A conceptual model for communications research

Westley, Bruce H.; MacLean, Malcolm

doi:10.1007/bf02713344

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“…Journalists as gatekeepers (White 1950;Westley and MacLean 1955) acted in a way that enabled the Swiss People's Party to place their political standpoints in the public debate and to promote their politicians. When journalists decide to play along with the self-scandalizing politicians, the problem is that they offer a stage for them to speak to a bigger audience.…”

Section: Disadvantages Of the Patternmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to deal with the Black Sheep? An evaluation of journalists’ reactions towards intentional selfscandalization by politicians

Haller

2015

Journal of Applied Journalism &Amp; Media Studies

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Under normal circumstances scandals are negative events for the scandalized persons or institutions. The communication of transgressions of norms or values, followed by public outrage is the beginning of a scandal. Media plays the most important role in what science calls 'media scandal', 'mediated scandal' or 'mediatized scandal'. The scandalized players have to react to the accusations; therefore they have to use the media to reach a broad public. Journalists have the power to control which players have the right to speak and how the scandal is communicated to the public. This article will show a new form of scandal, the so called intentional self-scandalization. 1 That type of scandal, which will be shown in the field of political communication, is produced on purpose by the scandalized politicians to achieve certain communicative goals. The theory will then be demonstrated using a concrete example, the scandal of a racial campaign in Switzerland in the year 2007. The article identifies three possible reactions by journalists to this special form of scandal: Scandalizing the intended transgression, ignoring it or thematizing the strategy of the scandalized player. The text will also analyse the advantages and disadvantages of the patterns.

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Section: Disadvantages Of the Patternmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to deal with the Black Sheep? An evaluation of journalists’ reactions towards intentional selfscandalization by politicians

Haller

2015

Journal of Applied Journalism &Amp; Media Studies

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“…Westley and MacLean (1957), for instance, included the gatekeeping function in their landmark communications model. The importance of gatekeeping was also noted by Schramm (1949), who observes that:…”

Section: The Gatekeeping Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Webmasters as mass media gatekeepers: a qualitative exploratory study

Beard

Olsen

1999

Internet Research

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Eight college and university Webmasters in three midwestern states were interviewed to explore their communications practices and activities by applying a traditional mass media gatekeeping perspective. The results suggest that gatekeeping theory is a valuable approach for studying individuals responsible for the mediation of messages in the emerging online media. Webmasters' personal characteristics and attitudes were found to influence their media content decisions, they share common values used to determine content and design, and they face a variety of organizational and related constraints, some exclusive to Web gatekeepers in an academic setting. Examples of gatekeeping activity and observations by the informants are presented, and suggestions for future research are included.

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“…The Westley-MacLean model (Figure 1) builds upon the Newcomb model by the addition of another individual (or group), " C " (8) . In this A-B-C-X model, C is the " gatekeeper " interposed between A and B who mediates messages about X from A to B.…”

Section: General Models Of Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%