Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2263799
Marie Verstappen, Michaël Opgenhaffen
{"title":"Making it Fit: How Science News Gets Remediated for Facebook and Instagram","authors":"Marie Verstappen, Michaël Opgenhaffen","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2263799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2263799","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTToday’s news users have a wide range of options when it comes to news consumption. Articles can be read on an app, via a news website, on social media or a printed newspaper. To provide these different platforms news media have become integrated newsrooms that shovel news as a standard practice. After posting a news article to the news website, the same news article can later appear on a social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. During the transportation from one platform to another the news inevitably undergoes changes. These remediations can be initiated by the platform: format-dependent constraints, e.g., the mandatory addition of a status message; based on preferences of the algorithm; or can be according to the personal preferences of the social media editor. Based on these insights we compiled a unique corpus of 109 news stories that map “a perfect chain” of science news in a one-to-one relationship between the news website, Facebook, and Instagram accounts of three traditional Flemish newspapers. We manually explored the circulation flow of these news posts and identified the corresponding types of news remediation. These results contribute theoretical and practical insights into the affordances, characteristics and constraints of social media news.KEYWORDS: Remediationnews circulationscience newssocial mediaaffordancesInstagram AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Jack McMartin for initiating the research project “Circulation of Science News in the COVID-19 Era” (KU Leuven Impulse Fund) that laid the foundation for this paper.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The initial plan of the researchers was to include two outlets from different parent companies. However, due to the absence of science news on the platform “Het Laatste Nieuws”, they were unable to proceed with that selection.2 The used keywords are: “wetenschap”, “studie”, “universiteit”, “data”, “gegevens”, “ontwikkeling”, “onderzoekers”, “experts”, “expert”, “experten”, “studies”, “onderzoek”, “wetenschappers”, “wetenschapper” en “bestuderen”. These keywords translate roughly to “science”, “study”, “university”, “data”, “development”, “researchers”, “experts”, “expert”, “studies”, “research”, “scientists ”, “scientist” and “study”.3 The researchers also investigated the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, the largest popular newspaper in Flanders. In the period of one year, the newspaper only posted four Instagram news posts (0,007%). Therefore, we excluded the newspaper from our research.4 In the context of this study, a “classic news article” is characterised as an online article that adheres to a specific structure, comprising a top photo, a headline, and a lead.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135350646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260497
Xiaoyang Zhao, Knut De Swert, Mark Boukes, Rens Vliegenthart
{"title":"Framing EU–China Trade Relations: A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage (2001–2021)","authors":"Xiaoyang Zhao, Knut De Swert, Mark Boukes, Rens Vliegenthart","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260497","url":null,"abstract":"The debate over China’s economic influence on the European Union has grown prominent on both political and media agendas. However, little is known about how the UK media have framed EU–China trade relations in the past two decades. This case study employs a manual quantitative content analysis to investigate trends over time in the presence of frames and tone in UK newspaper coverage of EU–China trade relations (2001–2021) and to further explore differences between newspaper types in their portrayal of this topic (N = 600). Popular newspapers paid much less attention to EU–China trade relations than financial and quality newspapers but featured the most negative tone. Significant frame variation was detected over time and across newspapers, with the risk frame being the most visible. We also identified a significant negative correlation between tone and various frames. The findings not only contribute to existing economic news research by expanding on the theories of framing, negativity bias, and economic newsworthiness in the context of international trade relations but also carry implications for policy-makers and journalists.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2263797
Logan Molyneux, Jacob L. Nelson
{"title":"“Let’s Not Tank the Reputation of This Organization.” How Newsroom Social Media Policies Exacerbate Journalism’s Labor Crisis","authors":"Logan Molyneux, Jacob L. Nelson","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2263797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2263797","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study explores the tension between journalists’ personal social media accounts and newsroom social media policies to understand how newsroom managers exacerbate journalism’s labor crisis by de-professionalizing the field through restrictive policies. To analyze this tension, we conduct a critical discourse analysis of (1) managerial discourses collected from newsroom social media policies and scholarly literature and (2) journalistic discourses collected from in-depth interviews with 37 U.S. journalists. We find that newsroom social media policies require journalists to make four sacrifices in service of their organization’s reputation: individuality, opinion, voice, and privacy. This leaves journalists feeling frustrated by their lack of agency when it comes to engaging with the public and pursuing social media success. We conclude that this conflict contributes to journalism’s human resources crisis by limiting journalistic professionalism and autonomy, both of which are crucial for job satisfaction and journalism’s democratic mission.KEYWORDS: Social mediajournalismprofessionalismautonomyobjectivitylabor AcknowledgmentsThe authors wish to thank their co-authors on related work (Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Diana Bossio, Avery E. Holton, and Kaitlin C. Miller) and the reviewers and editors of this special for their contributions to this manuscript.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135581607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260499
Temple Uwalaka, Fred Amadi
{"title":"Beyond “Online Notice-Me”: Analysing Online Harassment Experiences of Journalists in Nigeria","authors":"Temple Uwalaka, Fred Amadi","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260499","url":null,"abstract":"Journalists are increasingly reporting that online harassment has become a normative part of their lives, and that online harassment experience induces fatigue, anxiety, and self-censorship on them. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with journalists in Nigeria, this study reports that journalists experienced acute, chronic or perennial, and escalatory harassments of intense nature. The study indicates that acute forms of online harassments were dismissed, amongst others as “online show-off”, “online banter” and “online notice-me”. Thereby misrecognising online harassments as forms of efficiency-focused media criticism. Our data further show that gender is not a triggering factor to online harassment of journalists. However, political, and investigative reporting is seen as a factor. Journalists reported improved systematic intervention from media organisations and their individual coping strategies, including engaging in self-censorship among others, as coping strategies for online harassment. Suggestions for future research areas were delineated.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135768448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260504
Eliza Mitova, Sina Blassnig, Edina Strikovic, Aleksandra Urman, Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser
{"title":"When Worlds Collide: Journalistic, Market, and Tech Logics in the Adoption of News Recommender Systems","authors":"Eliza Mitova, Sina Blassnig, Edina Strikovic, Aleksandra Urman, Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260504","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing number of media organisations are adopting news recommender systems (NRS). Such algorithmic technologies, which prioritise content based on, for example, previous user behaviour or popularity metrics, may have far-reaching repercussions for news work. Despite this, the implications of NRS implementation for intra-organisational practices as well as dynamics and tensions between involved actors remain understudied. Against this background, this study examines decision-making processes and relationships between actors participating in NRS projects from an institutional logics perspective and places a particular emphasis on resulting tensions between journalistic, market, and tech logics. Drawing on 32 in-depth qualitative interviews with news media professionals across ten news organisations in the Netherlands and Switzerland, we discover a wide range of strategies which aim to reconcile logic multiplicity in the specific case of NRS development. Such negotiation efforts can ultimately promote new work practices and forms of collaboration but may also have broader implications for the distribution of power and voice within news organisations.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135768439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2253928
Timothy Neff, Victor Pickard
{"title":"Building Better Local Media Systems: A Comparative Policy Discourse Analysis of Initiatives to Renew Journalism Around the World","authors":"Timothy Neff, Victor Pickard","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2253928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2253928","url":null,"abstract":"Amid the retreat of local journalism and the resulting emergence of “news deserts,” where communities lack authentic and civically accountable sources of news, it is important to not only seek new revenue streams for news organizations but also to consider how financial resources and institutional structures secure journalistic autonomy and an abiding dedication to public service. Surveying initiatives to bolster local reporting in multiple countries, this study finds that such efforts frequently rest on an unstated optimism that market failures can be corrected and that new, sustainable business models ultimately will solve the journalism crisis. In contrast to these stopgap interventions, initiatives based on public service media principles found in the world's healthiest democracies—such as providing information across all social groups and fostering civic engagement—are better positioned to rebuild local systems in which news media are structured as enduring social institutions with crucial roles to play in democratic processes.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135937849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2255903
Anders Olof Larsson
{"title":"Scandinavian Hyperpartisans Prevail? News Use on Facebook During the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Anders Olof Larsson","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2255903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2255903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135938075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247487
Magda Konieczna, Ellen Santa Maria
{"title":"“I can’t be neutral or centrist in a debate over my own humanity”: A Study of Disagreements Between Journalists and Editors, and What They Tell Us About Objectivity","authors":"Magda Konieczna, Ellen Santa Maria","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247487","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43116375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246067
S. Vermeer, Linda van den Heijkant
{"title":"Break a Story: Examining the Effects of Instagram Stories from News Accounts on Adolescents’ Political Learning","authors":"S. Vermeer, Linda van den Heijkant","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49208362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247494
Sherwin Chua
{"title":"Platform Configuration and Digital Materiality: How News Publishers Innovate Their Practices Amid Entanglements with the Evolving Technological Infrastructure of Platforms","authors":"Sherwin Chua","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48229953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}