Audience-Centric Engagement, Collaboration Culture and Platform Counterbalancing: a Longitudinal Study of Ongoing Sensemaking of Emerging Technologies

Abstract: Digital journalism studies have done little in terms of studying longitudinally the interrelationships between emerging technology and convergent news practices. This study addresses that void by using a sensemaking approach to examine how emerging technology was appropriated and enacted in the convergent news activities of newsworkers, and how they made sense of the emerging technologies over two and a half years. Our study analyzes two newsrooms in Singapore: 1) a digital-first legacy newspaper, and 2) an independent digital-only news startup. This article employs the Infotendencias Group’s (2012) analytical framework and its four dimensions of news convergence: i) business, ii) professional, iii) technological, and iv) contents. Additionally, it proposes and employs a fifth dimension: v) audience-centric engagement. The fifth dimension is based on the concept of "measurable journalism" (Carlson, 2018), analyzing how its actors influence the relationship between newsrooms and the

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Media and Communication ; 7 (2019) 1 ; 153-165

Klassifikation
Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2019
Urheber
Chua, Sherwin
Westlund, Oscar

DOI
10.17645/mac.v7i1.1760
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052715341162787911
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Letzte Aktualisierung
14.08.2025, 11:00 MESZ

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Beteiligte

  • Chua, Sherwin
  • Westlund, Oscar

Entstanden

  • 2019

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