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<p>By operationalising Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital and positions of autonomy and heteronomy, and applying a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to data gathered from a large content analysis, the article explores the relations between online newspapers and their corresponding print or broadcast versions within a constructed Danish “field of news” by graphically presenting the data as maps of the changes in these relations. First, mapping transformations graphically shows that the online newspapers have gained autonomy from their “parent platforms”, but we see that in the same period they have increased their dependence on news agency stories. Furthermore, the mapping demonstrates how the online newspapers differ in terms of news productions strategies and in their relation to their parent platforms, meaning they take up different positions in the field according to their “strength” based on a number of indicators.</p>
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By operationalising Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital and positions of autonomy and heteronomy, and applying a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to data gathered from a large content analysis, the article explores the relations between online newspapers and their corresponding print or broadcast versions within a constructed Danish “field of news” by graphically presenting the data as maps of the changes in these relations. First, mapping transformations graphically shows that the online newspapers have gained autonomy from their “parent platforms”, but we see that in the same period they have increased their dependence on news agency stories. Furthermore, the mapping demonstrates how the online newspapers differ in terms of news productions strategies and in their relation to their parent platforms, meaning they take up different positions in the field according to their “strength” based on a number of indicators.

Mapping Online Journalism in Transition: Exploring an Analytical Model

Nordicom Review

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By operationalising Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital and positions of autonomy and heteronomy, and applying a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to...

Mapping Online Journalism in Transition: Exploring an Analytical Model

Data publikacji: 13 mar 2020

Zakres stron: 43 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0103

Słowa kluczowe
field theory, online news, principal component analysis, convergence, field of news production, hierarchies of production

© 2013 Jannie Møller Hartley et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mapping Online Journalism in Transition: Exploring an Analytical Model

Data publikacji: 13 mar 2020

Zakres stron: 43 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0103

Słowa kluczowefield theory, online news, principal component analysis, convergence, field of news production, hierarchies of production

© 2013 Jannie Møller Hartley et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
field theory, online news, principal component analysis, convergence, field of news production, hierarchies of production