Reformed Gatekeeping

  • François Heinderyckx Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
  • Tim P. Vos University of Missouri

Sažetak


This essay explores the state of gatekeeping theory at present. We discuss whether gatekeeping theory has a future, how gatekeeping – as it has evolved – still offers theoretical and explanatory value, and how gatekeeping must be reformed to maintain its worth and relevance. The notion is approached from its purpose, nature, temporality, agents and context. The article argues that gatekeeping theory will remain relevant pending a process of reform that must accompany that of journalism and news media.

Biografija autora

François Heinderyckx, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Dean, Faculté of Letters, Translation and Communication

Past-President of ECREA

Past-President of ICA

Reference

Ambrose, M. L. & Ausloos, J. (2013). The Right to be Forgotten across the Pond. Journal of Information Policy, 3: 1–23.

Anderson, C. W. (2013). Towards a Sociology of Computational and Algorithmic Journalism. New Media & Society, 15(7) : 1005–1021.

Bourdieu, P. (2005). The Political Field, the Social Science Field, and the Journalistic Field. In R. Benson & E. Neveu (eds.), Bourdieu and the journalistic field (pp. 29–47). Malden, MA: Polity.

Bruns, A. (2005). Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production. New York: P. Lang.

Bruns, A. (2011). Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Real-time Feedback: New Challenges for Journalism. Brazilian Journalism Research, 7(11): 117-135.

Christians, C. G., Glasser, T. L., McQuail, D., Nordenstreng, K. & White, R. A. (2009). Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Clark, A. (2015). How an Investigative Journalist Helped Prove a City was Being Poisoned with Its Own Water. Retrieved from http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/flint_water_lead_curt_guyette_aclu_michigan.php.

Curran, J. (2010). Technology Foretold. In N. Fenton (Ed.), New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age (pp. 19–34). London: Sage.

English, K. (2009). The Longtail of News: To Unpublish or Not to Unpublish. Retrieved from http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/apme.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/online_journalism_credibility/a_suggested_script.pdf

Gieber, W. (1956). Across the Desk: A Study of 16 Telegraph Editors. Journalism Quarterly, 33: 423–432.

Harcup, T., & O'Neill, D. (2001). What is News? Galtung and Ruge Revisited. Journalism Studies, 2(2): 261–280.

Heinderyckx, F. (2015). Gatekeeping Theory Redux. In T. P. Vos & F. Heinderyckx (eds.), Gatekeeping in Transition (pp. 253–267). New York: Routledge.

Hiner, J. (2016). Letter to the Editor: Local Media didn't Whiff on Flint Coverage. Retrieved from http://www.poynter.org/2016/letter-to-the-editor-national-not-local-media-whiffed-on-flint-coverage/393583/.

Janowitz, M. (1975). Professional Models in Journalism: The Gatekeeper and the Advocate. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 52(4): 618–626.

Kaye, J. & Quinn, S. (2010). Funding Journalism in the Digital Age: Business Models, Strategies, Issues and Trends. New York: Peter Lang.

Le Cam, F. & Domingo, D. (2015). The Tyranny of Immediacy: Gatekeeping Practices in French and Spanish Online Newsrooms. In T. P. Vos & F. Heinderyckx (eds.), Gatekeeping in Transition (pp. 123–140). New York: Routledge.

Lehmann, H. (2010). The Dynamics of International Information Systems: Anatomy of a Grounded Theory Investigation. New York: Springer.

Lewin, K. (1951). Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers. New York: Harper.

Moore, M. (2016). 10 Things They Won't Tell You about the Flint Water Tragedy, but I Will. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/10-things-about-flint-water-tragedy_b_9132150.html?utm_hp_ref=media&ir=Media.

Negroponte, N. (1995). Being Digital (1st ed.). New York, NY: Vintage Books.

Pearson, G. D. H. & Kosicki, G. M. (2016). How Way-finding is Challenging Gatekeeping in the Digital Age. Journalism Studies, 1–19. doi:0.1080/1461670X.2015.1123112

Phillips, A. (2015). Low-paid Piecework or Global Brands? In T. P. Vos & F. Heinderyckx (eds.), Gatekeeping in Transition (pp. 65–81). New York: Routledge.

Pool, I. D. S. & Shulman, I. (1959). Newsmen's Fantasies, Audiences, and Newswriting. Public Opinion Quarterly, 23: 145–158.

Powers, M. (2014). The Structural Organization of NGO Publicity Work: Explaining Divergent Publicity Strategies at Humanitarian and Human Rights Organizations. International Journal of Communication, 8(1): 90–107.

Reese, S. D. & Ballinger, J. (2001). The Roots of a Sociology of News: Remembering Mr. Gates and Social Control in the Newsroom. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 78(4): 641–658.

Schudson, M. (2012). The Sociology of News (2nd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Shoemaker, P. J. (1991). Gatekeeping. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

Shoemaker, P. J. & Vos, T. P. (2009). Gatekeeping Theory. New York: Routledge.

Shoemaker, P. J. Vos, T. P., & Reese, S. D. (2008). Journalists as Gatekeepers. In K. Wahl-Jorgensen & T. Hanitzsch (eds.), The Handbook of Journalism Studies (pp. 73–87). New York: Routledge.

Starkman, D. (2014). The Watchdog that didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Reporting. New York: Columbia University Press.

Stencel, M., Adair, B. & Kamalakanthan, P. (2014). The Goat must be Fed: Why Digital Tools are Missing in Most Newsrooms. Duke Reporter’s Lab. Retrieved from http://www.goatmustbefed.com/.

Sullivan, M. (2016). Should the Times have been a Tougher Watchdog in Flint? Retrieved from http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/flint-water-margaret-sullivan-new-york-times-public-editor/?_r=0.

Tandoc, E. C. (2014). Journalism is Twerking? How Web analytics is Changing the Process of Gatekeeping. New Media & Society, 16(4): 559–575.

Tandoc, E. C. (2015). Why Web Analytics Click: Factors Affecting the Ways Journalists Use Audience Metrics. Journalism Studies, 16(6): 782–799.

Tandoc, E. C. & Vos, T. P. (2015). The Journalist is Marketing the News: Social Media in the Gatekeeping Process. Journalism Practice, 1–17. doi:10.1080/17512786.2015.1087811

Thorson, K. & Wells, C. (2015). How Gatekeeping still Matters: Understanding Media Effects in an Era of Curated Flows. In T. P. Vos & F. Heinderyckx (eds.), Gatekeeping in Transition (pp. 25–44). New York: Routledge.

Vos, T. P. (2015). Revisiting Gatekeeping Theory in a Time of Transition. In T. P. Vos & F. Heinderyckx (eds.), Gatekeeping in Transition (pp. 3–24). New York: Routledge.

Warren, J. (2016). How the Media Blew Flint. Retrieved from http://www.poynter.org/2016/how-the-media-blew-flint/392662/.

White, D. M. (1950). The 'Gate Geeper:' A Case Study in the Selection of News. Journalism Quarterly, 27(4): 383–390.

Objavljeno
2016/12/21
Rubrika
Originalni naučni članak