Journalism and Platforms as Mediating Third Parties in the Digital Public Sphere

Neuberger, Christoph

doi:10.1007/s11577-022-00832-9

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“…In politics, such intermediaries are parties, associations, and social movements; in business, merchants, unions, and consumer organiza tions; in sports, leagues and referees; and in art, museums, galleries, and critics. As a sort of meta-intermediary, journalism creates relationships of observation and influence between providers, recipients, and these systemspecific intermediaries via the public sphere (Neuberger, 2022). Journalists act as intermediaries, which determine the rules according to which con flict, competition, scandal, and other modes of interaction unfold and contribute to enforcing them.…”

Section: Modes Of Interaction In Subsystems Of Societymentioning

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How to Capture the Relations and Dynamics within the Networked Public Sphere?

Neuberger¹

2022

Questions of Communicative Change and Continuity

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The aim of this chapter is to suggest ways to better capture the diversity of constellations and the dynamics of interactions in the public sphere, triggered by the digital transformation. The starting point is the question of why relations and dynamics should be considered more in communica tion studies and how they have been researched so far. In this respect, the limits of public sphere theory and social network analysis (SNA) are discussed. To overcome these limits, I propose a theoretical framework that combines public sphere theory and SNA with -as a third and new concept -modes of interaction. Such modes of interaction are ideal-typical patterns of interaction between actors in different constellations -namely, diffusion, mobilization, conflict, cooperation, competition, and scandal. Afterwards, I discuss these modes of interaction in the context of different societal subsystems and phases of media change in order to demonstrate their heuristic value. Traditional mass media foster the universalization of competition in several dimensions because competition requires only oneway relations of observation and influence. The Internet supports the in teractive, multi-stage, and sequential communication that is characteristic of conflict and cooperation.Current analysis of the digitalized public sphere partly indicates a dissoluti on of the established order of the mass media era. Diagnoses state a "new crisis of public communication" (Chadwick, 2018) or a "disinformation order" (Bennett & Livingston, 2018). What we are faced with, however, is not only a crisis of the public sphere itself (symptoms are, e.g., fake news, hate speech, polarization, and the digital divide), but also a crisis of its scientific observation and interpretation.How has the digital transformation changed the public sphere? Mass media constitute a comparatively simple and rigid structured public sphere 67

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Section: Modes Of Interaction In Subsystems Of Societymentioning

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How to Capture the Relations and Dynamics within the Networked Public Sphere?

Neuberger¹

2022

Questions of Communicative Change and Continuity

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“…Building on our analysis in this paper, though, new demands have emerged for the formation of institutions. That is, co-orientation, while traditionally arising from between-outlet observation, suffers from an increasing focus of news outlets on themselves, thus highlighting the need for more research on the mechanisms and dynamics on and across platforms (Buschow, 2020;Neuberger, 2022). Here, a meta-discourse on the preconditions of discursive clarification of divergent truth claims is necessary.…”

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The paradox of knowing more and less: Audience metrics and the erosion of epistemic standards on the internet

Haim¹,

Neuberger²

2022

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Journalism is crucial to modern democracies in that it provides valid knowledge about current events in the form of news. Through shared epistemic standards and the professional norm of objectivity, journalism helps to generate societal knowledge and to make informed decisions. Yet, this surveillance function is also driven by knowledge about audiences. Knowledge about audiences informs both journalism’s and mutual recipients’ expectations toward anticipated audiences. It allows to gauge shared epistemic standards and thus to reduce risks of criticism when participating in public discourse. Online, changes in possibilities and necessities to monitor audiences, however, have paved the way to engage in a mode of addressing more tailored standards of anticipated audiences. Such epistemic tribalism contrasts widely shared epistemic standards of professional journalism and has yielded a paradox in which an increase in knowledge about audiences possibly leads to less common knowledge about current events because epistemic standards are no longer shared across the public. Based on this diagnose, we offer two potential pathways for the future of epistemic standards on the internet. A negative one where polarization will benefit from an intensified identification with epistemic tribes and a positive one where discursive spaces will allow for an institutionalized rebalancing of epistemic standards between journalism and audiences.

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Die Allgegenwart des Schleusenwärters

Neuberger

2023

Schlüsselwerke Der Journalismusforschung

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Journalism and Platforms as Mediating Third Parties in the Digital Public Sphere

Cited by 6 publications

References 82 publications

How to Capture the Relations and Dynamics within the Networked Public Sphere?

How to Capture the Relations and Dynamics within the Networked Public Sphere?

The paradox of knowing more and less: Audience metrics and the erosion of epistemic standards on the internet

Die Allgegenwart des Schleusenwärters

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