Description
This book brings together a diverse, international array of contributors to explore the topics of news “quality” in the online age and the relationships between news organizations and enormously influential digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Covering topics ranging from internet incivility, crowdsourcing, and YouTube politics to regulations, algorithms, and AI, this book draws the key distinction between the news that facilitates democracy and news that undermines it. For students and scholars as well as journalists, policymakers, and media commentators, this important work engages a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives to define the key concept of “quality” in the news media.
Table of Contents
PART 1: FOUNDATIONS
- Introduction
- Communication Technology and Threats to Democracy: We the People are (also) the Problem
PART 2: MEASUREMENT APPROACHES TO NEWS QUALITY
3. Social Media Metrics and News Quality
4. Is that News for Me? Defining News-ness by Platform and Topic
5. User Comments as News Quality: Examining Incivility in Comments on Perceptions of News Quality
6. Beyond the "Trust" Survey: Measuring Media Attitudes through Observation
PART 3: ALGORITHMIC SYSTEMS AND NEWS QUALITY
7. All the News that’s Fit to Tweet: Sociotechnical Local News Distribution from the New York Times to Twitter
8. Out of Control? Using Interactive Testing to Understand User Agency in News Recommendation Systems
9. Gaming AI: Algorithmic Journalism in Nigeria
10. Editorial Values for News Recommenders: Translating Principles to Engineering
PART 4: NEWS QUALITY, GOVERNMENT, AND MEDIA POLICY
11. How Australia’s Competition Regulator is Supporting News, but not Quality
12. Government Interventions into News Quality
13. Conclusion
