Emergence of News Waves: A Social Simulation Approach

Waldherr, Annie

doi:10.1111/jcom.12117

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“…Most agendas fail to attract enduring attention even when they address a persistent problem of critical importance to society (Downs, 1972). Media attention to an agenda shrinks mostly due to boredom of the audience (Neuman, 1990) as well as due to new agendas that crowd out existing agendas from the media agenda (Geip, 2011;Jang and Pasek, 2015;Waldherr, 2014). The former refers to the audience's social and psychological constraints, and the latter concerns technical constraints from the traditional media environment.…”

Section: Challenges To Sustained Issue Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Round-trip agenda setting: Tracking the intermedia process over time in the ice bucket challenge

2016

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Despite the social media’s agenda-setting power, the literature provides little understanding of how social media agendas survive and last long enough to trigger substantial public discussions. This study investigates this issue by tracking the ice bucket challenge campaign over an 18-week period. This article claims that the pattern of the intermedia process evolves over time along with the issue-attention cycle. We observed a round-trip intermedia agenda setting where the direction is reversed as the agenda waxes and wanes. Both social and mainstream media continued to generate a heightened level of issue attention after the buzz was cooled down.

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Section: Challenges To Sustained Issue Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Round-trip agenda setting: Tracking the intermedia process over time in the ice bucket challenge

2016

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“…Secondly, a small body of empirical work in communication studies has focussed on the idea that news production appears to have, potentially, two different "modes" (Boydstun, Hardy and Walgrave, 2014): a mode of normal production, and a mode characterised by intense focus on a single issue, where large amounts of coverage are dedicated to a single story. These moments of focus have been called, variously, "media hypes", "news waves" and "media storms" (Boydstun, Hardy and Walgrave, 2014;Vasterman, 2005;Waldherr, 2014;Wien and Elmelund-Prstekr, 2009), but all of these terms capture the same basic premise: the news media as a whole dedicate themselves to an in-depth examination of a particular current event, with multiple follow up pieces and different angles explored. Major terrorist attacks (Entman, 2003), catastrophes such as the Challenger shuttle explosion (Riffe and Stovall, 1989), or political scandals (Chadwick, 2011) present examples of such media storms.…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding News Story Chains using Information Retrieval and Network Clustering Techniques

Nicholls

Bright

2018

Communication Methods and Measures

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Content analysis of news stories (whether manual or automatic) is a cornerstone of the communication studies field. However, much research is conducted at the level of individual news articles, despite the fact that news events (especially significant ones) are frequently presented as "stories" by news outlets: chains of connected articles covering the same event from different angles. These stories are theoretically highly important in terms of increasing public recall of news items and enhancing the agenda-setting power of the press. Yet thus far, the field has lacked an efficient method for detecting groups of articles which form stories in a way that enables their analysis.In this work, we present a novel, automated method for identifying linked news stories from within a corpus of articles. This method makes use of techniques drawn from the field of information retrieval to identify textual closeness of pairs of articles, and then clustering techniques taken from the field of network analysis to group these articles into stories. We demonstrate the application of the method to a corpus of 61,864 articles, and show how it can efficiently identify valid story clusters within the corpus. We use the results to make observations about the prevalence and dynamics of stories within the UK news media, showing that more than 50% of news production takes place within stories.

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“…Journalism and mass communication literature has offered different theories that discuss the convergence of journalists’ attention towards issues and news frames: news framing theory (e.g., Scheufele, 2003), inter-media agenda setting (e.g., Golan, 2006; Mathes & Pfetsch, 1991; Pfetsch et al, 2013; Song, 2007; Kleinen-von Königslöw, 2015), issue cycles (e.g., Downs, 1972; Kolb, 2005; Luhmann, 1971; Russ-Mohl, 1981, 1993; Waldherr, 2014), media hypes (Vasterman, 2005) and scandals (e.g., Burkhardt, 2006; Entman, 2012; Kepplinger, 2009, 2012; Pörksen & Detel, 2012; Thompson, 2000). 7…”

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Herd Behaviour and Path Dependence in News Markets: Towards an Economic Theory of Scandal Formation

Wilczek

2016

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics

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Media phenomena coined as issue attention cycles, media hypes or scandals describe processes in which attention towards issues and news frames converges in news markets. But what drives these processes? This article explores a new theoretical framework, which draws on Economic Theory (i.e., Path Dependence Theory, Principal-Agent Theory, Herd Behaviour Theory and Behavioural Economic Theory), incorporates results from journalism and mass communication research and discusses a process in which journalists and their sources (i.e., whistleblowers, social media users and public relations experts) interact. Specifically, they engage in different types of herd behaviour related to the allocation of attention towards issues and news frames. These self-reinforcing mechanisms then lead to lock-ins-which under certain conditions can be un-locked. JEL: D03, D21, D80, Z00

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Emergence of News Waves: A Social Simulation Approach

Cited by 39 publications

References 42 publications

Round-trip agenda setting: Tracking the intermedia process over time in the ice bucket challenge

Round-trip agenda setting: Tracking the intermedia process over time in the ice bucket challenge

Understanding News Story Chains using Information Retrieval and Network Clustering Techniques

Herd Behaviour and Path Dependence in News Markets: Towards an Economic Theory of Scandal Formation

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