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Clerwall, Christer, 1973-, et al.
(författare)
Public Trust and Journalistic Transparency : An experimental study of disclosure and participatory effects in online news
2014
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Media matter. Most citizens’ in contemporary democracies get their information about current affairs and politics through the media. Political communication studies have for long time analysed the interplay between media content and journalistic style and political attitudes and public trust in political institutions. This paper adds to this discussion by addressing another dimension: the possible impact of journalistic transparency – offered in online-journalism – on political trust.Methodologically, the study was based on a web-based experiment including 1,320 respondents. The treatment groups comprised the same version of an online news article with additional indicators for disclosure transparency and participatory transparency. The article covered a local political issue and politicians form both ruling and opposition political parties appeared in the text.The results indicate that transparency effects on political trust may be overestimated. This experimental study did not confirm any significant positive correlation between transparency and the public trust towards local politicians appearing in the news.
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Holt, Kristoffer, 1976-, et al.
(författare)
Edited participation comparing editorial influence on traditional and participatory online newspapers in Sweden
2011
Ingår i: Javnost - The Public. - 1318-3222. ; 18:2, s. 19-36
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat) abstract
Although participatory journalism involves publishing content created by users, editorial influence is an important aspect of participatory online media. Editors shape the conditions under which user generated content is produced, the context of publication and the perceived prominence of the content. It is still unclear how this influence manifests itself, and how it can be related to the discussion about participatory media’s potential for revitalising democracy. In this paper, three online news media in Sweden are analysed comparatively: Sourze – the first Swedish participatory newspaper; Newsmill – a social media focusing on news and debate; and DN – the online version of the largest Swedish morning paper Dagens Nyheter. The question is how participation is affected by editorial influence. The findings suggest that participatory arenas are constrained by the logic of their context of production. People from different categories in society participate on different terms. Furthermore, editors influence the agenda by suggesting topics, and by rewarding articles that follow their suggestions. These fi ndings do not challenge assumptions about participatory newspapers as more accessible channels for citizens and therefore interesting as possible means of allowing a more democratically involved citizenry, but it challenges assumptions about freedom from constraints related to traditional mass media, such as agenda setting, gate-keeping and media logic.
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Holt, Kristoffer, et al.
(författare)
How are citizen journalists telling news? The Swedish case
2013
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Previous research on citizen journalism has an Anglo-Saxon bias and frequently studies specific cases that focus on conflict, crisis events or war creating a selection bias of existing and, at least modestly, successful examples. In this study, situated in Sweden, we reverse the process and examine how actual communities are served by digital citizen community journalism in an everyday context. The study has a particular focus on how events are portrayed in terms of news topics dimensions, framing, presentation style, geographical focus and the authorship of news items. Preliminary findings indicate that the citizen journalists’ only present one perspective, rarely refers to policy plans or talks to the actors involved and provide individual and episodic news frames. Their focus is mostly on the local level and they have embraced the impersonal and unemotional presentation style from mainstream news. Half of the news items are being written by citizens while representatives from organisations or politicians author a quarter of them. All in all, citizen journalism in general falls short from both traditional journalistic standards and many scholarly claims of being alternative.
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Holt, Kristoffer, et al.
(författare)
Participatory Journalism and Editorial Influence
2011
Ingår i: Communication @ the Center. - : International Communication Association.
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Although participatory journalism involves publishing content created by users, editors shape the conditions under which user generated content is produced; the context of publication and the perceived prominence of the content. In this paper, three online news media in Sweden are analysed comparatively: Sourze – the first Swedish participatory newspaper; Newsmill – a social media focusing on news and debate; and DN – the online version of the Dagens Nyheter. The question is how participation is affected by editorial influence.Findings suggest that participatory arenas are constrained by the logic of their context of production. People from different categories in society participate on different terms. Furthermore, editors influence the agenda by suggesting topics, and by rewarding articles that follow their suggestions. This challenges assumptions about freedom from constraints related to traditional mass media, such as agenda setting, gate-keeping and media logic.
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Karlsson, Michael, 1970-
(författare)
Charting the Liquidity of Online News : moving towards a method for content analysis of online news
2012
Ingår i: International Communication Gazette. - : SAGE Publications. - 1748-0485 .- 1748-0493. ; 74:2, s. 385-402
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat) abstract
Terms such as liquid, dynamic and fluid news have been used to illustrate and emphasize the ever-changing, user-influenced and border-crossing nature of contemporary online news. However, although often used, what such terms actually denote often remains unspecified, and no existing studies have tried to propose a way to measure and analyse the impact of liquidity’s potential on authentic online news. The three-fold purpose of this exploratory study is therefore to move towards a clearer understanding of liquid news and to propose and explore a method of empirically measuring online news’s liquidity.
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Karlsson, Michael, 1970-
(författare)
Content analysis is dead, long live content analysis?
2013
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Content analysis has been a commonly used method of social science for decades and can be considered to be an inseparable part of media and communication studies. It has formed basis for important theoretical advances within the field such as agenda setting, framing and cultivation theory. Yet, paradoxically, not all media content can, as I will argue, be properly analyzed within a traditional content analysis approach. In this paper inherent assumptions of content analysis is juxtaposed with the logic of digital and, increasingly, mobile media. In particular the difference between traditional content analysis need for ‘dead’ objects and the liquid and lively character of digital media is emphasized. Moreover, the paper proposes and discusses kernels of methodological approaches designed to study the content of digital media on it’s own terms.
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Karlsson, Michael, 1970-
(författare)
Digitalization and tabloidization : A longitudinal study of news topics in tabloid, quality and local newspaper websites in U.K. and Sweden
2013
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Although considerable efforts have been pursued in studying online news no studies so far have investigated how the actual news content is affected by digitalization in general, if at all, or compared different media traditions. Instead, changes in content are assumed or illustrated anecdotally rather than systematically assessed. This empirical study, covering Swedish and UK news sites with a tabloid, quality morning, and local/regional background between 2002-2012, shows that there is a tabloidization effect in general but that it is stronger in tabloids and in Sweden compared to the UK. Further, this tabloidization can be more precisely described as a lifestylization and de-politization process as it is in these areas where the biggest growth and decline are. In addition, the study reveals that it is the slower news that increases most suggesting that the immediate character of online news is mediated by production conditions.
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Karlsson, Michael, 1970-
(författare)
Flourishing not restrained : The evolution of participatory journalism in Swedish online news, 2005-2009
2011
Ingår i: Journalism Practice. - : Taylor and Francis. - 1751-2786 .- 1751-2794. ; 5:1, s. 68-84
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat) abstract
Research concerning user participation in online news has demonstrated that news websites offer a wide range of participatory features, but largely permit users only to comment on already- published material. This longitudinal analysis of Sweden’s four major mainstream national news websites focuses on front-page news items to investigate to what extent user participation has increased over time and whether the participatory features present allow users to exert control over key journalistic processes. Its findings indicate that user participation has increased rapidly in regard to processes peripheral to news journalism, but also that users have to a minor extent begun over time to perform work previously reserved for professional journalists.
