News Sharing On Facebook: Social Media Effects on News Selection in Sports Journalism

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

News Sharing On Facebook: Social Media Effects on News Selection in Sports Journalism

Original language description

Social media audiences and their preferences, as represented in social media analytics results, tend to replace the traditional gatekeeping factors. This new role of the audiences, which have taken on the task of secondary gatekeeping or gatewatching, creates a challenge to the newsrooms. It weakens the sports media in a fragile balance of power against athletes and sports organizations. This paper applies the news values concept, which is elementary for the research of news selection, to social media news-sharing practices. The analysis performed on the 2021 content of the Facebook pages of Czech traditional sports media shows that ethnocentric success, celebrity, competition status, and human interest are among the most prominent news factors for the top shared posts. The weakened newsrooms may tend to adopt these patterns that correspond to the priorities of a loud and formidable layer of social media users, i.e., sports fans. Enhancing sports journalists&apos; own fandom can adversely affect current processes and disrupt the identity of sports journalism itself.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mediální studia

ISSN

1801-9978

e-ISSN

2464-4846

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

124-145

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105011840441