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- Lewis, Seth, 1978, et al.
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Big Data and Journalism: Epistemology, expertise, economics, and ethics
- 2015
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Ingår i: Digital Journalism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2167-0811 .- 2167-082X. ; 3:3, s. 447-466
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Big data is a social, cultural, and technological phenomenon—a complex amalgamation of digital data abundance, emerging analytic techniques, mythology about data-driven insights, and growing critique about the overall consequences of big-data practices for democracy and society. While media and communication scholars have begun to examine and theorize about big data in the context of media and public life broadly, what are the particular implications for journalism? This article introduces and applies four conceptual lenses—epistemology, expertise, economics, and ethics—to explore both contemporary and potential applications of big data for the professional logic and industrial production of journalism. These distinct yet inter-related conceptual approaches reveal how journalists and news media organizations are seeking to make sense of, act upon, and derive value from big data during a time of exploration in algorithms, computation, and quantification. In all, the developments of big data potentially have great meaning for journalism’s ways of knowing (epistemology) and doing (expertise), as well as its negotiation of value (economics) and values (ethics). Ultimately, this article outlines future directions for journalism studies research in the context of big data.
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- Lewis, Seth, 1978, et al.
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Actors, Actants, Audiences, and Activities in Cross-Media News Work
- 2015
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Ingår i: Digital Journalism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2167-0811 .- 2167-082X. ; 3:1, s. 19-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In contemporary journalism, there is a need for better conceptualizing the changing nature of human actors, nonhuman technological actants, and diverse representations of audiences—and the activities of news production, distribution, and interpretation through which actors, actants, and audiences are inter-related. This article explicates each of these elements—the Four A’s—in the context of cross-media news work, a perspective that lends equal emphasis to editorial, business, and technology as key sites for studying the organizational influences shaping journalism. We argue for developing a sociotechnical emphasis for the study of institutional news production: a holistic framework through which to make sense of and conduct research about the full range of actors, actants, and audiences engaged in cross-media news work activities. This emphasis addresses two shortcomings in the journalism studies literature: a relative neglect about (1) the interplay of humans and technology, or manual and computational modes of orientation and operation, and (2) the interplay of editorial, business, and technology in news organizations. This article’s ultimate contribution is a cross-media news work matrix that illustrates the interconnections among the Four A’s and reveals where opportunities remain for empirical study.
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- Tandoc Jr, Edson, et al.
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Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: A conceptual framework
- 2018
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Ingår i: New Media and Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315. ; 20:8, s. 2745-2763
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Through an analysis of relevant literature and open-ended survey responses from 2501 Singaporeans, this article proposes a conceptual framework to understand how individuals authenticate the information they encounter on social media. In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own judgment of the source and the message, and when this does not adequately provide a definitive answer, they turn to external resources to authenticate news items.
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- Chua, Sherwin, 1978, et al.
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Audience-Centric Engagement, Collaboration Culture and Platform Counterbalancing: A Longitudinal Study of Ongoing Sensemaking of Emerging Technologies
- 2019
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Ingår i: Media and Communication. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2439. ; 7:1, s. 153-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital journalism studies have done little in terms of studying longitudinally the interrelationships between emerging technology and convergent news practices. This study addresses that void by using a sensemaking approach to examine how emerging technology was appropriated and enacted in the convergent news activities of newsworkers, and how they made sense of the emerging technologies over two and a half years. Our study analyzes two newsrooms in Singapore: 1) a digital-first legacy newspaper, and 2) an independent digital-only news startup. This article employs the Infotendencias Group’s (2012) analytical framework and its four dimensions of news convergence: i) business, ii) professional, iii) technological, and iv) contents. Additionally, it proposes and employs a fifth dimension: v) audience-centric engagement. The fifth dimension is based on the concept of “measurable journalism” (Carlson, 2018), analyzing how its actors influence the relationship between newsrooms and their audiences. This study builds on two rounds of in-depth interviews conducted from end-2015 to mid-2016, and again in 2018. Our findings show that audience-centric-engagement practices are observed in all four dimensions of convergent news activities of each news organization, and leads to three main conclusions: 1) the growing significance of audience-centric engagement, 2) an emergence of a collaboration culture, and 3) the salience of platform counterbalancing.
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- Gómez-Barroso, José Luis, et al.
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Prospects of Mobile Search
- 2010
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Search faces (at least) two major challenges. One is to improve efficiency of retrieving relevant content for all digital formats (images, audio, video, 3D shapes, etc). The second is making relevant information retrievable in a range of platforms, particularly in high diffusion ones as mobiles. The two challenges are interrelated but distinct. This report aims at assessing the potential of future Mobile Search. Two broad groups of search-based applications can be identified. The first one is the adaptation and emulation of web search processes and services to the mobile environment. The second one is services exploiting the unique features of the mobile devices and the mobile environments. Examples of these context-aware services include location-based services or interfacing to the internet of things (RFID networks). The report starts by providing an introduction to mobile search. It highlights differences and commonalities with search technologies on other platforms (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 is devoted to the supply side of mobile search markets. It describes mobile markets, presents key figures and gives an outline of main business models and players. Chapter 3 is dedicated to the demand side of the market. It studies users¿ acceptance and demand using the results on a case study in Sweden. Chapter 4 presents emerging trends in technology and markets that could shape mobile search. It is the author's view after discussing with many experts. One input to this discussion was the analysis of on forward-looking scenarios for mobile developed by the authors (Chapter 5). Experts were asked to evaluate these scenarios. Another input was a questionnaire to which 61 experts responded. Drivers, barriers and enablers for mobile search have been synthesised into SWOT analysis. The report concludes with some policy recommendations in view of the likely socio-economic implications of mobile search in Europe. Appears in Collections:Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
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- Westlund, Oscar, 1979, et al.
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Exploring the Logic of Mobile Search
- 2011
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Ingår i: Behaviour & Information Technology. ; 30:5, s. 691-703
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After more than a decade of development work and hopes, the usage of mobile Internet has finally taken off. Now, we are witnessing the first signs of evidence of what might become the explosion of mobile content and applications that will be shaping the (mobile) Internet of the future. Similar to the wired Internet, search will become very relevant for the usage of mobile Internet. Current research on mobile search has applied a limited set of methodologies and has also generated a narrow outcome of meaningful results. This article covers new ground, exploring the use and visions of mobile search with a users’ interview-based qualitative study. Its main conclusion builds upon the hypothesis that mobile search is sensitive to a mobile logic different than today’s one. First, (advanced) users ask for accessing with their mobile devices the entire Internet, rather than subsections of it. Second, success is based on new added-value applications that exploit unique mobile functionalities. The authors interpret that such mobile logic involves fundamentally the use of personalised and context-based services.
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- Westlund, Oscar, 1979
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The adoption of mobile media by young adults in Sweden
- 2007
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Ingår i: Mobile Media 2007. - 9781864878905
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A qualitative analysis of adoption and use of mobile media among young adults. Discusses the reasons to why people have not adopted mobile media. The article gives special attention to journalistic news for mobile devices.
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- Chua, Sherwin, 1978, et al.
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Sensemaking of emerging technologies in news work: Audience-centric engagement, collaboration culture and platform counterbalancing
- 2019
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the 69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Washington DC, 2019.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using a sensemaking approach, this two-and-a-half-year longitudinal study examines how emerging technology has been appropriated and enacted in the salient case of news publishers. This article focuses on editorial analytics, automation, social media platforms, and mobile communication applications, and investigates how they influence the convergent news activities of newsworkers in two types of Singapore newsrooms: 1.) a digital-first legacy newspaper, and 2.) an independent digital-only news organization. The article uses the Infotendencias Group’s (2012) analytical framework and its four dimensions of news convergence: i). Business, ii). Technological, iii). Contents, and iv). Professional. Additionally, the article proposes a new fifth dimension: v). Audience-centric Engagement, based on the concept of “measurable journalism” (Carlson, 2018), analyzing how its actors influence the relationship between newsrooms and their audiences. The article builds on two rounds of in-depth interviews. The first round, conducted from end-2015 to mid-2016, involved 13 newsworkers. In 2018, four newsworkers from the first round were interviewed again. This essay leads to three main conclusions: 1.) the growing significance of audience-centric engagement, 2.) an emergence of a collaboration culture, and 3.) the salience of platform counterbalancing. Importantly, audience-centric engagement practices are observed in all four dimensions of convergent news activities of each news organization.
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