The Copenhagen Project

Prioritization

Prioritization refers to whether a media structures it’s presentation of objects (news stories, blog posts, videos etc.) after importance/relevance or not. This is usually done according to a certain set of values, which can be explicitly or implicitly expressed.

Examples of prioritized medias:

Example of unprioritized medias:

Thoughts:

It seems as if it would be useful to split this term up in two: Prioritized and unprioritized. Also the words can refer to different parts of a news site, e.g. only the front page of an Internet media, or it can refer to a whole publication such as a paper magazine.

Analysis

The New York Times: Prioritized
del.icio.us: Unprioritized
jezebel.com: Unprioritized
boingboing.com: Unprioritized
newstrust.org: Prioritized
Monocle Magazine: Prioritized
reddit.com: Prioritized
digg.com: Unprioritized
technorati.com: Prioritized/unprioritized
techmeme.com: Unprioritized
Google News: Prioritized
daylife.org: Prioritized
Newsblogger: Unprioritized
huffingtonpost.com: Prioritized
talkingpointsmemo.com: Prioritized
RSS reader: Unprioritized

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • Netscape
  • NewsVine

No Comments, Comment or Ping

Reply to “Prioritization”

Subscribe without commenting


We are building a catalog of media building bricks in order to reinvent the services we use to understand and keep up to date with what happens in the world. Read more...
Jeppe Kabell
Jeppe Kabell
Researcher
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Instigator and sponsor