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Social Media References in Newspapers. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as Sources in Newspaper Journalism
Journalism Practice
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Social media are increasingly being used as sources in mainstream news coverage. Yet, while the research so far has focused mainly on the use of social media in particular situations, such as breaking news coverage, during crisis news events or in times of elections, little attention is paid to journalists' routine, day-to-day monitoring of social media platforms. The aim of this study is to examine the use and selection of social media as sources in routine newspaper coverage. First, it presents a quantitative overview of all the articles published between January 2006 and December 2013 in the print editions of two Flemish (north Belgian) quality newspapers, De Standaard and De Morgen, that explicitly refer to Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Next, a content analysis is conducted of a sample of newspaper articles published in 2013 that explicitly mention Facebook, Twitter or YouTube as sources of information. The goal of this content analysis is to examine the different appearances and functions of social media references in the news. The study thus provides a first insight into Belgian newspaper journalists' regular sourcing routines in relation to social media.
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англійськомовних інтернет-новин BBC у лінгвориторичній перспективі.
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Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kmunculnya peristiwa boikot beberapa merk global di sosial media, atau disebut online firestorm. Online firestorm merupakan serangan tiba-tiba dari sejumlah besar komentar negatif dari mulut ke mulut dan perilaku mengeluh terhadap seseorang, perusahaan, atau kelompok di jaringan media sosial. Online firestorm menjadi perspektif dalam melihat krisis perusahaan dengan berkembangangnya media sosial. Hashtag #boikotprodukisrael, #boikotisrael menjadi trending topic di twitter sejak adanya beberapa dugaan global brand diduga terafiliasi dengan Israel. Tentunya, munculnya gerakan boikot di sosial media turut memunculkan pemberitaan di beberapa media massa. Pada akhirnya apa yang diperbincangan sebagai online firestorm tersebut dapat berubah menjadi skandal dan ancaman reputasi bagi organisasi. Berpijak pada situational crisis communication theory (SCCT), penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi respon global brand atas online firestorm dalam seruan boikot yang dituliskan oleh media online dengan menggunakan metode analisis isi kualitatif. SSCT menjelaskan bahwa strategi dalam merespon krisis yang dialami perusahaan ada 3 cara 1) penyangkalan (deny response strategy), (2) mengurangi (diminish response strategy) dan (3) membangun kembali (rebuild response strategy. Hasil dari intepretasi data, penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa strategi utama merepson online firestorm dalam seruan boikot yang dituliskan Kumparan.com dan Kompas.com adalah deny crisis respose strategies dengan attact the accuser dan scapegoat. Sedangkan secondary crisis response strategies strategies dilakukan dengan reminder dan victimage.
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The study aimed to analyze the Intermedia Agenda setting of Twitter and Traditional Media (TV Channels) on Pakistan’s Budget 2019 focusing on economic issues. Pakistan’s media played vital role to influence the opinion and to push twitter trends. This study explored the economic issues that are transferred from traditional media to twitter or vice versa. Fifty-seven days selected that is one month prior to budget presented in 2019 and two weeks after the budget. After salience and ranking of issue, Spearman correlation Cross-lagged correlation and causal direction were analyzed by Rozelle-Campbell baseline. Findings reveled that, there is significant correlation between Twitter and Traditional Media’s (TV News channel) agendas on Pakistan’s Budget 2019 on Economic issues, with time lag of one day. And the one-day time lag exists between transferring of agendas from Twitter to Traditional Media (TV News channels) and vice versa, regarding Pakistan’s Budget 2019 on Economic issues, is significant.
... Taking into account that news media use social media as sources on the everyday − not relevant (e.g. "pressing": instead of "press") basis (Paulussen, Harder, 2014), social media posts imported into sampled news were also included in the study. ...
The aim of the article is to describe the role of ChatGPT in journalism from two perspectives: academic and journalistic. Academic perspective is provided through bibliometric analysis and literature review. The data from Web of Science and Scopus shows increased scientific interest in LLMs in social sciences and humanities. However, there are still very few publications regarding ChatGPT in journalism. The main findings of those publications are summarized in the article. Journalistic perspective is provided using critical discourse analysis of journalists' statements, both in news articles and essays as well as in their social media posts. The results of qualitative study reveal that improving the quality and working time is one of the biggest hopes, while disinformation and job loss are one of greatest fears of journalists.
... Although mainstream news constitutes an important resource for citizens to get informed, established news organizations do not have full control over the news content on YouTube (Stocking et al., 2020). Although mainstream media benefits from enduring public levels of content credibility and trust in journalistic integrity (Newman et al., 2023), opinion YouTubers are increasingly regarded as credible sources of information (Paulussen and Harder, 2014;Li et al., 2020). Their capacity to captivate and resonate with audiences, creating both partisan content (Munger and Philips, 2022) and counter-public content (Leung and Lee, 2014), as well as their unique ability to fuse the roles of creator and audience (Bowyer et al., 2017), underscore their impact. ...
This study examines YouTube channels reporting on French news and current affairs. After identifying the relevant channels, the study identifies the top 10 viewed videos of each channel during the year 2023. Manual annotation has been conducted for content, presentation format, engagement style, and position regarding the government and mainstream media. Each channel has also been coded for its business and communication strategies. Correspondence analysis is used to extract the most emblematic news content and presentation styles, while hierarchical clustering is used to categorize the channels into clusters of different genres. From the demand-side perspective, the study also examines the network of users commenting on the top 10 videos to assess the audience overlap between the identified clusters. . Five clusters of alternative news channels are identified, differing in presentation, style, and partisanship. Network analysis showed audience overlaps, notably between satire, alternative, and re-information clusters. Most channels earn revenue through branding and cross-media activities, occasionally supporting each other. These clusters act as mediators between politics, entertainment, and re-information, serving diverse audiences. Uncertainty remains regarding future dynamics and competition with established news outlets.
(url: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13633)
The proposal analyses the relationship between fake news and social media challenges. Through the content analysis of the case studies Jonathan Galindo, Momo Game and Blue Whale Challenge (Yin, 2018) the evolution of the phenomenon in the relationship between newsworthiness and fake news will be reconstructed, showing how the information system tries to "shape the public discourse" around online youth challenges, offering short-circuits between reality and imagination (Bennato, 2018).
Scholars have long observed that American audiences see fewer stories on major national news platforms that occur beyond U.S. borders, despite the proliferation of 24-hour cable news networks, digital platforms and mobile technology. However, as social media platforms open up more avenues to share and connect with global audiences, do U.S. legacy media organizations offer international news coverage on these channels? Guided by framing theory, this research examines how legacy national news media outlets use their social media platforms as a distribution tool to share and frame newsworthy images. The results suggest that U.S news organizations underutilize their social media platforms as a tool to share newsworthy international news images.
Purpose
The research aims to map and quantify the academic literature on algorithmic management from a bibliometric viewpoint, as well as to present a thorough analysis of the future research development trends in the current domain.
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 715 articles were extracted from the Scopus database (till February, 2024). The study uses bibliometrics, performance and science mapping analysis to depict publication trends, productive authors, journals and co-occurrence of keywords.
Findings
The analysis revealed a substantial rise in the publications from 2019 onwards. Additionally, the most influential paper focusing on global gig economy was cited 724 times. The top contributing countries were the United States followed by the United Kingdom and Spain. Nieborg D.B. was the most productive author and Graham M. was the most frequently cited author. Moreover, keyword co-occurrence analysis revealed five additional themes. The theoretical foundations were emphasised by content analysis and keyword co-occurrence analysis, uncovered new trends and offered direction for further investigation.
Practical implications
The outcomes of this article have important implications for academics looking to explore this area further, for policymakers establishing algorithmic management within organisations for employee welfare, and for practitioners creating algorithmic management codes.
Originality/value
This paper offers a thorough and in-depth bibliometric examination of the literature on algorithmic management. The paper outlines the comprehensive literature review of journal articles and suggested future research agenda on algorithmic management.
Il giornalismo locale può sostenere la produzione culturale e il patrimonio locale, così come migliorare la partecipazione sociale e politica di singole comunità, nella propria lingua, rispettando le loro tradizioni e condizioni. I media comunitari non si limitano solo a consentire l'accesso allo spazio pub-blico, ma alla vita intima delle comunità locali. Recenti emergenze, verificatesi a livello nazionale e internazionale, hanno evidenziato più volte come il ruolo dell'informazione locale debba essere quello di fare sintesi tra le varie politiche sociali e culturali, proposte dagli enti pubblici, e la corretta rappresentazione - condizione della vita dei citta-dini nel territorio, andando oltre le logiche mediali nazionali, basate spesso su velocità e spettacolarizzazione dei disastri. I cittadini hanno, infatti, una "necessità innata" di conoscere ciò che accade oltre la loro esperienza diret-ta, essere al corrente degli eventi che li coinvolgono o che non accadono sotto i loro occhi. Attraverso l'analisi e il confronto della più recente letteratura nazionale e in-ternazionale sul tema, il contributo tenta di ricostruire, dal punto di vista so-cio-mediologico, il percorso intrapreso dal giornalismo locale prendendo a riferimento tre prospettive che allo stesso tempo sembrano ostacolare e valo-rizzare l'informazione locale nella società digitale: cambiamento tecnologico e mercato dell'informazione; trasformazione delle audiences; impatto delle recenti crisi globali sul traffico delle notizie.
This was an extension of research by the same authors (2010) that investigated sports reporters’ perception of their use of Twitter as part of their professional journalistic duties. Using content-analysis methodology (N = 1,008), the authors investigated how sports reporters actually used Twitter. Analysis showed a discrepancy between journalist responses and measured content. Although journalists said they were using Twitter for breaking news and promotion, the dominant result of the content analysis was commentary and opinion. There were also differences related to print and smaller media outlets. The implications of such differences are discussed, including a possible paradigmatic shift in journalists’ approaches.
News outlets are providing more opportunities than ever before for the public to contribute to professionally edited publications. Online news websites routinely provide tools to facilitate user participation in the news, from enabling citizens to submit story ideas to posting comments on stories. This study on participatory journalism draws on the perspectives of writer Walter Lippmann and philosopher John Dewey on the role of the media and its relationship to the public to frame how professional journalists view participatory journalism. Based on semi-structured interviews with journalists at about two dozen newspaper websites, as well as a consideration of the sites themselves, we suggest that news professionals view the user as an active recipient of the news. Journalists have tended to adopt a Deweyan approach towards participatory tools and mechanisms, within carefully delineated rules.
As active recipients, users are framed as idea generators and observers of
newsworthy events at the start of the journalistic process, and then in an
interpretive role as commentators who reflect upon professionally produced
material.
Eyewitnesses on the Scene Witnessing in a Digital Era Here and Now “Accidental Journalism” Conclusion References
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists' judgments. Deciding What's News has become a classic. A new preface outlines the major changes that have taken place in the news media since Gans first wrote the book, but it also suggests that the basics of news judgment and the structures of news organizations have changed little. Gans's book is still the most comprehensive sociological account of some of the country's most prominent national news media. The book received the 1979 Theatre Library Association Award and the 1980 Book Award of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. This is the first work to be published under the Medill School of Journalism's "Visions of the American Press" imprint, a new journalism history series featuring both original volumes and reprints of important classics.
Scholarship about social media in general, and Twitter in particular, has increased dramatically in recent years as adoption by individuals and institutions has burgeoned; especially by journalists and media organisations. Much of the journalism research on Twitter has focused on the dynamics of professional news practices on the social media platform, with journalism considered as a cultural field of production. This paper considers Twitter as a networked communication space that results in a hybridity of old and new frames, values and approaches. It highlights research that points to the hybrid and innovative forms of news production on open, networked platforms, suggesting new paradigms of journalism at play that break with classic narrative structures and deviate from long-held and fiercely defended norms.
The rise in use of social media platforms as tools of communication has presented journalists with an abundance of opportunities and challenges in equal measure. These platforms have enabled journalists to engage directly with their readers and develop new forms of interactivity, both pertinent and banal in nature. By analysing the content of multiple social media profiles at two daily regional newspapers in the United Kingdom, it has been possible to determine how interactivity between journalists and readers is being shaped. This article has identified a spectrum of interactivity, which indicates that individual journalists are engaging with their readers in an informal, personal and reciprocal manner via social media platforms. This is in contrast to the formal approach being taken by their associated media companies that are transferring traditional top- down forms of communication from the offline world to the online world. Research for this article was conducted via interviews and content analysis.
This article explores the relationship between foreign reporting and information provision through social media channels. Drawing upon globalization debates and research on foreign news coverage, it discusses the emergence of a new kind of reporting from afar. Within a complex, global communication space, layers of information and interpretation frameworks for news stories are multifaceted. As we witness the evolution of a sphere of “network journalism”, journalists gather news while bloggers, Twitterers or Facebook users contribute to the information flow. Taken together, the material provided by traditional journalists and alternative information sources form a global news map. Case examples from the Arab Spring assist to demarcate some characteristics of this communication sphere and suggest that seizing interactive communication tools could assist to strengthen news coverage in favor of what Berglez refers to as a “global outlook” on news.