TY - JOUR
T1 - International network of foreign news coverage
T2 - Old global hierarchies in a new online world
AU - Himelboim, Itai
AU - Chang, Tsan-Kuo
AU - McCreery, Stephen
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - Theoretically, the Internet allows news organizations to overcome geopolitical hierarchies in international news flow. Practically, do they? Guided by three perspectives - preferential attachment, world system, and triadic world - this study examines patterns of information flow in online news media. Findings from 223 news Web sites in seventy-three countries show that traditional network structures and world hierarchies are reproduced in online media. In cyberspace, news flow takes place predominantly among core countries and from core countries to the periphery. Geography has no predictive power over news flow. News organizations use the Internet to reinforce old practices, perpetuating existing order among nations.
AB - Theoretically, the Internet allows news organizations to overcome geopolitical hierarchies in international news flow. Practically, do they? Guided by three perspectives - preferential attachment, world system, and triadic world - this study examines patterns of information flow in online news media. Findings from 223 news Web sites in seventy-three countries show that traditional network structures and world hierarchies are reproduced in online media. In cyberspace, news flow takes place predominantly among core countries and from core countries to the periphery. Geography has no predictive power over news flow. News organizations use the Internet to reinforce old practices, perpetuating existing order among nations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957142867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/107769901008700205
DO - 10.1177/107769901008700205
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957142867
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 87
SP - 297
EP - 314
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -