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| العنوان: |
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo? |
| المؤلفون: |
Camaj, Lindita, Çela, Erlis, Rexha, Gjylie |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Information Technology & Politics; Jan-Mar2024, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p38-53, 16p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ELECTION coverage, NEGATIVITY bias, NEWSPAPER editors, POLITICAL campaigns, SOCIAL media, LOGIC, BRAND communities, VIRTUAL communities |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
ALBANIA, KOSOVO (Republic) |
| مستخلص: |
This study provides insights on how journalists in the Western Balkans conceptualize and practice audience engagement during electoral campaigns. Taking a holistic approach, we first explore audience demand and news supply of strategic and negative election news on Facebook, then turn to news editors to explore what type of audience logic drives their reporting. Our data confirm previous findings about audience demand for strategic news but contradict the predominance of audience negativity bias in the context of Southeast Europe. These findings support generic trends in how social media audiences engage with political information, but also emphasize the importance of the socio-political context as a determinant of audience engagement with online news. Interview data identified an alignment between journalists' imagined readership preferences with the reality, yet reporting patterns on Facebook do not entirely follow engagement trends. Together, these findings suggest that journalism culture developed in this region is more nuanced than previously defined, while news editors embrace new technologies to serve the commercial needs and audience strengthening logics in parallel during electoral campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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