper content that is delivered to their devices over the internet. Clinging on to the printed paper leads also to newspapers not having an effective way to recruit new readers, especially among the younger generations. ...
The focus of this paper is the digital transition in major Japanese newspapers that sell millions of copies per day. By digital transition we refer to the shift to publishing content on digital platforms—in this case the shift from print to online and mobile media. Japan is globally one of the most important newspaper markets with the world's largest daily newspapers measured by circulation. The research focusing on the digital transition in Japanese newspapers and the implications of this shift has been hitherto almost non-existent. In this paper, the digital transition is examined by means of qualitative in-depth interviews with representatives from leading Japanese newspapers. The conclusion deriving from the empirical analysis is that for Japanese newspapers the most essential approach in coping with the transition to digital is protecting the printed paper and treating the digital platforms as supplementary.
... Another study by Tremayne, Weiss & Alves (2007) highlighted differences in content between print and online newspapers. The study of the content dynamic in the online newspapers was their main research question. ...
Newspapers are one of the most important media channels that people rely on as a source of information. Nowadays, newspapers appear in two different versions- print and online newspaper. These two versions have common similarities between them. However, they also exhibit several differences that single them apart. Previous researches highlight the differences between the two versions of newspapers in terms of content, accessibility and structure. This study investigates the differences between the print and online versions of the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper Gulf News, and provides possible justifications for the differences in light of Grice’s four maxims. Results show that there are many differences in terms of content, length of headlines and word choice. Other differences include dates of publication, updating of articles details given and other news features. These differences are found to be a consequence of modality, space provided and targeted audience.
... Early research emphasized that most newspaper sites did not update; further, those that did were generally large-circulation sites (e.g., see Dibean & Garrison, 2001;Lasica, 1997). More recent research, though, has found web updates to be increasingly common practice at all newspapers (Tremayne, Weiss, & Alves, 2007). What is less clear is the precise nature of homepage updates, both in the frequency of changes and in the rationale of those changes. ...
The rise of sophisticated tools for tracking audiences online has begun to change the way media producers think about media audiences. This study examines this phenomenon in journalism, building on a revised theoretical model that accounts for greater audience engagement in the gatekeeping process. Research suggests that news editors, after long resisting or ignoring audience preferences, are becoming increasingly aware of and adaptive to consumer tastes as manifest via metrics. However, research also finds a gap in the news preferences of editors and audiences. This study asks: Who influences whom more in this disparity? Through longitudinal secondary data analysis of three U.S. online newspapers, and using structural equation modeling, this study finds that (a) audience clicks affect subsequent news placement, based on time-lagged analysis; (b) such influence intensifies during the course of the day; (c) there is no overall lagged effect of news placement on audience clicks; and (d) the lagged effect of audience clicks on news placement is stronger than the inverse. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.
... This presence enables the newscast to maneuver between the "deictic points" (Montgomery 2007, 75) of the studio and field. Online and radio reporters also have their requirements to be present at news scenes, the first due to the growing emphasis on video news (Fahmy 2008;Tremayne, Weiss, and Rosental-Calmon 2007) and the latter to bring the sounds of news (Reich 2011). ...
This paper suggests that news media remain distinct despite increasingly converging news environments. Print, online, radio and television constitute not only unique packing and distribution houses of similarly obtained raw materials, as suggested by the generic approach, but also unique manufacturing houses of news, as suggested by the particularist approach. The study compares for the first time the news practices across all four media in national leading Israeli news organizations, based on face-to-face reconstruction interviews, during which a sample of 108 reporters recreated how they obtained each of their randomly sampled, recently published items (N = 859). Medium differences were not only statistically significant but also cut across all studied aspects. Patterns of reporting were much less meticulous and more source-dependent in the immediate media (online and radio) compared to daily media (print and television). Contrary to its infamous reputation, the most complex and rich reporting patterns were found on television.
... The online communication landscape now enables a http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319092/?report=printable 3/17 multidirectional flow of information where consumers increasingly encounter content that is tailored to their interests in a format that facilitates immediate engagement, response, and sharing with one's social network [8]. For example, a description of a campaign may feature multimedia elements, such as campaign spot videos or interviews with viewers, and such information is likely to appear alongside entertainment and analysis [9]. Further, many news and blog platforms provide opportunities for the public to interact with content by posting public comments, rating or "liking" stories, or sharing content through other social media platforms [10]. ...
In March 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the first-ever paid national tobacco education campaign. At a cost of US $54 million, "Tips from Former Smokers" (Tips) ran for 3 months across multiple media, depicting the suffering experienced by smokers and their families in graphic detail. The potential impact and reach of the Tips campaign was not limited to that achieved through paid media placements. It was also potentially extended through "earned media", including news and blog coverage of the campaign. Such coverage can shape public understanding of and facilitate public engagement with key health issues.
To better understand the contribution of earned media to the public's engagement with health issues in the current news media environment, we examined the online "earned media" and public engagement generated by one national public health campaign.
We constructed a purposive sample of online media coverage of the CDC's 2012 Tips from Former Smokers television campaign, focusing on 14 influential and politically diverse US news outlets and policy-focused blogs. We identified relevant content by combining campaign and website-specific keywords for 4 months around the campaign release. Each story was coded for content, inclusion of multimedia, and measures of audience engagement.
The search yielded 36 stories mentioning Tips, of which 27 were focused on the campaign. Story content between pieces was strikingly similar, with most stories highlighting the same points about the campaign's content, cost, and potential impact. We saw notable evidence of audience engagement; stories focused on Tips generated 9547 comments, 8891 Facebook "likes", 1027 tweets, and 505 story URL shares on Facebook. Audience engagement varied by story and site, as did the valence and relevance of associated audience comments. Comments were most oppositional on CNN and most supportive on Yahoo. Comment coding revealed approximately equal levels of opposition and support overall. We identified four common arguments among oppositional comments: government intrusion on personal behaviors, problematic allocation of governmental spending, questionable science, and challenges regarding campaign efficacy. Supportive comments tended to convey personal stories and emotions.
The Tips campaign received limited coverage on either online news or blog sources, but the limited number of stories generated engagement among online audiences. In addition to the content and volume of blog and news coverage, audience comments and websites' mechanisms for sharing stories via social media are likely to determine the influence of online earned media. In order to facilitate meaningful evaluation of public health campaigns within the rapidly advancing media environment, there is a need for the public health community to build consensus regarding collection and assessment of engagement data.
Sosyal medyanın ortaya çıkışı ile geleneksel haber merkezlerinin yapı ve işlevlerinde değişiklikler görülmeye başlanmıştır. Sosyal medya, editör ve gazetecilerin veri toplama biçimini ve bilgi akışını kontrol etme işlevlerini değişime uğratmıştır. Bu değişiklikler ile eşik bekçiliği kavramı da yeniden düşünülmesi gereken kavramlar arasına girmiştir. Çalışmada, Alexa sitesine göre en çok takip edilen 100 haber sitesi içinden seçilen 10 haber sitesi editörüne derinlemesine mülakat tekniğinden faydalanarak; kuruluşlarındaki sosyal medya kullanımı, kullanıcı tarafından oluşturulan içerikler, veri toplama sürecinde sosyal medyanın rolü ve içeriği denetleyen mekanizmalar hakkında toplam 11 soru yöneltilmiştir. Bu kapsamda sosyal medyanın veri toplama modeli ve yapılanmasını nasıl değiştirdiği ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda sosyal medyanın; editörlerin geleneksel rollerini etkilediği ve günümüzde en önemli haber kaynaklarından biri durumuna geldiği görülmüştür. Ayrıca, Twitter'ın haber merkezlerinin günlük çalışmalarında haber almak için en sık kullandıkları sosyal ağ olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Çalışmaya katılanların %70'i eşik bekçiliği sürecinde editörü daha etkili bulurken, %30'u ise bu sürecte muhabiri daha önemli bulmaktadır. Çalışmaya katılanların %70'i eşik bekçiliği sürecinin muhabirden başladığını ifade ederken, %30'u ise editörün bu sürecin ilk aşaması olması gerektiğine inanmaktadır. Çalışmada, editöryal süreçte genel yayın yönetmeni ile yayın koordinatörü kararı veren son kişi(ler) olmalarına rağmen, internet haberciliğinde editörün oldukça önemli bir rol oynadığı tespit edilmiştir. Katılımcılar, geleneksel medya ile internet medyasındaki eşik bekçiliği sürecindeki en önemli farklılığın, hız, doğruluk ve güvenilirlik faktörleri olduğunu, kuruluşlarında sosyal medya içeriklerinin doğruluğunu kontrol eden bir mekanizma bulunmadığını ancak kendi bünyelerinde oluşturdukları bazı filtrelerle bu sorunu aşmaya çalıştıklarını ortaya koydular.
With the advances in social media, some changes started to happen in the face and the function of the traditional newsrooms. More than that, social media has changed how editors and reporters, report the news and, perhaps more importantly, control the flow of information. The gatekeeping concept came among the concepts that should be reconsidered due to the changes have been made. This study examined 10 news professionals chosen among the 100 most visited news websites according to Alexa websıte. In-depth interview technique was used in order to ask them 11 questions regarding the usage of social media in their respective news organization, user-generated content, social media's role in newsgathering process and the mechanism which controls the content. In this study, the way that social media has changed the newsgathering model and structure is analyzed. The findings show that the social media had an impact on the editor's traditional role in the newsroom and has become one of the most important news references in today's newsrooms. The Twitter has identified as the most used social network to gather news in the daily newsroom's work. The respondents suggested the speed, validity, and reliability as the most significant differences between traditional media and digital media. While 70 percent of the participants believe that the editorial process starts from the reporter, 30 of the participants think that the process starts with the editor. 70 percent of the participants believe in the fact that editors play the most significant role when it comes to the process of gatekeeping whereas the other 30 percent opt for the reporter as their primary choice in this process. This study found that although chief editor and editorial coordinator are the people who make the ultimate decisions regarding publishing a news, the editor plays a crucial role in internet journalism. They also said that there are not any specific mechanism to control the social media content in their respective news, however, they made their filters in order to cope up with social media content.
The news media is frequently criticized for ignoring, missing or overseeing important, socio-politically relevant news. Such journalistic blindspots are often part of the 'long' news agenda, requiring resources, in-depth knowledge and investigation. In this article, we analyse what news topics are most infrequently covered by the media ‐ the micro-categories of content analysis. A content analysis of 70 news outlets in Norway ( n =8182) reveals that the news topics receiving less than 1 per cent of coverage are social issues, international crime and the economy. This bottom-up perspective demonstrates that under-reported news constitutes predominantly 'eventless' issues, sustaining event-centredness as an agenda-setting news value. Finding that more than half of the content categories in the Norwegian corpus receive less than 1 per cent coverage, we propose, however, that the sum of these blindspots engenders a 'long tail' of journalistic coverage that together facilitates news diversity.
Social sharing of news content through Twitter, Facebook, email, and other platforms is increasingly important to local television (TV) news stations. This article presents the results of a longitudinal content analysis of the prevalence and design of the automated social sharing tools presented next to timely, local news content on TV news websites between 2010 and 2015. While 93% of news websites now contain automated social sharing icons, approximately 36% of the social shares from these tools contain incorrect information or lead back to different content altogether. While social sharing options have increased since 2010, automated messages shared with the links, and link accuracy rates, remain relatively unchanged. As readers’ social sharing of news stories becomes more important to the TV news industry’s penetration into social media platforms, it is increasingly crucial to study these automated social tools and how they can serve as unintentional gatekeepers by sharing the wrong information.
Through the multimedia resources, cybermedia can articulate a language more flexible that that of conventional media. In our analysis of content, focused on the allusions of Juan Carlos I during 2009 and 2011, we have evaluated integration of multimedia resources on ABC.es and ELPAIS.com, as the prominent role granted to the king of Spain on such resources. The results highlight the significant audiovisual implementation of the monarchy (almost six units out of ten, on ABC.es, and almost eight out of ten on ELPAIS.com); some kind of audiovisual resource was used. The most important conclusion is the one relating to the prominent attention given: both headlines, symbolically away at first sight, denote a similar structural pattern of the king's characterization, which is a clear evidence of the significant direction of the descriptive information of the monarchical institution.
Exposure to low-quality news videos on a newspaper website led a younger audience to see the news organization as less credible and lacking in value. Findings offer a cautionary tale for news organizations because even a few low-quality news videos on a newspaper website might damage newspapers' fervent effort to attract a younger audience.
Drawing on existing findings on blog genres, this study contributes to previous research on blogs as virtual communities and computer-mediated communication channels. Excluding Herring et al.’s [5] research on blogs as a single genre and their importance in the internet ecology, further research is needed to understand specific developments within blogging technology. More specifically, there is a gap in examining the uses of blogs in a corporate context. With a case study of corporate communication through a blog, the aim of this research is to further the knowledge of corporate blogs and to advance the theoretical understanding of that particular type of blog.
Las cadenas de televisión se han visto obligadas a adaptar sus rutinas de trabajo a la denominada Sociedad Digital, que está cambiando las relaciones entre los medios de comunicación de masas y sus au diencias. Una de las consecuencias de estos cambios es que los usuarios quieren sentirse cada vez más protagonistas. El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar el grado de adaptación de las principales cadenas de televisión españolas a la Web 2.0. La metodología empleada está formada por 32 indicadores, agrupa dos entorno a siete parámetros que tratan de evaluar la calidad de sus sitios web y el uso que realizan de las herramientas para fomentar la interactividad. Los resultados muestran que el empleo de las herra mientas propias de la web 2.0, el acceso a la información y el registro del usuario son los parámetros más presentes.
Television channels have been forced to adapt their work processes to the so called Digital Society, which is changing the relationship between mass media and their audiences. One of the consequences of these changes is that users want to feel increasingly participant. The aim of this study is to evaluate the degree of adaptation of the main Spanish TV channels to Web 2.0. The methodology we use consists of thirty-two indicators, organized around seven parameters that try to evaluate the quality of their websites and their use of interactive tools. Results show that the use of the characteristics of Web 2.0; access to information and user registration are the most common parameters.
Solo videojournalism has grown from a practice on the margins of journalism into the mainstream at many television broadcast and online newspaper companies. This qualitative study asks the question: How does a solo videojournalist use digital technology to create visual and social meaning? The study applies medium theory and social semiotics to analyze both the content and the form of one award-winning solo videojournalist production. The solo videojournalist, Dave Delozier, uses technology to serve his personal editorial vision as he depicts how war veterans at a funeral construct their social reality. Thus, the production functions as a social, as well as a visual, medium. The storytelling strategy reflects the photojournalistic conventions of realism and empathy, combined with a professional awareness of the communicative potential of the medium environment. I argue that this multimedia tool can bring a more experiential style of storytelling to journalism, at a time when media audiences expect emotional qualities and authenticity.
In light of the growing use of tablets for news reading and mobile news consumption behaviors, this study examined whether an innovative way of structuring news on the tablet that mimics mobile news behaviors reinforced attention for, and learning from, news. Specifically, it was theorized that the chronological and associative structuring of news articles into so-called developing news stories would lead to more attention for news, and better recall and comprehension of news, than the linear print newspaper structure that newspaper publishers continue to copy from print to tablet. A multiple-day experiment was set up using the eye-tracking method to measure and control for attention. The results show that the developing news structure increased comprehension of news substantively, independently of attention effects; no effects were found on attention and factual recall.
The media agenda effects have been leading the dominant paradigms since
the beginning of the communication research. Nowadays, around a paradigm
which seeks to integrate different schools and theories (Rosengren, 1993), the
communication researchers assume both the active role of the audience, when
interpreting the messages produced by media, and their powerful effects, but
limited.
For last ten years, the ability of mainstream online media to engage new
audiences has been making possible the emergence of research projects focused
on the study of the online media agenda (Greer and Mensing, 2006; Quandt,
2008; Van der Wurff et al., 2008). Relaying on concepts such as immediacy or
mass distribution, these new media are configured as one of the basic elements
on the analysis of the media agenda and its powerful effects on the public agenda.
In this context, we are able to wonder about the configuration of this online
media agenda. Could we assure that online journalism applies the same criteria
on the selection and hierarchization process of the news? Could we verify
changes on the news production process of the online media? These issues are
fundamental when we want to know the social effects of the communication
that result from the collective impact of the media. This impact is defined by
Maxwell McCombs (2012) as the process of civic osmosis.
The aim of this chapter is to study the possibilities of analysis of international online media in the field of cultural convergence and trasnmedia narratives, analyzing the way in which the information in digital news is organized internally in the media and externally in relation to the rest of the Web. On the other hand, she also discovers that in the news items analyzed a great weight is still held by the traditional model, modern narrative, in comparison with fiction or postmodern narrative.
The progressive evolution of the online media over the last 20 years, from 1995 to the present, occupies a special place in the professional and academic field, and is now heading towards an unknown horizon filled with uncertainty for the profession. The work carried out by the Infotendencias group, made up of thirty-two teachers and researchers from thirteen Spanish universities, consisted precisely in narrating that evolution. They carried out that work from the origins of digital journalism up to the present moment in which we are immersed, a key moment of reconfiguration and reinvention of the mass media. The Infotendencias group has been succeeded by another, centered on active audiences, which aims to continue the work of that research group. The origin of this book can be found in the research activity of its authors that stretches back for a decade and a half; this has resulted in a certain consolidation of both a stable academic critical mass and, above all, a collaborative network that is increasingly advancing into the international sphere -
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Los cibermedios gallegos utilizan muy poco las herramientas de la web social y apenas incorporan servicios de valor anadido. El elemento mas empleado es el envio de noticias por correo electronico, seguido de la posibilidad de imprimir contenidos y la sindicacion. Tambien es muy limitada la posibilidad de visualizar la informacion en PDF y el recurso de hemeroteca, lo que demuestra que la mayoria de los cibermedios gallegos tienen un largo camino por recorrer en el aprovechamiento de las posibilidades del nuevo modelo. Sin embargo, los responsables de los cibermedios afirman que apuestan por la informacion en la red y que consideran las herramientas de la web social una oportunidad para el cambio de modelo periodistico que ha comenzado en los ultimos anos de la mano de internet.
This study focuses on the online coverage of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh's execution on the websites of the top 15 print newspapers cited by Columbia Journalism Review as the "Best American Newspapers." Using content analysis, the study compares the 15 newspapers' websites by measuring the number, destination, and characteristics of hyperlinks that accompany these stories. The results suggest that online newspapers use hyperlinks as a gatekeeping device because they are unlikely to offer external hyperlinks. The study also shows that online newspapers are not taking advantage of multimedia and interactivity on the Web.
In the evolving research arena of mediated communication technology adoption and uses, one of the most valuable developments involves the increased integration of distinct communication research traditions. This emerging fusion presents an unprecedented opportunity for communication researchers to share, confer, and challenge the “native” tradition that each has followed. This article proposes an integrated research model and explains how it can serve as the basis for mediated communication technology adoption research. In particular, this proposed model is intended to provide a research framework for studying the factors that help shape adoption decisions of various communication technologies and the potential impact of technology adoption on the social system, audiences, and use patterns.
The internet – specifically its graphic interface, the world wide web – has had a major impact on all levels of (information) societies throughout the world. Specifically for journalism as it is practiced online, we can now identify the effect that this has had on the profession and its culture(s). This article defines four particular types of online journalism and discusses them in terms of key characteristics of online publishing – hypertextuality, interactivity, multimediality – and considers the current and potential impacts that these online journalisms can have on the ways in which one can define journalism as it functions in elective democracies worldwide. It is argued that the application of particular online characteristics not only has consequences for the type of journalism produced on the web, but that these characteristics and online journalisms indeed connect to broader and more profound changes and redefinitions of professional journalism and its (news) culture as a whole.
Online editors agree that standards should be the same whether publishing online or in print. However, many say that online standards are affected negatively by the speed of publishing and the lack of an adequate number of online staff.
Explores the attitudes of metro reports and editors in the United States toward changes in the media through which they provide information to readers. Concerns about the way in which journalists are integrating these changes not only in their daily routines but also in their perceptions of their own roles, skills and values; Documentation of two related questions that guided this attitude assessment study
Newspapers traditionally have brought selected information about the world to local readers' doorsteps. But as papers go online, their editors face new decisions relating to that gatekeeping role. This study examines the print and online versions of six Colorado newspapers, comparing the amount of local and nonlocal news, sports and business content in each. The findings indicate online products have a much stronger local orientation than print ones, suggesting that online papers may be moving toward a reinterpretation of their role in connecting readers to the world beyond their horizons.
This study applies emerging network theory to the use of hyperlinks in journalism stories on the Web. A five-year data set, including almost 1,500 Web news stories, is examined. The study concludes that the use of links in Web news stories is increasing in ways predicted by network theory. Stories may become both more event-driven and more contextual on the flexible platform of the Web.
Newsroom experiments with convergence—a sharing of news staffs, technologies, products, and geography—disrupt not just the norms and routines of newspaper news work hut, more profoundly, the professional socialization of print journalists and their perception of themselves as a distinctive kind of news worker. This article draws on case studies of four converged newsrooms to examine conceptual and sociological shifts among newspaper journalists. Findings suggest print journalists are undergoing resocialization to an expanded view of professionalism; ingrained habits and learned skills related to newsroom structure and storytelling norms are more resistant to change.
A new trend of product–service systems (PSSs) that has the potential to minimise environmental impacts of both production and consumption is emerging. This article attempts to build a theoretical framework for PSS and serves as a background for identifying possible investment needs in studying them. There are three main uncertainties regarding the applicability and feasibility of PSSs: the readiness of companies to adopt them, the readiness of consumers to accept them, and their environmental implications. The main finding is that successful PSSs will require different societal infrastructure, human structures and organisational layouts in order to function in a sustainable manner.
Abstract This study had two primary objectives. The first was to examine the predictors of preferential attachment in the war blog network. A multiple regression analysis revealed use of links to blogs and original reporting content as significant predictors of incoming links. Second, the war blogosphere was mapped to reveal two distinct halves, the liberal and the conservative. Measures of network centrality identified key blogs, some of which served as conduits between the two spheres. Other differences between the sides were examined.
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in Print and Online Newspapers," in Internet Newspapers: The Making of
a Mainstream Medium, ed. Xigen Li (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006).