“People have a great deal of time and emotional energy invested in their online communities. Asking them to throw these connections out and move to another network is a nonstarter.”
The idea that the value of a piece of news is defined by likes and comments — that taking in information without getting into a back-and-forth with your uncle about it is somehow unworthy — is actually a profoundly ideological statement.
Half the people in our survey saw no news at all in the first 10 posts in their feeds — even using an extremely generous definition of “news” that counted everything from celebrity gossip to sports scores to history-based explainers, across all mediums.
“We don’t have to ask you anything. We just know, by virtue of you being a Journal reader, what you’d like to read and what you should read. You don’t have to tell us anything.”
Wang, Shan. "When a Facebook test moves news stories to a separate feed, traffic — and public discourse — are at stake." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 26 Oct. 2017. Web. 26 Apr. 2024.
APA
Wang, S. (2017, Oct. 26). When a Facebook test moves news stories to a separate feed, traffic — and public discourse — are at stake. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/when-a-facebook-test-moves-news-stories-to-a-separate-feed-traffic-and-public-discourse-are-at-stake/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "When a Facebook test moves news stories to a separate feed, traffic — and public discourse — are at stake." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 26, 2017. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/when-a-facebook-test-moves-news-stories-to-a-separate-feed-traffic-and-public-discourse-are-at-stake/.
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