What We Share: Genre and Topicality on Facebook and Twitter

Martin, Fiona

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17906-9_5

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“…Likewise, an experiment conducted on political journalists in Belgium shows how positive audience analytics data can make soft news headlines in particular seem more newsworthy (Lamot and Van Aelst 2020). On the other hand, Martin (2019) found that political and civic content was shared relatively more often on Facebook and Twitter than non-public affairs content.…”

Section: Dual Forces Fueling the Crisis In Local Newsmentioning

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Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook

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Mathews

2021

Digital Journalism

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This article focuses on two forces linked to declines in coverage of genuinely local civic affairs: (a) the impact of increasing corporate consolidation in ownership among news providers, and (b) the degree to which the economic incentives and logics of digital platforms may also drive editorial decision-making at news organizations away from coverage of local news. Using a unique dataset of 2.4 million Facebook posts published by local news organizations in three U.S. states between 2018 and 2019, we find evidence that both factors matter. Long-running trends toward conglomeration in the industry have a demonstrable impact on how much and what kinds of local news gets posted on the site, but we also find that the platform itself may incentivize certain types of coverage over others. Specifically, we find organizations owned by chains are more likely to post duplicative, repurposed content that receive fewer interactions per postevidence of quantity being valued over quality-as well as higher rates of engagement with national, hard news stories over unique content about local affairs. Findings shed light on how Facebook-combined with media ownership structures-may hinder the task of serving local communities with original news that satisfies important civic needs.

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Section: Dual Forces Fueling the Crisis In Local Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook

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Mathews

2021

Digital Journalism

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“…Legacy media are more reluctant than tabloid media to soften their news to be accommodated on Facebook. Moreover, Martin (2019), in her aggregate analysis of 160 English-language news sites, found that news pieces about public affairs are at the top of online news sharing. Thus, it is plausible that lower levels of political stability do not affect hard news supply per se, but rather the objects of its attention.…”

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“…Nonetheless, Martin (2019) came to what seems to be rather contrasting results. Ultimately, her study of 160 English language news sites and their news sharing performance on Facebook and Twitter concludes the following:…”

Section: News Sharing and Politics In Facebookmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…As suggested above, there is little room for uncontested answers to this question because the available evidence is rather heterogeneous and even conflicting. Some studies will identify Facebook as infertile soil for hard news and PA articles (Bright, 2016;Karnowski et al, 2020;Trilling et al, 2017), others will suggest alternative accounts (Lycarião & Leite, 2020;Martin, 2019;Ørmen, 2019). Bright's (2016) analysis of news interactions on the SNSs of the BBC News showed that politics, government, economics, and social issues had a negative impact on news sharing on Facebook (p. 353).…”

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The News Sharing Gap

Leite

2021

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– Current literature on online news sharing presents a range of methods and results, alongside contradictory explanations for the phenomenon. To disentangle this, we compared three countries with contrasting levels of political stability (Brazil, Canada and the US). A content analysis of articles (n = 1.658) posted in 2016, on the main news pages in Facebook for each country, shows that the Canadian news pages presented far less news sharing on national politics conflicts than Brazil and the US did. We discuss how this shows the relevance of political context in explaining both news routines and shareworthiness. RESUMO – A literatura sobre compartilhamento de notícias online apresenta uma gama de métodos e resultados com linhas contraditórias de explicação para o fenômeno. Para destrinchar o problema, comparamos três países com níveis contrastantes de estabilidade política (Brasil, Canadá e EUA). Uma análise de conteúdo de notícias (n = 1.658) postadas nas principais páginas noticiosas do Facebook de cada país em 2016 mostra que as páginas canadenses apresentaram muito menos compartilhamento sobre conflitos políticos nacionais do que nos EUA e Brasil. Discutimos como isso mostra a relevância do contexto político para explicar as rotinas produtivas e a compartilhabilidade. RESUMEN – La literatura actual sobre el intercambio de noticias en línea presenta una variedad de métodos y resultados junto con líneas de explicación contradictorias para el fenómeno. Para desenredar esto, comparamos tres países con niveles contrastantes de estabilidad política (Brasil, Canadá y EE. UU.). Un análisis de contenido de los artículos (n = 1.658) publicados en las principales páginas de noticias en Facebook de cada país en 2016 muestra que las páginas de noticias canadienses presentaron mucho menos intercambio de noticias sobre conflictos políticos nacionales. Lo contrario ocurrió en Brasil y Estados Unidos. Discutimos cómo esto muestra la relevancia del contexto político para explicar tanto las rutinas informativas como las compartidas.

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“…News media can provide a powerful focal point for these informal political discussions, bringing together potentially heterogeneous groups of people around informational content with which they might not otherwise have engaged (Rojas et al, 2005). Political news was both the most highly shared and most commonly shared subject matter from 160 English-speaking news titles worldwide, with the majority of those articles attracting comments (Martin, 2016). Despite concerns about filter bubbles and echo chambers, social media use incidentally exposes users to news sources that they would not normally encounter and provides them with more political diversity in their media consumption (Newman et al, 2017).…”

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Engagement and interaction with online news: a case study of housing affordability discussions on Facebook

Vaughan

Vromen

Martin

2018

Media International Australia

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Concerns about housing affordability in Australian capital cities have captured the public and political imagination. How, then, do ordinary citizens discuss the causes of and solutions to the increasing unaffordability of housing? This article examines evidence that branded Facebook channels provide a space for citizens to engage in everyday engagement and interaction on housing issues. We argue that studying branded, public Facebook pages, despite data access limitations, is an important way of tapping into broad citizen sentiment and understanding media influence on topical issues. We also find that different ways of framing housing affordability within news reporting are associated with different patterns of citizen engagement and interaction on Facebook. In particular, generational frames (critically linking housing affordability to either older people’s entrenched economic advantage or young people’s inability to save) are associated with high levels of user engagement, but the lowest level of discussion about policy solutions within dominant comment threads.

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What We Share: Genre and Topicality on Facebook and Twitter

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook

Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook

The News Sharing Gap

Engagement and interaction with online news: a case study of housing affordability discussions on Facebook

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