Mediation of the message in a wireless global environment: Revisiting the media gatekeeping model

Abstract

Mediation in news industries is being revisiting. Gatekeepers decide which information should be allowed to be delivered into a particular audience. In the modern globalized media landscape, journalists are subject to various influences -- intra-organization and extra-media pressures interplay with cultural and ideological factors. Gatekeeping is a process that interconnects people, routines, institutions, extra-media pressures, and the ideological environment. ICTs related to media technologies influence interactivity among these pillars and wireless technologies have changed the global media gatekeeping landscape. The European Union has experienced dramatic changes in its member-states regulation environment and has initiated processes for the allocation of spectrum resources.