Resumen de "Frames to the News" and "Spirals of Silence"
- español
Las nuevas agencias marcan diferencias entre definiciones y funciones del mundo de las agencias de noticias sobre todo en el ámbito internacional. Existe la perspectiva tradicional del emisor y receptor, y la perspectiva de los interese de grupos en subredes dentro de la industria de los medios. Se examinan casos de operaciones mundiales a través de internet.
Luego se presentan los roles comunes de nuevas agencias. Las nuevas agencias participan en la disttribución lineal y circular de noticias en lo que hemos denominado "esquema de noticias y espiral del silencio" con una alta autorefenciación.
- English
A general inhomogenity of news agencies markes the discrepancy between definions of a news agency, the function of news agencies, and the closeness of news agencies to other news outlets among the mass media. Different cases give evidence that these differences exist in internationally operating news agencies. We argue with two claims accessing the contemporary situation: a) we rely on the perspective of classic analysis of the sender and receiver(s) of a message in a communication model and b) special interest groups as connected segments of subnetworks in the mass media industry. We will examine several worldwide operating news agencies with internet presence regarding their self-description, their role in mass media communication, and classic definitions of news agencies. After examining several cases, we will show the general common roles of news agencies in the mass media network. The variety of news agencies results in differentiated forms of these distributors. While major news agencies work as contributors of information for other mass media and thus technically fulfill the role of a news agency, smaller agencies have the declared aim to cover "special interest" serving as a conterpoint to mainstream news agencies. News agencies participate in linear and circular distribution forms we classify here as "frames of the news" and "spirals of silence". Our examination shows that news agencies as producing and delivering organizations for the mass media work with high self-reference and reference to other mass media.
