受众测量
溢出效应
用户生成的内容
休克(循环)
索引(排版)
业务
广告
公共关系
政治学
计算机科学
万维网
经济
社会化媒体
医学
内科学
微观经济学
作者
Ananya Sen,Tom Grad,Pedro Ferreira,Jörg Claussen
出处
期刊:Management Science
[Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences]
日期:2023-10-23
被引量:6
标识
DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2023.4962
摘要
Many platforms host user-generated content (UGC) and content developed by professionals side by side. However, thus far, their impact on platform ecosystems has been mostly studied in isolation. In this paper, we use data from a network of 122 local news outlets hosted by an online news platform to study the spillover effects from UGC developed by citizen journalists to the content developed by professional journalists. We use the removal of a status index associated with citizen journalists as an exogenous shock to their supply of UGC to identify these spillover effects. We find that experienced citizen journalists reduce their production of content when this status index is removed. We then find that inexperienced professional journalists increase their output in response to this behavior. However, as a result of these changes, we find a reduction in the overall content hosted by the platform, especially in the case of local news and in more isolated regions. We further show that this is likely to have detrimental effects for the platform. In particular, there is a decline in overall viewership, and the platform may need to hire and pay salaries to more professional journalists to produce enough articles to close the gap left by the departing citizen journalists. Our work contributes to the literature on UGC and online platforms and to the literature on local news. This paper was accepted by D. J. Wu, information systems division. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4962 .
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