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Beaten by Chartbeat? An experimental study on the effect of real-time audience analytics on journalists' news judgment University of Antwerp
Traditionally, journalists had the autonomy to decide what is worthy enough to be considered news. However, the growing centrality of audience analytics in the news selection process warrants greater scrutiny in how these tools are likely to influence journalistic perceptions on which news stories the public is most interested in. Taking a quantitative approach, we conducted a survey-embedded experiment among political journalists in Belgium ...
Framing the Television Audience in a Commercial Digital Broadcasting Ecosystem: Linking User Practices and Industry Strategies. Paper at Audience Section for International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper describes the challenges and possibilities for audience research that incorporates both user practices and media industry strategies, as part of complex media ecologies.
Within media and communication studies, there are different perspectives that link audience practices to media industry strategies. From a political economy perspective, the emphasis is on the commodification of audiences and the role audience measurement ...
Within media and communication studies, there are different perspectives that link audience practices to media industry strategies. From a political economy perspective, the emphasis is on the commodification of audiences and the role audience measurement ...
Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a ...
Domesticating distant suffering: how can news media discursively invite the audience to care? Ghent University
Paywalled popularity? Exploring differences in audience engagement in front and behind the paywall Ghent University
'Just kidding?' An exploratory audience study into the ways Flemish youth with a minoritized ethnic identity make sense of ethnic humor and the politics of offense Ghent University
Recently, ethnic humor (targeting ethnoreligious identities) is increasingly questioned in European and Western countries, sparking controversy on online and traditional media platforms. Absent from the mediated and academic debate are the opinions from targeted subjects of the joke. This qualitative audience study aims to add to critical humor scholarship by providing insight into how targeted groups make sense of disputes of offense. We ...
Audience mobility and patterns of concert attendance: a social network approach to the study of omnivorousness Ghent University
In this paper we use a social network approach to analyze audience mobility and patterns of attendance of concert audiences in and between institutions, based on ideas developed by Agneessens and Roose (JMS, 2008). We want to contribute two things to the existing literature. First, we analyze if and to what extent people combine concerts of the same or different music genres, thereby offering an alternative approach to the conceptualization and ...
Audience participation in public service media Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Digitization and the move to the Internet provide new opportunities beyond radio and television for public broadcasters. This shift is reflected by the shift in terminology from public service “broadcasting” to public service “media.” New types of audience involvement—for example, adding social media to programs or the ability to upload content online—are linked to the achievement of societal objectives such as increasing the diversity of media ...