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- Title
- Exploring online news credibility through aesthetics and user-contributed content
- Creator
- Reed, Michael S.
- Date
- 2011
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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This study explores how interactive features on a news website affect a user's perception of credibility and quality. A between-subjects experiment (n=122) was conducted online using four websites with varying levels of user-contributed content to determine if there was an effect. No significant difference in user judgments was found between the four websites. Further analysis showed sub-dimensions within the credibility measure and specifically found significant differences between groups...
Show moreThis study explores how interactive features on a news website affect a user's perception of credibility and quality. A between-subjects experiment (n=122) was conducted online using four websites with varying levels of user-contributed content to determine if there was an effect. No significant difference in user judgments was found between the four websites. Further analysis showed sub-dimensions within the credibility measure and specifically found significant differences between groups when making judgments regarding accuracy. The study concludes by offering design recommendations to encourage user-contributed content on news websites and suggestions for future work in the field of design-related credibility research and online news websites in general.
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- Title
- Citizen journalism as a supplement to reporting on environmental issues : examining the viewpoint diversity of arctic oil drilling in citizen-involved news
- Creator
- Huang, Kanni
- Date
- 2016
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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Citizen journalism plays the role of supplementing legacy news outlets by providing alternative angles possibly absent from those outlets. Arguments about environmental issues in mainstream news outlets usually focus on limited viewpoints, and citizen journalism has the potential to increase the visibility of minor viewpoints about environmental issues. Using the hierarchical model of influence on news content (Shoemaker & Reese, 1991), this study examines different levels of citizen-involved...
Show moreCitizen journalism plays the role of supplementing legacy news outlets by providing alternative angles possibly absent from those outlets. Arguments about environmental issues in mainstream news outlets usually focus on limited viewpoints, and citizen journalism has the potential to increase the visibility of minor viewpoints about environmental issues. Using the hierarchical model of influence on news content (Shoemaker & Reese, 1991), this study examines different levels of citizen-involved activities to predict the presence of minority viewpoints in the news. Instead of treating citizen journalism sites as homogeneous organizations, this study looks into several levels of citizen-involved activities (individual vs. organizational) and features (online-only, opinionated, non-profit, community-focused, and alternative mission) to incorporate different ways and formats of citizen participation in newsmaking. Arctic oil drilling was selected as a case study because of its wide range of geographic impact (local, national, and global) and the potentially diverse viewpoints that can be advocated. A sample was collected from the Google News database and environmental citizen sites on the Knight Community News Network and the Columbia Journalism Review. A content analysis was conducted using news stories and opinion pieces appearing between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2015. An eight-predictor logistic regression model was computed to test whether citizen journalism increases the number and proportion of minority viewpoints presented in the media. Two additional logistic regression models were applied to compare predictors of minority viewpoints among professional and citizen journalists. This study contributes to an understanding of the hierarchical model of influence by testing the model under the circumstances where media routines and organizational influences differ significantly from traditional media settings. Results show that the chance citizen writers express opposing and minority viewpoints is solely determined by the norms of journalistic format—new insights are usually given in opinion pieces rather than news stories. Apart from journalistic format, professional journalists’ work is also predicted by available resources in media routines and by regional audience’s preferences outside the news organizations. The professional routines and requirements to fulfill the organization’s goals do not apply to citizen journalists’ work. Citizen authorship or stories published on sites accepting user-submitted stories do not add new or alternative viewpoints to the issue discussion. Instead, citizen journalists tend to defend their positions by giving more popular rationales—for example, ecological sustainability. Citizens’ work published in news media helps strengthen the popular viewpoints instead of supplementing alternative views into public discussion. Methodologically, this study provides a quantifiable and replicable measurement of viewpoint diversity that can be applied to examine different public issues in media content.
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- Title
- Druk uw eigen illegale krank : tentoonstellng illegale kranten
- Date
- 1970
- Collection
- Leftist Political Posters Collection
- Description
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Poster shows two small images of hands pointing at different parts of the text which is printed in dark gray and black on a red background. Exhibition of of illegal newspapers. Solid blocks of dark gray and black appear between the words of the main title. Ink is dark gray and black.