News User's News Selection Process and Type in a Multiple-Media Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 193-247
Author(s):  
Ju Hyun Kang
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Multiple Media

scholarly journals ‘Leaving Dublin’: Photographic portrayals of post-Celtic Tiger emigration – a sociological analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-653
Author(s):  
Breda Gray
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Immigration And Emigration ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
Complex Circuits ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
The City

This article analyses David Monahan’s photographic portrait series of over 120 people before emigrating from post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, entitled ‘Leaving Dublin’. As a digital series that circulates across multiple media channels, it moves beyond the tradition of documentary photography into a more hybrid aesthetic, political and media environment. As well as inserting these images in multiple circulatory platforms and replicable formats, the series disrupts the dominant visual culture of emigration by expressively recasting how it is seen and thought. This article argues that the highly stylised and unsentimental aesthetic adopted by Monahan pushes the images beyond the established visual culture of sentimental departure, visualising instead transnational and multicultural histories and politics through complex circuits of migration. As such, it highlights what Mieke Bal sees as the instability of migratory culture in the city landscape. At the same time, however, it re-enacts particular social distinctions and divisions. Just as new trajectories, relationalites and stories ‘appear’ as constitutive of Dublin and contemporary mobility, so also other trajectories, relationalities and mobilities are disappeared in ways that keep an exclusionary topography and politics of mobility in place. This is evident in the insistent and persistent separation between Irish asylum-seeking/immigration and emigration-focused digital photographic projects. So, although digitisation facilitates reflexive ways of communicating contemporary migration, and Monahan’s project succeeds in forging subtle connections, it also re-enacts structured disconnection and forgetting.

scholarly journals Political fact-checking in the Middle East: What news can be verified in the Arab world?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-139
Author(s):  
Abdelrahman Fakida
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Facebook Pages

Abstract This study examines the news selection processes followed by fact-checking organizations in the Middle East, specifically Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates, and gatekeeping such organizations face while working under authoritarian rule. By reviewing fact-checked news posted on the Facebook pages of six Arabic language organizations: Da Begad, HereszTruth, Fatabyyano, Matsad2sh, MisbarFC, and Saheeh Masr, this study manually analyzes about 5,000 fact-checked news stories to understand the extent of political fact-checking performed on Arab presidents, heads of government, and rulers, along with the most verified news topics. Results show that organizations in the Middle East rarely fact-check Arab rulers or refute their claims, while their news selection process prioritizes human interest topics. The study suggests that Arab fact-checkers resort to self-censorship due to gatekeeping influences that impact the region’s media climate.

Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages

2019 ◽  
pp. 791-807
Author(s):  
Georgeta Drulă
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Selection Of

As news flows in the social media environment, communication processes are facilitated by connecting processes between different categories of people. Thus, multimedia stories in social media journalism link not only pieces of information, but also people. Social media platforms are not only to communicate with audiences, but also to make connections between different stakeholders in the online production of news. This chapter investigates if this process of the selection of news for social media platforms is based on algorithmic criteria, or is only based on a human judgment? Methodologically, this chapter will analyse data from the Facebook pages of Romanian news sites in order to generate data which will be developed for a comparative analysis with online media in Poland. The questions raised by this study concern how media companies promote information on social media sites today.

Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages

2017 ◽  
pp. 122-138
Author(s):  
Georgeta Drulă
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Selection Of

As news flows in the social media environment, communication processes are facilitated by connecting processes between different categories of people. Thus, multimedia stories in social media journalism link not only pieces of information, but also people. Social media platforms are not only to communicate with audiences, but also to make connections between different stakeholders in the online production of news. This chapter investigates if this process of the selection of news for social media platforms is based on algorithmic criteria, or is only based on a human judgment? Methodologically, this chapter will analyse data from the Facebook pages of Romanian news sites in order to generate data which will be developed for a comparative analysis with online media in Poland. The questions raised by this study concern how media companies promote information on social media sites today.

scholarly journals Information balance between newspapers and social networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Russo ◽  
Francesco Mazzeo Rinaldi ◽  
Giovanni Giuffrida
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
The Other ◽  
Proper Choice ◽  
Editorial Policies ◽  
Political News ◽  
Optimal Balance ◽  
News Selection

Competing newspapers, after all, tend to publish the same information in agiven time frame. However, each editor tends to aggregate and present thenews according to certain criteria such as editorial policies, filteringstrategies, readers base, etc. Thus, the proper choice and filtering ofinformation makes one newspaper different from the other and, the propermanagement of such criteria, may deem the success or failure of a newspaper.From the editor’s perspective, the news selection process is a trade-offbetween informativeness and attractiveness, as determined by the readership.Could there be an optimal balance between these two conflicting forces?Moreover, is it possible that cultural and political inputs from social mediamay impact the news selection process?Political news on social networks represent nowadays a valuable informativeasset that gives the possibility to correlate newspaper information with publicrequest expressed on social networks. We believe that it is possible to developa theory to mitigate the newspaper’s cultural identity with the publicinformation needs collected on social media.In our work, we show how to measure the society request for information, andhow this can be conveyed.

scholarly journals News values on social media: News organizations’ Facebook use

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 871-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Rawi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
News Values ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Facebook Pages

This study examines the news selection practices followed by news organizations through investigating the news posted on social networking sites and, in particular, the Facebook pages of four foreign Arabic language TV stations: The Iranian Al-Alam TV, Russia Today, Deutsche Welle, and BBC. A total of 15,589 news stories are analyzed in order to examine the prominence of references to countries and political actors. The study reveals that social significance and proximity as well as the news organizations’ ideological agenda are the most important elements that dictate the news selection process.

Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 000765032110530
Author(s):  
Limin Fu ◽  
Dirk M. Boehe ◽  
Marc O. Orlitzky
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Signaling Theory ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Equity Risk ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Multiple Media

To mitigate risk, should companies signal a broad range of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives or instead focus on only a few ESG issues? Drawing on signaling theory, we propose that a broad array of ESG initiatives generates not only signal consistency but also accelerating signal costs. Our empirical results support the resultant hypothesis of a curvilinear relationship between ESG scope and equity risk. In addition, this U-shaped curve seems to become steeper when firms face multiple media-reported ESG controversies. Overall, our study qualifies the conventional wisdom that firms can reduce equity risk by attending to a wide variety of stakeholders and highlights the moderating (signal-amplifying) impact of the firm’s media environment.

The News Selection Process of Student and Professional Journalists

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Beverley J. Pitts
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
News Story ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Story Analysis

In a pilot descriptive study, 14 basic newswriting students and five experienced reporters wrote the same news story from a fact sheet. Story analysis showed facts included in the first five paragraphs by both groups were similar, although raters easily identified professionals' stories. Follow-up interviews revealed major differences in student and professional strategies. Professionals recognized the need for more information while students never questioned the information provided. Professionals looked for context and meaning while students concentrated on organizational strategies.

scholarly journals Picture Power? The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Partisan Selective Exposure

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Powell ◽  
Toni G. L. A. Van der Meer ◽  
Carlos Brenes Peralta
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Selection Behavior ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Additional Influence ◽  
Source Cues ◽  
The U.S

Today’s high-choice media environment allows citizens to select news in line with their political preferences and avoid content counter to their priors. So far, however, selective exposure research has exclusively studied news selection based on textual cues, ignoring the recent proliferation of visual media. This study aimed to identify the contribution of visuals alongside text in selective exposure to pro-attitudinal, counter-attitudinal and balanced content. Using two experiments, we created a social media-style newsfeed with news items comprising matching and non-matching images and headlines about the contested issues of immigration and gun control in the U.S. By comparing selection behavior of participants with opposing prior attitudes on these topics, we pulled apart the contribution of images and headlines to selective exposure. Findings show that headlines play a far greater role in guiding selection, with the influence of images being minimal. The additional influence of partisan source cues is also considered.

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