2022
DOI: 10.3390/journalmedia3030039
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Assessing the Impact of Digital Alternative News Media in a Hybrid News Environment: Cases from Taiwan and Hong Kong

Abstract: As consumption of mainstream news media declines and alternative news media proliferates, in this paper, we seek to assess the impact of digital alternative news media (DANM) in relation to mainstream news media (MNM). We examine the range of DANM, especially public Facebook pages, related to two large-scale social movements neighbouring mainland China as case studies of social movement media exerting maximalist effects. The assessment relies on academic sources, archival materials, descriptive social media me… Show more

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“…Moreover, some new factors are essential: the shareability of news (Mattoni & Ceccobelli, 2018, p. 8), the virality of the content (Gustafsson, 2010), the potential number of retweets (Wells et al, 2010), clickability. In such an environment, new media usually are more successful in content spreading (Joyce & Cheng, 2022). However, traditional mass media may not only suffer because of the challenges of the new media environment, but they also may use the potential of new media to cover some issues more deeply or to reach more audiences with the coverage.…”
Section: In Professional Media the Number Of Exclusive News Declines ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Moreover, some new factors are essential: the shareability of news (Mattoni & Ceccobelli, 2018, p. 8), the virality of the content (Gustafsson, 2010), the potential number of retweets (Wells et al, 2010), clickability. In such an environment, new media usually are more successful in content spreading (Joyce & Cheng, 2022). However, traditional mass media may not only suffer because of the challenges of the new media environment, but they also may use the potential of new media to cover some issues more deeply or to reach more audiences with the coverage.…”
Section: In Professional Media the Number Of Exclusive News Declines ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, some researchers argue that with user-generated content, it is possible to make coverage deeper and more diverse (Bruno, 2011), as far as "the newsmaking process is no longer the prerogative of a limited number of actors from the political, economic, and media elite" (Mattoni & Ceccobelli, 2018, p. 2). And "ordinary people, especially the underprivileged," may be better represented in the news (Joyce & Cheng, 2022). Even the concept of the Internet as the fifth estate was proposed, where the web can "fill niches not being served by the traditional news media… or held the traditional press to account for their practices" (Newman, Dutton, & Blank 2012).…”
Section: In Professional Media the Number Of Exclusive News Declines ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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