Police Social Media and Broadcast News: An Investigation into the Impact of Police Use of Facebook on Journalists’ Gatekeeping Role

Grygiel, Jennifer; Lysak, Suzanne

doi:10.1080/17512786.2020.1759123

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“…In recent years different researchers have stressed the role Facebook -and other social networks and search engineshave as gatekeepers (Bozdag, 2013;Powers, 2017;West, 2017), and as intermediaries between the audience and the media, which traditionally has played this role, directly. The networks -and more specifically, their automated algorithms-not only affect what each consumer sees on them, but also determine journalism routines and editorial decisions (Madrigal;Meyer, 2018) in the rat race for visibility, whose aim is to adapt the contents to the criteria which the platform algorithm rewards especially at any given time (Grygiel;Lysak, 2021;Peterson-Salahuddin;Diakopoulos, 2020). DeVito (2017) summarised nine values -from the most to least relevant-which the automated contents filter in the News Feed revolve around: friendships, explicitly expressed user interests, previous participation of the user, implicitly expressed user preferences, age of the post, platform priorities, relationship of the page preferences expressed negatively and content quality.…”

Section: Facebook As a Gatekeeper: Chronology Of The Algorithm Criter...mentioning

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Using video for fact-checking on Facebook. Analysis of the trend and reach of Ibero-American production (2016-2021)

Dafonte-Gómez,

García-Crespo,

Ramahí-García

2023

EPI

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Social networks –and Facebook in particular– have become an important element of the information diet for millions of people around the world. By using them, the traditional media lose control of the distribution channel for their content, whose reach now depends, firstly, on the relevance criteria established by the networks themselves and, secondly, on the interactions generated by the audience with each publication. Very often research on journalism has tackled the issue of reach and how efficient fact-checkers are. To find answer to the sociodemographic features of their audiences or the characteristics of their posts are explored. However, factors such as the influence of the algorithms which choose the content users are shown on the social networks is not often dealt with. This article aims to contribute in both areas. Firstly, it offers a broad perspective on the publications of Ibero-American fact-checkers on Facebook between 2016 and 2021, focuses on the evolution of video production (n=9075) and on the views and engagement achieved by this format with respect to the rest, and relates them to changes in the News Feed algorithm. Secondly, it proposes a content analysis to identify formal and thematic elements in the most popular videos in the same period (n=414) and relates them to previous research. Our results show significant similarities in popular videos, but also changes in video production, a generalized decrease in the ratio of views and a drop in the interaction rate more accentuated than in all the publications of the period. Although the focus of this research does not allow us to make direct causal inferences, the trends identified coincide with the changes in the Facebook News Feed algorithm that were made public in those years.

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Section: Facebook As a Gatekeeper: Chronology Of The Algorithm Criter...mentioning

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Using video for fact-checking on Facebook. Analysis of the trend and reach of Ibero-American production (2016-2021)

Dafonte-Gómez,

García-Crespo,

Ramahí-García

2023

EPI

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“…With social media, police can now circumvent mass media intermediaries who act as gatekeepers for news production. Specifically, social media provides police the technological capacity to release unfiltered information directly to the public that is key to legitimizing contested police violence (Grygiel & Lysak, 2020). Rather than gatekeepers, mass media now becomes part of the police's online audience—heightening reliance on police for new information, which is then broadcasted to their audiences.…”

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Social media, socialization, and pursuing legitimation of police violence*

Cheng

2021

Criminology

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Every day, police departments across America are executing stops, summonses, arrests, and increasingly, tweeting. Although scholarship has focused on how social media democratizes news production and information sharing for activist movements, it has yet to explore how police leverage these attributes to advance institutional interests. I argue that, beyond digital surveillance or community engagement, social media provides police with the technological capacity to pursue both daily socialization of online audiences to their worldview and legitimation in the aftermath of contested police violence. I provide evidence by adopting a qualitative approach to “big data” sources analyzing 1) all 3,167 tweets posted by the New York Police Department in 2018; 2) the 778 Twitter replies to their most contested fatal shooting that year; and 3) a sample of 139 news articles covering this shooting over a year afterward. As public scrutiny toward police intensifies, social media represents an independent channel for police to publicize information unfiltered by traditional mass media. These findings have implications for police accountability and the episodes of police violence that do—and do not—elevate into national controversies.

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Towards an Alternative Model: Theorising Newspaper Reviews as Secondary Gatekeeping by Broadcast Stations in Africa

Ojebuyi

2023

Media and Communication Theory in Africa

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Police Social Media and Broadcast News: An Investigation into the Impact of Police Use of Facebook on Journalists’ Gatekeeping Role

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Using video for fact-checking on Facebook. Analysis of the trend and reach of Ibero-American production (2016-2021)

Using video for fact-checking on Facebook. Analysis of the trend and reach of Ibero-American production (2016-2021)

Social media, socialization, and pursuing legitimation of police violence*

Towards an Alternative Model: Theorising Newspaper Reviews as Secondary Gatekeeping by Broadcast Stations in Africa

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