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Title: Digital news in Spain: Characteristics and effects of online news production and consumption
Author: Majó-Vázquez, Sílvia  
Director: Cardenal, Ana S.  
Abstract: This work presents a relational approach to the study of the structure of the online news domain from a macro and meso level perspective. Then it assesses the impact of the digital news domain on the public agenda. Firstly, it analyzes the digital production and consumption of news by mapping two networks: the network of links connecting news media on the web; and the network of audience flow that users create when navigating web content. Secondly, it identifies the news providers that occupy the most power positions in the provision and consumption of news content. To this end, it measures the extent to which new media outlets –those born on the web- challenge the power monopoly held by traditional media brands in the offline sphere. Finally, this study investigates whether the new digital news domain weakens citizens' consensus over the public agenda. Overall the study allows debunking theses that equate the digital news domain with the unlimited audience fragmentation. Furthermore, it lends support to theories that highlight the positive role of the digital news domain for enhancing the public debate. Finally, it contributes to the body of literature that debunks claims on the diminishing power of legacy brands in the new media ecology.
Keywords: digital news domain
news audience
news providers
fragmentation
media power
media
network analysis
public agenda
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: 28-Apr-2017
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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