How Way-Finding is Challenging Gatekeeping in the Digital Age
| Autor: | George D. H. Pearson, Gerald M. Kosicki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Multimedia
business.industry Communication 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies Public relations computer.software_genre Gatekeeping Variety (cybernetics) News aggregator 0508 media and communications restrict Social media Journalism Sociology 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences Technical Journalism business computer News media |
| Zdroj: | Journalism Studies. 18:1087-1105 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9699 1461-670X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1461670x.2015.1123112 |
| Popis: | This paper re-evaluates the relevance of the gatekeeping framework in the twenty-first century, arguing that in an age of digital journalism the gatekeeping metaphor has begun to restrict our study of journalism. Reviewing current research and utilizing a variety of surveys, case studies and theoretical work, the paper proposes a new framework. It argues that rather than online journalism studies focusing on the packaging of a news product by a news source (gatekeeping), it should instead focus on the paths taken by news users to individual stories via search engines, gatewatchers and social media (way-finding). To support this, five key areas of change are investigated: the increased capacity for storing and publishing news; new tools for news creation; increased use of aggregators and gatewatchers; competition on a story-by-story basis; and immediate audience feedback. |
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