User-generated visibility: Secondary gatekeeping in a shared media space

THINKING ABOUT CITIZEN JOURNALISM The philosophical and practical challenges of user-generated content for community newspapers

This study seeks to understand how community newspaper editors negotiate the professional complexities posed by citizen journalism*a phenomenon that, even in the abstract, would appear to undermine their gatekeeping control over content. Through interviews with 29 newspaper editors in Texas, we find that some editors either favor or disfavor the use of citizen journalism primarily on philosophi...

Gatewatching, Not Gatekeeping: Collaborative Online News Prediction 52:

In the future, everyone will be a news reporter. For a long time, gatekeeping has provided a dominant paradigm for journalistic news gathering and news publishing in the mass media, both for journalists' own conceptualisation of their work and for academic studies of this mediation process. In media such as print, radio, and TV, with their inherent strictures of available column space, air time...

Drivers of Information quantity: the Case of Merger-Acquisition Events

Business and research likewise acknowledge the potential and economic value of information exchange in social media (i.e. the quality and the quantity of user-generated content). While existing research has mainly focused on the analysis of the impact of online information exchange, little attention has been devoted to the drivers of information exchange in social media related to major busines...

Twitter, News Aggegators & Co: Journalistic Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media Culture

Gatekeeping Factors in European Wireless Media Markets

Mediation in news industries has received significant attention by researchers for more than half a century. Gatekeepers decide which information should be delivered to different audiences. The Shoemaker/Reese Gatekeeping Model identifies five different filters of content processing: individual influences, professional routines, the organization, extra-media influences and ideology. Journalism ...