scholarly journals Setting the Transgender Agenda: Intermedia Agenda-Setting in the Digital News Environment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J Billard
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Digital News

Transgender issues have recently emerged as highly salient topics of political contestation in the United States. This paper investigates one relevant factor in that ascent: intermedia agenda-setting between digital-native and legacy press news. Through a content analysis of the top-five digital-native and top-five legacy press online news entities from 2014 to 2015, we investigate the dynamics of intermedia agenda-setting in the context of transgender topics, both at the level of attention to transgender topics in general and at the level of attention to specific issues related to the transgender community (e.g., anti-transgender violence). Results indicate significant causal effects of digital-native coverage on legacy press coverage at the level of general attention to transgender topics. However, results also indicate that at the level of specific transgender issues, digital-native coverage drives legacy press coverage on some issues, which legacy press coverage drives digital-native coverage on others. Implications for intermedia agenda-setting in the digital news media environment and for the future of transgender political rights movements are discussed.

When politics intervenein non-political news flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194
Author(s):  
Yiyan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Online News ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting

Abstract While intermedia agenda-setting scholars have examined the process from a global perspective, trans-regional intermedia agenda setting, especially in non-western context, remains understudied. By analyzing the time-series data of news coverage on air pollution, a non-political topic, from online news media in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 2015 to 2018, this study revealed a triangular first-level agenda-setting relationship among the three regions and identified the changing agenda setters across years, which disproves the imperialistic stereotype that there is a one-way control from mainland China media. The study also revealed the significant yet unconventional moderating effect of the political stance of news organizations in the trans-regional information flow. This study contributes to the intermedia agenda-setting literature by introducing the method of controlling the real-life situation in the Granger Causality test and by showing that non-political issues can also be politicalized in the salience transferring process.

scholarly journals Media Coverage in Times of Crisis. Intermedia Agenda-setting of COVID-19 – related Topics

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Dana Raluca Buturoiu ◽  
Ana Voloc
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Online News ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
The Media

In times of crisis, the media play a crucial role in offering people information and updates related to the ongoing events. Thus, the media implicitly shape public opinion on the issues they cover and, as a result, influence public attitudes and behaviors. In this context, this paper aims at analyzing the media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, by means of quantitative content analysis (N=1511) conducted on both television and online news stories released during March 18-31 2020, this study sheds light on the agenda-setting effects of the media and the phenomenon known as intermedia agenda-setting. Main results show that, in spring 2020, both television and online news stories extensively covered COVID-19 topics, focusing on domestic issues such as decisions taken by the authorities in order to manage the pandemic, effects of the virus, and statistics. Furthermore, results show a relatively high intermedia agenda-setting effect within the Romanian media environment. Content published online (either in the form of social media content or online stories) is frequently “borrowed” and cited in both online and television news stories, leading us to the idea that digital media might have become mainstream information sources.

scholarly journals Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 194016122096367
Author(s):  
Annett Heft ◽  
Curd Knüpfer ◽  
Susanne Reinhardt ◽  
Eva Mayerhöffer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
The Right

The recent rise of a more transnationally networked political right across Europe and the United States has been accompanied by an emerging alternative digital news infrastructure through which information circulates and shared epistemologies are established. This paper examines the extent to which digital news sites on the right are interconnected within and across countries. It further explores which additional sites serve as transnationally shared reference points of such news ecology on a transnational scale. To do so, we investigate hyperlink networks between alternative right-wing online news sites (RNS) in six western democracies (Austria, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden). Our analysis draws on hyperlink data harvested from 65 RNS for three months in 2018. The results show that RNS do establish interlinked alternative right-wing news ecologies, as they connect to likeminded RNS within and across borders. Furthermore, we see substantial variation across countries, where RNS from countries with less established alternative right-wing news infrastructure are more likely to link transnationally to RNS. The United States represents an outlier in that it features the largest and domestically most integrated network of RNS, while U.S. sites function as hubs for transnational connections from European RNS. Apart from connections between RNS, we find that legacy news media are crucial transnationally shared reference points. We conclude that rather than presenting an insulated, alternative sphere, the emerging digital news ecology on the right seeks to link up to the broader information environment across borders.

scholarly journals The Enduring Popularity of Legacy Journalism: An Analysis of Online Audience Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Advertising Revenue ◽  
The People ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Digital News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Deep Pockets

As news publishers continue to lose subscribers and advertising revenue, journalism practitioners and researchers have looked to newcomers to the field for ideas of how to adapt and succeed in a much more saturated and unstable media environment. Many have specifically looked to digital native news organizations to understand the ways that journalism is attempting to reinvent itself for a media landscape that is very different from the previous one. Yet what often gets lost in this focus on the newest news organizations is the resilience of many of journalism’s older ones. In this study, I analyze a year’s worth of U.S.-based<strong> </strong>online news consumption data to show that, even in a media environment increasingly saturated with digital native news outlets, legacy news brands continue to comprise a majority of the most popular news sites. Drawing on audience studies literature, I argue that these findings likely reflect audience preferences for familiar, established brands, as well as structural advantages these brands maintain due to their size and capital. I conclude that the fate of digital news organizations is not just a question of their innovativeness or nimbleness. It is also a question of their ability to combat a combination of powerful, stubborn forces: the habits of the people they hope to reach, and the deep pockets of their competitors.

scholarly journals Funding Sustainable Online News: Sources of Revenue in Digital-Native and Traditional Media in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11328
Author(s):  
Alfonso Vara-Miguel ◽  
Cristina Sánchez-Blanco ◽  
Charo Sádaba Sádaba Chalezquer ◽  
Samuel Negredo
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Online News ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
Exhaustive Study ◽  
First Time

Digital news publishers strive to balance revenue streams in their business models: as standard advertising declines, alternatives for sustaining digital journalism arise in the forms of sponsored content, user donations and payments—one-off purchases, subscriptions or memberships, public or private grants, electronic commerce, events and consulting. An exhaustive study found 2874 active online news publications in Spain, and it observed the adoption of such models in early 2021. Advertising remains the most popular source of income for digital news operations (85.8%) and most sites rely on just one or two revenue streams (74.5%). We compare the cases in our census by their origin (digital-native or non-native), geography (local/regional or national/global) and topic scope (generalist or specialized). We find that traditional, national and specialized online media have a broader and more innovative revenue mix than digital-native, regional or local and general-interest news outlets. The comprehensiveness of this pioneering study sheds light for the first time on the risk that the lack of diversification and innovation in funding sources may imperil the financial sustainability of some online news operations in Spain, mostly those with a smaller scope and no backing from a traditional business, according to the results we present here.

Distinction recapped: Digital news repertoires in the class structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 3029-3049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Lindell
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Statistical Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Class Habitus

This article mobilizes Pierre Bourdieu’s full theory-method to study how class shapes our news orientations in a digital, high-choice media environment. An online survey ( N = 3850) was used to create a statistical representation of the contemporary Swedish social space with variables measuring access to economic, cultural, social, and cosmopolitan capital. A range of digital news preferences and practices were then given co-ordinates in that space. Results highlight the importance of class habitus for the formation of digital news repertoires. Since different groups form altogether different news repertoires—and distaste the preferences of the groups most different to themselves (in terms of access to capitals)—news practices and preferences solidify the positions of groups in the social structure. The study sheds light on the relationship between social and digital inequality and challenges the psychological and individualistic bias in contemporary research on news media use.

scholarly journals The Impact of Web Site Campaigning on Traditional News Media and Public Information Processing

2003 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyotae Ku ◽  
Lynda Lee Kaid ◽  
Michael Pfau
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Setting Approach ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information

This study examined the impact of Web site campaigning on traditional news media agendas and on public opinion during the 2000presidential election campaign. Based on an intermedia agenda-setting approach, this study demonstrated the direction of influence among three media in terms of the flow of information. An agenda-setting impact of Web site campaigning on the public was also identified.

scholarly journals Intermedia Agenda Setting in the Social Media Age: How Traditional Players Dominate the News Agenda in Election Times

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Harder ◽  
Julie Sevenans ◽  
Peter Van Aelst
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
Series Data ◽  
News Story ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Twitter Users

Intermedia agenda setting is a widely used theory to explain how content transfers between news media. The recent digitalization wave, however, challenges some of its basic presuppositions. We discuss three assumptions that cannot be applied to online and social media unconditionally: one, that media agendas should be measured on an issue level; two, that fixed time lags suffice to understand overlap in media content; and three, that media can be considered homogeneous entities. To address these challenges, we propose a “news story” approach as an alternative way of mapping how news spreads through the media. We compare this with a “traditional” analysis of time-series data. In addition, we differentiate between three groups of actors that use Twitter. For these purposes, we study online and offline media alike, applying both measurement methods to the 2014 Belgium election campaign. Overall, we find that online media outlets strongly affect other media that publish less often. Yet, our news story analysis emphasizes the need to look beyond publication schemes. “Slow” newspapers, for example, often precede other media’s coverage. Underlining the necessity to distinguish between Twitter users, we find that media actors on Twitter have vastly more agenda-setting influence than other actors do.

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