Diversity as a Media Policy Goal: a Strategy for Evaluative Research and a Netherlands Case Study

McQuail, Denis; Cuilenburg, J.J. van

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“…While it is possible to come across critical voices, disadvantaged views or contestation using tools such as OpinionSpace or ConsiderIt, it is also highly likely that these voices and views get lost among the ''popular'' items, which are of interest to the majority of the audience. However, as McQuail and van Cuilenburg (1983) have argued, media should not only proportionally reflect differences in politics, religion, culture and social conditions, but provide equal access to their channels for all people and all ideas in society. If the population preferences were uniformly distributed over society, then (Kriplean et al 2011) nudges users to listen to each other by making them restate the points that the commenter is making, even if there is disagreement Fig.…”

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Breaking the filter bubble: democracy and design

2015

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It has been argued that the Internet and social media increase the number of available viewpoints, perspectives, ideas and opinions available, leading to a very diverse pool of information. However, critics have argued that algorithms used by search engines, social networking platforms and other large online intermediaries actually decrease information diversity by forming so-called ''filter bubbles''. This may form a serious threat to our democracies. In response to this threat others have developed algorithms and digital tools to combat filter bubbles. This paper first provides examples of different software designs that try to break filter bubbles. Secondly, we show how norms required by two democracy models dominate the tools that are developed to fight the filter bubbles, while norms of other models are completely missing in the tools. The paper in conclusion argues that democracy itself is a contested concept and points to a variety of norms. Designers of diversity enhancing tools must thus be exposed to diverse conceptions of democracy.

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2015

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“…American media policy consequently focuses on source diversity by way of competition and antitrust regulation (van Cuilenburg, 2002). However, whether more media competition (more sources) really brings about more media variety is highly debated and research addressing this relationship has not provided definitive evidence of a systematic relationship (Napoli, 1999;van Cuilenburg, 1999;McQuail & van Cuilenburg, 1983;Karppinen, 2013). Highly competitive media markets may still have low content diversity and media monopolies can produce highly diverse supply of media content (van Cuilenburg, 2002).…”

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“…These "minorities" must be politically mobilized and included as equals in a process of discussing issues (Young, 2002). McQuail and van Cuilenburg (1983) propose to assess media diversity by introducing two normative frameworks. The norm of reflection checks whether "media content proportionally reflects differences in politics, religion, culture and social conditions in a more or less proportional way.…”

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Does offline political segregation affect the filter bubble? An empirical analysis of information diversity for Dutch and Turkish Twitter users

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From a liberal perspective, pluralism and viewpoint diversity are seen as a necessary condition for a well-functioning democracy. Recently, there have been claims that viewpoint diversity is diminishing in online social networks, putting users in a "bubble", where they receive political information which they agree with. The contributions from our investigations are fivefold: (1) we introduce different dimensions of the highly complex value viewpoint diversity using political theory; (2) we provide an overview of the metrics used in the literature of viewpoint diversity analysis; (3) we operationalize new metrics using the theory and provide a framework to analyze viewpoint diversity in Twitter for different political cultures; (4) we share our results for a case study on minorities we performed for Turkish and Dutch Twitter users; (5) we show that minority users cannot reach a large percentage of Turkish Twitter users. With the last of these contributions, using theory from communication scholars and philosophers, we show how minority access is missing from the typical dimensions of viewpoint diversity studied by computer scientists and the impact it has on viewpoint diversity analysis.

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“…La sociedad de masas se caracteriza por tener una gran homogeneidad cultural, por un alto grado de individualismo y por tener unos vínculos sociales débiles. También, la sociedad de masas se caracteriza por una relativa ausencia de asociaciones intermediarias entre el individuo y el Estado (Mcquail y Cuilenburg, 1983: 146 y ss).…”

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Televisión y diversidad: Génesis, definiciones y perspectivas de la diversidad en las televisiones públicas y comerciales

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Este artículo presenta un análisis de la génesis del valor de la diversidad dentro de los medios de comunicación, y especialmente en las televisiones públicas y comerciales, de los elementos más significativos que se encuentran planteados en el debate sobre la diversidad en algunos países desarrollados, y algunas de las definiciones que se han elaborado sobre este concepto. También, en este artículo se analiza las principales perspectivas de investigación sobre las dimensiones de la diversidad y la importancia que tiene este valor en la actual era multicanal, en relación, especialmente con el futuro de las televisiones públicas.

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Diversity as a Media Policy Goal: a Strategy for Evaluative Research and a Netherlands Case Study

Cited by 72 publications

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Breaking the filter bubble: democracy and design

Breaking the filter bubble: democracy and design

Does offline political segregation affect the filter bubble? An empirical analysis of information diversity for Dutch and Turkish Twitter users

Televisión y diversidad: Génesis, definiciones y perspectivas de la diversidad en las televisiones públicas y comerciales

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