What is the meaning of a news link?

Ryfe, David M.; Mensing, Donica; Kelley, Richard

doi:10.1080/21670811.2015.1093269

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“…Hyperlinks are rarely used by journalists and media sites (Himelboim, 2010;Karlsson et al, 2015). When they are used, they are used for specific purposes, such as to provide access to background information on the discussed matter (De Maeyer, 2012;De Maeyer and Holton, 2016), to increase transparency of the writing process (De Maeyer and Holton, 2016), to cite information from other sites or stories (Ryfe et al, 2016), to give credit for the content to other journalists (De Maeyer and Holton, 2016) or to increase the piece's legitimacy and credibility (De Maeyer and Holton, 2016;Duffy et al, 2017). According to Duffy et al (2017), linking is also used as a way to introduce illustrative additions, such as user-generated content.…”

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“…However, this does not explain why countermedia sites directly reference their sources, sometimes as explicitly as writing 'Sources' at the end of the stories. Considering journalism studies (Ballinger, 2011;De Maeyer, 2012;De Maeyer and Holton, 2016;Mourão and Robertson, 2019;Ryfe et al, 2016), this mechanism might be used to increase legitimacy and credibility. One of the reasons why this referencing was visible in our data could be the high-level trust that Finns have for mainstream media (Newman et al, 2017), making the professional journalist media an important point of reference and legitimating force.…”

Section: Countermedia In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context

Toivanen

Nelimarkka

Valaskivi

2021

New Media & Society

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We examine the position of five online-only ‘countermedia’ publications often publicly labelled as ‘fake media’ and use them to indicate how the ‘post-truth era’ takes place. Both academic and public discussions perceive countermedia as separate and distinct from the established, professionally produced journalist media outlets. We argue that the studied outlets are an integral part of the hybrid media environment. Our data show countermedia mainly remediate content initially published by professional Finnish media. We also suggest that media references are used strategically to explicate a relationship with mainstream media, as there are different ways of remediating the mainstream media content. This evidence contributes to the growing body of work criticising the usage of the ‘fake media’ concept and attempts to create a more nuanced understanding of countermedia’s role in its contexts. Furthermore, we suggest remediation as a lens may help scholars understand the integrated hybrid media environment.

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Section: Origins Of Remediation: Whose Content Is Remediated?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Countermedia In Contextmentioning

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Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context

Toivanen

Nelimarkka

Valaskivi

2021

New Media & Society

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“…First, hyperlinks function as a transparent sourcing mechanism by providing direct access to raw source material thus revealing otherwise covert news sourcing practices (Napoli, 2008). This function is also referred to as hyperlinks' citational function (Ryfe, Mensing, & Kelley, 2016). Second, hyperlinks to sources also enhance the perceived credibility of certain types of articles as well as readers' inclinations to seek further information (Borah, 2014;Chung, Nam, & Stefanone, 2012).…”

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Finding the news and mapping the links: a case study of hypertextuality in Dutch-language health news websites

Stroobant

2018

Information, Communication & Society

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This study considers hyperlinks as digital navigational cues that can guide users through the increasingly complex and vast online health information landscape in order to examine how hypertextuality at both search engines and health news websites mediates access to further health-related information. This is important because online news media are frequently used and convenient sources for health information. The methodology unfolds in two steps. First, an environmental scan of search engine result pages for the term 'health news' was conducted. Second, an automated quantitative content analysis (N = 5428) of external hyperlinks found on three types of health news websites, i.e., net-native, mixed and legacy news brands, was performed. Most importantly, this study challenges the dominant internal-external distinction by introducing a systematic distinction between genuine external hyperlinks and pseudo-external hyperlinks when comparing various types of online health news. Net-native news websites provide more hyperlinks to thematically related information than legacy news websites with print origins. The latter often include pseudo-external hyperlinks to thematically unrelated, but organizationally affiliated websites, thus favoring financial relationships over thematic coherence as an incentive to link.

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“…This also highlights a conceptual and methodological issue where the internal/external dichotomy potentially obscures important findings. We think it could provide fruitful to follow the recent proposal from Ryfe and Mensing (2013) to create a broader taxonomy of hyperlinks that accounts for their purpose -navigation, credibility, sharing, or more importantly in our case, commercial reasons -rather than their technical placement within or outside a specific domain.…”

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Hyperlinking practices in Swedish online news 2007–2013: the rise, fall, and stagnation of hyperlinking as a journalistic tool

Karlsson

Clerwall

Örnebring

2014

Information, Communication & Society

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Hyperlinks are considered vital to both the Web and to digital journalism. This study utilizes a longitudinal content analysis of hyperlinking practices in Swedish online news from 2007 to 2013 to see how hyperlinking evolves over time. It also compares if and to what extent publishing tradition shapes journalistic practice. The findings primarily show that the overall impact of hyperlinks remains largely unchanged over time but that internal links, while still being most common, decrease in relative importance while external links increase. The general conclusion is that hyperlinks, so far, are not an important aspect of online journalism practice.

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What is the meaning of a news link?

Cited by 23 publications

References 18 publications

Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context

Remediation in the hybrid media environment: Understanding countermedia in context

Finding the news and mapping the links: a case study of hypertextuality in Dutch-language health news websites

Hyperlinking practices in Swedish online news 2007–2013: the rise, fall, and stagnation of hyperlinking as a journalistic tool

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