New York Times: People Share News Online That Inspires Awe, Researchers Find
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 21:11
"Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have intensively studied the New York Times list of most-e-mailed articles, checking it every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page. … most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list."
NYU Journalism “Primary Sources”: Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 08:32
Interesting discussion from about the 7:16 mark, where Rosen discusses the "sociology of the newsroom" research of the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for a world where the production routines of the media are changing.
Time: Polarized News? The Media’s Moderate Bias
Friday, 6 November 2009, 13:58
"[The] news audience, if not news itself, is getting more polarized. But categories like Pew's 'liberal,' 'conservative' and 'neither' … overlook the most significant bias out there: moderate bias." (HT: Jeff Sonderman)
BBC iPlayer: The Media Show: 28/10/2009
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 10:07
Includes an interesting segment with Dr Natalie Fenton from Goldsmith's University "who argues that instead of democratising information, the internet has narrowed our horizons."
New York Times: Link by Link – The Amish Paper The Budget Explores a Move Online
Monday, 21 September 2009, 07:09
"For two weeks this summer, Jessica Best, a 22-year-old journalist from Wales, fell into that role as the intern at The Budget of Sugarcreek, Ohio, a weekly that is the largest newspaper serving the Amish."
New Scientist: ‘Infectious’ people spread memes across the web
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 13:25
"Spanish researchers claim to have found a way to accurately predict how quickly and widely new pieces of information, or "memes" as they are called, will spread. The ability to forecast this 'viral' behaviour would be of great interest to sociologists and marketeers, among others."
Online Journalism Blog: How successful bloggers become bureaucratized too
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 14:55
Paul Bradshaw reads an enthography of blogging: "just as the restricted space and time of mainstream media shape their output, so does the lack of restrictions shape the output of blogs: 'Whereas constraints necessitate routines, so does a lack of limits … bloggers have developed routine practices that narrow down possibilities.'"
Monday, 19 May 2008, 09:00
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"The thing the unites all the ’sports’ that you read in the papers? Two things – they have a schedule: they’re regular, so newspapers can plan themselves around them; and they have spectators. … If a ’sport’ doesn’t have a diary, then it can’t be
Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 18:57
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Edward Mischaud’s MSc thesis from the London School of Economics… Yes, it’s about Twitter.
Sunday, 30 December 2007, 22:30
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"Twitter and why it works (and sometimes doesn’t work) … in part …has to do with what sociologist Mark Granovetter called ‘weak ties.’"
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 19:32
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boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 07:44
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Chris Dillow: "’News’ is a mere artefact. It’s defined not by any standards rooted in epistemology or information theory, but is merely a commodity produced where journalists happen to be…"
Monday, 25 June 2007, 09:06
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Danah Boyd argues that social networks are becoming class-divided: high-social-status American teens are all on or switching to Facebook while marginalized, low-SES, "non-hegemonic", teens continue to be drawn to MySpace.
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 23:30
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"Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University … and author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, will lead Yahoo’s research in human social dynamics, including social networks and collaborative problem solving."
