When News Meets the Audience: How Audience Feedback Online Affects News Production and Consumption

Lee, Eun‐Ju; Tandoc, Edson C.

doi:10.1111/hcre.12123

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“…Where once media could be criticized for failing to adjudicate the truth (Pingree, Brossard, & McLeod, 2014), many news outlets, especially those on the far right and left, now actively construct the "truth" to align with their partisan leanings. The media's power has become decentralized, with political blogs' content and audiences' search patterns helping to set the news agenda (Gruszczynski & Wagner, 2016;Lee & Tandoc, 2017). As the media system and content has evolved, the nature of media audiences has changed as well.…”

Section: An Early 21st-century Communication Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology

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A long tradition of research focuses on conversation as a key catalyst for community integration and a focal mediator of media influence on participation. Changes in media systems, political environments, and electoral campaigning demand that these influences, and the communication mediation model, be revised to account for the growing convergence of media and conversation, heightened partisan polarization, and deepening social contentiousness in media politics. We propose a revised communication mediation model that continues to emphasize the centrality of face‐to‐face and online talk in democratic life, while considering how mediational and self‐reflective processes that encourage civic engagement and campaign participation might also erode institutional legitimacy, foster distrust and partisan divergence, disrupting democratic functioning as a consequence of a new communication ecology.

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Section: An Early 21st-century Communication Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology

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“…The two‐step flow of communication model (Katz & Lazarsfeld, ) proposed that there are intervening variables such as recipients' predispositions (e.g., prevailing prejudices) or communication with peers that qualify the actual effect of mass media on recipients' views. Even beyond this notion, the unidirectional influence of media coverage on recipients' opinions has been questioned, alternatives proposing that audiences themselves exert impact on media determining which topics and stances media institutions cover in their reports (e.g., Glynn, Herbst, Lindeman, O'Keefe, & Shapiro, ; see Lee & Tandoc, ).…”

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Opinion Climates in Social Media: Blending Mass and Interpersonal Communication

2017

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Social media's capacity for users to generate, comment on, and forward content (including mass media messages) to other users has created new forms of mass interpersonal communication. These systems render observable processes underlying the formation of opinion climates. Five attributes of contemporary electronic opinion environments can alter the way users gauge, form, and express opinions on topics of public interest: the juxtaposition of mass media and user‐generated content, ideological homogeneity and heterogeneity of online networks, technical ease with which to express opinions, the reach of messages, and networked audiences. These attributes facilitate analysis of theoretical and empirical works from different scholarly traditions, suggesting lines of inquiry that can enrich the analysis of (public) opinion formation via current communication technologies.

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“…Research has also demonstrated social influence effects when considering cues that are emblematic of diminished message control. For example, online news site readers favor popular content that is recommended by others (Yang, ) and they spend more time reading online news articles that prior readers rated positively (Knobloch‐Westerwick, Sharma, Hansen, & Alter, ; see also Lee & Tandoc, ). Also, online news articles with greater Facebook “likes” have been shown to be clicked on more frequently, selected earlier, and read for longer than articles with a low number of likes, particularly when impression motivations are high and people are inspired to appear likeable and develop positive relationships with unknown others (Winter, Metzger, & Flanagin, ).…”

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Online Social Influence and the Convergence of Mass and Interpersonal Communication

Flanagin

2017

Hum Commun Res

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Mass and interpersonal communication are rapidly converging as people integrate an assortment of Internet‐based tools into their communication repertoires. This convergence prompts dramatic changes in the conditions that once were presumed to distinguish mass from interpersonal communication, most notably differences in communication directionality and scale, audience size and identification, and a host of cues that signal source credibility. This article proposes a number of features of technological convergence in this context—including shifts in message control, audience scale, and source, receiver, and temporal ambiguity—and describes illustrative implications for social influence processes. These features highlight areas that traditional mass and interpersonal communication perspectives cannot fully describe alone, and suggest new methods and directions for the examination of online social influence.

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When News Meets the Audience: How Audience Feedback Online Affects News Production and Consumption

Cited by 159 publications

References 44 publications

Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology

Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology

Opinion Climates in Social Media: Blending Mass and Interpersonal Communication

Online Social Influence and the Convergence of Mass and Interpersonal Communication

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