The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley Reengineered Journalism

Bell, Emily; Owen, Taylor; Brown, Peter D.; Hauka, Codi; Rashidian, Nushin

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“…The stakes involved in the deletion of social media discourse have grown as commercial Internet platforms have become a central infrastructure of the public sphere (Plantin et al, 2018) constituting together with news organizations a "platform press" (Bell et al, 2017). These platforms have also become crucial systems for the "production, distribution, and circulation of cultural content" (Nieborg and Poell, 2018: 1) more generally.…”

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Proactive ephemerality: How journalists use automated and manual tweet deletion to minimize risk and its consequences for social media as a public archive

Ringel

Davidson

2020

New Media & Society

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Despite their ephemeral constantly changing nature, social media constitute an archive of public discourse. In this study, we examine when, how, and why journalists practice proactive ephemerality, deleting their tweets either manually or automatically to consider the viability of social media as a public record. Based on interviews conducted with journalists in New York City, we find many journalists delete their tweets, and that software-aided mass deletion is common, damaging Twitter’s standing as an archive. Through deletion, journalists manipulate temporality, exposing the public to a brief tweeting window to reduce risks and regain control in a precarious labor market and a harassment-ridden public sphere in which employers leave them largely unprotected. When deleting tweets mechanically, journalists emulate platform logic by depending—as commercial platforms often do—on automatic procedures rather than on human expertise. This constitutes a surrender of the very qualities that make human judgment so valuable.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proactive ephemerality: How journalists use automated and manual tweet deletion to minimize risk and its consequences for social media as a public archive

Ringel

Davidson

2020

New Media & Society

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“…Journalists are an effective professional target to investigate when exploring selfbranding practices on social media. On the one hand, journalism has undergone processes of radical transformation precisely because of the innovations introduced by digital media and especially by social networks and mobile devices (Anderson et al, 2012;Bell et al, 2017). On the other hand, news and media professionals often have a need to publicly interact and, consequently, become able to manage the communication trends incentivized by these technologies in order to enlarge and reach their audience.…”

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Visible and Invisible Traces: Managing the Self on Social Media Platforms

Casagrande

2022

Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research

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This chapter explores the traces that we voluntarily leave behind on social media platforms, dictated by the selection of what we want to show and what we want to hide and how this affects the perception of ourselves.Nowadays, digital platforms have a huge impact on our lives, in re-shaping both our habits and our personal attitudes. Particularly on social media, both tangible and intangible aspects of our lives can be datafied, which in turn affect and shape our feelings and experiences.In order to explore this dynamic, I interviewed a selected target group of young media professionals who are used to promoting themselves and their work on social media, through the so-called practice of self-branding.From the qualitative analysis of 20 in-depth interviews, this chapter investigates traces derived from implicit self-branding practices, which can take the form of controlling what is not to be shared, measuring the online reactions, and hiding relevant information. All these non-activities are also strategic in building and managing the users’ online branded personas.Thus, through the management of the visible and invisible traces on social media profiles, users convey a branded and polished version of themselves.

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“…Furthermore, while scholars have examined the complex relationship between the publishers like the NYT and tech companies like Google in terms of advertising revenue, content distribution and search engine optimization (Bell et al, 2017;Helmond, 2015;Nechushtai, 2018;Nieborg and Poell, 2018), these studies have not addressed the ways in which newsrooms are themselves increasingly relying on the tools and services provided by digital platforms, such as back-up and storage. According to Kleis Nielsen and Ganter (2018), the relationship between news organizations and digital intermediaries like Google and Facebook is characterized by a tension between short-term opportunities -particularly the chance to reach large audiences -and long-term strategies, like the desire of papers to maintain control over how their content is distributed.…”

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Digitizing the paper of record: Archiving digital newspapers at theNew York Times

Ringel

2021

Journalism

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This study uses three archiving efforts at the New York Times as a means to analyse the newspaper as an archival object. I study the traditional ‘morgue’ of physical clippings and photos, the Times’ joint project with Google Cloud to digitize its photo collection, and the TimesMachine interactive digital archive, which made scanned editions of printed issues from 1851 to 2002 publicly available online. Based on interviews with staff and analysis of documents describing past and present newspaper archiving practices, it is clear that the digital archive is not a comprehensive copy of an analogue original. There are a significant number of documents stored in physical archives that have not been translated to digital, and whose loss would be detrimental to historians and media scholars alike. Moreover, even the documents that have been scanned and made available as digital objects do not perfectly mirror their analogue equivalents, meaning that information loss is inherent to the digitization process. As active producers of the past for contemporary purposes, these online news archives serve as cultural gatekeepers, actively shaping journalistic practice and reframing current events in reference to the past.

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The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley Reengineered Journalism

Cited by 43 publications

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Proactive ephemerality: How journalists use automated and manual tweet deletion to minimize risk and its consequences for social media as a public archive

Proactive ephemerality: How journalists use automated and manual tweet deletion to minimize risk and its consequences for social media as a public archive

Visible and Invisible Traces: Managing the Self on Social Media Platforms

Digitizing the paper of record: Archiving digital newspapers at theNew York Times

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