TY - JOUR
T1 - Media Systems Online and Off
T2 - Comparing the Form of News in the United States, Denmark, and France
AU - Benson, Rodney
AU - Blach-Ørsten, Mark
AU - Powers, Matthew
AU - Willig, Ida
AU - Zambrano, Sandra Vera
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - This study examines how media system differences in the form of news change or stay the same as newspapers in the United States (liberal), Denmark (democratic corporatist), and France (polarized pluralist) move from print to online. Internet technological affordances are posited to move online news toward more advertising and information (liberal model) and more opinion and deliberation (polarized pluralist model). In the liberal direction, advertising and more localized, light news increase; toward polarized pluralism, news as a whole declines while deliberation, opinion, and nonjournalistic voices increase slightly. A lesser degree of change in France may be due to greater state insulation from market pressures; some contradictory tendencies in Denmark indicate that technological influences are shaped by contextual national factors.
AB - This study examines how media system differences in the form of news change or stay the same as newspapers in the United States (liberal), Denmark (democratic corporatist), and France (polarized pluralist) move from print to online. Internet technological affordances are posited to move online news toward more advertising and information (liberal model) and more opinion and deliberation (polarized pluralist model). In the liberal direction, advertising and more localized, light news increase; toward polarized pluralism, news as a whole declines while deliberation, opinion, and nonjournalistic voices increase slightly. A lesser degree of change in France may be due to greater state insulation from market pressures; some contradictory tendencies in Denmark indicate that technological influences are shaped by contextual national factors.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01625.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01625.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84856545837
SN - 0021-9916
VL - 62
SP - 21
EP - 38
JO - Journal of Communication
JF - Journal of Communication
IS - 1
ER -