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Because of their technological constellation, news websites hold a set of affordances different from that of other news media, namely one consisting of instantaneity, multimodality, interactivity, and hypertextuality. Developing a methodological framework on the basis of content analysis, the article quantitatively examines the use of these affordances on a sample of Danish news websites. The article scrutinizes the relationships between this use and the ownership and legacy media of the news websites. It tests the explanatory force of, respectively, earlier empirical findings (which suggest that type of ownership is a determining factor in relation to appropriation of new technology) and path dependence theory (which suggest that organizational history will determine that appropriation). While the analysis shows a correlation between ownership and the use of the affordances, there is no correlation between legacy media and the use of the affordances. This finding suggests that ownership is a more powerful explanatory model than path dependence theory when it comes to news organizations’ use of the affordances of news websites. Furthermore, the article contains a baseline study of the use of the four affordances on news websites. This baseline study shows that news websites are likely to primarily use the affordances in ways that support existing news organizations and maintain journalistic control.
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