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The Appification of News: Exploring Media Diversityin the App Ecosystem
October 2017International Symposium on Media InnovationsDavid Nieborg & Thomas Poell
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Appification
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Political economy & policy
• Downing’s (2011) “democracy-strangulation” hypothesis
• Strong evidence for ownership concentration (Noam, 2016)
• Napoli (1999) and Winseck (2008) on diversity
• Source (ownership)
• Numerical / Content (format)
• Exposure
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An empirically-driven, critical, historical, institutional perspective on the platformization of the cultural industries
Institutional political economy
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Demand
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(“The 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report”, Comscore)
It’s all about them apps…
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(“The Modern News Consumer”, 2016, Pew)
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What about news apps?
(“The 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report”, Comscore)
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New news apps?
(“The 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report”, Comscore)
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Supply
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A competitive disadvantage
1. Increase in market entry 2. Price pressure 3. Rising acquisition costs 4. Platform politics & economics 5. Creative clustering
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Diversity Disproportionality
= cappitalism
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Method• App Annie’s Top-500 on May 1, 2017
• iOS & Google Play
• US, CA, Mexico,UK, France, Germany
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#findings
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Medium (i.e. genre)
1. Digital publishers & platforms2. Newspaper3. TV
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Medium (i.e. genre)
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Canada
• A presence of public organizations (e.g. CBC, BBC)
• Modest revival of local apps (15 in top-100)
• Clear signs of ownership concentration (Bell, Rogers, Postmedia Network)
• Private ownership (Google Play) vs. corporate ownership (iOS)
• EN, FR, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Hindi
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France
• French, beaucoup French
• High national news and national ownership (in top), local news past top-150
• Incumbents & legacy (TV / Newspaper) in top
• Presence of diasporic communities (Senegal, Morocco, Algeria)
• General interest in top, more niche material on lower regions.
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Mexico• Mix English / Spanish (50/50)
• Stark differences Google Play & iOS
• TV stations and aggregators dominate, few public media
UK• English dominant in top-150
• BBC only public entity
• Trinity Mirror plc and DMG Media for local news
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• 1 (very random) day
• Only downloads / free (no DL numbers)
• Data / corpus issues
• Native app(s) are missing
• App Annie data
• Top-500 too much
• “Only” 6 regions
Limitations method