Theorizing News: Toward a Constitutive Model of Journalistic Discourse

Interview guide: News from the user's perspective Dear interviewer, Thank you very much for your commitment to this study! First some introductory information: Point of departure▪ What we understand by news is changing fundamentally. For decades, the technological environment of news organizations, and thus their prevailing interpretation of what is to be understood as news, was quite stable. Recently, due to the establishment of social media and news aggregators as important distribution and feedback channels, the logic of algorithms is influencing the way journalists work, the nature of news content, the structure and organization of the newsroom, and the relationship between news organizations and their audiences. Especially for younger users, news is becoming mobile, personalized, participatory, and a social experience. ▪ To date, most research has focused on how social media is changing the production, distribution, and reception of news. However, it largely omits whether understandings of the concept of news itself are changing. Yet our understanding of news has implications for how people perceive, process, and evaluate the news. According to Kramp (2018), due to the unbundling and rebundling of content in social media platforms with multiple source layers, news "loses its distinctive character as a stand-alone information good" and has become "a shareable content that is used in the flow of online social interaction to exchange with other users". Kramp and Weichert even suggest that Millennials may be "the last generation left to be sensitized to journalistically mediated public spheres" (Kramp & Weichert in Meier 2017). Let's get to the bottom of this. Study's objective▪ This study follows an open approach that is detached from previous concepts and assumptions. In order to explore which characteristics constitute news from the user's point of view, semi-structured interviews will be conducted, as those are appropriate for reconstruction of subjective theories and everyday knowledge (Helfferich 2011). In support of this, guide cards are used (Gillham< 2005). ▪ The results also create a common basis of understanding of the news concept for journalism, academia, and audiences. Thus, the study contributes to the validity of news research and the representation of audiences in journalism. ▪ It is therefore important that you encourage respondents to speak freely. The data collected will of course be anonymized and used exclusively for scientific purposes.

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Theorizing News: Toward a Constitutive Model of Journalistic Discourse

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