Published 2019
“…This dissertation aims to understand how the online news media in Singapore use web analytics and the challenges they face in the more restrictive media environment of an Asian semi-democratic political system. Guided by
Everett Rogers’ (1962, 2003) diffusion of innovations theory, which emphasizes communication and the interaction of values in the adoption of technological breakthroughs, it investigates how newsrooms negotiate and navigate their way through an environment where values cultivated by the social system have a tendency to become central despite the complex dynamics of forces shaping the use of web analytics in journalism. …”
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