3,358
Views
45
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Quantified Audiences in News Production

A synthesis and research agenda

References

  • Anderson, C. W. 2011a. “Deliberative, Agonistic, and Algorithmic Audiences: Journalism’s Vision of Its Public in an Age of Audience Transparency.” International Journal of Communication 5: 529–547.
  • Anderson, C. W. 2011b. “Between Creative and Quantified Audiences: Web Metrics and Changing Patterns of Newswork in Local US Newsrooms.” Journalism 12 (5): 550–566. doi:10.1177/1464884911402451.
  • Boczkowski, Pablo J., and Eugenia Mitchelstein. 2013. The News Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.10.7551/mitpress/9780262019835.001.0001
  • Boczkowski, Pablo J., and Limor Peer. 2011. “The Choice Gap: The Divergent Online News Preferences of Journalists and Consumers.” Journal of Communication 61 (5): 857–876. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01582.x.
  • Boczkowski, Pablo J., Eugenia Mitchelstein, and Martin Walter. 2011. “Convergence across Divergence: Understanding the Gap in the Online News Choices of Journalists and Consumers in Western Europe and Latin America.” Communication Research 38 (3): 376–396. doi:10.1177/0093650210384989.
  • Braun, Joshua. 2014. “Transparent Intermediaries.” In Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming, & Sharing Media in the Digital Era, edited by Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson, 124–143. New York: Routledge.
  • Bright, Jonathan, and Tom Nicholls. 2014. “The Life and Death of Political News Measuring the Impact of the Audience Agenda Using Online Data.” Social Science Computer Review 32 (2): 170–181. doi:10.1177/0894439313506845.
  • Bruns, Axel. 2008. “The Active Audience: Transforming Journalism from Gatekeeping to Gatewatching.” In Making Online News, edited by Chris A. Paterson and David Domingo, 171–184. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Bunce, Mel. 2015. “Africa in the Click Stream: Audience Metrics and Foreign Correspondents in Africa.” African Journalism Studies 36 (4): 12–29. doi:10.1080/23743670.2015.1119487.
  • Bunce, Mel. 2017. “Management and Resistance in the Digital Newsroom.” Journalism: 1–16. doi:10.1177/1464884916688963.
  • Cherubini, Federica, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. 2016. Editorial Analytics: How News Media Are Developing and Using Audience Data and Metrics. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
  • Coddington, Mark. 2015. “The Wall Becomes a Curtain.” In Boundaries of Journalism, edited by Matt Carlson and Seth C. Lewis, 67–82. New York: Routledge.
  • DeWerth-Pallmeyer, Dwight. 1997. The Audience in News. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Ferrer-Conill, Raul. 2017. “Quantifying Journalism? A Study on the Use of Data and Gamification to Motivate Journalists.” Television & New Media 18 (8): 706–720. doi:10.1177/1527476417697271.
  • Gans, Herbert J. 1979. Deciding What’s News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and TIME. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Graves, Lucas, and John Kelly. 2010. Confusion Online: Faulty Metrics and the Future of Digital Journalism. New York: Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
  • Groves, Jonathan, and Carrie Lisa Brown. 2011. “Stopping the Presses: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Christian Science Monitor Transition from Print Daily to Web Always.” ISOJ 1 (2): 95–134.
  • Hallin, Daniel C. 1992. “The Passing of the ‘High Modernism’ of American Journalism.” Journal of Communication 42 (3): 14–25. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00794.x.
  • Hanusch, Folker. 2017. “Web Analytics and the Functional Differentiation of Journalism Cultures: Individual, Organizational and Platform-Specific Influences on Newswork.” Information, Communication and Society 20 (10): 1571–1586. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2016.1241294.
  • Hanusch, Folker, and Edson C. Tandoc. 2017. “Comments, Analytics, and Social Media: The Impact of Audience Feedback on Journalists’ Market Orientation.” Journalism: 1–19. doi:10.1177/1464884917720305.
  • Hindman, Matthew. 2017. “Journalism Ethics and Digital Audience Data.” In Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age, edited by Pablo J. Boczkowski and Christopher W. Anderson, 177–194. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Lee, Eun-Ju, and Edson C. Tandoc. 2017. “When News Meets the Audience: How Audience Feedback Online Affects News Production and Consumption: When News Meets the Audience.” Human Communication Research 43 (4): 436–449. doi:10.1111/hcre.12123.
  • Lee, Angela M., Seth C. Lewis, and Matthew Powers. 2014. “Audience Clicks and News Placement: A Study of Time-Lagged Influence in Online Journalism.” Communication Research 41 (4): 505–530. doi:10.1177/0093650212467031.
  • Lepisto, Douglas A., Eliana Crosina, and Michael G. Pratt. 2015. “Identity Work within and beyond the Professions: Toward a Theoretical Integration and Extension.” In International Handbook of Professional Identities, edited by Ana Maria Costa e Silva and Miriam Teresita Aparicio, 11–37. Rosemead, CA: Scientific & Academic.
  • Lewis, Seth C., and Oscar Westlund. 2015a. “Actors, Actants, Audiences, and Activities in Cross-Media News Work.” Digital Journalism 3 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.927986.
  • Lewis, Seth C., and Oscar Westlund. 2015b. “Big Data and Journalism.” Digital Journalism 3 (3): 447–466. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.976418.
  • Lowrey, Wilson, and Peter J. Gade. 2011. Changing the News: The Forces Shaping Journalism in Uncertain times. New York: Routledge.
  • Lowrey, Wilson, and Chang Wan Woo. 2010. “The News Organization in Uncertain times: Business or Institution?” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 87 (1): 41–61. doi:10.1177/107769901008700103.
  • MacGregor, Phil. 2007. “Tracking the Online Audience.” Journalism Studies 8 (2): 280–298. doi:10.1080/14616700601148879.
  • McKenzie, Carly T., Wilson Lowrey, Hal Hays, Jee Young Chung, and Chang Wan Woo. 2011. “Listening to News Audiences: The Impact of Community Structure and Economic Factors.” Mass Communication and Society 14 (3): 375–395. doi:10.1080/15205436.2010.491934.
  • Meyer, Alan D., Anne S. Tsui, and C. R. Hinings. 1993. “Configurational Approaches to Organizational Analysis.” Academy of Management Journal 36 (6): 1175–1195. doi:10.2307/256809.
  • Meyers, Oren, and Roei Davidson. 2016. “Conceptualizing Journalistic Careers: Between Interpretive Community and Tribes of Professionalism.” Sociology Compass 10 (6): 419–431. doi:10.1111/soc4.12376.
  • Mullarkey, Guy W. 2004. “Internet Measurement Data—Practical and Technical Issues.” Marketing Intelligence & Planning 22 (1): 42–58. doi:10.1108/02634500410516904.
  • Nadler, Anthony M. 2016. Making the News Popular: Mobilizing US News Audiences. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
  • Napoli, Philip M. 2011. Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Nguyen, An. 2013. “Online News Audiences: The Challenges of Web Metrics.” In Journalism: New Challenges, edited by Stuart Allan and Karen Fowler-Watt, 146–161. Poole: Centre for Journalism & Communication Research, Bournemouth University.
  • Orlikowski, Wanda J. 2000. “Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations.” Organization Science 11 (4): 404–428. doi:10.1287/orsc.11.4.404.14600.
  • Petre, Caitlin. 2015. The Traffic Factories: Metrics at Chartbeat, Gawker Media, and the New York times. New York: Columbia University.
  • Pinch, Trevor J., and Wiebe E. Bijker. 1984. “The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other.” Social Studies of Science 14 (3): 399–441. doi:10.1177/030631284014003004.
  • Schlesinger, Philip. 1978. Putting “Reality” Together: BBC News. London: Methuen.
  • Siles, Ignacio, and Pablo Boczkowski. 2012. “At the Intersection of Content and Materiality: A Texto-Material Perspective on the Use of Media Technologies.” Communication Theory 22 (3): 227–249. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.2012.01408.x.
  • Tandoc, Edson C. 2014. “Journalism is Twerking? How Web Analytics is Changing the Process of Gatekeeping.” New Media & Society 16 (4): 559–575. doi:10.1177/1461444814530541.
  • Tandoc, Edson C. 2015. “Why Web Analytics Click.” Journalism Studies 16 (6): 782–799. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2014.946309.
  • Tandoc, Edson C., and Patrick R. Ferrucci. 2017. “Giving in or Giving up: What Makes Journalists Use Audience Feedback in Their News Work?” Computers in Human Behavior 68: 149–156. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.027.
  • Tandoc, Edson C., and Ryan J. Thomas. 2015. “The Ethics of Web Analytics.” Digital Journalism 3 (2): 243–258. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.909122.
  • Turow, Joseph. 2005. “Audience Construction and Culture Production: Marketing Surveillance in the Digital Age.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 597 (1): 103–121. doi:10.1177/0002716204270469.
  • Usher, Nikki. 2012. “Going Web-First at the Christian Science Monitor: A Three-Part Study of Change.” International Journal of Communication 6: 1898–1917.
  • Usher, Nikki. 2013. “Al Jazeera English Online.” Digital Journalism 1 (3): 335–351. doi:10.1080/21670811.2013.801690.
  • Vu, Hong Tien. 2014. “The Online Audience as Gatekeeper: The Influence of Reader Metrics on News Editorial Selection.” Journalism 15 (8): 1094–1110. doi:10.1177/1464884913504259.
  • Wallace, Julian. 2017. “Modelling Contemporary Gatekeeping.” Digital Journalism: 1–20. doi:10.1080/21670811.2017.1343648.
  • Welbers, Kasper, Wouter van Atteveldt, Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Nel Ruigrok, and Joep Schaper. 2016. “News Selection Criteria in the Digital Age: Professional Norms versus Online Audience Metrics.” Journalism 17 (8): 1037–1053. doi:10.1177/1464884915595474.
  • Wildman, Steven S. 2006. “Paradigms and Analytical Frameworks in Modem Economics and Media Economics.” In Handbook of Media Management and Economics, edited by Allen B. Albarran, Sylvia M. Chan-Olmsted and Michael O. Wirth, 67–90. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Zamith, Rodrigo. 2016. “On Metrics-Driven Homepages.” Journalism Studies: 1–22. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2016.1262215.
  • Zamith, Rodrigo. 2017a. “Capturing and Analyzing Liquid Content.” Journalism Studies 18 (12): 1489–1504. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2016.1146083.
  • Zamith, Rodrigo. 2017b. “A Computational Approach for Examining the Comparability of ‘Most-Viewed Lists’ on Online News Sites.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly: 1–20. doi:10.1177/1077699017714223.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.