FREEZING THE FLOW OF ONLINE NEWS - Journalism Studies
According to previous research, two characteristics of online news as opposed to traditional news are interactivity and immediacy. However, most research in this area has focused on the news site-level of analysis, and there are only a few studies on how interactivity and immediacy affect online news on the news story-level of analysis. The main reason for this appears to be that the very nature of online news makes observation by traditional research methods, such as quantitative content analysis, problematic. Against this background, the overall purpose of this paper is to explore methodological approaches for the study of interactivity and immediacy on the news story-level of online news. The paper develops a three-pronged strategy for freezing the flow of online news to enable systematic content analyses of interactivity and immediacy, and tests this strategy in a comparative analysis of the online news sites Guardian.co.uk in Britain and Aftonbladet.se in Sweden. | source : www.informaworld.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 04/03/10 16:07 | permalien
DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME - Journalism Studies
what kind of content were people uploading to YouTube in response to the case? Second, where did YouTube users position themselves in relation to the dominant discourses of the news media in this case? Third, previous work demonstrates evidence of “collective expressiveness, emotionality, and identity” (Greer, 2004) in virtual communities structured around cases of child murder in the United Kingdom: to what extent were these characteristics of imagined community evident in responses to videos? Results demonstrate that YouTube provides a forum for a broad range of responses to the case, both accommodating and expanding on dominant mainstream discourses. Evidence of distinct imagined communities forming around particular responses to the case demonstrate nuanced and complex patterns of responses to mediated crime through YouTube, as technology erodes the traditional boundaries between producers and consumers of crime news. | source : www.informaworld.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 04/03/10 16:06 | permalien
USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND GATEKEEPING AT THE BBC HUB - Journalism Studies
This is an observational study of the way the BBC deals with user-generated content (UGC) at its UGC hub. It finds four types of UGC. First a form of unsolicited news story: second a form of solicited content for specific extant news stories; third a form of expeditious content for specific items and features, and fourth a form of audience watchdog content. The study also finds that UGC is routinely moderated by the BBC hub and that traditional gatekeeping barriers have evolved over time to ensure the maintenance of core BBC news values. The study concludes with the view that the extensive use of UGC at the BBC hub encourages the increasing use of “soft journalism”, with as yet unknown consequences for the BBC. | source : www.informaworld.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 04/03/10 10:32 | permalien
New(s) functions for the mobile: a cross-cultural study -- Westlund 12 (1): 91 -- New Media & Society
In recent years the mobile phone has evolved from essentially an interpersonal communication device to a multimedia machine providing always-on internet connection. However, actual use of mobile internet, including functions such as news services, has been slow in most countries. This article focuses on questions related to usability and cost for using the mobile as a news medium, drawing upon cross-cultural data gathered in Sweden and Japan during fall 2007. Although Japan and Sweden have superficially equivalent news media systems, the Japanese more favourably perceive the usefulness of accessing news on the mobile than do Swedes. However, the Japanese judge mobile news as more expensive and are less willing to pay for it. In reporting on this research, the article illustrates some of the methodological challenges in doing cross-cultural comparisons. | source : nms.sagepub.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 03/03/10 22:27 | permalien
Econbrowser: What drives media slant?
Gentzkow and Shapiro propose to measure the slant of a particular newspaper by searching speeches entered into the Congressional Record and counting the number of times particular phrases were used by representatives of each party, mechanically identifying phrases favored by one party over the other. For example, a Democrat is more likely to use the phrase "workers rights" whereas a Republican is more likely to use the phrase "human embryos". They then counted the number of times phrases of each type appeared in a particular newspaper to construct an index of the political slant of that newspaper. The Gentzkow-Shapiro index of slant (shown on the vertical axis in the diagram below) has a reasonable correlation with subjective measures such as ratings assigned by users of Mondo Times (horizontal axis). For example, both measures agree that the Washington Times is one of the most conservative papers and the Atlanta Constitution is one of the most liberal newspapers. | source : www.econbrowser.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 03/03/10 20:12 | permalien
Once Again: People Want To Share The News | Techdirt
The Pew study found that 75% of people get news sent to them by friends via email/social networks and 52% take part in sharing links. That becomes a lot harder with paywalls. | source : techdirt.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 03/03/10 08:52 | permalien
Social Media for Nonprofit Goals
Are social media channels working to help nonprofits engage their current audience? Recruit new supporters? Raise money? This 20-page Idealware report provides the results of our survey of 459 nonprofit staff member actively using social networking for their organization. It summarizes what nonprofits are using, and how well they think it works, for tools including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, blogs, photo sharing, and video sharing site. | source : www.idealware.org
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 26/02/10 14:59 | permalien
The Emerging Viewertariat | Nick Anstead
In this preliminary piece we start to analyse a dataset of more than 40,000 tweets related to the broadcast. We theorise that the interaction of a major broadcast events and new media technologies is creating a proportion of the audience who amount to a Viewertariat – commenting, analysing, and discussing what they are watching in real time. | source : www.nickanstead.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 25/02/10 20:38 | permalien
Defining Common Collaboration Tensions - John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison - Harvard Business Review
Transactional versus Relational Collaboration: All of us know the iconic examples of InnoCentive and GoldCorp., in which companies put forward specific problems they face and ask big groups of individuals to identify potential solutions. Crowdsourcing efforts like these are highly scalable, to be sure, but their transactional nature requires clearly and concisely stating both the problem and its solution. Yet in a world of near-constant disruption it's increasingly difficult to know what the problem is. Solutions, when found, are often in the form of experiential, "tacit" knowledge that's difficult to articulate. That's why relational collaboration, in which seekers and solvers build relational capital and trust during a longer period of time, is poised to become the most valuable form of collaboration: it supports the creation of and the exchange of tacit knowledge. For clues about scaling relational collaboration, see our posting on creation spaces. | source : blogs.hbr.org
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 25/02/10 06:41 | permalien