Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Are there gatekeepers in online communication? If so, what's the difference, the connection, with gatekeepers in traditional communication?

Are there gatekeepers in online communication? If so, what's the difference, the connection, with gatekeepers in traditional communication?

Yes, for example, if you want to post on a forum, the moderator is the gatekeeper. Many comments and messages need to be moderated before they can be posted.

The traditional communication gatekeeper means that in the field of mass communication, there are some people, only the information that conforms to their values or interests can be disseminated, and they are engaged in the process of selecting and filtering information, which is called "gatekeeping".

The gatekeepers in network communication are not very different from the traditional gatekeepers. The function, the role is the same, only in a different form of media.