[Commlist] New book: "News Values from an Audience Perspective"

New book: "News Values from an Audience Perspective"

Edited by Martina Temmerman & Jelle Mast (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 
Belgium)

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a new edited 
collection on news values, entitled "News Values from an Audience 
Perspective" (Palgrave Macmillan). More details below. Apologies for 
cross-posting.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-45046-5#toc 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-45046-5#toc>

This book focuses on journalistic news values from an audience 
perspective. The audience influences what is deemed newsworthy by 
journalists, not only because journalists tell their stories with a 
specific audience in mind, but increasingly because the interaction of 
the audience with the news can be measured extensively in digital 
journalism and because members of the audience have a say in which 
stories will be told.

In nine chapters, a 360-degree view of journalism’s complex relationship 
with the audience is given.

The first section considers how thinking about news values has evolved 
over the last fifty years and puts news values in a broader perspective 
by looking at news consumers’ preferences in different countries 
worldwide. The second section analyses audience response, explaining how 
audience appreciation and ‘clicking’ behaviour informs headline choices 
and is measured by algorithms. Section three explores how audiences 
contribute to the creation of news content and discusses mainstream 
media’s practice of recycling audience contributions on their own social 
media channels.


Endorsements:

In the age of active and participatory audiences and increasing use of 
audience analytics, this welcome new addition to news values research 
puts the spotlight squarely on the audience. A unique feature is the 
diversity of approaches that are included, such as interviews, language 
analysis, personal and theoretical reflection, global survey data, 
ethnographic research, and quantitative content analysis. A book for 
anyone interested in the interplay between audiences and the 
ever-fascinating question of what counts as ‘news’!

Monika Bednarek, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of 
Sydney, Australia


This is an important and timely book about news and news selection in 
what is a rapidly changing and blurred media landscape, bringing 
together new concepts and recent research to examine the influences on 
news and newsworthiness, while also rekindling a conversation about what 
news journalism should be.

Deirdre O'Neill, Member of the Executive Committee of the Association 
for Journalism Education, UK


The classic paradigm of news values is revisited from a new angle. 
Anticipating the audience turn in journalism studies, this book offers 
important new insights to understand the profound changes in how news is 
made.

Marcel Broersma, Professor of Media and Journalism Studies, University 
of Groningen, Netherlands


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