Leveraging Social Network Analysis for Research on Journalism in the Information Age

Fu, Jiawei Sophia

doi:10.1111/jcom.12212

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“…When subgroups with alternative goals and different modes of reaching them emerge, as in journalism since several decades, pressure of the reference group as a whole might decline. Moreover, the new subgroups become an alternative reference group which tolerates, justifies, and encourages deviant behavior (Fu, 2016).…”

Section: Relevance Of Reference Groupsmentioning

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Borderline journalism: Why do journalists accept and justify questionable practices that establish scandals? A quantitative survey

Kepplinger

Viererbl

2018

Journalism

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The shift from descriptive reporting toward an interpretive style of journalism can be regarded as one factor to explain the rising number of reported scandals in Western democracies. While most of these critical reports are based on actual misbehaviors, there are scandals triggered by violations of journalistic norms. This article examines the question of how many journalists accept such violations of norms and what arguments they use to justify them. To answer these questions, we conducted a quantitative online survey among German journalists in June and July 2015. Participants were confronted with descriptions of factual violations of the German press codex that triggered major scandals. For each case, the journalists rated the acceptability of the questionable practice and gave their opinion on arguments for and against the violation. The majority considers the violations of norms as unacceptable and rejects arguments defending them. Nevertheless, some journalists express opposing views. The acceptance of norm violations is linked to agreement with two arguments. First, defenders of the violations claim to have a privileged insight of the story. Second, they refuse to accept responsibility for readers and the protagonists of the misleadingly reported scandals.

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Section: Relevance Of Reference Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Borderline journalism: Why do journalists accept and justify questionable practices that establish scandals? A quantitative survey

Kepplinger

Viererbl

2018

Journalism

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“…Social network analysis is a research method developed primarily in sociology and communication science that focuses on patterns of relations among people and groups. In network terminology, a node refers to an actor that can be an individual, an organisation, or a country; an edge describes the relationship between actors such as friendship and cooperation (Fu, 2016).…”

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Information dissemination during public health emergencies: analysing the international flow of COVID‐19‐related news

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A large‐scale exchange of information between media across national borders is frequently observed when a worldwide public health emergency occurs. This study investigated the global news citation network in the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic by analysing the network structure at different levels to identify important nodes and the relationships among news organisations. The results show that COVID‐19‐related international news flow had a complex and unequal pattern, with a few countries and media outlets occupying a prominent place in the network and three media groups played key but different roles in disseminating the news. It was jointly influenced by national traits, the relatedness between countries, and the pandemic emergency with public health risks. From a global perspective, the media of the United States, mainland China, and the United Kingdom played the most important parts in collaboration within the world media system in the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic.

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“…Additionally, their effects on the journalistic task are examined in terms of the typology of speci c networks such as Twitter (Vergeer, Analyses focused on audiences include contributions on how their multinational nature allows them to in uence local media markets (Heidemann, Klier, and Probst, 2012) and how they erode levels of data privacy (Tucker, 2013), as well as works that highlight how giving their users previously unknown possibilities of interaction and generation of their own content forces the media to take them into consideration (Haythornthwaite, 2005;Loosen and Schmidt, 2012) or that focus on how they establish new counterweights between media and audiences (Fu, 2016) or address the case of younger population groups that over the last decades the media have had di culties in accessing and building loyalty (Clark and Marchi, 2017).…”

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Towards a Real Comprehension of Social Networks Effects on Cybermedia Web Traffic: Quantitative Impact in the 27 European Union Countries Most Popular Online Journals

Valcárce

Arias

Muñoz

2023

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Scientific literature pays considerable attention to the study of development and consolidation of social networks in general and their influence on the information industry and journalism in particular. However, there are no global studies on their quantitative impact on the web traffic of cybermedia. This article focuses on this aspect and examines the impact that social networks have on the overall web traffic generated by the cybermedia of the 27 countries that are currently part of the European Union. For this purpose, the five cybermedia with the highest number of unique visitors in each country were selected and, using a tool such as SimilarWeb that considers flows from desktop and laptop computers, a set of variables referring directly or indirectly to social networks were analyzed, comparing this magnitude with those corresponding to direct traffic and search procedures. The data obtained allow us to conclude that of the total web traffic generated among the European Union cybermedia with the highest number of unique visitors, only 9.858% is directly attributable to social networks, a figure lower than magnitudes such as direct traffic (54.493%) or search procedures (26.041%). With percentage differences, this situation is applicable to all 27 countries examined and calls into question aspects such as the large amount of human and economic resources that the information industry allocate to the management social networks and the constant debate generated around the impact that they have on the shaping of public opinion and their incidence in phenomena such as disinformation or disintermediation.

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Leveraging Social Network Analysis for Research on Journalism in the Information Age

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Cited by 15 publications

References 55 publications

Borderline journalism: Why do journalists accept and justify questionable practices that establish scandals? A quantitative survey

Borderline journalism: Why do journalists accept and justify questionable practices that establish scandals? A quantitative survey

Information dissemination during public health emergencies: analysing the international flow of COVID‐19‐related news

Towards a Real Comprehension of Social Networks Effects on Cybermedia Web Traffic: Quantitative Impact in the 27 European Union Countries Most Popular Online Journals

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