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Misunderstanding News Audiences

Author : Eiri Elvestad

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 47,3 MB

Release : 2018-04-09

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1315444348

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Misunderstanding News Audiences interrogates the prevailing myths around the impact of the Internet and social media on news consumption and democracy. The book draws on a broad range of comparative research into audience engagement with news, across different geographic regions, to provide insight into the experience of news audiences in the twenty-first century. From its inception, it was imagined that the Internet would benignly transform the nature of news media and its consumers. There were predictions that it would, for example, break up news oligarchies, improve plurality and diversity through news personalisation, create genuine social solidarity online, and increase political awareness and participation among citizens. However, this book finds that, while mainstream news media is still the major source of news, the new media environment appears to lead to greater polarisation between news junkies and news avoiders, and to greater political polarisation. The authors also argue that the dominant role of the USA in the field of news audience research has created myths about a global news audience, which obscures the importance of national context as a major explanation for news exposure differences. Misunderstanding News Audiences presents an important analysis of findings from recent audience studies and, in doing so, encourages readers to re-evaluate popular beliefs about the influence of the Internet on news consumption and democracy in the West.



We the Media

Author : Dan Gillmor

Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 28,84 MB

Release : 2006-01-24

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0596102275

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Looks at the emerging phenomenon of online journalism, including Weblogs, Internet chat groups, and email, and how anyone can produce news.



The Psychology of Fake News

Author : Rainer Greifeneder

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 33,74 MB

Release : 2020-08-13

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1000179052

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This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a prominent feature of public discourse since the first Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election campaign. Dealing with misinformation is important in many areas of daily life, including politics, the marketplace, health communication, journalism, education, and science. In a general climate where facts and misinformation blur, and are intentionally blurred, this book asks what determines whether people accept and share (mis)information, and what can be done to counter misinformation? All three of these aspects need to be understood in the context of online social networks, which have fundamentally changed the way information is produced, consumed, and transmitted. The contributions within this volume summarize the most up-to-date empirical findings, theories, and applications and discuss cutting-edge ideas and future directions of interventions to counter fake news. Also providing guidance on how to handle misinformation in an age of “alternative facts”, this is a fascinating and vital reading for students and academics in psychology, communication, and political science and for professionals including policy makers and journalists.





Poor Reception

Author : Barrie Gunter

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 18,56 MB

Release : 2012-11-12

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1136474692

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Published in 1990, Poor Reception is a valuable contribution to the field of Communication Studies.



Imagined Audiences

Author : Jacob L. Nelson

Publisher : Journalism and Pol Commun Unbo

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 40,49 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 019754259X

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The Journalist-Audience Relationship -- The Promise of Audience Engagement -- Journalism's Imagined Audiences -- When Data and Intuition Converge -- First Imagined, Then Pursued -- The Obstacles to Audience Engagement -- Understanding News Audience Behavior -- Conclusion.



The News Gap

Author : Pablo J. Boczkowski

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 26,58 MB

Release : 2013-11-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0262318199

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An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age. The websites of major media organizations—CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others—provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, entertainment, and weather. In this book, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein examine the divergence in preferences and consider its implications for the media industry and democratic life in the digital age. Drawing on analyses of more than 50,000 stories posted on twenty news sites in seven countries in North and South America and Western Europe, Boczkowski and Mitchelstein find that the gap in news preferences exists regardless of ideological orientation or national media culture, and that it is not affected by innovations in forms of storytelling, such as blogs and user-generated content on mainstream news sites. Drawing upon these findings, they explore the news gap's troubling consequences for the matrix that connects communication, technology, and politics in the digital age.



News

Author : W. Lance Bennett

Publisher : Longman Publishing Group

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 10,50 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN :

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EBOOK: Television, Audiences And Everyday Life

Author : Matt Briggs

Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 33,87 MB

Release : 2009-10-16

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0335239218

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Television is commonplace in developed societies, an unremarkable and routine part of most people's everyday lives, but also the subject of continued concern from academia and beyond. But what do we really know about television, the ways that we watch it, the meanings that are made, and its relationship to ideology, democracy, culture and power? Television, Audiences and Everyday Life draws on an extensive body of audience research to get behind this seemingly simple activity. Written in a clear and accessible style, key audience studies are presented in ways that illuminate critical debates and concepts in cultural and media studies. Key topics and case studies include: News, debate and the pubic sphere Reality television, talk shows and media ethics Soap opera, play and gossip The uses of television in the home Television, identity and globalization Textual analysis, discourse and semiotics Each chapter makes a compelling case for the importance of audience research in our thinking about television texts. The case studies introduce important new terms in the study of television, such as play, semiosis and modality, while also throwing new light on familiar terms, such as decoding, ideology and the public sphere. Television, Audiences and Everyday Life is essential reading for undergraduate students on media, cultural studies and sociology courses, or anybody who wants to understand television, its genres, and their place in everyday life.



Strategic Communication and its Role in Conflict News

Author : Marc Jungblut

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 43,52 MB

Release : 2020-01-13

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3658291222

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Marc Jungblut extends existing knowledge on the role of strategic communication in conflict news by examining four violent conflicts. He relies on an automated content analysis of texts by 52 strategic communicators, such as politicians, NGOs, social movements, as well as on the international news coverage in 17 media outlets. By analyzing over 80,000 texts in seven languages, the book demonstrates that media visibility is almost exclusively granted based on ethnocentrism and elite status. The journalistic framing of conflict events, however, is much more context-dependent and shows a higher degree of independence from elite voices and strategic communication in general.