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AR; How YouTube videos frame the discussions about them
What is the relationship between a video posted to YouTube, and the comments that the video receives? This is the question that Edgerly et al. pose in a recent article. This is an interesting question. On the one hand, there … Continue reading
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Tagged article review, civility, Dalrymple, deliberation, Edgerly, Fung, Goode, Macafee, Papacharissi, Vraga, YouTube
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AR; Search engines and ontological security
“To be ontologically secure is to possess, on the level of the unconscious and practical consciousness, ‘answers’ to fundamental existential questions which all human life in some way addresses,” writes Giddens. What does Google have to do with this? Quite … Continue reading
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Tagged article review, Giddens, Google, nms, ontological security, Sanz, Stancik
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The importance of being serendipitous
At a recent seminar (hosted jointly by the Royal School of Library and Information Science and KU’s Centre for Communication and Computing), I had the chance to listen to Lennart Björneborn‘s talk about serendipity. The history of science is full … Continue reading
AR; Liquid news online
Online news are different: the forms they take, and the contents they deliver, have the capacity of constant change, partly under the influence of readers. There has been a lot of talk about the peculiar nature of online news; Michael … Continue reading
AR; Candidate winnowing, and what the “Internet” is
Journalists, through their pre-selecting candidates in primaries, are a crucial part in election campaigns: the more they consider a candidate worthy of attention, the easier it will be for this candidate to raise funding. But the more funds a candidate … Continue reading
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Tagged agenda setting, article review, Belt, Crigler, IJPP, Just, primary, sampling
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AR; Social recommendation of news
Facebook and Twitter are become a “significant source of news for Canadians,” argues a paper very soon to be published in Journalism Studies (it’s already available on the web). This is perhaps not surprising- after all, a lot of news … Continue reading
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Tagged article review, Canada, Facebook, Fletcher, Hermida, Journalism Studies, Korell, Logan, sharing, social media, Twitter
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AR; Is internet news replacing newspapers?
…and how about TV and radio? According to Benjamin Gaskins and Jennifer Jerit, replacement is an existing phenomenon – but it is not (yet) so widespread as sometimes thought. Their findings are based on a US national sample, representative of … Continue reading
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Tagged article review, Gaskins, IJPP, Jerit, news, radio, replacement, tv
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Journalists on aggregators
What do editors think about news aggregators, such as Google News – or social news websites, e.g. Reddit? If Marina Vujnovic is right, they don’t really have a clue. She wrote about the subject in a chapter of a recent … Continue reading
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Tagged aggregator, book, citizen journalism, Google News, Reddit, Vujnovic
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Work-in-progress: Social news sites in models of democracy
This table – incomplete and very much under construction – sums up the normative connection between 3 democratic traditions and social news sites, as seen through an analytical framework developed by Peter Dahlgren. Liberal-individualist democracy Communitarian-republican democracy Deliberative democracy Structure … Continue reading
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Tagged Dahlgren, model of democracy, normative, social news site, work-in-progress
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