Tuesday, November 7, 2017

                                                                     News Values


Convergence - Refers to the crossing over or coming together of platforms, techs, devices in the media

the "Other":Paul Giroy - Non white people in the media are often defined according to what makes them different from the (white) criminal 

News today is converged and dispersed across a range of platforms
News values systematically construct rather than simply accompany the gathering of news.

Galtung and Ruge (1981) - Argued that news is structured according to unspoken values, rather than discovered. 
Here are some of the values - Frequency (time scale of events perceived to be "newsworthy". Stories which unfolded daily were favoured)
                                - Threshold (Size of an event that's needed for it to be considered "newsworthy". Common recurrences with normal people won't get noticed unless it happens to a celeb; Unusual stories get noticed a lot.)

                                -Proximity (How close to home the story is. Also stories from "the west" are favoured over stories from the developing world)

                                 - Negativity (If it's news, it's bad news. )

                                  - Predictability (

                                 - Continuity and Narrative (News involves story telling j

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