Overview
Considers the significance of the role of the audience in the news selection process
Analyses news values at the global and the local level
Explains how clickbait and click-through rates have provided online news workers with a direct line to their audience
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Different Connections Between News Values and the Audience
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News Values, Audience Metrics and Shareability
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News Values for Audiences on Local and Social Media
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About this book
This book focuses on journalistic news values from an audience perspective. The audience influences what is deemed newsworthy by journalists, not only because journalists tell their stories with a specific audience in mind, but increasingly because the interaction of the audience with the news can be measured extensively in digital journalism and because members of the audience have a say in which stories will be told. The first section considers how thinking about news values has evolved over the last fifty years and puts news values in a broader perspective by looking at news consumers’ preferences in different countries worldwide. The second section analyses audience response, explaining how audience appreciation and ‘clicking’ behaviour informs headline choices and is measured by algorithms. Section three explores how audiences contribute to the creation of news content and discusses mainstream media’s practice of recycling audience contributions on their own social media channels.
Reviews
“In the age of active and participatory audiences and increasing use of audience analytics, this welcome new addition to news values research puts the spotlight squarely on the audience. A unique feature is the diversity of approaches that are included, such as interviews, language analysis, personal and theoretical reflection, global survey data, ethnographic research, and quantitative content analysis. A book for anyone interested in the interplay between audiences and the ever-fascinating question of what counts as ‘news’!” (Monika Bednarek, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia)
“This is an important and timely book about news and news selection in what is a rapidly changing and blurred media landscape, bringing together new concepts and recent research to examine the influences on news and newsworthiness, while also rekindling a conversation about what news journalism should be.” (Deirdre O'Neill, Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Journalism Education, UK)
“This book revisits the classic paradigm of news values from a new angle. Anticipating the audience turn in journalism studies, it offers important new insights to understand the profound changes in how news is made.” (Marcel Broersma, Professor of Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martina Temmerman is Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She is Director of the master’s in journalism programme of the Languages and Humanities Faculty. Her research interests focus on critical discourse analysis and the linguistic characteristics of journalistic communication.
Jelle Mast is Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Chair of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies and the Visual Communication Studies Division of the International Communication Association. His research is located at the intersection of visual communication, journalism practice and professional ethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: News Values from an Audience Perspective
Editors: Martina Temmerman, Jelle Mast
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45046-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45045-8Published: 12 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45048-9Published: 13 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45046-5Published: 11 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 189
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Journalism, Media and Communication, Journalism