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Page 1: Actors and Links in the Media System: Applying a Network Perspective to the Study of Media Production, Content and Audience

ICA 2011 - Virtual ConferenceKatherine Ognyanova (Katya)Doctoral Candidate, USC [email protected], www.kateto.net

Actors and Links in the Media System: Media Production, Content and Audience

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Semantic Networks

Networks in Media Studies

Content

Audience

Industry

Social Networks

Interorganizational

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Mixing Different Levels

Content

Audience

Industry

Content Diffusion through Audience Social Networks

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Media Content

Media Audience

Media Industry

Interorganizational Networks

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Strategic Alliances

The Industry: Ties Between Media Companies

Resource Exchanges

Family/friendship ties

Ownership & Partnership

Interlocking directorates

Joint political action

Shared Content

Information Resources

Overlapping Staff

Interorganizational,any industry

Typical for the media industry

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Theoretical Frameworks

Exchange Theories

Resource Dependence

Evolutionary Theories

Organizational Ecology

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Corporate Relationships

Media corporations network. Source: Arsenault & Castells, 2008

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Embeddedness and Centrality

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Media Content

Media Audience

Media Industry

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Industry & Content Levels

NYT CNN

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Industry & Content Levels

NYT CNN

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Industry & Content Levels - US

US News Outlets and Topics. Source: Ognyanova, K. (www.kateto.net)

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Industry & Content Levels - US

Inter-Media Agenda-Setting

www.kateto.net

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Online Media and Their Content

Indicate affiliation Attribute value

Hyperlinks

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Online Content: Link Analysis

Linking patterns in the US political blogosphere. Source: Adamic & Glance (2005)

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Online Content: Link Analysis (Cont.)

US Politicosphere (2009)Powered by Linkfluence

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Media Content

Media Industry

Media Audience

Semantic Networks

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Content Level: Framing Theories

used to analyze the framing

of media content often have links based on

proximity and frequency of co-occurance.

Semantic maps

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Framing and Semantic Analysis

Book

LiteracySchool

Reading

Literacy

Digital

MediaInternet

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Content Level

Framing Theory

Topics

Frames

Concepts

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The Future of Journalism

Source: Ognyanova, K. www.kateto.net

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Linked Open Data

Source: Slate News Dots (2010)

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Media Content

Media Industry

Media Audience

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Two-Step Flow Theory

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Audience Social Networks & Content Diffusion

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Online Content: Meme Tracking

MemeTracker (2008) Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom and Jon Kleinberg

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Media Content

Media Audience

Media Industry

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News Outlets and Consumers, South LA. Source: Ognyanova, K. Data: Metamorphosis.org

Media Use

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Media System Dependency

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Communication Infrastructure Theory

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Summary in a Table

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Contact Information:Katherine OgnyanovaE-mail [email protected] www.kateto.net