Facebook News Use During the 2017 Norwegian Elections—Assessing the Influence of Hyperpartisan News

Bibliographic Data

ID12908896
AuthorsBente Kalsnes (0000-0002-8764-6925, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Anders Olof Larsson (0000-0003-3621-4687, Høyskolen Kristiania)
Year2019
Volume15
Issue2
Pages209-225
Publication date2019-12-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2019.1704426
OpenAlexW2996274018
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited47

The paper at hand presents a comparative study on news use in relation to media content as posted to Facebook by a series of established and hyperpartisan media outlets during the 2017 Norwegian national election campaign. Specifically, we are interested in determining what types of news emanating from what types of news outlets that result in comparably higher levels of news use—defined as levels of likes, shares and comments—on Facebook. Results indicated that with a few exceptions, established, legacy media dominate the most engaging news stories during the election campaign, while results for hyperpartisan media outlets suggests rather limited influence. Nevertheless, the hyperpartisan media outlets succeeded in making themselves visible on the platform under scrutiny, driving attention to issues such as immigration during the election campaign

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