Toward a measurement tool for the monitoring of media diversity and pluralism in South Africa: A public-centred approach

Duncan, Jane; Reid, Julie

doi:10.1080/02500167.2013.864448

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“…They can already been criticized on a more theoretical, normative basis. Duncan & Reid (2013) warn that they 'emphasize diversity for diversity's sake, leading to a postmodern, relativistic "anything goes" approach to public discourse, where society's most pressing concerns are drowned in a cacophony of different voices' (p. 486). More practically, most of the existing approaches look at media markets in their entirety (external diversity) (Karppinen, 2015), and less at the diversity within a particular outlet (internal diversity).…”

Section: Diversity In the Social Sciencesmentioning

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Do not blame it on the algorithm: an empirical assessment of multiple recommender systems and their impact on content diversity

Moeller

Trilling

Helberger

et al. 2018

Information, Communication & Society

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In the debate about filter bubbles caused by algorithmic news recommendation, the conceptualization of the two core concepts in this debate, diversity and algorithms, has received little attention in social scientific research. This paper examines the effect of multiple recommender systems on different diversity dimensions. To this end, it maps different values that diversity can serve, and a respective set of criteria that characterizes a diverse information offer in this particular conception of diversity. We make use of a data set of simulated article recommendations based on actual content of one of the major Dutch broadsheet newspapers and its users (N=21,973 articles, N=500 users). We find that all of the recommendation logics under study proved to lead to a rather diverse set of recommendations that are on par with human editors and that basing recommendations on user histories can substantially increase topic diversity within a recommendation set.

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Section: Diversity In the Social Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do not blame it on the algorithm: an empirical assessment of multiple recommender systems and their impact on content diversity

Moeller

Trilling

Helberger

et al. 2018

Information, Communication & Society

255

143

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“…Such visibility in the news affords these groups a measure of power, and thus improved social status (Avraham and First, 2010). Expressing one’s views in the media is a minimum requirement to exert influence which can lead to reshaping public opinion or actuating policy (Duncan and Reid, 2013). But the systematic underrepresentation of specific demographic groups fosters the notion that such groups have a lower social status in society – that is, a feeling that they do not really matter.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women, ethnic minorities and newsworthiness: Journalists’ perceptions

2017

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This study seeks to determine the extent to which the Flemish press gives voice to gender and ethnic diversity. A total of 16 in-depth interviews with print journalists outlined five key arguments about diversity in the newsroom. Two of these view the portrayal of diversity as conceptually irrelevant or inconsistent with a notion of universal equality. The third argument defines diverse representation as an active search process that is part and parcel of a journalist’s mission. Two additional arguments blame the lack of diversity in news reporting on practical obstacles – professional practices that make it difficult to aim for a diverse source selection, or the less prominent role of women and ethnic minorities in society which leads to a less diverse set of news sources. This study seeks to find explanations in the news production process as to why gender and ethnic diversity in the news continues to be consistently scarce.

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“…This steered past attempts to distinguish between freedom of the press as a universal liberty and as a subject-dependent capability. Such an attitude is comparable to tensions visible in our times, wherein the rationale of public intervention is contested by a neoliberalism that stands for individualist relativism (Duncan and Reid, 2013: 486). The notion of freedom in the judgement was also an unqualified one, since it disregarded the implications of market power leveraged by the ‘big press’.…”

Section: Diversity Unpacked: the First Press Commissionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Dismembering media diversity: A tryst with two press commissions

Parthasarathi

2021

Media, Culture & Society

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How does the governance of the newspaper business in mid-20th century India enrich our understanding of contests over media diversity? This essay examines the anxieties of media diversity in regulatory debates in India during the decades between the two Press Commissions of 1954 and 1982. I argue the contests spawned during these debates being driven as much by normative standpoints on the press as a modern institution as by enumerations of the actual dynamics in the newspaper business. My purpose is twofold: to highlight the anxieties about media diversity expressed by both press commissions and related policy debates in the interim; and to reveal the desires to mitigate the risks to media diversity being undermined by mobilising unqualified notions of media freedom.

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Toward a measurement tool for the monitoring of media diversity and pluralism in South Africa: A public-centred approach

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Do not blame it on the algorithm: an empirical assessment of multiple recommender systems and their impact on content diversity

Do not blame it on the algorithm: an empirical assessment of multiple recommender systems and their impact on content diversity

Women, ethnic minorities and newsworthiness: Journalists’ perceptions

Dismembering media diversity: A tryst with two press commissions

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