TY - JOUR
T1 - Internet revolution revisited : a comparative study of online news
AU - Curran, James
AU - Coen, Sharon
AU - Aalberg, Toril
AU - Hayashi, Kaori
AU - Jones, Paul K.
AU - Splendore, Sergio
AU - Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos
AU - Rowe, David
AU - Tiffen, Rod
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - While numerous studies view the internet as a patron of internationalism and public empowerment, this comparative study of leading news websites in nine nations shows that online news is strongly nation-centred, and much more inclined to cite the voices of authority than those of civil society and the individual citizen. Online news is very similar, in these respects, to newspaper and television news. This convergence is due to the way in which leading media conglomerates have extended their hegemony across technologies. It also reflects the constraints exerted by the wider societal context across all media.
AB - While numerous studies view the internet as a patron of internationalism and public empowerment, this comparative study of leading news websites in nine nations shows that online news is strongly nation-centred, and much more inclined to cite the voices of authority than those of civil society and the individual citizen. Online news is very similar, in these respects, to newspaper and television news. This convergence is due to the way in which leading media conglomerates have extended their hegemony across technologies. It also reflects the constraints exerted by the wider societal context across all media.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:18373
U2 - 10.1177/0163443713499393
DO - 10.1177/0163443713499393
M3 - Article
SN - 0163-4437
VL - 35
SP - 880
EP - 897
JO - Media, Culture and Society
JF - Media, Culture and Society
IS - 7
ER -