Edson C Tandoc
Biographic Data
| ID | 124508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edson C Tandoc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edson C |
| FAMILY NAME | Tandoc |
| SIGNATURE | TANDOC E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8740-9313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 134 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 132 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 22 |
The news we choose to trust
Monitoring and maintaining news trust in democratic societies is important. Thus, scholars have investigated how the consumption of mainstream and alternative news can influence how the public trusts them in the long term. However, such dichotomy is difficult to apply to the liberal-authoritarian media system in Singapore, where most media outlets are under the government’s purview. To address this, the current study first distinguishes between ‘…
Opposing and stabilizing
As audiences navigate increasingly complex media environments, traditional media platforms (TMPs) and new media platforms (NMPs) may function as substitutes, complements, or co-existing elements within news repertoires. This study examines how TMPs’ and NMPs’ news use co-evolve over time. Using three-wave panel data from Singapore, a high-choice yet tightly regulated media system characterized by strong state influence and relatively high trust i…
Cultural Lag, Consumer Literacy, and Coping in AI-Enabled Advertising
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the advertising industry, yet important research gaps remain in understanding: (a) the cultural dimensions lagging behind AI-enabled advertising, particularly in ad creation and ad placement; (b) consumer literacy and sensemaking of AI-enabled advertising; and (c) how consumers cope with AI-enabled ads and what solutions they recommend. Our research aims to fill these gaps, guided by the culture lag th…
How to prompt ethical use? Investigating students’ intention to use ChatGPT for graded assignments
“Misinformed” anxiety in the newsroom? The impact of presumed influence of misinformation, perception of journalism, and mental resilience
This study explored the psychological mechanism of how journalists, as a critical interest group responsible for disseminating accurate information to the public, affectively respond to misinformation. Building on the influence of presumed media influence (IPMI) theory, this survey of Chinese journalists (N = 574) reveals that journalists’ presumed influence of misinformation on others is positively associated with their perception of journalism’…
Exploring time-lagged effects and gendered differences of videoconference fatigue on work-family conflict and emotional well-being
While videoconferencing has become an integral part of many individuals’ lives, less is known regarding how individuals’ experience of videoconference fatigue (VF) and work-family conflict (WFC) affects their emotional well-being over time. We examine the changes in VF, WFC, loneliness, and well-being across time, through the lens of the stressor-strain-outcome framework. A two-wave online panel survey was conducted at two time points (T1 and T2)…
Echoing the Call
This article joins the call to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression in scholarly work. In our commentary, we reflect on how Digital Journalism has long provided a space for
News you can refuse
Guided by public goods and uses and gratifications theories, this study examines the link among motivations for news consumption, perceived importance of news, and willingness to pay for news. Through a national online survey in Singapore ( n = 818), this study found that both entertainment and socialisation motivations are positively related to willingness to pay for news, while surveillance motivation was not. The analysis also found that perce…
The relationship between news trust, mistrust and audience disengagement
The global decline of trust in news is a concern for democracy and news organisations. It is often assumed that distrust in news will turn citizens away from it. However, the relationship between trust and news engagement is not straightforward. Those who distrust news may continue to consume it, and those who have high trust in news may choose to disengage from it. This study addresses this puzzling phenomenon by applying the concept of ‘mistrus…
Social Responsibility Appeal and Cross-Lagged Effects of Perceived Norms on Mask-Wearing Behavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study extends the Theory of Normative Social Behavior by examining the cross-lagged effects of perceived norms on mask-wearing intention and behavior during an evolving COVID-19 pandemic. We also investigate the normative mechanisms of how social responsibility appeals improve compliance with mask-wearing behavior. A two-wave panel survey (N = 767) was conducted in Singapore in March and April 2020. Findings show that injunctive norms increa…
Content tracing
This study is based on a content analysis of 238 forwarded messages sent to a public fact-checking group on WhatsApp in Singapore during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand what types of information people would submit for fact-checking, allowing insights into possible motivations behind the use of fact-checking services. Focusing on content characteristics, we examined the range of topics, valence, and facticity of the me…
Exploring AI identity
Implementing artificial intelligence also requires examinations of public attitudes and perceptions. One approach is by examining media framing of artificial intelligence, including news coverage, which is a reflection of societal perceptions and a key influence over people’s understanding. As such, this study examines the framing of communicative artificial intelligence in Singapore, looking at how the news media frame communicative artificial i…
Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms—Introduction to the Special Issue
The global spread of political misinformation poses serious challenges to democracies, eroding trust and distorting public discourse. However, research has largely focused on WEIRD countries—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic—limiting our understanding of how misinformation operates across diverse political, cultural, and technological contexts. This special issue addresses these gaps through comparative, cross-platform, and …
Between Desire and Derision
With the rapid growth of Thailand’s Boys’ Love industry, many Chinese female audiences have turned to Thai BL dramas to satisfy demands left unmet by the heavily censored domestic media. Adopting the framework of queer cultural transnationalization, we conducted a textual analysis to examine Chinese female audiences’ interests in and attitudes toward Thai BL. We analyzed discussion threads in Douban BL interest groups and found a paradox in which…
When everything goes online, it's never really gone
Increasingly pervasive in recent years is a range of behaviours using digital technologies to harm individuals–especially women–known as ‘technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV)’. Some notable examples of TFSV include digital sexual harassment and nonconsensual sharing of intimate content–also called ‘image-based sexual abuse (IBSA)’. This article investigates university students’ experiences of TFSV in Singapore, addressing the questions: …
Show Me the Facts
In response to skepticism and criticisms of bias, fact-checkers attempt to be transparent in their work, a practice adopted from their journalistic roots. This study identifies the acts of disclosure and participatory transparency practiced by fact-checkers in Asia and compares the differences between newsroom-affiliated and non-newsroom fact-checkers. Through a content analysis of 80 fact-checking websites in Asia, this study identifies the acts…
Uninformed and Misinformed
Scholarship has now recognized the potentially detrimental effects of social media on political knowledge. At the same time, a separate but similar line of work has raised concerns that these platforms are the primary vector of political misinformation. Despite the renewed focus on misinformation studies, the question as to whether political knowledge and susceptibility to misinformation are related remains open. If they are indeed related, we st…
Understanding the Effects of News-Finds-Me Perception on Health Knowledge and Information Seeking During Public Health Crises
News-finds-me (NFM) perception is a belief that, in the era of social media, individuals can remain adequately well-informed about current events even if they do not actively seek news. While it has been examined in the context of general and political news, NFM perception has not been explored in the context of other genres of news. Through an online survey involving 1,001 Singaporeans, with the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model, this study…
Unpacking the Effects of Livestream Viewing in the Relationship Between Loneliness and Well-Being
Livestream content has been gaining popularity in recent years. Although it has been known that livestream viewing can mitigate the adverse effects of loneliness on individuals’ well-being, the specific cognitive-affective processes involved are not given due attention. Situated in the Evolutionary Theory of Loneliness, the current study draws upon a national survey data (n = 911) to demonstrate that one’s hypervigilance and their negative emotio…
Life After News? How an Online Community of Journalists Discuss Stress and Provide Social Support
Journalists have been leaving the industry in droves due to stress and burnout. This study examines an online community of journalists discussing their "Plan B" to understand what they identify as job stressors, as well as how they, as a community, discuss the health impact of these stressors. Guided by concepts of social support, we attempt to understand the strategies they employ to deal with the stressors. We found that the journalists collect…
People, Platforms, and Places
Reducing the social distance between livestreamers and viewers is known to enhance viewership as well as generate desirable psychosocial and economic outcomes. However, apart from the social dimension, scholars have not explored other distance dimensions that may induce the same benefits. Leveraging the construal level theory, the current study explicates the concept of distance in the form of three different perceived psychological distance dime…
Re-meme-bering Tiananmen? From collective memory to meta-memory on TikTok
The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre has been enshrined in the collective memory of different social groups globally in various ways, while the Chinese government enforces its own memory of Tiananmen through censorship and revisionism. These result in numerous memories of Tiananmen. Through a qualitative analysis of 27 TikToks posted on 3–5 June 2022, this study examines how Tiananmen is commemorated on TikTok on Tiananmen’s anniversary and what is…
Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users
Research shows the growth of online information has led to a decline in audience trust in mainstream news. However, how this lowered trust in the news affects different audiences’ attitudes and news consumption behaviour is less understood. Our thematic analysis of 40 semi-structured interviews with Australian heavy and non-news users of mainstream news shows that responses vary with respect to the effort taken to verify dubious news. Among heavy…
Cultural tightness-looseness and normative social influence in eight Asian countries
Hashtagging for Inclusion
Beyond indexing content and creating networks, hashtags can also convey social meanings. From the perspective of social representation, this article investigates how gay men in Singapore use various hashtags to represent their complex identities and create a shared meaning of being gay in Singapore. Through a textual analysis of identity-related posts generated by gay Instagram users in Singapore, we identified two patterns of using gay-related h…
Journalism is twerking? How web analytics is changing the process of gatekeeping
New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience behavior. Through new audience information systems, such as web analytics, the influence of the audience on the news construction process is increasing. This occurs as the journalistic field tries to survive a shrinking audience for news. In this study, I argue that how jour…
The Journalist Is Marketing the News
This study, based on case studies of three online newsrooms, seeks to understand the patterns of how journalists use social media in their news work. Through 150 hours of observations and interviews with 31 journalists, the study found that journalists are normalizing social media while also reworking some of their norms and routines around it, a process of journalistic negotiation. They are balancing editorial autonomy and the other norms that h…
Mind the Gap
The study of journalistic role conceptions rests on the assumption that these conceptions shape the news stories that journalists create. However, limited empirical evidence exists to support this assumed linear relationship between role conception and role enactment. This exploratory study compared role conceptions deduced from survey data of 56 journalists with a content analysis of those same journalists' articles (N=270). The findings suggest…
The Audience-Oriented Editor
Spurred by the increasingly central role of audience metrics in the editorial process, a new set of roles is being introduced in the newsroom primarily focused on navigating audience data. This paper aims to understand these emerging audience-oriented roles and to what extent considerations of the audience figures in editorial choices. This paper draws from a set of 15 in-depth interviews with engagement editors, social media editors and audience…
The Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures
Influential research on comparative media systems identifies distinctive models according to which certain countries—particularly advanced democracies—share key features in their journalistic cultures. Revisionist literature has not only emphasized the limitations of such models, but also highlighted the hybridization of journalistic cultures elsewhere. This article tests the hybridization thesis, analyzing the presence of six journalistic roles …
When News Meets the Audience
Innovations in communication technology have changed the way news is produced and consumed. Various digital platforms, ranging from news websites to social media sites to personal blogs, have enabled news users to indicate how much they like the news they have read, to share it with others, and to leave comments. News users' mouse clicks are automatically recorded and aggregated by computational systems and made publicly visible (e.g., “Most Read…
Diffusion of disinformation
This exploratory study seeks to understand the diffusion of disinformation by examining how social media users respond to fake news and why. Using a mixed-methods approach in an explanatory-sequential design, this study combines results from a national survey involving 2501 respondents with a series of in-depth interviews with 20 participants from the small but economically and technologically advanced nation of Singapore. This study finds that m…
Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news
Through an analysis of relevant literature and open-ended survey responses from 2501 Singaporeans, this article proposes a conceptual framework to understand how individuals authenticate the information they encounter on social media. In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own judgment of the source and the message, and when this does not adequately provide a definitive answer, they turn to external resources to authenticat…
Why Web Analytics Click
This study, based on a survey of 206 online editors, tests a theoretical framework guided by field theory that seeks to explain the patterns of how journalists use Web analytics in their news work. Using structural equation modeling, this study finds that journalists' perception of competition in the field and their conceptions of the audience as a particular form of capital lead them to using Web analytics in particular ways
Small Departures, Big Continuities
Through a content analysis of big data journalism stories from The Guardian (N = 260), a pioneer in contemporary big data journalism, we sought to investigate how the practice of big data journalism compares with traditional news values, norms, and routines. Findings suggested that big data journalism shows new trends in terms of how sources are used, but still generally adhere to traditional news values and formats such as objectivity and use of…
Detached or Interventionist? Comparing the Performance of Watchdog Journalism in Transitional, Advanced and Non-democratic Countries
This study proposes the interventionist and the detached orientations to watchdog journalism through the conceptual lens of journalistic role performance. Based on a content analysis of 33,640 news stories from sixty-four media outlets in eighteen countries, we measure and compare both orientations across different countries using three performative aspects of monitoring: intensity of scrutiny, voice of the scrutiny, and source of the event. Our …
News organizations’ use of Native Videos on Facebook
This article explores the influence of social media giant Facebook on the journalistic field by examining how news organizations responded to Facebook’s algorithm tweak, announced in June 2014, that prioritized videos directly uploaded to the social media platform. In announcing the tweak, Facebook, an agent external to the journalistic field, did not just change its own internal rules but also imposed them on users, including news organizations …
Journalism Reconfigured
Newsrooms are increasingly using automated technologies to manage the data deluge in this era of “big data” – tasks traditionally performed by human journalists are being taken over by machines, including the aggregation, prioritization, and writing of news. As machines become smarter and more capable of self-learning and self-judgment, an investigation into the social dynamics, and in turn, the power dynamics, of news production is warranted. Th…
The Buzzfeedication of journalism? How traditional news organizations are talking about a new entrant to the journalistic field will surprise you
Guided by the framework of field theory, this study analyzes how traditional news organizations perceived, defined, and represented BuzzFeed, a website that rose to online fame through aggregation of funny memes and cat videos but has since started producing investigative and long-form journalism pieces, heralding its formal entry into the journalistic field. Four themes emerged from the analysis. First, traditional news organizations demonstrate…
Five ways BuzzFeed is preserving (or transforming) the journalistic field
Guided by field theory and the concept of journalistic boundary work, this study seeks to examine whether BuzzFeed, a new agent in the journalistic field, is participating in the preservation or transformation of the journalistic field. This is carried out by comparing its news outputs with those of The New York Times based on the markers – or boundaries – that defined traditional journalistic practice, particularly news values, topics, sources, …
Doing “Well” or Doing “Good
Journalism research frequently takes the form of ethnographic case studies. Because ethnographic data collection tends to be limited to months or even weeks, these studies are often unable to uncover how journalism changes over time. Our study addresses this gap by drawing on ethnographic data collected from a large, metropolitan newspaper in 2013 and again in 2016. In doing so, it answers the question: How has a newspaper’s relationship with onl…
When Journalism and Automation Intersect
In this era of “big data”, where information circulates in unprecedented amounts, this paper examines the use of automation in newsrooms to manage the data deluge—not from the perspective of newsworkers, but from the technologists driving these digital innovations instead. These technologists, in their work with journalists, have to learn about journalistic rules while carrying with them technology’s own internal logic. Using field theory and in-…
Fake News as a Critical Incident in Journalism
This study examines how American newspapers made sense of the issue of fake news. By analysing newspaper editorials and considering the problem of fake news as a critical incident confronting journalism, this study found that news organizations in the US recognize fake news as a social problem while acknowledging the challenge in defining it. They generally considered fake news as a social media phenomenon thriving on political polarization drive…
Playing a crusader role or just playing by the rules? Role conceptions and role inconsistencies among environmental journalists
Environmental journalists have historically struggled between journalistic objectivity and environmental advocacy. But the roles they embrace are based not only on their individual conceptions but also on their perceptions of what their organizations expect from them. Thus, journalistic role conceptions are the melding of individual and organizational role conceptions. These roles do not always correspond, especially for environmental journalists…
Journalism at the Periphery
The increasing influence of actors who might not fit into traditional definitions of a journalist but are taking part in processes that produce journalism has attracted scholarly attention. They have been called interlopers, strangers, new entrants, peripheral, and emergent actors, among others. As journalism scholars grapple with how to refer to these actors, it is important to reflect on the assumptions that underlie emerging labels. These incl…
Out of bounds? How Gawker ’s outing a married man fits into the boundaries of journalism
Gawker ignited a controversy when it published an article about a married Conde Nast executive who allegedly sought the services of a gay escort. The popular blog eventually removed the article following condemnation from readers and other journalists. Guided by the frameworks of boundary work and field theory, this study analyzed 65 news articles and 2203 online comments and found that journalists and audiences problematized Gawker’s identity as…
Navigating the Scholarly Terrain
This article by the Digital Journalism Editorial Team surfaces with the explicit ambition to reassess the field of Digital Journalism Studies and map a future editorial agenda for Digital Journalism. The article dissects two important and closely interrelated questions: “What is ‘digital journalism’?”, and “What is ‘digital journalism studies’?” Building on the commissioned conceptual articles and the review article also published in this issue, …
A Field Analysis of Journalism in the Automation Age
As an unprecedented amount of information circulates, contemporary newsrooms are turning to automation to manage the data deluge. Amid claims of journalism in crisis, with falling revenues and newsroom closures, this study uses Bourdieu’s field theory to investigate how automation, as supplied by technological firms entering the journalistic field, may transform journalism in drastic ways. This study brings clarity to a field in flux, by reconcil…
Here’s What BuzzFeed Journalists Think of Their Journalism
This study seeks to compare BuzzFeed, a new entrant to the journalistic field, with traditional news organizations, from the perspective of BuzzFeed’s own journalists. Through in-depth interviews, this study finds that BuzzFeed’s journalists think they are more attentive to audiences and more willing to experiment than those working in traditional news organizations. But at the same time, they also value the same ethical standards in journalism. …
The Digitization of Harassment
Through interviews with women journalists in the Philippines, this study documents and examines their experiences with online harassment. Three main themes stand out. First, we find that online harassment against journalists follows a systematic process that starts from the top, is followed through by a network of social media personalities and an army of trolls, and then completed by ordinary social media users. Second, cases of harassment impac…
The Internet and Mobile Technologies in Election Campaigns
New mobile communication technologies are gaining popularity in the study of political communication, as political actors across the world exploit their applications in the hope of affecting voting behavior. Social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Friendster have provided interesting and effective uses for political communication, and these trends are now migrating from the West to Asia. The 2007 midterm elections in the Philippine…
The pseudo-events paradox
In 1961, Daniel Boorstin introduced the concept of ‘pseudo-events’, or false realities, which he said had been flooding the American press. Four decades later, testing his concept on the Philippine press, this study finds that his observation still holds true. This exploratory study, using content analysis of 2330 news articles and a survey of 100 journalists, also suggests the existence of the ‘pseudo-events paradox’. The study finds that while …
Mind the Gap
The study of journalistic role conceptions rests on the assumption that these conceptions shape the news stories that journalists create. However, limited empirical evidence exists to support this assumed linear relationship between role conception and role enactment. This exploratory study compared role conceptions deduced from survey data of 56 journalists with a content analysis of those same journalists' articles (N=270). The findings suggest…
Playing a crusader role or just playing by the rules? Role conceptions and role inconsistencies among environmental journalists
Environmental journalists have historically struggled between journalistic objectivity and environmental advocacy. But the roles they embrace are based not only on their individual conceptions but also on their perceptions of what their organizations expect from them. Thus, journalistic role conceptions are the melding of individual and organizational role conceptions. These roles do not always correspond, especially for environmental journalists…
The Complex Road to Happiness
Modeling Reality
This study investigates how reality television viewing is linked to Facebook. Utilizing a survey of 736 students in a school of journalism at a large Midwestern university, researchers examined whether viewers of different genres of reality television were more prone to problematic information sharing on Facebook. The study found that all viewers of reality were prone to problematic information sharing. However, viewers of drama-, competition-, a…
Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students
Updated Statuses
The overall purpose of these studies was to explore whether underlying motivations could predict frequency of Facebook use, use of social connection features and use of selfexpression features. We sought to explain both general and specific uses of Facebook by accounting for the influences of motivations, attitudes and motivation activation systems. In addition to established scales on attitude and motivation, we employed the Mini-MAM scale which…
So says the stars
Why Web Analytics Click
This study, based on a survey of 206 online editors, tests a theoretical framework guided by field theory that seeks to explain the patterns of how journalists use Web analytics in their news work. Using structural equation modeling, this study finds that journalists' perception of competition in the field and their conceptions of the audience as a particular form of capital lead them to using Web analytics in particular ways
Journalism is twerking? How web analytics is changing the process of gatekeeping
New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience behavior. Through new audience information systems, such as web analytics, the influence of the audience on the news construction process is increasing. This occurs as the journalistic field tries to survive a shrinking audience for news. In this study, I argue that how jour…
One journalist, two roles
Individuals interacting with society possess multiple roles, and yet the study of journalistic role conceptions, based on the assumption that role conceptions influence journalistic outputs, has not addressed the idea that journalists possess multiple roles inside and outside the journalistic field. A peculiar arrangement in Missouri is the appointment of journalists to serve as media coordinators for the courts. Using a symbolic interactionism f…
The Ethics of Web Analytics
The collection and reporting of audience data through Web analytics is reshaping the news construction process, with journalists now aware of what their online audiences want. A more important question than understanding this process of adoption of Web analytics in the newsroom is how access to audience metrics impacts on the journalism that journalists produce. In this essay, we pose three interconnected concerns about the use of Web analytics i…
Communicating on Twitter during a disaster
A Tale of Two Newsrooms
This chapter describes the results of a study that compared a strongly market-oriented newsroom and a less market-oriented newsroom in terms of how they used web analytics in news work. Using ethnographic methods, the study finds that web analytics influenced editorial decisions in both newsrooms. However, the two newsrooms differed in the extent to which they used analytics and in their reasons for doing so. These differences are examined using …
The Facebook Experience
Based on the diaries and interviews of five Facebook users, we found that the phenomenology of Facebook use can be divided into three phases: managing intentions, experiencing the consequences of actions, and feeling a range of emotions. We propose that the theoretical framework we found in this study—of understanding the experience of Facebook as an experience of varying degrees of personal control—can be applied to understanding other social ex…
Small Departures, Big Continuities
Through a content analysis of big data journalism stories from The Guardian (N = 260), a pioneer in contemporary big data journalism, we sought to investigate how the practice of big data journalism compares with traditional news values, norms, and routines. Findings suggested that big data journalism shows new trends in terms of how sources are used, but still generally adhere to traditional news values and formats such as objectivity and use of…
The Journalist Is Marketing the News
This study, based on case studies of three online newsrooms, seeks to understand the patterns of how journalists use social media in their news work. Through 150 hours of observations and interviews with 31 journalists, the study found that journalists are normalizing social media while also reworking some of their norms and routines around it, a process of journalistic negotiation. They are balancing editorial autonomy and the other norms that h…
The Buzzfeedication of journalism? How traditional news organizations are talking about a new entrant to the journalistic field will surprise you
Guided by the framework of field theory, this study analyzes how traditional news organizations perceived, defined, and represented BuzzFeed, a website that rose to online fame through aggregation of funny memes and cat videos but has since started producing investigative and long-form journalism pieces, heralding its formal entry into the journalistic field. Four themes emerged from the analysis. First, traditional news organizations demonstrate…
Media sources, credibility, and perceptions of science
Knowledge about science and technology has become increasingly important in this age of digital information overload. It is also becoming increasingly important to understand what contributes to scientific learning, including information sources and trust in those sources. In this study, we develop and test a multivariate model to explain scientific knowledge based on past theories on learning from the news from the fields of political communicat…
Log in if you survived
This study explores the use of Facebook for collective coping in the immediate aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded on Earth, which hit the Philippines in November 2013. When traditional communication channels became non-operational, non-traditional information sources and communication platforms, such as Facebook, became salient. Drawing from interviews with 29 individuals from various groups—government official…
Watching Over the Watchdogs
Studying the problems that journalists face is important, considering the role that journalists play in reporting about and legitimizing the problems that confront society. This study explores what journalists in the Philippines, a young democracy with a unique media ecology, consider to be the most important problem they face. Drawing on a survey of 349 Filipino journalists, this study found that journalists in the Philippines are most concerned…
Out of bounds? How Gawker ’s outing a married man fits into the boundaries of journalism
Gawker ignited a controversy when it published an article about a married Conde Nast executive who allegedly sought the services of a gay escort. The popular blog eventually removed the article following condemnation from readers and other journalists. Guided by the frameworks of boundary work and field theory, this study analyzed 65 news articles and 2203 online comments and found that journalists and audiences problematized Gawker’s identity as…
Giving in or giving up
Defining “Fake News”
This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term “fake news.” An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term “fake news” between 2003 and 2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, manipulation, advertising, and propaganda. These definitions are based on two dimensions: levels of facticity and deception. Such a typology is offered to clarify…
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