Negotiating the Gray Lines: an ethnographic case study of organizational conflict between advertorials and news

Eckman, Alyssa; Lindlof, Thomas R.

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“…Faculty members in a specific field may withhold important information about certain candidates from faculty of other fields, hoping to raise the priority of hiring a colleague in one's own field. Not surprisingly, this phenomenon has also been observed in many nonacademic organizations, including important business sectors such as high‐tech research and development, mass media, and health care (Gupta, Raj, and Wilemon ; Cloke and Goldsmith ; Cowan ; Eckman and Lindlof ; Pirnejad et al . ).…”

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Deception in Networks: A Laboratory Study

Rong

Houser

2016

J Public Economic Theory

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Communication between departments within a firm may include deception. Theory suggests that telling lies in these environments may be strategically optimal if there exists a small difference in monetary incentives. We design a laboratory experiment to investigate whether agents with different monetary incentives in a network environment lie to each other. We found that most communication within an incentive group is truthful and deception often occurs between subjects from different groups. These results align with the prediction of the existing theory. Our findings have important implications for intraorganizational conflict management, demonstrating that in order to minimize deceptive communication between departments the firm may need to reduce incentive differences between these groups.

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confidence: 83%

Deception in Networks: A Laboratory Study

Rong

Houser

2016

J Public Economic Theory

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“…This research contributes to the growing body of literature on native advertising by investigating the real effects of publishing native advertising on journalists. While most of the current literature focuses on readers (e.g., Hoofnagle and Meleshinsky (2015); Wojdynski (2016); Lee, Kim, and Ham (2016); Wojdynski and Evans (2015)) and ethical considerations (e.g., Carlson (2015); Eckman and Lindlof (2003)), no research has yet been published showing a direct change in newspaper journalism after significant corporate financial funds were used to produce native advertising. While this change in bias may be unconscious or unintentional, it adds to growing concerns surrounding the issue of native advertising.…”

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Native Adverstising: Ads in Disguise as Editorials

Cornwell¹,

Rubin²

2018

CAIS/ACSI

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Native advertising, paid for by corporate funding, may fool news readers into thinking that they are reading investigative journalism editorials. Such misleading practice constitutes an internal threat to the profession of journalism and may further deteriorate mainstream media trust. If information users are unaware of the Native Ads original promotional nature, they may find themselves insufficiently informed or mislead by its content. This study investigates cases of Native Ads in terms of their contextual use, distinctive features, and likeness to editorials. LIS should aim to provide clear discernment guidelines and consider automated user alerts.

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“…Baerug & Harro-Loit, 2012;Carlson, 2015;Eckman & Lindlof, 2003;Erjavec, 2004;Ferrer Conill, 2016;Harro-Loit & Saks, 2006;Lewis, Williams, & Franklin, 2008) or on their effects on consumers (see e.g. Austin & Newman, 2015;Howe & Teufel, 2014), a few empirical studies confirm in fact that advertisers' demands are passed on to the newsrooms.…”

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Under the Influence: Advertisers’ Impact on the Content of Swiss Free Newspapers

Porlezza

2017

MaC

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The study focuses on whether and to what extent advertisers influence the editorial content of free newspapers in the German part of Switzerland. The contribution analyzes, grounded on an historic approach, the most competitive period in Switzerland, 2008, when not less than five freesheets were competing for advertisers and public attention. By using Altmeppen's (2006) organizational theory, the paper offers a theoretical frame able to describe the vanishing co-orientation between the media management and the newsroom, a trend that aggravates commercialization processes in news organizations. In a situation of economic turmoil, so the hypothesis, newsrooms are more inclined to positively adapt the valence of their coverage about their main advertisers in order to keep them in the portfolio. Using a content analysis, the author examined the editorial coverage of six among the most important advertisers of Swiss free newspapers, carrying out an aggregated statistical analysis based on logistic regression. The study revealed that free newspapers with a strong market orientation display a higher chance to publish positive facts and evaluations about advertisers with a high advertising expenditure.

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Negotiating the Gray Lines: an ethnographic case study of organizational conflict between advertorials and news

Cited by 40 publications

References 1 publication

Deception in Networks: A Laboratory Study

Deception in Networks: A Laboratory Study

Native Adverstising: Ads in Disguise as Editorials

Under the Influence: Advertisers’ Impact on the Content of Swiss Free Newspapers

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