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News you can refuse: If news is important, why aren’t more people willing to pay for it?
No full textGuided by public goods and uses and gratifications theories, this study examines the link among motivations for news consumption, perceived importance of news, and willingness to pay for news. Through a national online survey in Singapore (n = 818), this study found that both entertainment and socialisation motivations are positively related to willingness to pay for news, while surveillance motivation was not. The analysis also found that perceiving news to be personally important is positively related to willingness to pay for news; in contrast, perceiving news to be important to society was unrelated to willingness to pay for it. While surveillance motivation was not directly related to willingness to pay for news, it exerts an indirect effect through perceived personal importance of news. These findings challenge conventional assumptions about the drivers of news subscriptions and offer pivotal insights for news organisations seeking sustainable revenue models in an era of media transformation.Ministry of Education (MOE)The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: this work was supported by the Singapore Social Science Research Council; MOE2018-SSRTG-022
Journalism is twerking? How web analytics is changing the process of gatekeeping
No full textNew communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience behavior. Through new audience information systems, such as web analytics, the influence of the audience on the news construction process is increasing. This occurs as the journalistic field tries to survive a shrinking audience for news. In this study, I argue that how journalists conceive of the audience as a form of capital influences the extent to which journalists integrate audience feedback from web analytics in their news work. I developed this theoretical framework through case studies of three online newsrooms that included a total of 150 hours of observations and 30 respondent interviews. The findings showed the extent of influence of web analytics on traditional gatekeeping processes, and on a new gatekeeping practice online, which I call the process of deselection.Accepted versio
Gatekeeping influences and journalistic capital : proposing a mechanism of influence
No full textThis exploratory study proposes that one way to understand how and why journalists get influenced is to focus on their economic and cultural capital. Based on a survey of 349 journalists from the Philippines, this study found that journalists with low economic capital tend to perceive political influence as more influential on their work, while journalists with low cultural capital tend to perceive economic influence and reference groups as more influential
The roles of the game : the influence of news consumption patterns on the role conceptions of journalism students
No full textThis study is based on a survey of 364 undergraduate journalism students and looks at how news consumption patterns influence the journalistic role conceptions that students hold. This study finds that students rated the interpreter role as most important. Students who prioritized the interpreter role also tend to get their news from online sources and social media. The implications of these findings on college instruction are also discussed.Accepted versio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An uncritical incident?:Journalism and Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia
Full text linkThe concept of uncritical incidents allows us to consider how the norms and practices of journalism are implicated in processes of societal racism, consistent with previous work that has focused on the routine application of news values and a reliance on predominantly white individuals and institutions as news sources. While drawing on textual evidence and emphasizing journalism as part of the problem contributing to both excessive incarceration and mistreatment, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) adopted a sociological, rather than merely moralistic, approach to understanding news production. In the wake of the RCIADIC, Indigenous deaths in custody remain a totemic issue, though one that is a little closer to resolution. The release of RCIADIC confronted Australian journalism with direct criticism of its norms and practices and could have served as an opportunity for a critical reflection
Peeling or plagiarizing?:A Danish media scandal as an incident of re-instating boundaries in the grey zones of “good” journalistic citing practices
No full textThis chapter looks at these grey zones by analyzing the scandal of Rasmussen, who was laid off from a number of freelance positions following accusations of plagiarism. The Rasmussen scandal illustrates various forms, as the scandal was discussed intensively in public and in the journalistic field, but it also led to some media organizations’ changing their internal rules of ethics related to specific citing practices, and the journalist in question was laid off from several different media organizations. In this specific incident, the actions of the journalist and columnist Rasmussen created a debate on the rules of so-called peeling, which refers to writing an article using multiple direct quotes from someone else’s work and attributing competing media in daily journalistic practice, and at the same time exposed contradictions between the dominant media ecology and the ideals of original journalism. Paradigm disguise is a variant of paradigm repair, which is defined as a journalistic ritual to defend professional ideology
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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