The Media Day, Revisited: Rhythm, Place and Hyperlocal Information Environments

Örnebring, Henrik; Rowe, Erika Hellekant

doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1884988

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“…For instance, scholars have found differences in what younger and older demographics (Eddy, 2022;Wunderlich et al, 2022) and users of traditional versus digital platforms (Robertson, 2023) experience as news. Finally, contrary to journalistic perceptions, from an audience perspective conceptualizations of 'news' are not intrinsically tied to the institution of journalism ( Örnebring and Hellekant Rowe, 2022;Robertson, 2023). Technological innovations (e.g., social media, messaging apps) and new hybrid media formats (e.g., infotainment, news satire) mean that the genre of news may now be produced by many actors.…”

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What feels like news? Young people’s perceptions of news on Instagram

Swart,

Broersma

2023

Journalism

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What do young people consider “news”? Now that news is dislocated from dedicated outlets of news organizations, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish from other cultural forms, including entertainment, advertising and misinformation. Especially on visual social media, where many different forms, topics and tones circulate, so-called “news feeds” offer blends of content that only partially match traditional journalistic conceptualizations. This paper advances current conceptual debates around news(-ness), by going beyond what is culturally accepted and cognitively recognized as news. We make an argument for the importance of capturing young people’s affective and tacit understandings of news, by analyzing what feels like news to them on Instagram. These judgments matter because what users understand as news or non-news also affects their assessments of trustworthiness and reliability. Drawing upon a three-wave study (2020-2022) employing in-depth interviews with and walk-throughs of the Instagram feeds of N = 111 Dutch smartphone users (aged 16-25), we find that while young people are strongly aware of societal norms around what news is or should be, these cognitive understandings do not necessarily align with what they experience as news(-like) within their everyday practices. Although some users do employ traditional journalistic conceptualizations of news, others negotiate or challenge such definitions through processes of compartmentalization, homogenization or reconceptualization, to mitigate tensions between what they cognitively recognize versus what they affectively perceive as news. Consequently, we argue that more inclusive epistemological approaches are needed to comprehend young people’s shifting experiences of news and conceptualize news from an audience perspective.

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Section: Media Hybridity and Perceptions Of Newsmentioning

confidence: 96%

What feels like news? Young people’s perceptions of news on Instagram

Swart,

Broersma

2023

Journalism

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“…Fisker et al 2022;Lundgren & Johansson 2017;Murti 2020;Wright & Eaton 2018), and decreased journalistic and media coverage (e.g. Gulyas et al 2019;McCollough et al 2017;Napoli et al 2017;Örnebring & Hellekant Rowe 2022).…”

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Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.

Braunerhielm,

Grip,

Ljungberg

et al. 2024

Cult. Unbound

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This special issue of Culture Unbound directs attention beyond cities, to small towns and rural communities, and the practices taking place there. Referring to a previous special issue on ‘Rural Media Spaces’ from 2010, this special issue revisits the notion of ‘the rural’ versus ‘the urban’ through the concept of placemaking and geomedia. In a mediatized society, placemaking practices cannot be understood without simultaneously understanding different media practices and how they affect place. A geomedia perspective on placemaking beyond cities, therefore, brings new perspectives on media representations of small towns and rural communities, related to the materialization of space and how we engage with and perceive the world. Geomedia also includes a focus on layers of digitalization and new media in the relations between place and practice. The issue brings together researchers from a wide range of subjects, and the articles in this volume address empirical examples from different rural places and small towns in Sweden and internationally. Taken together, a manifold of issues relating to media and placemaking beyond cities are covered, for example, inclusion/exclusion, representation, resistance, community building, belonging, and identification.

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Re-centring Community, Care, and Curiosity in a Decentred Journalism Studies: A Response to Journalism Studies for Realists

Witschge

Sabbah

2023

Journalism Studies

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The Media Day, Revisited: Rhythm, Place and Hyperlocal Information Environments

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

What feels like news? Young people’s perceptions of news on Instagram

What feels like news? Young people’s perceptions of news on Instagram

Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.

Re-centring Community, Care, and Curiosity in a Decentred Journalism Studies: A Response to Journalism Studies for Realists

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