Audience Brokers and News Discoverers:

The Role of New Media in the Digital News Domain

Sílvia Majó-VázquezInternet Interdisciplinary

Institute (UOC)

majosilvia@uoc.edu

@silviamajo

Ana S. Cardenal, PhDInternet Interdisciplinary

Institute (UOC)

acardenal@uoc.edu

@ana_cardenal

Pol Colomer, PhDPhysics UB & Dribia

pcolomer@ffn.ub.edu

@polcolomer

Oleguer SagarraPhysics UB & Dribia

oleguer.sagarra@gmail.com

@usagarra

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Justification of the Interest

The reconfiguration of the traditional news media’s power in the digital age has recently attracted considerable interest.

Legacy organizations are struggling to deal with the endless technological upheaval and to secure their positions as leading information providers in the online domain.

(Althaus & Tewksbury, 2000; Cagé, 2016; Castells, 2009; Chadwick, 2013; Downie & Schudson, 2009; Fenton, 2010; McChesney & Pickard, 2011)

Research Questions

RQ1: To what extent are new digital outlets, by being recognized as a prominent sources of information by other news providers, central actors in the flow of news content?

RQ1.1: To what extent new digital outlets control brokerage relations in the audience network and can hence be identified as potential power holders in the news domain?

RQ1.2: Is media brokerage power held equally across ages in the news domain?

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