Tracing Online News in Motion

Widholm, Andreas

doi:10.1080/21670811.2015.1096611

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“…Interestingly, the second type of source in terms of the amount of published content is online sources of generalist news. This category includes national news portals, news aggregator websites, citizen journalism platforms, and related social accounts, representing the change that news production practices have undergone in the last few decades [ 52 ]. A smaller amount of content was published by sources of alternative information that generally publish fake news or content of uncertain reliability.…”

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Biological, Chemical, and Nutritional Food Risks and Food Safety Issues From Italian Online Information Sources: Web Monitoring, Content Analysis, and Data Visualization

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Background With rapid evolution of the internet and web 2.0 apps, online sources have become one of the main channels for most people to seek food risk information. Thus, it would be compelling to analyze the coverage of online information sources related to biological, chemical, and nutritional food risks, and related safety issues, to understand the type of content that online readers are exposed to, possibly influencing their perceptions. Objective The aim of this study was to identify the types of online sources that are predominantly covering this theme, and the topics that have received the most attention in terms of coverage and engagement on social media. Methods We performed an analysis of big data related to food risks by combining web monitoring techniques, content analysis, and data visualization of a large amount of unstructured text. Using a dictionary-based approach, a web monitoring app was instructed to automatically collect web content referring to the food risk and safety field. Data were retrieved from March 2017 to February 2018. The validated corpus (N=12,163) was subject to automatic and manual content analysis. Results were combined with descriptive statistics extracted from Web-Live and processed with Qlik Sense. Results Nutritional risks and news about outbreaks, controls, and alerts were the most widely covered topics. Thematic sources devoted major attention to nutritional topics, whereas national sources covered food risks, especially during food emergencies. Regarding engagement on social media, readers’ interest was higher for nutritional topics and animal welfare. Although traditional sources still publish a great amount of content related to food risks and safety, new mediators have emerged as alternative sources for food risk information. Conclusions This mixed methodological approach was demonstrated to be a useful means for obtaining an accurate characterization of the online discourse on food risks, and can provide insight into how the monitored sources contribute to the process of risk communication.

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Biological, Chemical, and Nutritional Food Risks and Food Safety Issues From Italian Online Information Sources: Web Monitoring, Content Analysis, and Data Visualization

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“…Following this, he argues, as we did above, for a keener focus on process and duration in relation to which he says, 'we need to analyse online news more like television and less like printed newspapers ' (p. 14). This argument, as well as the whole article by Widholm (2016), brings into focus some of the methodological challenges facing the study of digital journalism; the article is, in fact, part of recent special issue of Digital Journalism (2016) on 'Rethinking Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism', which contains 11 contributions, each of which employs and discusses a 'mixture of approaches' (Karlsson and Sjøvaag, 2016: 2), some of which are also applied to content that was not born digital.…”

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“…the day). This is the focus of Widholm (2016), who has studied the ' [t]ime and duration … of liquid journalism' by using what is termed 'Regular-Interval Content Capturing' (p. 2), which allows for a more fine-tuned analysis of how news events develop over time through both updating and repositioning content. Following this, he argues, as we did above, for a keener focus on process and duration in relation to which he says, 'we need to analyse online news more like television and less like printed newspapers ' (p. 14).…”

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The shifting temporalities of online news: The Guardian’s website from 1996 to 2015

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Brügger

2017

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As much as news websites news can be characterised by speed and immediacy, they are also recognisable online periodicals, which accumulate preceding news items. This is, as with the constitution of time in general, linked to relations between change and continuity. This article aims to understand how the temporalities of online news have developed since the first news sites in the mid-1990s. The analytical starting point for this is that such temporalities must be understood as a complex interplay between textual elements on different and overlapping levels of the webpage. This article consequently employs a framework for webpage analysis that primarily focuses on the syntactical level where temporalities emerge as relations between textual elements that change at very different intervals. This framework is applied to examples from the different stages of The Guardian’s webpage from 1996 to the present retrieved from the Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ). The shifting constitutions of time that emerge through these analyses point towards how journalistic practices have interacted with and adopted the possibilities of the digital. Due to an inbuilt instability between textual elements on stored websites (as well as other characteristics of online archives), the construction of the empirical base stands in a complex relation to the analytical framework applied. As much as the article is a historical analysis of the temporality of online news, it, thus, also offers a range of methodological considerations as well as thoughts on avenues for further study of how journalism constitutes time within different institutional settings and on different media platforms.

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“…Scholarship already orients in this direction. Wildholm's (2015) discussion of the tireless pace of digital updating underscores the simultaneous embodiment of fast and slow in the same news content. The fruitful notion of 'accumulated contemporaneity' (Bodker, 2016) -the paradoxical systematic combination of chronicling and archiving, or looking sideways and backwards, by which the meaning of a news event is progressively crafted -challenges simple assumptions of speed in discussions of news temporality.…”

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Epilogue: Timing the study of news temporality

Zelizer

2017

Journalism

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This epilogue argues that time matters in journalism’s operation but is not sufficiently considered in its study. It focuses on the temporal expectations associated with the digital environment, highlighting problems with an overemphasis on the present in studies of news production, a lack of temporality in discussions of news engagement, and a failure to consider the temporal depletion associated with journalism’s future.

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Tracing Online News in Motion

Cited by 30 publications

References 19 publications

Biological, Chemical, and Nutritional Food Risks and Food Safety Issues From Italian Online Information Sources: Web Monitoring, Content Analysis, and Data Visualization

Biological, Chemical, and Nutritional Food Risks and Food Safety Issues From Italian Online Information Sources: Web Monitoring, Content Analysis, and Data Visualization

The shifting temporalities of online news: The Guardian’s website from 1996 to 2015

Epilogue: Timing the study of news temporality

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