Social media gatekeeping: An analysis of the gatekeeping influence of newspapers’ public Facebook pages

Welbers, Kasper; Opgenhaffen, Michaël

doi:10.1177/1461444818784302

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“…First, they could incorporate social network analysis into their background. Social network analysis has been applied outside journalism studies to analyze similar gatekeeping processes on multi-directional interactions (Welbers;Opgenhaffen, 2018). So, greater emphasis on this method could benefit the field and open new research opportunities.…”

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Research on social media and journalism (2003-2017): a bibliometric and content review

Segado‐Boj

2020

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This paper introduces a bibliometric review of the scientific literature on social media and journalism published by journals indexed by Journal Citation Reports until 2017 (n=213). Besides descriptive measurements, it provides a co-citation and co-word analysis. A quantitative content analysis complements the bibliometric approach. Thus, the paper offers a conceptual and structural analysis of the field of study. Results show that the number of articles on the topic is growing steadily since 2014. United States, Australia and England stand as the most productive countries. Studies are based mostly on data from Europe and North America. Three conceptual clusters are identified: audience participation, user generated content and the influence of social media on journalistic professional values and practices. Most of the studies did not consider specific services but focused on the general concept of “social media”. Twitter was the most analyzed platform until recent years, when scholarly attention changed towards Facebook. Research has preferred focusing on political information in detriment of other branches of journalism. The most employed methods are content analysis and in-depth interviews. Further use of surveys and social network analysis, as well as stronger focus on visual studies, is suggested.

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Research on social media and journalism (2003-2017): a bibliometric and content review

Segado‐Boj

2020

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“…In this paper, I label the news organization's decisions for social media that resemble the traditional journalistic practices as quasi-editorial decisions. I specifically investigate selective link sharing -conditioning a link sharing decision on news content, as a new form of gatekeeping (Welbers & Opgenhaffen, 2018b). This is important because if the new gatekeeping deviates from the traditional pattern, it would be reasonable to question whether the new logic behind the decisions is reliable enough to expect socially desirable provision of news.…”

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“…As a result of the prioritization, social media editors practically control the accessibility to news information, which has traditionally been an exclusive function of the newsroom. This naturally raises the question of whether to consider social media editors as a new type of gatekeeper (Welbers & Opgenhaffen, 2018b).…”

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“…It is possible to criticize that the multiplicity of information 'gates' makes privileging news organizations as gatekeepers less accurate (Bruns, 2005;Thorson & Wells, 2015). Nevertheless, Welbers and Opgenhaffen (2018b) showed that the decisions of social media editors for Facebook have a significant impact on the news engagement of online readers, thus validating selective link sharing as the gatekeeping practice of news SELECTIVE LINK SHARING 8 organizations. In other words, despite the secondary and networked multiple gates that prevail on social media (Diakopoulos & Zubiaga, 2014), the decisions of news organizations still matter as a substantial determinant in the diffusion of news.…”

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“…A research team at the University of Washington discovered that, despite the distributed nature of the propagation of misinformation on social media (Lazer et al, 2018), the official Twitter accounts of news organizations help stop the spread of misinformation (Andrews, Fichet, Ding, Spiro, & Starbird, 2016). Explicitly examining the relevance of the gatekeeper concept for news organizations, Welbers and Opgenhaffen (2018b) showed that the Facebook posts of news organizations are a substantial determinant of the news engagement of online readers.…”

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To disseminate their stories efficiently via social media, news organizations make decisionsthat resemble traditional editorial decisions. However, the decisions for social media maydeviate from traditional ones because they are often made outside the newsroom and guidedby audience metrics. This study focuses on selective link sharing as quasi-gatekeeping onTwitter – conditioning a link sharing decision about news content. It illustrates how selectivelink sharing resembles and deviates from gatekeeping for the publication of news stories.Using a computational data collection method and a machine learning technique calledStructural Topic Model (STM), this study shows that selective link sharing generates adifferent topic distribution between news websites and Twitter and thus significantly revokesthe specialty of news organizations. This finding implies that emergent logic, which governsnews organizations’ decisions for social media can undermine the provision of diverse news,which relies on journalistic values and norms.

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Social media gatekeeping: An analysis of the gatekeeping influence of newspapers’ public Facebook pages

Cited by 65 publications

References 34 publications

Research on social media and journalism (2003-2017): a bibliometric and content review

Research on social media and journalism (2003-2017): a bibliometric and content review

News Organizations’ Selective Link Sharing as Gatekeeping: A Structural Topic Model Approach

Information practices of administrators for controlling information in an online community of new mothers in rural America

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