TY - JOUR
T1 - Embedded Links, Embedded Meanings
T2 - Social media commentary and news sharing as mundane media criticism
AU - Carlson, Matt
PY - 2016/10/2
Y1 - 2016/10/2
N2 - Social media transform the consumption environment of news by allowing users to separate individual stories from their original context within a bounded news product and recirculate them in new contexts. If, as this essay argues, the meaning of a news story stems from the interplay of textual and contextual elements, then this shift has interpretive consequences that require further conceptualization. An initial foray is made by developing a concept of mundane media criticism to account for the prevalence of social media commentary that accompanies the circulation of news stories through social media, including directly through news sharing. In this environment, to consume a news story is to simultaneously consume criticism of that story.
AB - Social media transform the consumption environment of news by allowing users to separate individual stories from their original context within a bounded news product and recirculate them in new contexts. If, as this essay argues, the meaning of a news story stems from the interplay of textual and contextual elements, then this shift has interpretive consequences that require further conceptualization. An initial foray is made by developing a concept of mundane media criticism to account for the prevalence of social media commentary that accompanies the circulation of news stories through social media, including directly through news sharing. In this environment, to consume a news story is to simultaneously consume criticism of that story.
KW - digital media
KW - media criticism
KW - metajournalistic discourse
KW - news sharing
KW - social media
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U2 - 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1169210
DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1169210
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84964330270
SN - 1461-670X
VL - 17
SP - 915
EP - 924
JO - Journalism Studies
JF - Journalism Studies
IS - 7
ER -