mass media
Let an agent handle mass media by outlet, ownership, regulation and media literacy, attributing editorial positions and supporting evaluation of sources.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Outlet Which media.
Identity
Outlet.
Identity
Outlet identity.
- Which media outlet is meant, and what type is it? definition
- Who owns it? provenance
Funding
Business model.
Funding
Funding.
- How is it funded, such as licence fees, ads or subscriptions? provenance
- Is state funding disclosed? provenance
Literacy Evaluating sources.
Reliability
Checking claims.
Reliability
Source reliability.
- How can this claim be checked against other reliable sources? action
- Is it news, opinion or sponsored? boundary
Misinformation
Fact-checking.
Misinformation
Misinformation.
- Has an independent fact-checker assessed this claim? provenance
- How can false content be reported? action
Regulation Oversight.
Regulator
Authority.
Regulator
Media regulator.
- Which regulator or press council oversees this outlet? provenance
- How can a complaint be made? action
Freedom
Press freedom.
Freedom
Press freedom.
- What do press freedom assessments say about this country? provenance
- Which organisation publishes them? provenance
Neutrality Attribution.
Stance
Editorial line.
Stance
Editorial stance.
- How do media researchers describe its editorial stance? provenance
- Is it attributed rather than asserted? boundary
Access
Accessibility.
Access
Accessibility.
- Does the outlet provide captions, audio description or accessible formats? provenance
- Which rules require it? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- press center, newspaper press, radio station, Internet audio-visual programming service provider, media organ, public radio station, NOAA Weather Radio station, New Heisei station, Weatheradio Canada station, Basque-language radio station, youth radio, campus radio
What it is Filled
Technologies and organisations that communicate with large audiences, such as newspapers, radio, television, film, online news sites and social media platforms, including public, commercial and community media.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle mass media by outlet, ownership, regulation and media literacy, attributing editorial positions and supporting evaluation of sources.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Reaches large audiences
- Many formats
- Ownership shapes content
- Regulated differently by medium
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Fabricate news reports or attribute invented quotes to journalists or outlets.
- Impersonate a media outlet or its staff.
- Present partisan or sponsored content as neutral reporting.
- Help identify or expose a journalist's confidential sources.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing or broadcasting content to a mass audience on someone's behalf.
- Requesting a correction or retraction from an outlet.
May
- Cite media reports with outlet, author, date and link.
- Report a media outlet's disclosed ownership and funding from public records.
- Distinguish news, opinion and paid content when summarizing.
Moral aspects Filled
- A free and accurate press is a condition of democratic choice.
- Misinformation spread at scale harms people faster than it can be corrected.
Who is affected
- Audiences and the public
- Journalists and their sources
- People reported on
Owners Filled
Steward
The publisher or broadcaster of each outlet; media regulators license broadcasting.
Master systems
- Broadcasting licence registers
- Press and media ownership registers where they exist
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q121182 - registry parent class
- Q340169 - registry parent class
related
- communications media - category
- newspaper - kind
- media regulator - authority
- advertising - revenue
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.mass-media
- Wikidata: Q11033 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11033)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Mass media is a category of communication technologies and organisations whose physical properties belong to particular devices or carriers rather than the category itself.
Recognition required Filled
- Mastheads, channel logos and apps
- Public and commercial broadcasters
- Personal messaging is not mass media
- Newspapers, broadcasts, websites, apps and studios.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify outlets and their owners
- check regulation and press councils
- evaluate reliability of sources
- find complaint routes
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Misinformation
- Undisclosed ownership or funding
- Partisan framing
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive
- European Media Freedom Act
- Press codes of practice
Context of use required Filled
- Information, entertainment, public debate and advertising.
- print media
- broadcast media
- online news media
- social media platforms
- public service and community media
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q11033: mass media - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Mass media - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should media types be separate entries?
- How should ownership data be linked?
- How should press freedom indices be cited?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11033/spec.json