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Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the #media, #communication, and #journalism research is delightful. Counting down to Christmas, Iâll share pieces of research (one each day) that are important, interesting and/or inspirational to me - and to you, hopefully. 0/24
One of the persons in my field I admire the most is @KuengLucy. She just published a new book about the digital transformation of media organizations, and it is just as good as I expected (and #openaccess). 1/24 https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/hearts-and-minds-harnessing-leadership-culture-and-talent-really-go-digital
@mschudson2 is arguably the leading #journalism scholar in the world. In this 1997 article, he argues that norm-governed and public-minded conversations are what serve #democracy. At our moment in history, it remains a relevant and important reminder. 2/24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15295039709367020
[DK] Og som en sĂŠrlig service til danskere, der lĂŠser med: @MedieKultur_ har en #openaccess oversĂŠttelse af @mschudson2âs ny-klassiker âWhy conversation is not the soul of democracyâ. God lĂŠselyst. 2b/24 https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/1171/1075
Why do people use the media they use? One of the most convincing explanatory models I have seen is from @kimsc_derâs work on âworthwhilenessâ, which I teach it to students year after year (and again today). It always resonates. 3/24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616701003638392
[DK] Danskere, der lĂŠser med her, kan mĂ„ske ogsĂ„ have glĂŠde af denne artikel fra 2007, hvor @kimsc_der udlĂŠgger worthwhileness-tankegangen pĂ„ dansk (og taler om #dkmedierâs âoplevede brugsvĂŠrdiâ). 3b/24 https://tidsskrift.dk/journalistica/article/view/1809
Bonus track: in this podcast episode from @risj_oxford, @kimsc_der talks about repertoires of news consumption. A+ content in only 37 min and available in your browser or podcast app --> it is a good example of #media content that is very worthwhile. 3c/24 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-pursuit-repertoires-news-consumption-analysing-how/id381703153?i=1000412800796
âSophus Larsen was in trouble. He needed money, and fast.â This is a wonderful opening to a wonderful study by @HeidiTworek of how perceptions of competitors shape media #innovation. While the empirical case is old, the findings are still fresh. 4/24 âŠhttps://0ae224b9-c05c-45bd-ad01-4fe4f754d755.filesusr.com/ugd/dfeb02_679237ca642644069cff0d7c8b939eac.pdf
One of my all-time favorites: Berelsonâs âWhat âMissing the Newspaperâ Meansâ. It tracks what readers missed during the 1945 strike among NYC newspaper delivery-men and is still relevant for #audienceresearch and industry. Everyone should read it. 5/24 http://simson.net/ref/1948/What_missing_the_newspaper_means.pdf
Last year, I reviewed @MattHindmanâs book âThe Internet Trapâ and argued that âit ranks among the best books about the political economy of the #internet in recent yearsâ. That assessment still holds. 6/24 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691159263/the-internet-trap
@StigHjarvard supervised my PhD, and he is probably the one person I have learned the most from professionally. His theory of #mediatization has had an outsized impact on my work, even if I donât work with it currently. Hereâs a good introduction. 7/24 https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/269_hjarvard.pdf
Today, in my Christmas countdown: @drmattcarlson
& @nikkiusher's terrific study of how news #startup|s talk about what they do. It helped me frame some of my own research into #media #innovation, and someone/I should do a similar study across Europe. 8/24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21670811.2015.1076344
& @nikkiusher's terrific study of how news #startup|s talk about what they do. It helped me frame some of my own research into #media #innovation, and someone/I should do a similar study across Europe. 8/24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21670811.2015.1076344
Which possibilities for action do #technology offer actors? A good concept for answering this deceptively simple question is â #affordanceâ - and I think few texts give that idea a better treatment and novel twist than this one by Nagy & @ginasue. 9/24 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305115603385
Rarely was so much owed by so many to so few researchers as is the case with @risj_oxford these years. This study by @dragz and @rasmus_kleis of peopleâs use of social media for #news navigation is great - and so is everything from the institute. 10/24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1450887?journalCode=rics20
'Tis the season to be jolly, but @SophusLai and @SofieFlensburg's study of the #surveillance ecology of mobile apps and #privacy implications of everyday #smartphone use may not put you in a good mood. However, it's solid and important research! 11/24 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951720942543
Everyone agrees that it's good to have independent media. But what does that even mean? This thoughtful and thorough exploration by @kekarppi and Moe discusses different perspectives. #dkmedier 12/24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13183222.2016.1162986
Todayâs entry in the Christmas countdown is a true classic: Hallâs 1973 paper about encoding/decoding. It lays out how #audiences extract meaning from #media message in ways that make sense to them, and it shaped a new paradigm. Mandatory reading! 13/24 https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/history/cccs/stencilled-occasional-papers/1to8and11to24and38to48/SOP07.pdf
Professionals can cater to occupational tenets or to organizational considerations. @henrikornebring's application of this line of thinking to #journalism has been hugely influential to my way of thinking about current #media work. Here's his report. 14/24 https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2017-11/The%20Two%20Professionalisms%20of%20Journalism_Working%20Paper.pdf
We often hear that #PSM 'out-crowd' commercial #media and make it impossible for them to make money. In this study, @hellesjovaag, Pedersen & Owren combined traditional #mediastudies with computational methods, researching the merit to the argument. 15/24 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443718818354
Published 8 years ago, the "Post-Industrial Journalism" report by @Chanders, @emilybell & @cshirky remains a most important document for understanding the shift to digital #journalism (whatever that is). Rich and provocative, it's still a #mustread. 16/24 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8N01JS7
And an afterthought: @Chanders' reflection on what the report didn't catch. 16b/24 https://twitter.com/Chanders/status/1335980491103735813?s=20
#Fakenews is an "empty" concept that actors with different interests can put different meanings into to cater to their self-interests. And this clever article by @farkasjohan & @JannickSchou is one of the better readings on current politics. #polcom 17/24 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13183222.2018.1463047
