Com(ple)menting the news on the financial crisis: The contribution of news users’ commentary to the diversity of viewpoints in the public debate:

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Com(ple)menting the news on the financial crisis: The contribution of news users’ commentary to the diversity of viewpoints in the public debate:

Christian Baden¹, Nina Springer¹•Institutions (1)

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich¹

07 Jul 2014-European Journal of Communication (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 29, Iss: 5, pp 529-548

TL;DR: In this paper, the interpretations of the current financial crisis in the online coverage of five German newspapers and the subsequent commentary of news users were analyzed using an innovative strategy to identify the interpretative repertoires constructed by news and user frames, assessing how user commentary deviated from those viewpoints represented in the news.

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Abstract: Does news users’ commentary contribute to widening the diversity of viewpoints represented in the news? This article comparatively analyses the interpretations of the current financial crisis in the online coverage of five German newspapers and the subsequent commentary of news users. Using an innovative strategy to identify the interpretative repertoires constructed by news and user frames, it assesses how user commentary deviates from those viewpoints represented in the news. Findings show that user accounts mostly remain within the wider interpretative repertoires offered by the media. However, they utilize media frame fragments rather freely to construct their own views, shifting focus and elaborating upon new aspects. While no consistent alternative repertoires were constructed, users thus valuably complemented the diversity of concerns discussed on news websites.

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#qldfloods and @QPSMedia: Crisis Communication on Twitter in the 2011 South East Queensland Floods

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Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess

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Abstract: Social media sites Twitter and Facebook played a crucial role in disseminating information during the 2011 Queensland floods. That is the key finding of a new report by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). CCI researchers Assoc. Prof. Axel Bruns and Dr. Jean Burgess from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Assoc. Prof. Kate Crawford and Frances Shaw from the University of New South Wales focussed especially on the role of Twitter, which was prominently used by the Queensland Police Service during the crisis. “Through their @QPSMedia Twitter account, police staff provided timely updates directly from the Queensland Premier’s situation meetings,” said Professor Bruns. “Many mainstream media picked up on these updates and included them in their own news tickers.” Dr Burgess added that social media did much more than just improve communication between police and media organisations. “During the week of 10 January 2011, some 15,000 users participated in the #qldfloods hashtag on Twitter, sharing news, advice, photos and videos of the inundation,” she said. Report cover: Crisis communication, Angus Veitch / flickr

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"Com(ple)menting the news on the fin..." refers background in this paper

...Also, as reactions to news coverage, user commentary is inevitably influenced by the information and frames provided therein (Baden, 2010; Reese, 2010)....
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Abstract: Behind the “conventional wisdom” of mainstream television news lies a structured pattern of sources: newsmakers, experts, and commentators. This study uses network analysis to examine the interconnections of these sources-defined as joint appearances—within and across programs to produce a cohesive “framework,” Supporting an elite model, a single cohesive “insiders” group, knit together by officials, accounts for most of these sources and spans a number of key national issues. This news framework provides an important conceptual approach to understanding how the boundaries of public affairs discourse are staked out by the choice and positioning of news sources.

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...The final category of studies addresses those factors governing the journalistic production of diversity in the news (e.g. Benson and Hallin, 2007; Reese et al., 1994; Scheufele, 2006)....
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...Gandy, 1982); (5) the influence of co-orientation and validation through co-reference in mainstream public discourse (Reese et al., 1994); and (6) the formation of journalistic frames, which colour journalists’ own perceptions of social issues (Scheufele, 2006)....
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...…(Gamson and Modigliani, 1987; Gandy, 1982); (5) the influence of co-orientation and validation through co-reference in mainstream public discourse (Reese et al., 1994); and (6) the formation of journalistic frames, which colour journalists’ own perceptions of social issues (Scheufele, 2006)....
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"Com(ple)menting the news on the fin..." refers background in this paper

...From a news user’s point of view, the unobtrusive and technical nature of certain aspects of the public debt crisis emphasizes commentators’ dependence on media reporting, and the experts cited therein (Graber, 1988; Neuman et al., 1992)....
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...about housekeeping) and by drawing analogies to prior financial and other crises (Gamson et al., 1992; Graber, 1988; Graham, 2009)....
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...Also, several mechanisms and policy solutions can be grasped based on popular wisdom (e.g. about housekeeping) and by drawing analogies to prior financial and other crises (Gamson et al., 1992; Graber, 1988; Graham, 2009)....
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"Com(ple)menting the news on the fin..." refers background or methods in this paper

...Media audiences crucially depend on journalists for forming political opinions, but are provided with only a constrained diet of (mostly official) viewpoints (Bennett, 1996; Hayes and Guardino, 2010)....
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..., 2000)? This article uses an innovative strategy for assessing the diversity of interpretative repertoires (Wetherell and Potter, 1988), building upon existing measures of ideological and frame diversity (Benson, 2009; Hayes and Guardino, 2010; Voakes et al., 1996)....
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...…analysis, journalism, news/information, political communication, semiology/language/discourse Media audiences crucially depend on journalists for forming political opinions, but are provided with only a constrained diet of (mostly official) viewpoints (Bennett, 1996; Hayes and Guardino, 2010)....
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...Among those studies that gauge the range of frames provided on an issue, most find that often no more than two or three frames suffice to capture the bulk of news reporting on an issue (e.g. Benson and Hallin, 2007; Bronstein, 2005; Carpenter, 2010; Hayes and Guardino, 2010; Van Gorp, 2005)....
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...This article uses an innovative strategy for assessing the diversity of interpretative repertoires (Wetherell and Potter, 1988), building upon existing measures of ideological and frame diversity (Benson, 2009; Hayes and Guardino, 2010; Voakes et al., 1996)....
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