When More Media Equals Less News: Patterns of Content Homogenization in Argentina's Leading Print and Online Newspapers
- 18 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Political Communication
- Vol. 24 (2), 167-180
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600701313025
Abstract
This article examines content homogeneity, understood as the degree to which different media focus on the same stories during a particular news cycle, in Argentina's leading print and online newspapers. It focuses on the role of technical practices across media and over time—during a decade for print and during 24 hours for online. The analysis shows three main patterns of homogenization: (a) an increase in the level of homogeneity in print newspapers tied to their online counterparts' practice of publishing breaking and developing stories during the day, (b) an increase in the level of homogeneity in online newspapers as the day unfolds, and (c) a densely interconnected web of homogeneity across print and online newspapers in 2005. We draw from these findings to make contributions to research on online news and media sociology and to reflect upon the direction and meaning of changes in journalistic form in the current media environment.Keywords
This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
- Variations on a Theme: The Professional Role Conceptions of Print and Online Newspaper JournalistsJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2005
- A visual convergence of print, television, and the internet: charting 40 years of design change in news presentationNew Media & Society, 2005
- Multiple Media, Convergent Processes, and Divergent Products: Organizational Innovation in Digital Media Production at a European FirmThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2005
- News in Online and Print Newspapers: Differences in Reader Consumption and RecallNew Media & Society, 2004
- Digitizing the NewsPublished by MIT Press ,2004
- The Web and its Journalisms: Considering the Consequences of Different Types of Newsmedia OnlineNew Media & Society, 2003
- Television station ownership effects on programming and idea diversity: Baseline dataJournal of Media Economics, 1988
- Consonance in local television newsJournal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 1986
- Evening Network News Selection: A Confirmation of News JudgmentJournalism Quarterly, 1974
- Rivals in Conformity: A Study of Two Competing DailiesJournalism Quarterly, 1948