[Air-L] Network analysis of media industry

Ronald Rice rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
Thu Jun 27 12:20:23 PDT 2019


This is quite ancient, but was an early network-based study of mergers and
acquisitions in the then brand-new arena of convergence between
telecommunications and media (online news via videotex).

Hart, P. & Rice, R. E. (1988). Inter-industry relations in electronic news
services. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39(4),
252-261.

http://rrice.faculty.comm.ucsb.edu/a24.htm

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:48 AM James Danowski <jdanowski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are two network analyses based on mergers and acquisitions of media
> organizations.
>
> Danowski, J. A., & Choi, J. H. (1999). Convergence in the information
> industries: telecommunications, broadcasting, and data
> processing-1981-1996. *Progress in communication sciences*, 125-150.
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/116HVtW9HoJp7CCABkl-ksJBn7pHkmkge/view?usp=sharing
>
> Chon, B. S., Choi, J. H., Barnett, G. A., Danowski, J. A., & Joo, S. H.
> (2003). A structural analysis of media convergence: Cross-industry mergers
> and acquisitions in the information industries. *The Journal of Media
> Economics*, *16*(3), 141-157.
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/116HVtW9HoJp7CCABkl-ksJBn7pHkmkge/view?usp=sharing
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 4:27 AM <k.cybulski at tuta.io> wrote:
>
> > Dear AoIR community,
> >
> > Are any of you aware of studies utilising network methodologies to
> examine
> > the media industry?
> >
> > I'm trying to dig into the subject of corporate media bias from a network
> > perspective, but so far I haven't found much on the topic in literature.
> I
> > found numerous network analyses of user behaviour on social media, yet
> very
> > little research concerning the news sources themselves.
> >
> > I'd greatly appreciate any help!
> >
> > Best,
> > Krzysztof Cybulski
> >
> > BSc Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, Universiteit Maastricht
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