Web political communication: technology and effect
- Autores: Wei Zhang
- Directores de la Tesis: José Manuel Pérez Tornero (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2021
- Idioma: inglés
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Santiago Tejedor Calvo (presid.), Samy Tayie (secret.), Emelina Fernández Soriano (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Comunicación y Periodismo por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
Platformization is a phenomenon and an approach to understanding the interaction of platform participants, the interplay of sociality, commercial activity, communication and politics etc. The trajectory from platform functionality to platform automation is a method of platformization that has been gaining power since the inception of Web 2.0, functioning in the sphere of media evolution and perception of political construction, with the circumstances of changing journalism profession. As normally considered mainstream media and content, TV news is facing the challenge from digital platforms. Whereas, it is also a chance to evolve TV news and its framing across digital platforms. Under these circumstances, TV news shows the potential to influence political affection, attitude and behavior. And the implications of TV news consumption have raised a polemic that whether TV news fosters political alienation or enhances political involvement on the contrary. Meanwhile, political participation is deposed to network and personalization under the integration of digital context, and concurs with activation and operation of mobile journalism. In the concurrence, mobile mediality is being shaped, sociality has the propensity for being platform-based, engagement momentum is theoretically possible. Thus, the new communication paradigm is proposed by virtue of platform logic, platform architecture, and associate network automation. Platform logic primarily refers to platform functionality, platform automation, mobile mediality, platform-based sociality, and the quaternions they constitute. Platform architecture casts platformized communication as the amorphous interaction. And CGTN news and CNN news are taken as cases to analyze the adoption of this communication paradigm. To dissect the influence of platformization on journalism and news routines, the framework and ontology of AI journalism are built so as to explicate and instruct the emerging phenomenon in news ecosystem where intelligent machines and human journalists are coexisting. Specifically, (1) automated news event detection generally applies log-based method, content-based method, and structure-based method, and evolves from single-factor detection to multi-factor detection, depending on environment detection, targeted mediation and algorithmic institution; (2) automated news curation needs linguistic applications, narrative classification, and methodological conversion, based on AI journalism’s latent turns from precision journalism; (3) intelligent news distribution is characterized by round-the-clock distribution and monitoring, interactive and communicative actions, flexible customization, etc. And the innate logic of this distribution is displayed through immersive personalization and interactive personification.
