JOUB24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Temporality, Now News, Attention Seeking
Document Summary
Increased competition for audience attention: news sites multiplied, traditional markets. Popularity as value ( clickstream : problematic for civic function of journalism, the fluidity of following a number of clicks and prioritize that over the gatekeeping function. Measuring traffic rather than engagement: measuring someone clicking through, not engagement, misrepresentation of what both on editorial and advertisers think they are getting, over-confidence of what the web is used for. Co-creation of news context (user/journalist: about mass demographic users and journalists co-creating the context, about impact of platforms, and journalists being squeezed out. Contextual related content: e. g. if you"re reading a story about syria or isis, other stories like that will come up. So the amount of metrics that comeback to the news rooms really brings in the unknown computations of the algorithms of social media: algorithms have different output for different users (bit of an exaggeration)
