The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new data on its consumption prior to the election. Drawing on web browsing data, archives of fact-checking websites, and results from a new online survey, we find: (i) social media was an important but not dominant source of election news, with 14 percent of Americans calling social media their “most important” source; (ii) of the known false news stories that appeared in the three months before the election, those favoring Trump were shared a total of 30 million times on Facebook, while those favoring Clinton were shared 8 million times; (iii) the average American adult saw on the order of one or perhaps several fake news stories in the months around the election, with just over half of those who recalled seeing them believing them; and (iv) people are much more likely to believe stories that favor their preferred candidate, especially if they have ideologically segregated social media networks.

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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

The theory of affordances

After virtue, a study in moral theory

Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

Este estudo examina como jornalistas on-line definem uma frase comumente ouvida no ambiente de redacao online: o que significa se uma historia esta “indo bem”? Por meio de analise qualitativa das respostas obtidas por pesquisa com 206 editores on-line, tal estudo encontrou cinco categorias gerais de definicao: a) receber muitos leitores; b) obter altas metricas de audiencia; c) ser compartilhada nas midias sociais; d) ser comentada pelos leitores; e) contribuir aos papeis sociais do jornalismo. A plausibilidade dessa pratica emergente como uma nova norma jornalistica e, entao, discutida.

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Estar “Indo Bem” é Algo Bom? Como webanalytics e mídias sociais trazem à tona uma nova norma jornalística

Framing and gatekeeping are common keywords in journalism research, yet their theoretical intersection has not been sufficiently explored. From qualitative interviews with newspaper and online jour...

Reframing Gatekeeping: How Passing Gates Reshapes News Frames

On March 4, 2018, citizens in Switzerland rejected the “No Billag” initiative. The initiative demanded the abolition of the mandatory license fee for broadcasting. In Switzerland’s small and fragmented news market, these organizations most likely would be unable to operate without this funding on a purely commercial basis and would ultimately cease to exist. Thus, the media system as a whole was at stake. As expected, economic (self-)interests of media companies were reflected in news coverage, showing the impact of the profit rationale. The public service broadcaster was severely challenged, as proponents of the initiative and other media in several news articles claimed that its news reporting should be absolutely balanced between both sides, despite the fact that the opposing camp was much larger. Journalists’ engagement with the initiative was done through a national lens, with relatively explicit references to developments or the role of public service broadcasting in other countries or to global challenges coming from the tech companies.

Reporting when the current media system is at stake: explaining news coverage about the initiative on the abolishment of public service broadcasting in Switzerland

Este articulo presenta una sinopsis de los hallazgos primordiales de tres investigaciones dirigidas al uso de redes sociales durante el tifon Haiyan acontecido en Filipinas. En primer lugar, se realizo un analisis del contenido de Twitter para comunicarse de forma colectiva durante el tifon. segundo, se indago a traves de entrevistas en profundidad la manera como varios actores emplearon los redes sociales para mantenerse al tanto de los esfuerzos de auxilio del personal de Gobierno y para buscar soporte emocional. Tercero, tambien a traves de entrevistas, se compilaron las experiencias de los periodistas que cubrieron el tifon y las limitaciones que enfrentaron desde el punto de vista profesional pero a la vez en su condicion de victimas. El articulo concluye con recomendaciones practicas sobre el uso de redes sociales durante un desastre natural, y otras para tener en cuenta en proximos estudios empiricos y teoricos.

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/6040187.pdf

Barreras en la comunicación durante situaciones de crisis: lecciones de tres estudios sobre el tifón Haiyan en Filipinas

The typical journalist in the Philippines is about 38 years old and holds a university degree in journalism or communication. Of the 325 interviewed journalists, 166 were women, or 51.1 percent of the overall sample. The average age was 37.86 years old (s=10.68) and half of the journalists were younger than 37 years. Filipino journalists are also well-educated: 74.6 percent have a university degree while 18.3 percent have a master’s degree. Another 5.5 percent had undertaken some university studies but did not complete their degrees. Of those respondents who held a university degree, the majority (73.8%) specialized in communication or journalism: 44.8 percent had specialized in journalism, 17.0 percent had studied in another communication field, and 12.0 percent had specialized in both journalism and communication.

Edson C. Tandoc

Papers

Estar “Indo Bem” é Algo Bom? Como webanalytics e mídias sociais trazem à tona uma nova norma jornalística

Reframing Gatekeeping: How Passing Gates Reshapes News Frames

Reporting when the current media system is at stake: explaining news coverage about the initiative on the abolishment of public service broadcasting in Switzerland

Barreras en la comunicación durante situaciones de crisis: lecciones de tres estudios sobre el tifón Haiyan en Filipinas

Journalists in the Philippines