When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-making and Autonomy in Newsgathering

Autor: Michaël Opgenhaffen, Baldwin Van Gorp, Hannes Cools
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Technology (Applied sciences)
Process (engineering)
media_common.quotation_subject
journalism
ddc:070
decision making
Communicator Research
Journalism
Technology Assessment
Entscheidungsfindung
information-seeking behavior
Order (exchange)
Journalismus
Political science
gatekeeping
agenda-setting
Informationsverhalten
algorithmic news recommenders
newsroom innovation labs
news
Technikfolgenabschätzung
künstliche Intelligenz
News media
journalism
publishing
media_common
agenda setting function
Nachrichten
algorithm
Technik
Technologie
business.industry
Communication
Communication. Mass media
Public relations
Kommunikatorforschung
Journalismus
artificial intelligence
P87-96
Gatekeeping
gatekeeper
Algorithmus
Dynamics (music)
Gate-keeper
Publizistische Medien
Journalismus
Verlagswesen
business
ddc:600
Autonomy
Zdroj: Media and Communication
Algorithmic Systems in the Digital Society
Media and Communication, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 198-207 (2021)
Popis: Newsroom innovation labs have been created over the last ten years to develop algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) that suggest and summarise what news is. Although these ANRs are still in an early stage and have not yet been implemented in the entire newsroom, they have the potential to change how newsworkers fulfil their daily decisions (gatekeeping) and autonomy in setting the agenda (agenda-setting). First, this study focuses on the new dynamics of the ANR and how it potentially influences the newsworkers’ role of gatekeeping within the newsgathering process. Second, this study investigates how the dynamics of an ANR could influence the autonomy of the newsworkers’ role as media agenda setters. In order to advance our understanding of the changing dynamics of gatekeeping and agenda-setting in the newsroom, this study conducts expert interviews with 16 members of newsroom innovation labs of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, the BBC, and the Bayerische Rundfunk (BR) radio station. The results show that when newsworkers interact with ANRs, they rely on suggestions and summaries to evaluate what is newsworthy, especially when there is a “news peak” (elections, a worldwide pandemic, etc.). With regard to the agenda-setting role, the newsworker still has full autonomy, but the ANR creates a “positive acceleration effect” on how certain topics are put on the agenda.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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