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Robin Mansell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • New Media Competition and access: the scarcity-abundance dialectic
    Research Papers in Economics, 1999
    Co-Authors: Robin Mansell
    Abstract:

    It is often argued that constraints on access to new information and communication environments will disappear as services decline in price and as customers and producers engage in new market relationships. Following this line of argument, the relative scarcity of communication and information access opportunities of the past should be dispelled. The aim of this article is to illustrate the faults in this vision as applied to Internet and new Media services development. It is argued that the new electronic environment will not be immune to forces of monopolization nor will it give rise to an era of market Competition that fully protects the interests of all consumers and citizens. In fact, empirical evidence suggests that electronic interMediary service providers are populating the new markets and deploying strategies that are no less informed by monopolization strategies than in the past, though they do take different forms. The evidence is consistent with the inescapable dynamics of tension between abundance and scarcity in the market place.

  • New Media Competition and Access The Scarcity-Abundance Dialectic
    New Media & Society, 1999
    Co-Authors: Robin Mansell
    Abstract:

    It is often argued that constraints on access to new information and communication environments will disappear as services decline in price and as customers and producers engage in new market relationships. Following this line of argument, the relative scarcity of communication and information access opportunities of the past should be dispelled. The aim of this article is to illustrate the faults in this vision as applied to Internet and new Media services development. It is argued that the new electronic environment will not be immune to forces of monopolization nor will it give rise to an era of market Competition that fully protects the interests of all consumers and citizens. In fact, empirical evidence suggests that electronic interMediary service providers are populating the new markets and deploying strategies that are no less informed by monopolization strategies than in the past, though they do take different forms. The evidence is consistent with the inescapable dynamics of tension between abun...

Julia Cage - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Media Competition information provision and political participation evidence from french local newspapers and elections 1944 2014
    Journal of Public Economics, 2020
    Co-Authors: Julia Cage
    Abstract:

    Abstract This paper investigates the impact of increased Media Competition on the quantity and quality of news provided and, ultimately, on political participation. I build a new county-level panel dataset of local newspaper presence, newspapers' number of journalists, costs and revenues and political turnout in France, from 1944 to 2014. I estimate the effect of newspaper entry by comparing counties that experience entry to similar counties in the same years that do not. Both sets of counties exhibit similar trends prior to entry, but those with entry experience substantial declines in the average number of journalists. An increased number of newspapers is also associated with fewer articles and less hard news provision. Newspaper entry, and the associated decline in information provision, is ultimately found to decrease voter turnout at local elections. Exploiting the long time span covered by my data, I discuss a number of mechanisms that may drive these empirical findings. First, I examine the relationship between increased Competition and Media capture in the aftermath of WW2, when newspapers were biased and the advertising market was underdeveloped. I then show that in the recent period the effects are stronger in counties with more homogeneous populations, as predicted by a vertical product differentiation framework, whereas there is little impact in counties with more heterogeneous populations.

  • Media Competition, information provision and political participation: Evidence from French local newspapers and elections, 1944–2014
    Journal of Public Economics, 2020
    Co-Authors: Julia Cage
    Abstract:

    Abstract This paper investigates the impact of increased Media Competition on the quantity and quality of news provided and, ultimately, on political participation. I build a new county-level panel dataset of local newspaper presence, newspapers' number of journalists, costs and revenues and political turnout in France, from 1944 to 2014. I estimate the effect of newspaper entry by comparing counties that experience entry to similar counties in the same years that do not. Both sets of counties exhibit similar trends prior to entry, but those with entry experience substantial declines in the average number of journalists. An increased number of newspapers is also associated with fewer articles and less hard news provision. Newspaper entry, and the associated decline in information provision, is ultimately found to decrease voter turnout at local elections. Exploiting the long time span covered by my data, I discuss a number of mechanisms that may drive these empirical findings. First, I examine the relationship between increased Competition and Media capture in the aftermath of WW2, when newspapers were biased and the advertising market was underdeveloped. I then show that in the recent period the effects are stronger in counties with more homogeneous populations, as predicted by a vertical product differentiation framework, whereas there is little impact in counties with more heterogeneous populations.

  • Media Competition and News Diets
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
    Co-Authors: Charles Angelucci, Julia Cage, Michael Sinkinson
    Abstract:

    News Media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the basic economic model of print news operations. We examine how the entry of television affected local newspapers as well as consumer Media diets in the United States. We develop a model of print Media and show that entry of national television news could adversely affect the provision of local news. We construct a novel dataset of U.S. newspapers' economic performance and content choices from 1944 to 1964. Our empirical strategy exploits quasi-random variation in the timing of the entry of television in different markets. We show that the entry of television was a negative shock for newspapers, particularly evening newspapers, in both the readership and advertising markets. Further, we find a drop in the total quantity of news printed, in particular original reporting, raising concerns about the provision of local news. Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.

  • Media Competition and News Diets
    2020
    Co-Authors: Charles Angelucci, Julia Cage, Michael Sinkinson
    Abstract:

    News Media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the basic economic model of print news operations. We examine how the entry of television affected local newspapers as well as consumer Media diets in the United States. We develop a model of print Media and show that entry of national television news could adversely affect the provision of local news. We construct a novel dataset of U.S. newspapers' economic performance and content choices from 1944 to 1964. Our empirical strategy exploits quasi-random variation in the timing of the entry of television in different markets. We show that the entry of television was a negative shock for newspapers, particularly evening newspapers, in both the readership and advertising markets. Further, we find a drop in the total quantity of news printed, in particular original reporting, raising concerns about the provision of local news.

  • Media Competition, Information Provision and Political Participation: Evidence from French Local Newspapers and Elections, 1944-2014
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
    Co-Authors: Julia Cage
    Abstract:

    This paper investigates the impact of increased Media Competition on the quantity and quality of news provided and, ultimately, on political participation. Drawing upon existing literature on vertical product differentiation, I explore the conditions under which an increase in the number of newspapers can decrease both the quantity and quality of news provided. I build a new county-level panel dataset of local newspaper presence, newspapers' newsrooms, costs and revenues and political turnout in France, from 1944 to 2014. I estimate the effect of newspaper entry by comparing counties that experience entry to similar counties in the same years that do not. Both sets of counties exhibit similar trends prior to newspaper entry, but those with entry experience substantial declines in the average number of journalists (business-stealing effect). An increased number of newspapers is also associated with fewer articles and less hard news provision. These effects are stronger in counties with more homogeneous populations, as predicted by my simple theoretical framework, whereas there is little impact in counties with more heterogeneous populations. Newspaper entry, and the associated decline in information provision, is ultimately found to decrease voter turnout at local elections.

Antonio Scala - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • opinion dynamics on interacting networks Media Competition and social influence
    Scientific Reports, 2015
    Co-Authors: Walter Quattrociocchi, Guido Caldarelli, Antonio Scala
    Abstract:

    The inner dynamics of the multiple actors of the informations systems – i.e, T.V., newspapers, blogs, social network platforms, – play a fundamental role on the evolution of the public opinion. Coherently with the recent history of the information system (from few main stream Media to the massive diffusion of socio-technical system), in this work we investigate how main stream Media signed interaction might shape the opinion space. In particular we focus on how different size (in the number of Media) and interaction patterns of the information system may affect collective debates and thus the opinions' distribution. We introduce a sophisticated computational model of opinion dynamics which accounts for the coexistence of Media and gossip as separated mechanisms and for their feedback loops. The model accounts also for the effect of the Media communication patterns by considering both the simple case where each medium mimics the behavior of the most successful one (to maximize the audience) and the case where there is polarization and thus Competition among Media memes. We show that plurality and Competition within information sources lead to stable configurations where several and distant cultures coexist.

  • Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: Media Competition and social
    2014
    Co-Authors: Guido Caldarelli, Antonio Scala
    Abstract:

    The inner dynamics of the multiple actors of the informations systems – i.e, T.V., newspapers, blogs, social network platforms, – play a fundamental role on the evolution of the public opinion. Coherently with the recent history of the information system (from few main stream Media to the massive diffusion of socio-technical system), in this work we investigate how main stream Media signed interaction might shape the opinion space. In particular we focus on how different size (in the number of Media) and interaction patterns of the information system may affect collective debates and thus the opinions’ distribution. We introduce a sophisticated computational model of opinion dynamics which accounts for the coexistence of Media and gossip as separated mechanisms and for their feedback loops. The model accounts also for the effect of the Media communication patterns by considering both the simple case where each medium mimics the behavior of the most successful one (to maximize the audience) and the case where there is polarization and thus Competition among Media memes. We show that plurality and Competition within information sources lead to stable configurations where several and distant cultures coexist.

John Christian Feaster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The repertoire niches of interpersonal Media: Competition and coexistence at the level of the individual:
    New Media & Society, 2009
    Co-Authors: John Christian Feaster
    Abstract:

    The uses and gratifications approach has been useful in explaining Media use by individuals. However, it has been limited in that the use of a medium has always been considered independently from other Media options available and from use trends occurring at the level of a population. The theory of the niche has been used to partially overcome these limitations by examining uses and gratification concepts in the context of Media Competition; but, up to this point, it has only been used to explain trends at the system level. Through the introduction of repertoire niches, the present article extends the theory of the niche by examining Competition at the level of the individual within the resource space of his/her Media repertoire. Results indicate that repertoire niche dimensions of breadth, overlap, and superiority have some predictive power over Media use.

  • Revisiting Interpersonal Media Competition: The Gratification Niches of Instant Messaging, E-Mail, and the Telephone
    Communication Research, 2008
    Co-Authors: Artemio Ramirez, John Christian Feaster, John Dimmick, Shu-fang Lin
    Abstract:

    The theory of niche proposes that a new medium competes with older, more established Media to fulfill users' needs. This study uses niche theory, a macrolevel theory, as well as social information processing theory and the theory of electronic propinquity, both microlevel theories, to examine the niche of instant messaging (IM) in providing general gratifications. Results indicate that IM is characterized by a broad niche, surpassed only by that of the cell phone. IM had substantial niche overlap with e-mail and the cell phone, indicating a degree of substitutability between them; the least overlap was with the landline telephone (LLP). The hierarchy that emerged indicated that the cell phone was superior to IM, which was superior to e-mail, followed by the LLP for providing general gratifications. Finally, displacement tests indicated that IM use displaced e-mail and LLP but not cell phone use. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Gregory Ferrell Lowe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • public service broadcasting as cultural industry value transformation in the finnish market place
    European Journal of Communication, 1997
    Co-Authors: Gregory Ferrell Lowe
    Abstract:

    Value transformation in Finland's public service broadcasting company, Yleisradio Oy (YLE), is analysed as a professional market connected with political, popular and open markets. Innovative change in creative tension with traditional continuity informs a transformation dynamic. Prior to the 1990s continuity was a dominant force, but rapid change is characteristic today. The 1994 administrative restructuring was an organizational response to the 1993 Act on YLE, which was formulated in response to increasing Media Competition viewed as a potential threat to Finnish national culture. The interplay of political policy, organization structure and broadcasting practice indicates a tightly bundled set of concerns that highlight the dialectical, reflexive character of value transformation — a process that arbitrates the need for change with the need for continuity across a multiplicity of antagonistically cooperative markets. The authors conclude that the results explicitly reframe Finnish public service broad...