JMC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: News Values
10 Aug 2016
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Q sense: interpersonal contact, social media, news media. Factors determining newsworthiness: deviance- an event is out of the ordinary or differs from normal social values and beliefs, social significance- level of importance to society, based on politics, arts and culture, economics, or well-being (health, environment) What is gatekeeping: the process by which countless events and ideas are reduced to the messages we see in news media. Gatekeeping theory: sources- those who see an event, those who participate in it, those who are knowledgeable about it, media- reporters, editors, owners/management seek more information, publish a story. Media- individual factors: individual media workers- backgrounds, attitudes, judgments. Media- organizational factors: media routines- deadlines, space limits, news values, 24-hour news cycle, corporate concerns- profits, parent company influence. Gatekeeping theory: audience- reading and sharing articles online suggests which stories are most interesting and relevant. Selectivity: predicts that people choose information that is most similar to their worldviews.
