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2 hours ago - NRS is an intersection of 3 institutional domains - democracy, capitalism, technology
- Multiple actors/stakeholders involved from these domains
- Each domain comes with its own "logics"
- RQ1: How does the interplay of journalistic, market, and tech logics surface in decision- making processes regarding the development of NRS? RQ2: What tensions result from the interplay of journalistic, market, and tech logics in the development of NRS? RQ3: How are tensions between journalistic, market, and tech logics in the development of NRS resolved?
- Logics can be aggregated - journalists are involved in the parametrization of news-ranking algorithms as a strategy to alleviate their concerns about being replaced by machines.
- Logics can be integrated to create new hybrid logics - professional and market logics integrated to create audience orientation, similarly - market and tech logic's result can be personalization
- Logics can be compartmentalized - distinct logics can co-exist with no synergies or communication between them
- Ambidextrous actors - work within multiple logics
- Subordination - where dominant logic is prioritized and subordinate logic is maintained but not fully embraced (journalistic logic over personalization)
- Decoupling/loose coupling - Journalistic role in NRS
- Journalists were said to learn and understand NRS because they would have to pay attention to their performance as the placement isn't guaranteed
- While developing NRS, top-down wasn't implemented, it was equal stakeholder system
- Journalists were not as involved, decisions taken by editors in chief - they had to focus on delivering things and not focus on this
- journalistic logics were bypassed while favoring tech decisions
- Publishing company would put pressure, editors and journalist did not have a final say
- Misunderstandings between tech and editors to convey journalistic ethics stuff
- Found three interrelated sources of tensions reflecting the incompatibility of logics:
- divergence in priorities
- a lack of a common language and communication
- journalistic hesitation.
- Opposing logics
- tech and journalists - algo is good but not what editors want
- Market and journalists over values and profit
- Market and tech - overestimating algorithmic prowess
- Navigating tensions
- Communication and collaboration - helping journalists understand NRS and not fear it; collaborate to understand domain
- Ensuring journalistic control - integrated "editorial weighing" for articles on front and top
- Ambidextrous actors that spoke all languages - bridge from product owners to journalist ambassadors
- Responsible NRS - anti filter bubbles/more diverse to keep users informed; transparency for journalists (extensive transparency may threaten profits)
Journalism Studies, 24(16), 1957-1976. Mitova, E., Blassnig, S., Strikovic, E., Urman, A., de Vreese, C., & Esser, F. (2023)