Gatekeeping Theory
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Twitter is a social news service in which information is selected and distributed by individual members of the tweet audience. While communication literature has studied traditional news media and the propagation of information, to our... more
In Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2016) professor William Marling presents four thorough case studies explaining and detailing how four writers (García Marquez, Bukowski, Auster and... more
RESUMEN Vivimos en un mundo cada vez más consolidado digitalmente, en el que los medios de comunicación buscan adaptar las herramientas que han traído estas nuevas tecnologías. En este contexto, esta tesis capturó un momento de la... more
Online information intermediaries such as Facebook and Google are slowly replacing traditional media channels thereby partly becoming the gatekeepers of our society. To deal with the growing amount of information on the social web and the... more
This article examines music auditions in jazz education and the artistic valuation of music performances by gatekeepers working in two prestigious schools. Using the inherent insecurities of the entry-test situation as a site of... more
One pressing issue in libraries today is the censorship of information. This study applies Kurt Lewin's gatekeeping theory to examine the decision-makers as well as the different pressures and constraints that are at issue in decisions... more
The genre of sports is immensely popular culturally in both national and international settings and often times boosts the morale of relatively large communities mired in tragedy and strife. Consumption of sports media in U.S. culture... more
Sosyal medyanın ortaya çıkışı ile geleneksel haber merkezlerinin yapı ve işlevlerinde değişiklikler görülmeye başlanmıştır. Sosyal medya, editör ve gazetecilerin veri toplama biçimini ve bilgi akışını kontrol etme işlevlerini değişime... more
Digital technologies have changed the means by which media organizations produce the news. Using gatekeeping theory, current research has treated news organizations as relatively homogenous, as opposed to analyzing the differences that... more
With the advances in social media, some changes started to happen in the face and the function of the traditional newsrooms. More than that social media has changed how editors and reporters, report the news and, perhaps more importantly,... more
Bu tez, gazetecilerin, bir hikayenin haber olup olmadığına nasıl karar verdiklerini incelemektedir. Çalışma, “Gazeteciler Kararlarını Nasıl Alır?” sorusunu cevaplamakta ve “Haber Kararına Etki Eden Faktörleri” sekiz ana başlıkta... more
Espelho de anos de aulas em Teoria da Notícia, o livro "O Admirável Mundo das Notícias" pretende ser uma manual onde se encontre uma abordagem medianamente aprofundada da literatura disponível sobre Estudos Jornalísticos. Apesar da sua... more
Social media has changed the face and function of today’s traditional newsrooms. But, more than that, social media has changed how editors and reporters report the news and, perhaps more importantly, control the flow of information via... more
O livro é fruto da pesquisa de doutorado do autor, que faz um resgate histórico da teoria traduzindo pela primeira vez para o português as tabelas e dados publicados nos anos 1950 por David Manning White. Contrapondo a premissa de que a... more
As traditional news media struggle to adapt to a new journalism paradigm with the onslaught of a historic technological disruption in journalism, some institutions are altering decades-old newsgathering and dissemination routines by... more
Journalism is a continuous journey, in fact in English is quite evident: “The english words” journalism “and” journey “are cousins.” With this magnificent sentence begins the book Participatory Journalism: Gates Open at Guarding Online... more
Internet and social media contribute to the transformation of the process of selection and circulation of content. This paper investigates if Twitter users assume the role of gatekeepers when recommending content to their followers.... more
This nationwide survey of news directors at network affiliate television stations explores the impact social media is having on editorial and production decisions related to newscasts. The results show popular, or trending, content and... more
“Hidden Agendas of Aesthetic Selection: Contemporary Poetry Awards”, Workshop on “Publishing, Gatekeeping, Pa-tronage: Participation and/in the Literary Field”, 67th Annual Conference of the German Association for Ameri-can Studies (DGfA)... more
This theoretical essay uses Kurt Lewin’s gatekeeping theory to examine the decision-makers as well as the different pressures and constraints that are at issue in decisions regarding challenges and censorship attempts that occur in... more
Without a clear understanding of the function of gates and gatekeepers in the materials selection process, libraries may allow unintended censorship of ideas and information to persist. Censorship is closely tied with the library... more
This study contributes to the theory of gatekeeping by examining how community media journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa navigate through conflicting information. Using the case of COVID-19, the study examined how journalists from community... more
This is a multiple case study of the ways middle grades social studies teachers, as curricular-instructional gatekeepers, may make decisions to provide their gifted students with purposeful differentiated instruction. More specifically,... more
This theoretical article focuses on a part-whole relationship between journalistic translation (or news translation) and the overall process of news gatekeeping within and outside of the boundaries of media organizations. The article... more
This article reports on a study that contributes to the literature on gatekeeping, gatewatching and crowdsourcing in African contexts. It does so by significantly expanding the scope, and theoretically incorporating the value of... more
Abstract: Originally the linkage & leverage theory was conceptualized by S. Levitsky & L. Way to measure and analyze democracy promotion by the West. J. Tolstrup updated their model, making it neutral by adapting the Western-centered... more
A major challenge in experimental fashion is to define innovation in the field. This challenge offers an opportunity for comparative analysis and triangulations. Pieces of experimental fashion may not have any resemblance either to... more
ABSTRACT: The author applies the Linkage-Leverage theory, updated by Jakob Tolstrup to three Central Asian Countries. The paper argues that the Central Asian countries have more or less successfully diversified their geopolitical and... more
Gatekeeping theory and the hierarchy of influences model were used as a framework to analyze democratic norm development in Iraq. The study developed three watchdog gatekeeping models that could be adapted for other conflict or... more
Justices on the US Supreme Court are rational and therefore strategic policymakers. Yet, how rational are they? How far into the future would their strategic considerations reach? Due to potential influence on both policy and doctrine,... more
More Americans are using social media in their daily lives and finding news and information on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Media organizations are using social media sites to locate sources and verify information to increase... more
This study applies Kurt Lewin's (1947) gatekeeping theory to examine in more complexity the decision-makers as well as the different pressures and constraints that are at issue in decisions regarding challenges and censorship attempts... more
Expanding the boundaries in translation studies by incorporating a theory from media studies might help us understand TV interpreting better. In this vein, this article draws on gatekeeping, which is a term widely used in media studies.... more
This book will examine the unique way that fathers around the world contribute to the positive educational outcomes of children. From ages 3 to 18 (Pre K – 12), fathers play a distinct, developmental and directed role in their children's... more
Across the world both journalists and their audiences now depend on social media and search engines to deliver them news and information. Standing between the individual and the ever-growing volumes of digital data are a variety of... more
O presente estudo tem por objetivo investigar as formas de apresentação e consumo de informações esportivas. A pesquisa em que se baseia o estudo partiu da hipótese de que a fonte a que os indivíduos recorrem para a busca de tais... more