User Rankings and Journalistic News Selection

Wendelin, Manuel; Engelmann, Ines; Neubarth, Julia

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2015.1040892

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“…User emancipation and audience gatekeeping turned out to be less desirable than imagined. Audience metrics revealed that, left to their own devices, audiences tend to make societally suboptimal choices about what news or information they consume, especially if technologies are deployed to exploit human weakness in order to turn a profit (Webster 2010;Boczkowski and Mitchelstein 2013;Bucher 2017;Hanusch 2017;Wendelin, Engelmann, and Neubarth 2017). In response, journalists and editors began to build up their competences and started to develop ways to use and control personalization technologies.…”

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“…The proliferation of low-cost automated systems to measure audiences reignited age-old debates about the conflict between editorial integrity and commercial pressures (Loosen and Schmidt 2016;Zamith 2018). Metrics revealed the gap between what audiences read and what editors think is societally relevant (Boczkowski and Mitchelstein 2013;Wendelin, Engelmann, and Neubarth 2017). Audiences seem to prefer content that is usually associated with print tabloid media (Wendelin, Engelmann, and Neubarth 2017).…”

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“…Metrics revealed the gap between what audiences read and what editors think is societally relevant (Boczkowski and Mitchelstein 2013;Wendelin, Engelmann, and Neubarth 2017). Audiences seem to prefer content that is usually associated with print tabloid media (Wendelin, Engelmann, and Neubarth 2017). Empirical studies showed that editorial decisions are affected by audience metrics, resulting in the pushing of stories that already do well (Lee, Lewis, and Powers 2014;Vu 2014;Christin 2015;Welbers et al 2016;Tandoc 2015;Cherubini and Nielsen 2016;Schlemmer 2016;Hanusch 2017;Hindman 2017;Wendelin, Engelmann, and Neubarth 2017) and the deselection of poorly performing articles (Tandoc 2014).…”

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How do news organizations design and implement algorithmically personalized news services? We conducted 16 in-depth interviews with professionals working in European public service broadcasting and commercial quality news media to answer this question. The news business is undergoing rapid transformations regarding how news production is financed, how news is produced and delivered to audiences and how citizens consume news. In all of these changes algorithmic recommender systems play a role. We focus on news organizations' own personalized news services, and analyze how they define the role of personalization in contributing to the financial success of the organization, in reaching and retaining audiences, and in fulfilling their editorial mission. We interviewed editors, journalists, technologists and business intelligence and publishing professionals to gain a structural understanding of the often conflicting goals of personalization. We found that rather than focusing on increasing short-term user engagement, European quality news media try to use news personalization to increase long-term audience loyalty. In distinction to the "platform logic of personalization", which uses personalization to produce engagement and sell audiences to advertisers, they have developed a "news logic of personalization", which uses personalization to sell news to audiences.

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“…Eilders, 2006), Harcup and O'Neill (2001), in their well-cited study, revised the list of news factors with the aim of better predicting which items would be included in the news. Nevertheless, some kind of consensus is reached on how news values can be divided into two reoccurring categories as discussed in the previous paragraph (Eilders, 2006;Wendelin et al, 2017).…”

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News values on social media: Exploring what drives peaks in user activity about organizations on Twitter

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2018

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Since news circulation increasingly takes place online, the public has gained the capacity to influence the salience of topics on the agenda, especially when it comes to social media. Considering increased scrutiny about organizations, this study aims to understand what causes heightened activity to organization-related topics among Twitter users. We explore the extent to which news value theory, news coverage, and influential actors can explain peaks in Twitter activity about organizations. Based on a dataset of 1.8 million tweets about 18 organizations, the findings show that the news values social impact, geographical closeness, facticity, as well as certain influential actors, can explain the intensity of online activities. Moreover, the results advocate for a more nuanced understanding of the relation between news media and social media users, as indications of reversed agenda-setting patterns were observed.

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“…Transparenz über Aufmerksamkeit und Zustimmung in öffentlichen Arenen und können so Anpassungsprozesse verstärken bzw. erst ermöglichen(Wendelin, Engelmann, & Neubarth, 2015).Negatives Feedback wird in der Öffentlichkeitsforschung hingegen bisher nur nachrangig betrachtet. Hierzu gehören z.B.…”

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Öffentlichkeit als komplexes System [The public sphere as a complex system]

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In this paper, I show how concepts of complexity can be used to explain dynamic macro phenomenaof the public sphere, such as news waves, polarization, or communication cascades. Ialso discuss to what extent public spheres have grown more complex in the course of digitalization,and how this affects the dynamics of public communication processes. My focus is tofurther develop existing system theoretical approaches of the public sphere towards a theoryof complex, adaptive systems that can be connected to other models of public spheres; notablynetwork and public arenas models, as well as to interdisciplinary complexity research. Iintroduce the fundamental characteristics of complex systems; i.e. interconnectedness, selforganization,emergence, nonlinearity and heterogeneity, showing how they apply to the systemof the public sphere in its contemporary digitized context. I then point out the methodologicalconsequences of this perspective, and conclude by commenting on its integrative potentialfor theory development in public sphere research.

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User Rankings and Journalistic News Selection

Cited by 48 publications

References 30 publications

Selling News to Audiences – A Qualitative Inquiry into the Emerging Logics of Algorithmic News Personalization in European Quality News Media

Selling News to Audiences – A Qualitative Inquiry into the Emerging Logics of Algorithmic News Personalization in European Quality News Media

News values on social media: Exploring what drives peaks in user activity about organizations on Twitter

Öffentlichkeit als komplexes System [The public sphere as a complex system]

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