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Ananny, Mike; Crawford, Kate

doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.922322

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“…At the outset, it is important emphasize that this exercise requires extracting an implied model of the public interest from the state of social media governance, as explicit articulations and discussions of the concept and its application to social media are somewhat rare (for exceptions, see Andrejevic, 2013;Foster, 2012;Papandrea & Armstrong, 2008). This is likely due to the fact that, as was noted above, social media platforms do not have institutional origins in which issues of serving communities' news and information needs were foundational principles (see Ananny & Crawford, 2014). Further, these platforms have not operated in a regulatory environment in which there are regulatory bodies with clear-cut authority to impose any interpretation of the public interest (as it relates to news and information provision) upon them.…”

Section: The Emergent Public Interest In Social Media Governancementioning

confidence: 87%

“…This point is highlighted in recent research examining the professional values at work in the design of news sharing and dissemination applications, in which platform designers expressed virtually no connection with the values and practice of journalism (Ananny & Crawford, 2014). As one app designer was quoted as saying, "I don't think that the people in this space…are familiar with these ideas of journalism…I don't think they believe they're important.…”

Section: The Public Interest Reflected In Platform Design and Operationmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Social media and the public interest: Governance of news platforms in the realm of individual and algorithmic gatekeepers

Napoli

2015

Telecommunications Policy

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Section: The Emergent Public Interest In Social Media Governancementioning

confidence: 87%

Section: The Public Interest Reflected In Platform Design and Operationmentioning

confidence: 93%

Social media and the public interest: Governance of news platforms in the realm of individual and algorithmic gatekeepers

Napoli

2015

Telecommunications Policy

148

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“…Baack (2018) for instance shows that data journalists and civic technologists are acting in complementary ways, creating communities of practice of flexible data professionals who "aspire to work in a public interest: they share transferable skills in dealing with data and using information rights, and they want to use these skills to create public services that hold powerful people and institutions accountable and empower citizens" (Baack, 2018, 688). Similarly, Ananny and Crawford (2015) observed the creation of new media actors. However, the complementarity of activities are not only related to the community of civic technologists.…”

Section: Literature Review and The Italian Contextmentioning

confidence: 98%

From Open Journalism to Closed Data: Data Journalism in Italy

Porlezza

Splendore

2019

Digital Journalism

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The study investigates how journalists construct the rise of data journalism discursively within the specific political and economic conditions of Italy, and whether data journalists describe it as able to promote transparency at the level of both journalism and society as a whole. Italy is an interesting case for four different reasons: 1) to date, few analyses have been carried out on Mediterranean countries; 2) the Italian media system and its traditional journalism culture appear to be reluctant to innovate; 3) Italian data journalists are generally freelancers linked to small news agencies rather than established newsrooms; 4) the research reported in this paper was accomplished while the Italian government was approving a Freedom of Information Act. From the end of 2015 to the beginning of 2017, we carried out 15 interviews with data journalists working full-time both for established news organizations and specialized agencies. The findings show that data journalism in Italy is a highly professional sub-field, although journalistic education is not well developed. Data journalism is still largely determined by the availability and accessibility of public datasets. However, data journalists have developed certain strategies with which to generate and collect their own data, for instance collaborations and networks.

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“…92 In this sense, transparency towards users may not have full effect if it is disconnected from power to actually change outcomes. 93 In this light, it remains debatable whether fleshed out user transparency rights under would have much impact on the average user. Their impact might be strongest with more sophisticated users, such as content providers who rely on social media to spread content.…”

Section: User-facing Disclaimersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Soap Box as a Black Box: Regulating Transparency in Social Media Recommender Systems

Leerssen

2020

SSRN Journal

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Social media recommender systems play a central role in determining what content is seen online, and what remains hidden. As a point of control for media governance, they are subject to intense controversy and, increasingly, regulation by European policymakers. A recurring theme in such efforts is transparency, but this is an ambiguous concept that can be implemented in various ways depending on the types of accountability one envisages. This paper maps and critiques the various efforts at regulating social media recommendation transparency in Europe, and the types of accountability they pursue. This paper identifies three different categories of disclosure rules in recent policymaking: (1) userfacing disclaimers, (2) government auditing and (3) data-sharing partnerships with academia and civil society. Despite their limitations and pitfalls, it is argued, each of these approaches has a potential added value for media governance as part of a tiered, variegated landscape of transparency rules. However, an important element is missing: public disclosures. Given the deeply political and value-laden context of media governance, it is argued, this field cannot rely exclusively on technocratic, institutionalized forms of transparency emphasized in current proposals. The final section articulates the distinct benefits of public disclosures as a supplement to existing transparency measures, and suggests starting points for their design and regulation.

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A Liminal Press

Cited by 72 publications

References 41 publications

Social media and the public interest: Governance of news platforms in the realm of individual and algorithmic gatekeepers

Social media and the public interest: Governance of news platforms in the realm of individual and algorithmic gatekeepers

From Open Journalism to Closed Data: Data Journalism in Italy

The Soap Box as a Black Box: Regulating Transparency in Social Media Recommender Systems

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