Journalism needs a better argument: Aligning public goals with the realities of the digital news and information landscape

Does social media keep me alarmed? The effects of expectations surrounding social media attributes and exposure to messages of social (in)stability on substitutive social media news use

“…Of course, it is far too early to conclude that the monitorial citizen ideal has been realized. It is yet to be confirmed whether social media is sufficient for monitoring all important issues concerning-for example-media accountability (Peters, 2019) or people's lack of political interest (Ytre-Arne & Moe, 2018). Researchers should further explore the threshold at which citizens focus their attention on an issue and the extent to which this threshold is subject to personal and contextual differences.…”

The business of news in the AI economy

“…However, scholars have recently debated the public and merit good status of journalism, both in the United States and in Europe (Murschetz 2020; Napoli 2020; Pickard 2019; Walters 2020). As Peters (2019) remarks, not everyone has access to journalism, and not everyone is interested in journalism. Defunding of public service media (Sjøvaag, Pedersen, and Owren 2019), digital paywalls, and various forms of political, ideological, and economic capture (e.g., Dragomir 2018; Ferrucci and Nelson 2019) detract from the universal access needed for a product to be a merit good (cf.…”

Nyheter på autopilot?

“…Dette kan videre kobles til diskusjonen rundt den felles offentligheten og publikums tillit til media (Tumber & Zelizer, 2019;Peters, 2019;Örnebring, 2019;Kulturdepartementet, 2019;Sande, 2017;Newman mfl., 2016;Engan, 2015;. Tidligere undersøkelser har vist at transparens i nyhetsdekning ikke har vaert saerlig sentralt for publikum (Karlsson, Clerwall & Nord, 2014).…”