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What is mediatization?
Mediatization is a process-oriented concept in which answering how the influence of media
has increased in different aspects. Through that mechanism, the society follows how the
media are working and depends on media logic when it comes to understanding of the
world.
What is media logic?
Media logic is a force of Mediatization. The idea of this concept is that media and media
attention are important (mediocracy). It is a particular way of seeing, interpreting social,
cultural and political phenomena, in which producers of media using their own logic: what is
more important, how to tell the story to make it attractive?...
Politics 4-dimension concept
What is media interventionism?
Media-centered political reporting style in which journalists and media actors increasingly
become the stories' main newsmakers rather than politicians or other social actors.
What dimension of mediatization of politics the media interventionism refers to?
It refers directly to the third dimension. It also has indirect implications to the fourth
dimension.
What are the factors that influence the news?
Commercialism: Due to the decrease of journalists but the same amount of news need to be
reported, there is a constraint in time and money for critical journalism. Also, journalism
increasingly relies on PR, press agencies, and audiences' recommendations. Therefore,
they tend to copy from other newspapers instead of writing them properly. This also leads to
an increase in infotainment, tabloidization, personalization and sensation in news.
What does "news factors" means?
"News factors" is a conceptual framework to describe the gatekeeping practices of the
mainstream news media. This explains that events are more likely to become "news" if they
fit specific criteria. In different research, they are giving different definition: that
newsworthiness of an event is based on the story itself or how the story is written.
, What is the difference between news factors and news values?
News factors and news values are the two components that comprise newsworthiness.
News factors include factors journalists use to determine if an event can be on the news.
New values are how journalists actually consider an event as the news. Different journalists
will prioritize different news factors from each other. That is called news values.
Name and explain each of the news values that they have studied.
- Negativity: Negative aspects of an event or issue.
- Proximity: Geographical (or cultural) nearness of an event or issue.
- Eliteness: Presence of individuals, organizations, or nations of high status involved in an
event or issue.
- Influence and relevance: High significance of an event in terms of its effects and/or
consequences
- Personification: Inclusion of personal or "human" face of an event/issue.
- Conflict: Presence of confrontation and/or controversy
- Continuity: Having been in the news previously.
Explain the issue that popular news media face and how this relates to the news values
expected to occur mostly in these outlets.
Popular news media suffer the most from decreases in news consumption among the
general public. This instills continuous commercial pressure that can cause popular news
journalists to ascribe increased value to a set of commercial news factors that appeal to a
large target audience.
Expectation:
- Personification: more relatable and comprehensible for people with low news interest.
- Negativity: more accessible to non-elite audiences.
- Proximity: increases audience engagement.
What is considered a good news source?
A good news source is productive, reliable, authoritative, and media-genic. A really important
factor is that source needs to be socially and geographically close to the news provider.
Therefore, it is not usually that the news source is representative.
How journalists collect their news?
Journalists all have their agenda: they follow the beat of the organization they are working
for, know where to get their news, and come to that place to collect news. Therefore, it is
obvious that they may miss some information in society.
Explain the inter-media influence.
Inter-media influence is based on other news sources influencing newspapers and
organizations. This, on the one hand, is the result of the decrease in the number of
journalists and an increase in the amount of news to report. On the other hand is because
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