![]() This bibliographic review aims at identifying the changes caused by smartphones in the production distribution and consumption of news, analyzing its effect on the epistemology of journalism. This uncertainty has stemmed from the decrease in income which was caused by the emergence of new competitors, such as the online press and social networks. From the early stages of production to distribution, and then through the characteristics of content and consumption patterns, numerous changes have been introduced by these mobile devices in an activity that has been undergoing one of the most uncertain moments in its long history. The fast and global way which has characterized the presence of mobile phones in society has sparked the interest of several sectors of activity, including journalism. While staying abreast of changing patterns of news production and consumption by, for instance, looking at mobile news consumption and automated content diversity studies, the multitude of areas around which they have been centred only confirm the persistent lack of holistic, all-encompassing approaches which take into account contingencies and characteristics of markets and their effects on the various layers or levels of media or news diversity. ![]() Empirically speaking, media and news diversity research has been centred around measuring media competition and concentration of ownership (Rasul & Proffitt, 2013), workforce diversity inside newsrooms and their impacts on the pluriformity of opinions and views presented in reporting (Cohen, 2019), news content homogeneity studies (Hendrickx, 2019 Sjøvaag, 2014 Vogler et al., 2020) and news consumption studies (Nelson, 2020), possibly also with a second focus on brand diversity (Van Damme et al., 2019). Moreover, the assessing or measuring has been done in a host of different ways, without any sign of a comprehensive framework transferable to other media markets or shared normative consensuses on what either term is and how it can best be tackled.
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