Nature’s Economy and News Ecology
Scrutinizing the news ecosystem metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7500396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Nadler (0000-0002-2035-2690, Ursinus College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 823-839 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-670X • E-ISSN: 1469-9699 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1461670x.2018.1427000 |
| OpenAlex | W2938183349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 26 |
This essay challenges journalism scholars to confront critical ambiguities in the use of the news ecosystem metaphor in discourses on digital-age journalism. This metaphor is frequently used to suggest that news media take shape through spontaneous, self-ordering principles associated with ecological systems. At its worst, the news ecosystem metaphor simply stands for the news marketplace while, quite literally, naturalizing current trends in the diffusion and development of news practices. The intellectual history of the ecosystem concept shows its grounding in liberal economics and its association with a normative view that competitive individualism establishes a natural order. The conventional use of the ecosystem metaphor in debates about digital journalism frames the dynamics of news ecosystems as expressions of competing and symbiotic relations among news producers. This strips from view social, political, and economic decisions and norms that set the stage for the digital media landscape
Biology · Digital ecosystem · Ecological economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Individualism · Journalism · Media ecology · Media studies · Metaphor · Normative · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Sustainability · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics · Ecology · Law
Journalism Research That Matters
Journalism’s sharp end
Meso News-Space in China
Mutual aid for local journalism
You Are Here
Mapping the relationship between journalistic discourse, tech industry layoffs, and artificial intelligence
Populist communication and media environments
Covering the Wildfire of Mati in Greece
Logics and levels of ecology theory
Promises Granted
Thus spoke Zuckerberg
Conceptualizing Local News “Ecosystems” in the United States
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT
Local newspapers and coronavirus
News Ecosystems
An Entangled Bank
Metaphor and theory change
The contemporary theory of metaphor
Les pionniers de l'écologie
The battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’
What We Talk about When We Talk about “The Market”
The limits of peer production
Method and metaphysics in Clements’s and Gleason’s ecological explanations
General systems theory and media ecology
Post-industrial fog
Journalistic Networks and the Diffusion of Local News
Media Ecology
The Logic of Connective Action
The Net Effect
Unnatural Ecologies
Ecological Metaphors as Scientific Boundary Work
The Natural History of the Newspaper
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |