TY - JOUR
T1 - Deciding what’s (sharable) news
T2 - Social movement organizations as curating actors in the political information system
AU - Billard, Thomas J.
N1 - Funding Information:
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association in May 2021, the American Sociological Association in August 2021, and the American Political Science Association in September 2021. The author would like to thank Larry Gross, Nina Eliasoph, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Rachel Moran, Nathaniel Ming Curran, and Yena Lee for their comments on earlier versions of the ideas presented in this article. The research that generated the data for this article was generously supported by a fellowship from the Consortium on Media Policy Studies and by the Annenberg Endowed Fellowship from the University of Southern California.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by Consortium on Media Policy Studies; University of Southern California. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association in May 2021, the American Sociological Association in August 2021, and the American Political Science Association in September 2021. The author would like to thank Larry Gross, Nina Eliasoph, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Rachel Moran, Nathaniel Ming Curran, and Yena Lee for their comments on earlier versions of the ideas presented in this article. The research that generated the data for this article was generously supported by a fellowship from the Consortium on Media Policy Studies and by the Annenberg Endowed Fellowship from the University of Southern California.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - News is often sourced not directly from journalistic outlets, but from various actors that “curate” content into individuals' information networks. Although these curating actors impact the news individuals receive, little is known about their behind-the-scenes curatorial decision-making. Addressing this gap, I isolated one kind of curating actor in the flow of political information: social movement organizations. Drawing on an ethnographic case study from the U.S. transgender movement, I analyzed the “logics of curation” at play in organizations' social media practices. These logics included the internal criteria by which they decided what news stories to share, how they decided when and by which media each story should be shared, and what they hoped to achieve as the end result of curation.
AB - News is often sourced not directly from journalistic outlets, but from various actors that “curate” content into individuals' information networks. Although these curating actors impact the news individuals receive, little is known about their behind-the-scenes curatorial decision-making. Addressing this gap, I isolated one kind of curating actor in the flow of political information: social movement organizations. Drawing on an ethnographic case study from the U.S. transgender movement, I analyzed the “logics of curation” at play in organizations' social media practices. These logics included the internal criteria by which they decided what news stories to share, how they decided when and by which media each story should be shared, and what they hoped to achieve as the end result of curation.
KW - Social media
KW - ethnography
KW - media flows
KW - online news
KW - political communication
KW - transgender
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U2 - 10.1080/03637751.2021.1999998
DO - 10.1080/03637751.2021.1999998
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118674210
SN - 0363-7751
VL - 89
SP - 354
EP - 375
JO - Communication Monographs
JF - Communication Monographs
IS - 3
ER -