Virality, Algorithms, and Illiberal Attacks on the Press: Legitimation Strategies for a New World

Historically, professional journalism has justified its importance through a series of binary oppositions that privileged objectivity over opinion, news over entertainment, impartiality over partisanship, and public interest over profit. Over the last half century these distinctions have become incr...

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Main Author: Ronald N. Jacobs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2020-09-01
Series:Sociologica
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Online Access:https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/11190