A comparison of competing models of the news diffusion process

Mayer, Michael; Gudykunst, William B.; Perrill, Norman K.; Merrill, Bruce D.

doi:10.1080/10570319009374328

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“…Second, researchers have highlighted the importance of news sharing as a way of helping to understand and hence form opinions on the news. As Neuman and Guggenheim (, p. 177) put it, “individuals rely on social cues and interpersonal conversation to interpret and contextualize complex media messages.” For particularly surprising or dramatic events, people often report sharing news with complete strangers, in order to allow them to have someone to talk to (see, e.g., Rogers & Seidel, , p. 215): Hence a variety of pieces of research have documented how in cases of dramatic events such as assassinations the majority of people discover the news through friends (see, e.g., Hill & Bonjean, ; Mayer, Gudykunst, Perrill, & Merrill, ). In these cases, sharing news has a certain cathartic value (Ibrahim, Ye, & Hoffner, ) and studies have documented that people are more likely to share news that they felt emotionally connected to (see, e.g., Basil & Brown, ; Harber & Cohen, ).…”

Section: Literature Review: Explaining Aggregate News Sharing On Socimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Social News Gap: How News Reading and News Sharing Diverge

Bright

2016

J Commun

169

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This article seeks to explain variation in news sharing patterns on social media. It finds that news editors have considerable power to shape the social media agenda through the use of “story importance cues” but also shows that there are some areas of news reporting (such as those related to crime and disasters) where this power does not apply. This highlights the existence of a social “news gap” where social media filters out certain types of news, producing a social media news agenda which has important differences from its traditional counterpart. The discussion suggests that this may be consequential for perceptions of crime and engagement with politics; it might even stimulate a partial reversal of the tabloidization of news outlets.

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Section: Literature Review: Explaining Aggregate News Sharing On Socimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Social News Gap: How News Reading and News Sharing Diverge

Bright

2016

J Commun

169

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“…Assuming the audience primarily as a passive receiver, they measured diffusion in terms of the awareness or learning of a major news event, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy (Greenberg, 1964) or the Challenger disaster (Mayer et al, 1990). Most previous diffusion studies presented patterns of diffusion in terms of diffusion curves.…”

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The emerging mediascape, same old theories? A case study of online news diffusion in Korea

Kim

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New Media & Society

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This article aims to re-examine the main ideas of traditional diffusion study in the context of the internet. Two news stories, one initiated by an established news organization and one uploaded by an individual internet user, were selected for our case study. The study analyzed how a news story gets carried on through various websites of media organizations and individuals. We found that the original stories undergo transformations in terms of content and form over time in the diffusion process. The authors hence introduce a new concept, 'seed news', in order to explain this transformative online news diffusion phenomenon. The concept of seed news may subsume the manifold and dynamic process of diffusion, addition, displacement, evolution, and decline of the news story. It also comes to terms with the multifarious dimensions of transmission and the active interplay between the media and users, or among the users themselves.

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“…The salience of an event determines how quickly people find out about it, the number of people who hear about it, and whether they pass on the news to others (Mayer, Gudykunst, Perrill & Merrill, ; Rogers, ). Also, whether people are at work or at home when an event occurs has a major influence on how they find out about it.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%