Networked Press Freedom and Social Media: Tracing Historical and Contemporary Forces in Press-Public Relations

Internet, News, and Political Trust: The Difference Between Social Media and Online Media Outlets

“…However, if social media become a terrain for the diffusion of unmediated news biased in favor of antisystem arguments, this can damage democratic support and thwart any process of e-democracy and online deliberation. Endnotes 1 Even when news organizations provide room for user-generated content, they try to keep their gatekeeping role and to exert control (e.g., Ananny, 2014). 2 Only a limited number of Twitter accounts belong to professional journalists or news corporations.…”

“…Journalists try to preserve their one-way publishing control and consider the audience as a recipient (Lewis, 2012), to the extent that the impact of public discourse held on SNS on the daily meetings held in newsrooms or on the editorial line is minimal (Hermida, 2013). Political information still flows from the top (the political elite) with little room for user-generated content or alternative viewpoints (Ananny, 2014; for a partially different view: Chadwick, 2013). 1 The market of online information is dominated by a limited number of outlets belonging to the same media corporations that are active offline (Hindman, 2009).…”

“…Even when news organizations provide room for user‐generated content, they try to keep their gatekeeping role and to exert control (e.g., Ananny, ).…”

Keep the Ball Rolling: Information Diffusion within Large Sports-Related Networks through Social Mediators

“…Media social mediators hold a societal role as information providers (Himelboim et al, 2014). Nonetheless, journalists and other media outlets are increasingly struggling with how and why to reach out to publics, primarily through Facebook and Twitter where readers encounter professionally produced news stories (Ananny, 2014). Since sports news particularly focuses on top division football clubs meeting the criteria of objectivity, interest, and tradition (Knoppers & Elling, 2004), we propose the following hypothesis: The proportion of media social mediators is higher for top division football clubs compared to first division football clubs (Hypothesis 1c).…”

The Challenges of Democratizing News and Information: Examining Data on Social Media, Viral Patterns and Digital Influence

“…Staff are warned against using social media in ways that conflict with organizational priorities, reveal the details of internal news work, rely upon social media privacy protections, or upend norms of objectivity. 58 Henry Jenkins, also at USC, has advocated producing "spreadable media" that is deliberately designed to break out of broadcast, one-to-many, silos. "News sites which prevent the sharing of such content amongst readers may look like ways to protect the commercial interest of that content," Jenkins has said, "but in fact, they kill it, destroying its value as a cultural resource within networked communities, and insuring that the public will look elsewhere for news that can be spread."…”