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Visibility, Connectivity, Agency

Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing

Bibliographic Data

ID22010907
AuthorsFrançois-René Martins (0000-0003-4591-823X, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume9
Issue8
Pages1190-1198
Publication date2021-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDigital Journalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21670811.2021.1977670
OpenAlexW3204389489
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited24

The visibility of news on social media platforms is now as much mediated by opaque algorithmic power as quantifiable social news sharing. As public interest journalism has been transformed and even held to ransom by platformization, and its metrification of news value, there are ways for the news media to reassert their significance and independence, while building the post-scale engagement necessary to sustain its move from advertising to audience-based revenues. Regulatory activism, engagement re-orientation, and deeper research into commendary cultures offer avenues for journalism to reconfigure its relationship to platform power in an age of social news sharing

Advertising · Business · Gatekeeping · Internet privacy · Journalism · Media studies · News media · News values · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Visibility · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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