The Paradox of Personalization: The Social and Reflexive Turn of Adaptive News

The Handbook of Global Online Journalism

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 373-391

  Thurman, Neil ^a   Schifferes, Steve ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"personalization," fluid rather than fixed in online news environment; Contradictory trends in personalization, explicit implicit; Disintermediation, bypassing of mass media distortion lens; Internet and information, and mobilizing communities; Paradox of personalization, social reflexive turn of adaptive news; Personalization features on news web sites; Personalization customization, form of interactivity; Taxonomy of explicit personalization functionality, at news web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868299437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118313978.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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