CFP | 27.4. | Vigilante audiences
The Erasmus Research Centre of Media, Communication and Culture is calling for chapter proposals for an upcoming, edited book on “Vigilante Audiences”. The volume will be published online in an … Continued
Tag: audience
ARTICLE: Even neutral news appear biased if shared by partisans
A news story shared by someone with a different political ideology will appear more biased, than if same story was shared by someone with the same political affiliation. Tae Kyoung … Continued
ARTICLE: Automated news recommendation can be as good as human editors
Is automated news recommendation a threat to content diversity, leading to audience getting trapped inside “filter bubbles”? Judith Möller, Damian Trilling and Natali Helberger, all of University of Amsterdam, with … Continued
REPORT: Twitter subcultures are wary of journalism
How do different subcultures interact with, and react to, mainstream journalism on Twitter? A team of American researchers investigated the matter through three American Twitter-spheres: “Black”, “Feminist” and “Asian-American Twitter”. … Continued
ARTICLE: The effect of format and source type on how people select news
A growing competition for audiences and the proliferation of new sources, sometimes less credible, have changed how people read news. Are the concerns over news consumption specific to the medium … Continued
ARTICLE: Human-written, automated and combined news articles were seen equally as credible
As many news organizations are already using computer algorithms to produce journalistic content, questions about how audiences view these stories arise. Anja Wölker and Thomas E. Powell of the University … Continued
ARTICLE: Americans are not that interested in fake news, after all
Few Americans are deeply invested in consuming so-called fake news, Jacob L. Nelson, of Northwestern University, and Harsh Taneja, of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, write. The authors analysed the browsing … Continued
ARTICLE: Media coverage of Islam may affect radicalization
The way news cover Islam and Muslims has the potential to increase or decrease the likelihood of Islamist radicalization, an experiment conducted at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich suggests. … Continued
ARTICLE: Perceptions of audience shaping Al Jazeera’s news
What do journalists imagine their audiences are like, and how does this affect their work? Julian Matthews of the University of Leicester, and Maiya Al Habsi of Al-Bayan College, studied … Continued
ARTICLE: Legacy media still have the strongest online audience overlap in the US and UK
A new study by Subhayan Mukerjee and Sandra González-Bailón of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sílvia Majó-Vázquez of the University of Oxford (authors not in original order), created a novel … Continued